The 19th Korea International Packaging Exhibition received plenty of employees who thrive on packaging industry, which left no more room on the parking lot from 11 am.
Running from 10th to 13th, this year's exhibition hits a record in 3 parts; a number of exhibiting companies, the exhibit area, and a number of visitors. Korea Pack has become Asia's number 1 packing exhibition outranking Japan.
With 3,000 booths of 1,000 companies from 23 countries, 'Korea Pack 2014' covered packaging machinery for automatic packaging, automation equipment, packaging process testers, finished goods testers, machines to produce foods, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics, packaging printing machines, eco-friendly packaging materials and containers, functional finished packaging products, relevant universities and media, and more.
Kyungyon, the host of the show gained great results from the export consultation, about 82 million dollars' worth inviting 325 buyers from 18 countries which is doubled in a year.
The main countries where the buyers came from includes China, India, South-East Asia, USA and Europe, and direct buyers who currently do business with exhibiting companies stepped in the exhibition hall. South-East Asia, especially has substantial population and is critically influenced by Korean wave, so it is considered as emerging market in packaging industry for the country.
'Korea Pack 2014' merged SEOUL PACK hosted by KPMA (Korea Packaging Machinery Association) and KOREA PACK hosted by Kyungyon into one exhibition, which is held biennially in consideration of new product development period. It will encompass throughout the exhibition hall 1 and hall 2 from April 26th to 29th in 2016.
