At IPACK-IMA 2021, pharma and chemical among the key sectors

IPACK-IMA, 4-7 May 2021, Fiera Milano - IPACK-IMA enriches its exhibition offer by redesigning its Business Communities and further enhancing the non-food sectors. Therefore more space for materials, processing and packaging solutions designed for the pharmaceutical-nutritional, chemical and cosmetic market, for personal and home care.

At the next edition of IPACK-IMA (4 -7 May 2021), Hall 4, intended to host process and packaging technologies designed for the non-food sector, will firstly see the development of the area that belongs to the new “Pharma & Nutritional” Community: the main operators, market leaders, who have already confirmed their presence at the event will exhibit here.Indeed the enhancement of this industrial sector carried out within the exhibition responds consistently to the industrial trend evident to all: In fact, the turnover figures of the pharmaceutical sector make Italy the first producer in Europe, with a value of 32.2 billion euros, 25.9 billion of which  linked in exports equal to an 80% share of total production (Source: Farmindustria).                                                                        

In this area, Italy’s locomotive is Lombardy, which hosts half of the chemical-pharmaceutical companies.

According to a recent analysis by SDA Bocconi, in fact, it is in the provinces of Milan and Bergamo that the 30 top companies are concentrated, with turnover between 20 and 500 million.

Valerio Soli, President of Ipack Ima srl, emphasizes: «The Italian pharmaceutical industry is confirmed to be truly dynamic and with a strong propensity to invest, investments amounting to 3 billion euros in 2018. A sector of weight in Italy’s economy, which has developed hand in hand with specific process and packaging technologies, capable of consolidating distinctive technological skills and bringing quality and professionalism to world markets»

Personal and home care. The new “Pharma & Nutritional” segment is capped with the offers of packaging materials and production and packaging systems for the “Beauty & Personal Care”: mixers, fillers, dosers, tablet presses, automatic labeling machines, stand-alone machines for the high quality process of liquid and pasty products (creams, gels, balms, toothpastes...) and other products of the cosmetic industry, which increasingly seeks advanced solutions in able to respond to the need for sustainability and the principles of the circular economy.

Lastly, to improve the offer in the non-food sector, the technologies for the “home care” world will be present, historically represented at IPACK-IMA.
Hence the exhibition is growing as an exclusive platform for aggregating the production system, offering visiting operators excellence, specialization and ever greater opportunities for technology transfer. Elements with a strong attraction, on a global level.

- THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY OF IPACK-IMA 2021 The technologies and products exhibited at IPACK-IMA are classified into Business Communities, which represent their respective target markets. Thanks to the eight communities identified, the interests of exhibitors and visitors are combined in a simple and immediate way.