AUSPACK PLUS 2013 was held over four days early this month at the Sydney Showground and broke all time records for the most exhibitors and the largest amount of visits in over a decade.
Luke Kasprzak, event manager, says AUSPACK 2013 achieved 5922 visits over the four day event; the second highest number in history of the Sydney show.
“AUSPACK PLUS 2013 also saw the largest offering with 308 exhibitors in total, including 112 international exhibitors (including co-exhibitors) from 18 countries. Exhibitors this year also occupied the largest space in history of AUSPACK in Sydney with display of 7100sqm,” Mr Kasprzak says.
“The APPMA and ETF have put the success down to knowing the market, listening to what it wants and providing the right platform for business, education and networking,”
“In the midst of AUSPACK PLUS we also had the 2013 APPMA Awards of Excellence; a vital part of the event. The Awards of Excellence are designed to recognise outstanding innovation in packaging and processing from design to production.
“We also continued our long-standing partnership with the Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP) who ran their biennial National Technical Forum at the show. The theme was Global Packaging Trends and the speakers came from China, Indonesia, United States, South Africa, India, Austria and Brazil,” he says.
“Finally we had the pleasure to host World Packaging Organisation (WPO) with their board meetings held at the show and WorldStar Packaging Awards on the Thursday evening. There were 25 members of the World Packaging Organisation coming for the week from all over the world including Turkey, Austria, Israel, Norway, China, India, South Africa, Nigeria, Brazil, Kazakhstan, Korea and Indonesia.”
The WPO Board meetings were held over three days at the Showgrounds.
“The 2013 WorldStar Packaging Awards, saw over 220 people coming from over 27 countries. Countries include Kenya, Sweden, Indonesia, Turkey, South Africa, UK, US, India, China, Serbia, Brazil, Japan, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Korea, Israel, Switzerland, Norway, Poland, Spain, Czech Republic, Germany. This was a fabulous evening enjoyed by all.”
