PETpla.net Insider 01+02 / 2019

40 TRADE SHOW REVIEW PET planet Insider Vol. 20 No. 01+02/19 www.petpla.net Tradeshow confirms that packaging has begun its revolution! After a few years of absence the PETplanet Insider team visited Paris exploring the new All4Pack trade fair and was impressed by the well working marketing strategies the organis- ers worked on long time before. The market change driven by regulatory and environmental requirements, the new needs of b2b and consumer multichannel trade and the opportunities arising from industry 4.0 were among the many topical issues addressed from November 26 - 29, in Paris at the All4Pack 2018. For its 2018 edition, All4Pack Paris laid on an extensive array of show fea- tures and a content-rich programme which further enhanced the dynamism of meetings between exhibitors and visitors. This edition received positive reviews for the quality of its presentation and more particularly in terms of the professionals in attendance, with their planned projects and investments. In figures, All4Pack Paris 2018 drew a total of 79,000 professionals, in line with its forecasts, including 1,350 exhibitors and their teams. The show welcomed a sizeable international visitor contingent during the first two days, with nearly 35% of visitors from abroad, 21% of whom from Africa. A total of more than 60 countries were represented, together with foreign delegations from nations that included Cuba, Germany, Israel, Japan, Taiwan and Turkey. With regard to French visitors, 35% came from the Paris region and 65% from other regions in France. The programme of talks and round tables, purposefully more selective this year with 25 talks and more than 80 speakers, addressed leading issues faced by the industry today and looking towards the future. Taking place before a packed auditorium, these talks included:  A presentation of the double European survey conducted by All4Pack and its white paper “Packaging ready for its revolution”  The Awards ceremony of Pack The Future, Sustainable Plastic Packaging Award 2018, coordinated by Elipso, the French plastic and flexible packaging association, and its German coun- terpart Industrievereinigung Kunst- stoffverpackungen e.V. (IK)  The latest innovations in plastic and flexible packaging (European competi- tion Pack The Future)  The packaging of the future: Pack Odyssey, the recycling of packaging of the future, specific issues for plastics;  Sustainable packaging: fulfilling con- sumer expectations. Another premiere for All4Pack Paris 2018 was the organisation of the 22 nd edition of the international polyethylene terephthalate (PET) summit, held in Paris for the first time. The issues addressed ranged from the circular and supportive economy to eco-design and technical developments in thermoforming and pre-stretching. From suppliers of raw materials and recyclers to packaging manufacturers and clients, the PETnology European Conference gathered together the stakeholders in the sector. There was positive feedback from organisers Barbara and Otto Appel and attendees. www.all4pack.com Best practice for the food, home and personal care industry Sidel and Gebo Cermex presented advanced systems and innovative packaging solutions suitably developed for the food, home and personal care industries. PETplanet talked to Cécile Alexandre, Director of Food, Home and Personal Care at Sidel and Jean-Marc Passemard, Marketing Communications for FHPC Markets, about the presented PET packaging solutions. Cécile said “Packaging is a key com- ponent of any marketing mix: it must be eye-catching to differentiate brands in the marketplace with dependable per- formance all the way from concept to consumer. The advantages of PET as a packaging material are numerous: it is strong, unbreakable, light, transparent, safe, and above all 100% recyclable. As a lightweight material, PET offers also considerable environmental ben- efits in the form of lower transport costs and reduced fuel emissions. Its unique geometric properties and inherent bar- rier properties, together with its design flexibility, have enabled food, home and personal care manufacturers to use less and less material in the packaging pro- cess, while optimising energy use. These processes also help reduce waste and improve sustainability measures.” At the booth we saw the proven Sidel Matrix blowers, overcoming the challenge of complex shapes by using preferential heating. This system benefits from the company’s twenty-year expertise in pro- ducing complete PET lines for the most demanding FMCG producers. Thanks to preferential heating the production of lightweight bottles in a variety of asym- metrical shapes across a wide range of packaging applications with an optimal material distribution is no longer a chal- lenge. Very interesting was the unique SteadyEdge patented base solution, which offers FHPC producers enhanced brand differentiation options together with high production efficiency. In the FHPC markets, traditionally dominated by HDPE (High Density Polyethylene) and PP (Polypropylene) Sidel’s SteadyEdge base offers chances to accelerate the take-up of PET containers. Along with innovative and attractive PET package design vari- ants, it ensures stable and cost-efficient production. Sidel and Gebo Cermex showcased attractive solutions across packaging and end-of-line systems. www.sidel.com www.gebocermex.com