Easyfairs is planning changes for next year’s Packaging Innovations event at the NEC in Birmingham, UK, with consolidation of the show floor and a move to new halls.
Packaging Innovations will take place 3-4 March, 2021 at the NEC, although the event will move from halls 9 and 10 to halls 11 and 12.
The event will also shed a number of the co-located event monikers, including Label&Print, Ecopack and Contract Pack & Fulfilment, focusing rather on the main Packaging Innovations brand alongside Empack, which shines a light on the latest innovations for technology and machinery used in the packaging industry.
Contract Pack & Fulfilment provided a showcase for contract manufacturing, packing, fulfilment and logistics, while Ecopack had been a dedicated show looking at the future of sustainable options in packaging. Label&Print and its exhibitors were concerned with the future of packaging printing, labelling and converting. These will now be brought together under the Packaging Innovations and Empack brands.
The 2021 show will also include new features:
- A main stage, where high-level keynote presentations will be given;
- The Innovation Technology theatre, for the presentation of new products;
- The Robotics & Automation Zone;
- Meeting rooms;
- A VIP buyers club; and
- Champagne bar, and cocktail bar for networking.
The London-based leg of the Easyfairs packaging event portfolio will continue to be themed around Packaging Innovations and Luxury Packaging.
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