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Emballage 2000: packages and French cuisine

The French packaging show, held Nov. 20 to 24, adds the flavor of cuisine this year with the co-located IPA 2000 international food technology exhibition. An expanded Paris-Nord Villepinte exhibition hall is expected to reach 2.2 million sq’.

Packaging—especially for foods—will play a prominent role when Emballage 2000 and the new IPA 2000, a world food processing exhibition, share the Paris-Nord Villepinte venue, Nov. 20 to 24. Emballage is sponsored by Exposium, represented in North America by Imex Management (Charlotte, NC).

Although packaging equipment can be seen at about half of Emballage’s 2귔 exhibits (1귔 more at IPA 2000), it’s expected that great innovation will be displayed in the form of materials and packages. This summer, packaging editors from across the globe journeyed to Paris to judge the Top Selection of innovations submitted by Emballage exhibitors.

Just three of the 40 Top Selection winners were machinery-oriented. The remaining 37 winners were all from suppliers of containers, components or materials. This balance reflects overall packaging sales. In Western Europe, according to Emballage 2000, the packaging marketplace totals about $100 billion, with 90% of those sales in containers and materials. The show expects that eight of the world’s top 10 largest packaging companies will be exhibiting.

The machinery winners in the Top Selection competition included the ACTIS 20 plastic bottle barrier system from Sidel, a French company with U.S. representation (Norcross, GA); a robotic film wrapper from Construcciones Mecanicas S.A. (De Malavella, Spain) that encloses five sides of a package; and a machine from Cefma (Genas, France) that applies tear tape to shrink-wrapped bundles for easy opening.

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