Packaging Summit Forum and Exhibition Shapes Up

Packaging Summit Europe 2006, the first forum for brand owners looking to source packaging suppliers, including services and materials, will run from July 4-5.

Packaging Summit Europe 2006, the first forum for brand owners looking to source packaging suppliers, including services and materials, will run from July 4-5.

To be staged at the Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky in Amsterdam (Netherlands), the forum has attracted speakers and exhibitors from such companies as Esko, PDD, SCA Packaging, Avery Dennison Engineered Films, HP Speciality Printing Division and Milliken Chemicals.

The event is being supported by the International Safe Transit Association, NVC (the Netherlands Packaging Association), SYBA (the Czech Packaging Association), Packaging and Industrial Films Association (PIFA), the Pan European Design Association and the UK Warehousing Association.

Packaging services and contract manufacturing are a multi-billion dollar business in which an estimated 75 per cent of all items found in the kitchen, bathroom or garage are not packed by the company whose name is on the label, said the forum organiser Tarsus.

Brand owners and retail groups today focus on what they are good at, leaving the specialist packaging services companies to handle their non-core activities, added the company.

Packaging Summit Europe will combine a two-day conference, 'Put your packaging solutions in front of today's brand owners', and exhibition focussing on the issues facing today's brand owners and the systems and services needed to ensure the efficiency and profitability needed to succeed.

Tarsus beleives that the event will bring together contract packers, packaging designers, logistics, materials suppliers, warehouse and distribution services and specialised packaging and printing suppliers who can meet the outsourcing requirements of today's packaging needs.

Roger Pellow, Packaging Summit Europe's managing director, said: "Following the success of our Packaging Services Expo in the USA last year, we are very pleased with the response we have had to Packaging Summit Europe.

Collaborating with an experienced, knowledgeable contract packaging or service provider is the first critical step toward ensuring a product's success and when 'speed-to-market' for a product is critical, there's no room for packaging line obstructions, hurdles and downtime." And he added: "This is where we can help - we can put brand-owners in touch with suppliers who can meet their needs, and at the same time educate the industry about how best these partnerships can work.

With the support of so many key players and key associations, I am sure the event is going to be a fantastic success.".

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