Interpack - Düsseldorf, 8th-14th May 2014

Interpack 2014, the world level show dedicated to packaging products and technology beckons.

The 2011 edition hosted 2,703 exhibitors from 59 countries and 166,000 visitors, 60% from abroad. This year it comes in the “pre Expo” format: in fact connecting up to the key theme of the Universal Expo 2015 (Feeding the Planet), Interpack offers itself as a meeting point for industrial and technical knowhow and packaging solutions capable of countering food loss and food waste.
The problem is enormous in itself and if, on the one hand, hunger is one of the great plagues of humanity as well as the main cause of death (in the developing countries 1 out of every 6 children is undernourished), on the other, 1.3 billion tons of food end up as waste.

Of this 54% is already lost in the production-, post harvest and storage (typically in ‘backward’ countries) where harvesting and logistics errors account for losses of 6 to 11 kg per capita. In the industrialised countries in turn, for the most waste occurs during the production, distribution and consumption phase, to the point where in Europe and in North America each year 100 kg per capita of still edible foodstuff is thrown away every year.

The contribution of industry To counter this tragic absurdity the packaging operators have committed themselves to devising “intelligent” food processing technologies, better packaging and machines capable of ensuring greater efficiency and saving.
These will constitute the main contents of the German fair on an exhibition level, in particular at Innovationparc Packaging, as well as at the Save Food conference on 7th to 8th May, organized to favour the dialogue between politics, industry and society, for which 100 companies have signed up at the time of writing,  for what is heralded as being an event rich in contents.

ItaliaImballaggio will as ever be at Interpack in the stand positioned at Eingang Nord, where Edizioni Dativo’s magazines and other publications will be distributed.