Packaging exhibition opens in HCM City

Vietnam's leading international processing and packaging exhibition, Propak Vietnam, opened March 31 in Ho Chi Minh City.
Vietnam's leading international processing and packaging exhibition, Propak Vietnam, opened March 31 in Ho Chi Minh City.

Organisedby Singapore Exhibition Services and local partner VCCI ExhibitionServices to serve the then new and upcoming processing and packagingindustry, Propak Vietnam 2015 marks its 10th anniversary this year.

Thisyear's event not only showcases many new technologies and equipment butalso offers networking opportunities for industry professionals.

Thethree-day exhibition has attracted 267 companies from 28 countries andregions, with foreign exhibitors occupying 79 percent of the 6,000sq.mof exhibiting area.

There are eight international pavilionsrepresenting Germany, the Republic of Korea, Italy, Japan, Taiwan(China), Singapore and Thailand.

Bruna Santarelli, TradeCommissioner at the Italian Trade Commission in Vietnam, told Viet NamNews that her country's 11 best plastics and packaging manufacturerswere taking part.

The Italian firms featured at this year'sexhibition include experienced manufacturers of an array of packagingmachinery for extrusion lines, thermoforming, multi-layer blown filmlines, pasteurising, filling, cleaning, labelling, and palletising.

TheItalian businesses will showcase their home country's engineeringingenuity and their latest developments to manufacturers in Vietnam.

Italiandesign remains among the most sought internationally and the governmentof Vietnam believes that applying this technology in Vietnam isintegral to meeting its widely stated goal of industrialisation by 2020.

This Italian-Vietnamese partnership has been working well and the future looks bright.

Last year Italy's packaging exports to Vietnam were worth 23.4 million EUR (25.2 million USD).

BTTee deputy chief representative of Singapore Exhibition Services'representative office in Vietnam, said: "The future for producers andexporters in Vietnam is bright.

"In 2014 Vietnam became the largest exporter to the USA, ahead of ASEAN's more established manufacturing bases.”

Therewill be a seminar titled "Vietnam - Food Safety, Green Packaging andEco Manufacturing" to discuss some burning issues in Vietnam.

Propak Vietnam will go on until April 2, attracting an estimated 7,600 visitors.-VNA

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