What we saw and heard at Andina Pack 2019

Four days of touring through the exhibition halls and conference rooms at Corferias, in the city of Bogotá, provided a closer look at innovative products for Latin American market.

Photo 1 Andina Pack General

In these events, which bring together professionals from the packaging and processing industries, the inseparable link between productivity and sustainability becomes increasingly evident. Actors of the packaging supply focus more and more on eco-design, clean manufacturing and the offer of solutions that combine brand value and environmental sustainability. And Andina Pack 2019, held last November 19 to 22 in the Colombian capital, has not been the exception.

These two axes were present throughout the academic program of the fair "Packaging & Food Processing Summit" and its panels, which addressed issues as relevant to our industry today as the circular economy and the regulation of single use plastics in Colombia and Latin America, with analysis of national and international experts from academia, industry, brands and consumers.

According to Ismael Enrique Povea, one of the main panelists participating in the Andina Pack 2019 forums, a professor of packaging technology at the University of La Salle and specialized in packaging technologies with 15-years of experience in the industry: “Colombia, after Brazil and Argentina, is the country in Latin America that has advanced the most towards circular economy.”

Precisely, in a panel organized during the second day of the fair by the Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, PMMI for its member companies participating in the fair, four expert panelists representing large multinational brand owners spoke about the great advances that Colombian CPGs are making today in the field of circular economy, in a market that stands out in the Latin American context for its strength and growth.

Photo 2 Panel Econom°a Circular

According to the PMMI Guide to Global Markets 2019 report, packaging machinery imports to Colombia showed a significant increase of 24% between 2017 and 2018, and reached a value of 101.9 million dollars in 2018 (See graph 1). Colombia imports 85 percent of its packaging machinery.

Graph 1 Colombia Guide To Global Markets 2019

Visiting the Stands

The realization of green initiatives could be seen throughout the 526 exhibitors stands, 60% of them from abroad, who, with their solutions, attracted the interest of about 20,000 visitors. Materials, equipment, machinery and services for various processes and markets confirmed in Bogotá that productivity and technological innovation are an essential part of the formula to create a more sustainable model and move towards the concept of the circular economy.

The display and live demos of machinery and equipment by 585 participating companies at Andina Pack 2019 evidenced a complete coverage of solutions offered for industries such as food, beverages, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics, articles of personal care and hygiene, among others, as well as the inclusion of processing, printing and conversion areas, and other processes that respond to the needs of visiting entrepreneurs.

Universal Bagmakers

In the PMMI Pavilion at Andina Pack 2019, the firm Bosch exhibited its model Woodman  “Universal Bagmaker”, that can be P3 and P3c models, which provides ease of use, high speed, and package size flexibility to applications including: potato chips, tortilla chips, corn chips, pretzels, snack crackers, popcorn and all other salted snacks. They produce a wide range of safe and reliable bags for the packaging of delicate and hard-to-handle products.

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