Processing and packaging trade show interpack has concluded it’s post-Covid return edition, with the 4-10 May, 2023 event hosting more than 2800 exhibitors and welcoming more than 140,000 visitors.
interpack 2023 had 2807 exhibitors and approximately 143,000 visitors, which when compared to 2017 – the last time the show took place – were down from the 2865 exhibitors and 170,500 attendees reported at that event. Regardless, Bernd Jablonowski, executive director at Messe Düsseldorf, commented, ‘Our targets were exceeded by far.’
He said, ‘With interpack we were able to finally hold one of the Messe Düsseldorf’s most important events again. It has reported back impressively and reinforced its position as the global platform for the exchange amongst all players in the packaging sector, related process industries and all user industries.’
One of the stars of the show this year was digital flexible packaging. Whilst a not a traditional printing and converting exhibition, interpack played host to the likes of Screen and Fujifilm, who both used the event to introduce their respective technologies for industrial digital production of flexible packaging to brands’ decision makers and strategic planners. As Messe Düsseldorf has noted in its post-show report, around 75% of visitors came from middle or top management.
Other digital print processes and technologies were also presented at the show this year, including ePS’s software tools for packaging and corrugated production, AstroNova’s label and box printing technologies, and myriad coding and making systems, from the likes of Domino, Markem-Imaje and Videojet.
The next interpack will be held back in Düsseldorf across 7-13 May, 2026.
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