All4pack Emballage Paris, which will be held in Paris Nord Villepinte on 21 -24 November, 2022, has today positioned itself as the leading international exhibition for all sustainable packaging and intralogistics solutions, covering the entire production line, including machines. It aims to be a source of inspiration to support all the players in the sector in the face of current and future challenges, by decoding regulations and highlighting innovations.
Considering the worrying environmental issues, packaging must reinvent itself, and All4Pack Emballage Paris invites its exhibitors and visitors to contribute to this transformation towards innovative and more sustainable solutions. With respect to this, the trade show and its 1,300 exhibitors from all over the world offers a comprehensive range (packaging, processing, printing, intralogistics) encompassing all the packaging and machine solutions for all industries.
For its 2022 edition, All4Pack Emballage Paris has taken a clear stance to tackle environmental issues It will feature an abundance of content focusing on solutions for the future and innovation with a number of highlights:
- the Objective Zero Impact forum, a unique hybrid event bringing together actors of responsible change;
- the All4Pack Innovations area, a presentation of the major trends in packaging with 100 innovative packaging solutions deciphered by the expert consultant in design, Fabrice Peltier;
- the showcase for the winners of the 2022 Innovation Awards open to all exhibitors;
- the All4Pack Live content forum which, over the 4 days of the show, will offer a rich and comprehensive programme of talks and round tables.
Opinion of French people
Furthermore, in order to have a complete overview about the present trends, the trade show wished to find out what impact the Covid-19 crisis had on the use of packaging by the French population. A survey was conducted by IFOP on behalf of the show in May 2020, and brought to light changes in the behaviour of some French people.
The IFOP survey, conducted on a representative sample of 1001 people, shows that the majority of French people find packaging to be extremely or very useful. This proportion is higher among older people (66% compared with 22% among the 18-24 range), which shows a generational gap in perceptions. Packaging plays a primordial role in the safety of products, and therefore of consumers.
The French seem to be fully aware of the fact, and more acutely so since the Covid crisis. However, this utility comes up against a strong and lasting desire in society for change in the design and use of this packaging so as better to address to environmental issues and challenges.
Market trends
With total sales of 18.3 billion euros in 2019, France is the third largest packaging producer in Europe (13% of production) behind Germany (20%) and Italy (15%).
Among the collected data, it can be observed that only wooden packaging is exported in greater quantity than it is imported into France. The other types of packaging show a negative trade balance: - 1.1 billion euros for paper and cardboard, - 0.5 billion for plastic euros, - 0.4 billion euros for metal and - 7.3 million euros for glass. The sector’s sales mainly come from plastic packaging (6.9 billion euros, or 38% of total invoices), followed by paper and cardboard packaging (5.3 billion euros, or 29% of sales), then metal, glass and wooden packaging (2.0 billion euros each, or 11% of sales).
In the European Union (EU), the production of packaging production is estimated to be worth 138.1 billion euros. France is the European leader in the production of wooden packaging, accounting for 20% of all European sales, and lies in second place for plastic packaging (15% of European invoices). Its contribution is more modest for paper and cardboard packaging (10%, only half as much as Germany’s 21% share). While plastic packaging is the mainstay of production in France, paper and cardboard packaging accounts for the largest proportion of invoicing in Europe: 55.5 billion euro, or 40% of branch sales. In Germany, paper/cardboard and plastic packaging dominate, and the country also distinguishes itself through its substantial production of metal packaging. Italy makes its largest contribution to European output in paper and cardboard production: for this type of packaging, the country occupies second place in Europe.
