Over 7430 visitors trudged through the two halls covering more than 4000 sqm and hosting a hundred exhibitors for the four days beginning 1 September heralding the success of the debutante India Packaging Show 2006. The exhibition was inaugurated by Pradeep Sardana, Of PepsiCo India Limited, who chaired the first session of the accompanying conference and also delivered the key note address.

"With the industrial activity picking pace in the north, it was high time that we had a packaging event here," said Subodh Gupta of Triveni Platics (P) Limited. "This exhibition will grow to be an important event in the Indian Calendar," predicted Stuart Haggard of E P Media of Singapore who had come visiting especially to attend the show.

"While the exhibition is not very large, it is extremely focused and the ambience is world class," opined Arunaba Guha of Reliance Industries Limited. Similar views were echoed through the cross section of visitors that comprised packaging users, converters and industry suppliers.

The exhibition was sponsored by PG Foils and its MD Pankaj Shah was thrilled with the overwhelming response. "We had a steady stream of visitors throughout the four days and we have developed some very useful contacts here."

The center of the attraction at the show was the stand of Packolabel that had live demos of the Fidia Combi Unica, a versatile machine to make all kinds of folded and glued products from paper and board and Cyklop wrapping and strapping system. "We have at least 4 serious buyers vying for the Fidia machine," confided Neelkant, who had brought the unsold machine and hoped to sell to the highest bidder.

The big names of the packaging industry in the world including Mico, Sealed Air, Tipco, Stora Enso, JS Machine, Nordson and Imaje were exhibiting with their latest products. Over a dozen companies from China and Taiwan added to the variety and range of products on display.

The organizers announced that the next edition of the show to be held at Pragati Maidan from 21-24 August 2007 and to be co-located with India Converting Show and India Flexo Show, the successful bi-annual twin shows, now in their third edition.

Date: 12-Sept-2006

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