interpack 2014 Welcomes Over 175,000 Visitors
The triennial show hosted by Messe Düsseldorf this May 8-14 registered record attendance at this edition, with over 175,000 visitors from the packaging sector and its associated process industries.
The trade fair not only set a new attendance record with 66 percent of the visitors coming from outside Germany, but also established this top rating across all Messe Düsseldorf events: visitors from 120 nations in total travelled to interpack this year.
The Exhibition Centre in Düsseldorf was fully booked for the largest industry show of its kind, and many of the exhibiting companies had their stands filled with visitors at several times. Furthermore, visitor interest and qualification as well as their willingness to invest is said to have been clearly higher yet again.
{gallery}galleries/interpack2014{/gallery}
“interpack has provided impressive proof of its leading international role yet again this year. This success confirms our fundamental philosophy of addressing the international industries in their respective markets in a very targeted manner – already in the run-up to the event thereby bringing them to their most important event in Düsseldorf every three years”, said Werner Matthias Dornscheidt, president & CEO of Messe Düsseldorf.
The dominating themes at interpack 2014 were resource efficiency for plant and machinery as well as for packaging material usage, quality and safety– especially in segments such as Food and Beverage. Diversity and flexibility were also among the key trends showcased, for an ever wider range and shorter product cycles, all addressed by a particularly high number of innovations in the halls.
Interpack 2014 Key Figures
2,700 exhibitors
19 halls
175,000 visitors
Friedbert Klefenz, president of the interpack Exhibitors’ Advisory Board 2014 and President of Bosch Packaging Technology, said: “We are very satisfied with the quantity and quality of visitors at our stand. The interest taken in our technologies that make a vital contribution to global health and nutrition was enormous. We are pleased with the high number of leads produced, including many top executives and potential new customers. Similar comments came from other exhibitors. We were equally thrilled by the high number of international visitors and exhibitors – some 75 percent of the exhibiting enterprises were headquartered outside Germany. With this interpack has confirmed its reputation as the world’s leading trade fair for the packaging sector.”
Three years after its establishment at the first SAVE FOOD Congress, the SAVE FOOD Initiative also took place at Düsseldorf, from May 7-8, offering participants a forum for the mutual exchange of ideas, for work projects and the identification and analysis of best practices.
Potato Processing Interpational will include special reviews from our team’s interpack visit.
Related articles: