IDE Online Magazine Noviembre 2016 | Page 84

ALL4PACK Paris: The exclusive announcement of the nine 2016 Innovation Award winners

The Pack Experts Committee of the international trade show ALL4PACK Paris was convened on Tuesday 25 October to vote on the 2016 Innovation Awards. Through this distinction, ALL4PACK Paris, The global marketplace for Packaging, Processing, Printing & Handling, pays tribute to firms which demonstrate their exceptional capabilities in innovation and offer proof of the remarkable agility of the entire packaging and intralogistics sectors.

Among the 250 new products entered by exhibitors, 42 products were shortlisted by a broad panel of international specialist journalists and will be displayed on a PACK INNOVATION space at ALL4PACK Paris (Hall 7 stand F160), which will be a true source of inspiration to professionals.

9 innovations were selected by the Pack Experts Committee as winners of the 2016 INNOVATION AWARDS, divided into 4 categories:

-Raw materials and consumables / Accessories and components / Packaging and containers

-Machines, systems, equipment

-Services, software

-Equipment, software, automated systems and services for lifting, handling, storage and logistics

ALL4PACK 2016: THE NEW OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENT FOR PACKAGING, PROCESSING, PRINTING AND HANDLING

PACKAGING, THE CHAMPION OF THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY

The confirmed trend for new products and solutions in packaging and machinery is that functions and performance go hand-in-hand with reduction in consumables and the objective of zero waste. Packaging is the champion of the circular economy.

New developments in

software, services, handling and logistics are shaping the structure of the factory 4.0. Flexibility is controlling performance, quality and safety.

Digital technology stimulates innovation and optimises value along the entire supply chain. Packaging that has become fit-to-size also communicates, software allows on-demand availability, equipment supplies real-time information for immediate responsiveness.

New products are shortlisted into an international selection from which the Pack Experts Committee, coordinated by international packaging expert Annette FREIDINGER-LEGAY, makes its “Pack Experts’

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