All4Pack: the dynamism of business

Paris “global marketplace for Packaging, Processing, Printing & Handling” closed its gates on 15 November 2016, confirming its leading role thanks to the presence of 87,815 packaging and intralogistics professionals from 100 countries, mainly from the EMEA area, and the 1,500 exhibitors and companies represented.

Despite France’s troubled social climate (difficulty to which the organizer Comexposium was also prepared), the show went on to offer the best in terms of technological innovation, design and service, rewarded in particular by the quality of the top buyers present. Deserving of mention the success of the business meetings: over 500 tailored organized encounters, 36% of which involving the African continent alone, offering format that will be further developed for the next edition in 2018.
The comments of two great Italian exhibiting companies underline the show’s capacity to act as a laboratory-observatory of supply and demand in the field of packaging: Goglio praised the quantity and quality of the operators, many of which from North Africa, while IMA SpA registered interest in new projects in the pharmaceutical sector, where it was called upon give immediate answers in terms of feasibility and delivery times.
The four days of the fair offered numerous opportunities for going into issues important for the entire industry: trend of the supply chain in 2020; customization of packaging and digital printing; active-, smart -, connected and ultra smart packaging; e-commerce, pick and collect with packaging facing an omnichannel distribution.

The most beautiful packaging of the last decade chosen by All4Pack visitors
All4Pack  dedicated an area to the “greatest hits” packages, awarded by Pentawards between 2007 and 2016 and published in “The Package Design Book-Pentawards” by Taschen.
Divided into 10 categories, there were over 100 entries selected for their originality and attractiveness, that the visitors to the Paris show were able to judge and vote.