the Swedish Exhibition Centre：The whole world is coming to Scanpack!
2015.09.04
This year's Scanpack will be more international than any previous Scanpack event. Almost half the exhibitors will come from outside Sweden. Companies from the United States, Turkey, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Jordan and 24 other foreign countries will be exhibiting at Scanpack 2015 in Gothenburg. In addition, a number of international speakers from the UN-backed "Save Food" initiative will participate in a dedicated section at the event.
Scanpack 2015, 20-23 October, will be one of Europe's biggest and most important packaging trade fairs. It will also be the year's biggest fair, all categories, at the Swedish Exhibition & Congress Centre in Gothenburg. With a net exhibition area of 17,700 square metres, all the exhibition halls will be utilised to the full.
"We're booked up to the last square centimetre, confirms Anna-Lena Friberg, Scanpack Business Manager.
International interest in Scanpack, which was first held in 1964, has grown tremendously in recent years, and this year´s fair will have far and away the largest number of foreign exhibitors. Almost half - 220 of the 500 companies taking part - will be from abroad. All in all, 31 countries, including Sweden, will be represented at the event.
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The largest contingent of exhibitors from abroad will be from Denmark (45), followed by Germany (36), Norway (28), Lithuania (18), Poland (15), Finland (14), Holland (10), Great Britain (9) and Italy (8). The 100 or so first-time exhibitors at a Scanpack event will include APPE, Bogucki, C & K Propack, Ecolean, Green & Co, Jaakoo Taara Oy, Linder GmbH, MSM Solutions, Pro-Pack AS, SM-Tech, Takemoto Yohki and Thüringer Fiber-Trommel GmbH. See the full list of exhibitors here.
This year's Scanpack will focus on the latest ideas and innovations in packaging technology, design, materials and machinery.
"I can promise that this year's fair will be the most comprehensive ever. And it will feature designers with brilliant ideas, exciting workshops and our best-ever seminar programme," says Anna-Lena Friberg.
The seminars will cover some highly relevant issues, including 3D printing, colour management, brand building, and the new role of the buyers.
The Save Food initiative will have its Scandinavia premiere in a dedicated section at the event. The initiative comes from Interpack in Düsseldorf, in collaboration with the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).
According to the FAO, almost a billion people suffer from hunger and malnutrition. At the same time, we, in the rich part of the world, throw away 25% of all the food we buy.
The total food wastage could feed the hungry people of the world three times over.
Better packaging, which increases shelf life and inhibits the processes that break down food, increases the potential for reducing wastage.
Longer shelf life also simplifies logistics, and makes it easier to get food to starving people around the world.
Also, supplies of food produced in the Third World, much of which currently goes to waste, would benefit from the important improvements offered by better processing and packaging capacity. According to the FAO, 45% of all fruit and vegetables are lost during storage and transport. Reducing this waste would enable cultivated land, water and energy to be used more efficiently, while limiting CO2 emissions.
The Save Food seminars at Scanpack 2015 will see scientists, researchers, UN representatives, business people and opinion leaders addressing the issue from different angles.
Participants will include Arash Derambarsh, a local politician from the Parisian suburb of Courbevoie, who successfully campaigned to push through a new law in France, which forbids shops to throw away food; Robert van Otterdijk, FAO; Jonathan Bloom, Wasted Food, USA; and Selina Juul, Stop Wasting Food (Stop Spild Mad), Denmark.
"We're extremely pleased to be able to take up a sustainability issue that is very much about human survival," says Anna-Lena Friberg. "After all, it's something that affects everyone, all the way from a local to a global level."
Do you want to know more?
Call Anna-Lena Friberg, Scanpack Business Manager at the Swedish Exhibition Centre,
tel: +46 (0)31-708 80 68.
