Tokyo Pack 2014 is in its final weeks of preparation. PKN will be reporting live from the event in October. Here’s our first view of what its visitors will experience.
The Next Generation High Performance Packaging Pavilion
This is Tokyo Pack’s showcase of the future. It will feature breakthrough packaging solutions that take extended product shelf life to new levels, highlight environmentally-friendly packages, and new decoration and print technology solutions.
Highlights include a sprout-integrated pouch for beverage and liquid food from Japan’s Ecodpack, that is designed to reduce packaging weight and save on raw material usage. Liquid products can be dispensed by squeezing the pouch, and a special mechanism prevents air from flowing into the pack – protecting the product. Liquid food products can also be easily dispensed without any clogging of solid food particles.
USA’s PopPack will make its Tokyo Pack debut, and will demonstrate its reclosable PopPack bubble solution at the Pavilion. PopPack is a safe and quick way of opening and reclosing flexible packages. The “popping” sound it makes on sealing provides assurance that the package contents are fresh, well-sealed and have not been tampered with. PopPack is hoping to find business partners at Tokyo pack to help to introduce its easy-to-use product to the Japanese market.
Overseas Visitor Services
Tokyo Pack understands that negotiating the business-language barrier can be a daunting task for overseas visitors who don’t speak Japanese. So that they don’t have to keep asking, “can you speak English,” booths will display an “English speaker available” sign where business discussions can comfortably take place in English.
In addition, staff at the Foreign Visitor desk at the International Lounge will be on hand to assist foreign visitors with any enquiries and guide them to the exhibits where the packaging solutions and technologies for which they are sourcing are on display.
The show, Asia's biggest for packaging, launched in 1966 and is owned and operated directly by the Japan Packaging Institute (JPI). It is held every two years and will feature more than 2600 booths representing 654 companies in the 51,380m2 exhibition space this year. More than 170,000 people visited Tokyo Pack 2012 during its four days.
PKN will be attending. So keep visiting PKN for our first hand reports during Tokyo Pack week.
