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The international specialized exhibition of packaging equipment and ready-made packaging solutions upakovka will be held under the new name and brand UPAKEXPO. The event will take place on the usual dates from January 27 to 30, 2026 at the Expocentre Fairgrounds in parallel with the international specialized exhibition of plastics and rubbers RUPLASTICA.
A very positive exhibitor response can already be seen for upakovka 2018 to be held at the AO Expocentre Krasnaja Presnja in Moscow from 23 to 26 January.
The German participation is again bigger than in previous years and the Italian pavilion will also house more companies than at the past upakovka. Alongside high-calibre German exhibitors such as Krones, KHS, Rovema, Theegarten-Pactec and Jokey, OMAG, G. Mondini and the Aetna Group will be representing Italy. Add to this other members of the Italian Machinery Manufacturers’ Association UCIMA, which also features among the exhibitors and now officially supports upakovka. Russian companies are also very well represented at the event in Moscow. They include Danaflex, a leading Russian supplier of flexible packaging films as well as numerous companies from the beverage segment such as Stanco LLC, AFR OOO and PET-FORMAT, to name but a few.
Alexander Konovalenko, Manager for Additives, OOO APO Aleko-Polimery
Our company, APO Aleko-Polimery, views participation in upakovka 2017 as successful. We expected interest in our produce and planned meetings and personal interaction with counterparty decision makers. Our expectations have proved above and beyond correct, with the number of meetings exceeding original estimates. In our opinion, the reason for this success lies in a good location of our booth in Forum, an extensive information campaign directed at market players and a highly respectable image of Messe Duesseldorf exhibitions. The fair as always impressed with a high level of organisation; any arising more or less challenging situations, naturally occurring in the context of process management of such complexity were resolved in a reasonably speedy fashion. For these reasons our company is prepared to take part in the upakovka fair next year.
Roman Kononov, Lead Specialist, Department for Flexible Packaging and Label Solution, GK TERRA PRINT
There is confidence in Russia about the year that has just begun: following a difficult period, dominated by political tensions, a drop in the oil price and a weak rouble, experts are now working on the assumption that the domestic economy will be moving out of recession. The World Bank is forecasting economic growth in Russia for 2017 too. Western companies are anticipating an upswing and see this as confirmation of their policy of maintaining their business contacts in crisis years as well. upakovka, the 25th International Trade Fair for Processing & Packaging and interplastica, the 20th International Trade Fair Plastics and Rubber, have now demonstrated in Moscow that this positive outlook for the future applies in particular to the plastics, rubber and packaging sectors and related processing industries. Developments in major consumption segments are leading to growing demand in the production of plastics and rubber products as well as packaging. Some 800 companies from 33 different countries presented their innovations at the SAO Expocenter exhibition site in Krasnaja Presnja from 24 to 27 January.
23,000 experts from all over Russia and from the neighbouring countries attended the two trade fairs. 20,900 visitors were recorded in 2016. “It is now paying off for the international exhibitors at upakovka and interplastica and that they have maintained their presence in Russia and have remained in contact with their business partners there”, concludes Werner M. Dornscheidt, CEO of Messe Düsseldorf. “They are benefitting now that business is gaining momentum again. The atmosphere in the halls was remarkably good, the exhibitors talked about extremely interested businesspeople who were keen to place orders too. Trade visitors take the unique opportunity that is offered here to familiarise themselves with the new developments on the world market and to negotiate directly with suppliers.”
There continues to be strong demand for western technology at Russian companies. And there continues to be a requirement for substantial investment: processes and product quality are in particular need of further optimisation in the manufacturing of consumer goods, food and packaging. The visitors were as a result very positive in their response to the wide range of different companies and the product innovations, which gave them a valuable insight into trends and future market potential. Both exhibitors and visitors approved of the new hall layout at the exhibition site (interplastica in Halls 1, 2 and 8, upakovka in the hall forum).
The high level of interest in innovative technologies at upakovka showed itself not only in the large stream of visitors, but also in new special thematic areas at the trade fair. The innovationparc, for instance, had a widely noticed premiere, after it had already established itself successfully at interpack in Düsseldorf. The Forum was well frequented on all the days of the trade fair, and visitors appreciated the large amount of information that was available on selected innovations and enjoyed the opportunity to discuss creative, forward-looking packaging solutions. One thematic area that was particularly popular was “75 Years of PET”, organized mainly by the food processing and packaging machinery association within VDMA (the German Machinery & Plant Manufacturers’ Association), with thematic support from the German Industrial Association of Plastics Packaging Manufacturers (IK). This is also where well-known big companies in the PET sector – such as KHS – provided information on current tendencies and trends as well as on recycling.
