The
UK’s leading packaging technology event, Empack, will return to Birmingham’s
NEC on the 28thFebruary & 1st March 2018. The two-day event will offer a
unique opportunity for decision makers frommajor brands, converters and
retailers to discover the latest technological advances in logistics and
transit packaging, packaging machinery, robotics and automation. The show will
also offer visitors the opportunity to get hands-on with a range of new
products, with many exhibitors choosing to launch their latest innovations live
on the showfloor.
Paper
and cardboard packaging manufacturers, Graficas Salaet, will be launching two
new products at the show. Its new Black Pizza Plate and its Step and Twist
Tulip Cups. Also on show will be its extensive range of packaging for the food
industry including baking cups, paper bags, trays, cake boxes and boards.
Greenearth
Food Packaging will present its brand-new range of oven-proof, biodegradable
ready meal containers made from paper pulp. The range will be available with
lids and in various sizes and colours to enhance the aesthetics of products.
Automated
Packaging Systems will launch its new AirPouch delivery system at the show. The
new system will offer customers using AirPouch cushions in its packaging
process the potential to supply multiple work stations with strings of AirPouch
cushions from just a single machine. The system utilises the AirPouch Express 3
machine to inflate AirPouch material on site.
OAL
will showcase APRIL EYE, an intelligent date code verification system set to
cut food waste in the supply chain. Developed in partnership with the
University of Lincoln in a retailer led initiative, APRIL EYE uses artificial
intelligence to read back and verify date codes, preventing product recalls
related to the incorrect application of date codes. By removing human error
from the supply chain, APRIL EYE reduces food waste related to the incorrect
date coding of products.
Manufacturers
of self-adhesive labels and tags, Abbey Labels will exhibit its range of
scratch-off, five page peel labels and its newly enhanced food and drink
labels.
Shalam
Packaging with be exhibiting its range of buckets and tubs for the food and
chemical industries. It will also be joined by its sister company, Stak Plast
who will be showcasing its wide range of plastic packaging solutions.
James
Drake-Brockman, Divisional Director of Easyfairs’ Packaging Portfolio, comments:
“We are delighted that so many companies each year choose Empack to launch
innovative new products to the UK market. Year-on-year, brands, converters and
retailers from across the world flock to the show to discover the latest
advances in packaging technology and learn how the supply chain can be
revolutionised.”
