About 20 minutes away from Düsseldorf, in Essen, Germany, the fourth Metpack International Trade Fair for Metal Packaging is scheduled to run April 23 to 27. Sponsored by Messe Essen GmbH (Essen, Germany), the fair will feature exhibitors from 17 nations. They’ll show machines and services for the manufacture of cans, lids, bases, caps, tubes, and barrels. Surface-treatment equipment, lacquering, and printing installations will also be presented.
Accompanying Metpack will be the Metpack Congress, organized by Packaging Strategies (West Chester, PA). This program is intended to address issues, challenges, and opportunities in metal packaging around the world.
Among the presentations will be The future of the tinplate industry, by Jerome Grandboulan, CEO of Usinor Packaging; Can Shaping, by Syd Nayer of Crown Europe; BADGE can coating: The current position on extraction of solvents from lacquers and laminates and the future requirements for lacquers, by David Smith of the Metal packaging Manufacturers Assn.; Package exporting, with an emphasis on aluminum and steel, by S.G. Panvalker of Unesco; and The supply and demand economics of aluminum and tinplate for beverage cans, by Nick Collier of the CRU Group.
Conference attendees can register prior to the Congress by phoning Messe Essen in Germany or through Essen Trade Shows in New York. Registration can also be handled at the Metpack web site at www.metpack.de.
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