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No. Publication  name Page1 Asia  Food  Journal 42 Companies  and  Markets.com 73 The  Drinks  Report 94 Editorial  Emma  Fiorentino  Publicaciones 115 Empaque  Performance   256 Flexible  Packaging  Magazine 307 Food  &  Beverage  Asia 348 FoodProductionDaily.com 479 i-­‐grafix.com 5010 Mundoembalaje 5211 Packaging  Observer 5612 Packaging  Buzz 5913 Packaging  Digest 6314 Packaging  Europe 6615 Packaging  &  Print  Media 7616 PackPrintWorld 7817 Paper,  Film  &  Foil  Converter 8218 Vacupack 8419 Verpakkings  Management 8720 Verpackungs  Rundschau 8921 WorldPressOnline 9222 PKN  Packaging  News   9523 ABIEF  News 12524 ABRE  News 12825 Packaging  South  Asia 13026 Neue  Verpackung   13927 MatIndustrien 14428 Emballasje  Foreningen  (Norwegien  Packaging) 15129 Pack  News 15530 PackWebasia.com 16131 YouTube  -­‐  PackWebasia.com    

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No. Title Page1 TOKYO  PACK  2014  –  Asia’s  Premier  Packaging  Exhibition  to  showcase  

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2 TOKYO  PACK  2014  –  A  Celebration  of  the  Package 2353 Japan  Packaging  Industry  –  resilient  and  strong   2364 Packaging  Insight  Japan  Tour  offers  unique  orientation  programme  for  

overseas  visitors  to  TOKYO  PACK  2014237

5 TOKYO  PACK  Appoints  Strategic  Markets  Consultant  to  Increase  International  Presence

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6 TOKYO  PACK  2014  grows  exhibitor  numbers;  at  full  capacity 2427  Japan  Packaging  Industry  hits  US$60bn  in  2013   2438 TOKYO  PACK  2014  opens  in  less  than  a  month 2459 TOKYO  PACK  2014  helps  business  and  consumers  create  a  sustainable  

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10 TOKYO  PACK  2014:  Connecing  the  Japanese  Packaging  Industry  with  the  World

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Alcoholic beverage bottle design mixes up the glass packaging marketThe most interesting and innovative designs in the Japanese glass packagingmarket have been on display recently in the TOKYO PACK 2014 exhibition whichopened earlier this month. 680 companies have been displaying their latestadvances in packaging technology in over 50,000m² of exhibition space in orderto help visitors explore how manufacturers are catering for business andconsumer demands for a more sustainable society.

For the Japanese, the product quality is closely linked with the quality of thepackaging; the packaging is not just a solution for protecting the product but is anobject which demands attention in its own right. This focus on packaging designis particularly prevalent in the alcoholic beverage bottle market in Japan andaround the world. Chambord Liquor is said to have been first introduced to LouisXIV of France during a trip to the Chateau de Chambord and its spherical bottle isadorned with a golden crown stopper to mark this connection. With only 13,000bottles ever produced, Kalashinkov Vodka is special enough even before its presentation in a clear glass bottle shaped like a machine gunand its protective military green wooden crate. The vodka was only produced in Russia and sent outside shipments to Australia exclusively.One final example is the Armand de Brignac Champagne known more colloquially as "Ace of Spades". The opaque metallic bottles adornedwith pewter Ace of Spade labels represent the prestige of the Champagne which became famous in popular culture after a distinctive goldbottle was presented to Jay-Z in a music video.

It is this alcoholic beverages application of glass packaging that is driving the glass packaging market. The Asia-Pacific region dominated theglass packaging market in 2013, where the growing consumption of alcoholic beverages is increasing due to the rising disposable income ofpeople in the region and their tendency to seek a more western-style, luxury lifestyle. The increased consumption of beer is a key factor inthe growth of the market particularly in Asia and in Eastern European countries such as Turkey and Russia. Glass bottles are the optimalchoice for beer packaging because the all-natural sustainable materials from which glass is made create a recyclable resource that isnon-permeable and has a zero rate of chemical interaction with the product, providing the best conditions for long-term preservation.

With the alcoholic beverage bottle sector set to continue to increase the demand forglass packaging, the global market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 3.9% from2014-2019 and to reach a value of $59,814 million by the end of that period. In NorthAmerica and Europe, the introduction of new medical therapies is set to cause agrowth in the market for pharmaceutical packaging but in the US and Canada, themarket for glass food containers is maturing and so is set to decline. As theconsumption of beer and the interest in luxury alcohol continue to increase, theglass packaging market will maintain its level of growth as new and innovativepackaging becomes an object of interest in its own right.

Read up on the latest developments in glass packaging for alcoholic beverages,pharmaceuticals and food containers in the latest market research: GlassPackaging Market

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La industria japonesa del packaging llegó a los USD 6000 millones en 2013

Tokio, Japón – La industria japonesa del packaging creció hasta alcanzar un nivel de USD 59.400 millones en el año fiscal 2013. En el área de materiales, los productos de envasado de papel tuvieron un rol fundamental mientras que el sector de maquinaria y equipos estuvo liderado por las formadoras y llenadoras de sachets. En el año fiscal 2013 (abril de 2013 a marzo de 2014), la industria del packaging experimentó un crecimiento superior al 2 % en Japón respecto de la cifra del anterior y el nivel alcanzado (USD 59.400 millones) representa un 1,27 % del PBI nacional. Materiales de packaging y envases Del total, los materiales de packaging y los envases representaron un ¥5.608 billones, mientras que la maquinaria de packaging contribuyó con ¥ 441.000 millones En términos de volumen, se produjeron 18,75 millones de toneladas de materiales y envases, y se fabricaron 356.000 equipos de envasado.

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Los productos de envasado de papel conformaron la mayoría de los materiales de packaging y envases producidos, tanto en términos de valor como de volumen, con un 41,8 % y un 62,5 % respectivamente. En el siguiente escalón, se ubicaron los productos de packaging de plástico, que conformaron el 29,7 % del valor y el 18,7 % del volumen. Con un volumen total de 1,62 millones de toneladas, los productos metálicos de packaging alcanzaron un valor de ¥9.400 millones y un 17 % de la participación de mercado. Otros materiales de packaging, como etiquetas, cintas, productos textiles y celofanes fueron responsables del 7 % del valor total en 2013, lo cual equivale a ¥3.800 millones. El vidrio, que siempre tuvo una mala proporción, fue responsable del 2 % del total de embarques de materiales, con un valor de ¥1.240 millones. La madera, que aún se usa de manera significativa en el envasado de productos más tradicionales, tuvo un mejor desempeño que el vidrio y alcanzó un total de ¥1.390 millones, que equivale al 2,5 % del valor. Maquinara de envasado Japón presenció un crecimiento de las ventas de maquinaria de packaging en los últimos dos años, con un incremento del 3 % desde el desastre del tsunami de 2011, con un total de ¥441.400 millones en 2013. Los equipos de formado y llenado demostraron su más alta demanda con la entrega de un total de 5.686 unidades, lo cual equivale a ¥60.500 millones. Mientras tanto, las máquinas embotelladoras alcanzaron el segundo valor en importancia con 3.887 unidades por un total de ¥57.900 millones.

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Los equipos de llenado también tuvieron un buen desempeño con la instalación de 3.075 unidades por un valor de ¥37.800 millones, mientras que los equipos de formado y llenado de envases varios (no sachets) también lograron una buena cifra de ventas: ¥13,300 millones. Sin embargo, la venta de equipos de fabricación de latas permaneció casi inmóvil con la instalación de nada más que 130 unidades, por un valor de ¥1.700 millones. Acerca de Tokyo Pack El Instituto del Envase de Japón (JPI) es propietario y operador de Tokyo Pack, la exposición bienal lanzada en 1966, que contará con más de 2600 stands que representan a 654 compañías, sobre una superficie de exposición de 51.380 m2. La feria atrae a más de 70.000 visitantes, provenientes de Japón y del extranjero. Durante la última edición, TOKYO PACK 2012, se recibió a más de 170.000 visitantes a lo largo de los cuatro días de exposición. Por consultas de expositores y visitantes, comuníquese con: TOKYO PACK 2014 Secretariat - Togeki Bldg. 10F, 4-1-1 Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0045, Japan - Tel: +81-3-3543-1189 - Fax: +81-3-3543-8970 E-mail: tokyopack@jpi.or.jp. - tokyopack@epresources.net. Website: www.tokyo-pack.jp/en.

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Tokyo Pack nombra a un consultor de mercados estratégicos para acrecentar

su presencia internacional

Tokio, Japón – Tokyo Pack se complace en anunciar el nombramiento de EP Resources Pte Ltd. (Singapur) como Consultor de mercados estratégicos para que proporcione información de mercado, análisis de investigación y soporte para las comunicaciones de Tokyo Pack 2014 (TP2014) a expositores internacionales y visitantes del extranjero.

El Instituto del Envase de Japón (JPI) es propietario y operador de Tokyo Pack, la principal exposición de packaging de Asia, que cuenta con más de 2600 stands que representan a 600 compañías, sobre una superficie de exposición de 23.000 m2. La feria atrae a más de 70.000 visitantes, provenientes de Japón y del extranjero. “El nombramiento de EP Resources fortalecerá la exposición Tokyo Pack en el mercado internacional, ya que los expositores y los socios del Instituto del Envase de Japón buscan cada vez más expandir sus ventas y sus operaciones en el exterior", explicó Yoichi Sonoyama, Secretario General de TOKYO PACK 2014. EP Resources tiene su sede en Singapur y es la principal fuente de información especializada de la industria del packaging en la región del Pacífico de Asia. La información se obtiene a través de análisis de mercado y servicio de consultoría y cuenta con una división de publicación que publica el boletín mensual Asian Packaging Business Insight y el sitio de noticias diarias sobre packaging: www.PackWebasia.com.

EP Resources tendrá la tarea de elevar el perfil de la exposición Tokyo Pack y de ayudar a los socios del JPI y a los expositores de Tokyo Pack a aumentar su presencia internacional. Con teste fin, EP Resources proporcionará análisis y asistencia para presentar la industria del packaging de Japón y TP2014 en los mercados estratégicos del Sudeste

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de Asia, Europa y América del Norte. Además, EP ofrecerá asesoramiento para desarrollar el sitio de TP2014, material impreso, publicidad y comunicaciones en idioma inglés.

Hajime Furuya, Director y Secretario General de JPI, expresó que "el Instituto del Envase de Japón tuvo una relación estrecha con el Sr. Hoggard desde 1996, desde el Simposio de Packaging Internacional de Japón que se realizó en Tokyo Pack, y hoy tenemos el agrado de poder colaborar con EP Resources para desarrollar aún más el interés de nuestros socios por el extranjero”.

“La industria del packaging de Japón suele ser erróneamente considerada en Occidente como estética, elaborada y excesiva”, comentó Stuart Hoggard, CEO de EP Resources Pte Ltd. “¡Nada más lejano de la realidad!”. Nuestro trabajo consiste en desmitificar esta imagen y ayudar al JPI, sus socios y los expositores deTP2014 a expandir los mercados del exterior.

Hajime Furuya, Director y secretario general del Instituto del Envase de Japón (JPI), Stuart Hoggard, CEO de EP Resources Pte Ltd. y Yoichi Sonoyama, Secretario general de TOKYO PACK 2014 (de izquierda a derecha).

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“Sin lugar a dudas, el packaging de Japón es elaborado, pero la visión general en Japón es que si el envase de una compañía no es perfecto, el producto que se encuentra en el interior también podría no serlo. Esta cultura y la exigencia de calidad es lo que convirtió al packaging de Japón en un elemento tecnológicamente avanzado y sustentable”, explicó Hoggard.

“La industria del packaging de Japón está bien preparada para el crecimiento, no solo en Japón, sino en los mercados internacionales. EP Resources tiene el honor de haber sido escogida por el Instituto del Envase de Japón para ser su socio de mercados estratégicos y espera ayudar a Japón a establecer su posición como uno de los mercados líderes del mundo en el sector del packaging.”

Una parte fundamental de la cooperación será un programa de orientación de un día para presentar el packaging japonés a los visitantes extranjeros, que se realizará el lunes 6 de octubre de 2014 (un día antes de la apertura de TP2014). El recorrido, Tokyo Pack Insight Japan Tour, fue desarrollado de manera conjunta por EP Resources y el JPI, y ofrecerá una presentación exclusiva de la industria del packaging en Japón, con una introducción de los factores clave del packaging de productos de consumo en Japón, los aspectos ambientales, legislativos y culturales que ejercen influencia sobre la tecnología, la investigación y el desarrollo, y el diseño del packaging.

Acerca de EP Resources Pte Ltd. EP Resources Pte Ltd fue fundada en 1999 por Stuart Hoggard, en Singapur y es un proveedor de información y consultoría especializada para la industria del packaging en la región del Pacífico de Asia.

Su división de consultoría ha trabajado en proyectos para empresas multinacionales que ingresan en los mercados de packaging e impresión en Asia, y ha desarrollado análisis del potencial del mercado en el sector de diseño de packaging para Apple Computers, mercados de etiquetas digitales para HP Indigo y mercados de cajas plegables para uno de los principales transformadores de cartón de Europa. También brindó asesoramiento sobre la estrategia de fusiones y adquisiciones en el Sudeste de Asia a uno de los principales productores de packaging para el servicio de alimentación de Japón y un análisis para la introducción al mercado para un proveedor de películas especializadas de Japón.

Su departamento de publicaciones es responsable del boletín mensual Asian Packaging Business Insigth y el sitio de noticias diarias de Internet: www.packwebasia.com. También publica una serie de análisis de

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mercado de varios clientes sobre la legislación ambiental en Asia, Guías para el cumplimiento de la sustentabilidad en el diseño de packaging.

EXPOSTORES EN 2014: A A & D Company, Limited A.J. PLAST PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED A.Y MATERIALS CO., LTD. ABB k.k. ACE JAPAN INC. ACHILLES CORPORATION Acreo Swedish ICT AB ACS ADSTEC Corporation Aichi Cardboard Tube Co., Ltd. AIKOKU ALPHA CORPORATION Air-Paq Composite Material (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. Alta Publishing Company AMANO Corporation AMEREX ENERGY COM AMUNDSEN Co., Ltd. Anhui Yibang New Material Technology Co., Ltd Anritsu Industrial Solutions, Co., Ltd. AOBAKASEI CO., LTD. APPAX CO., LTD. AR BROWN CO., LTD. ARAHATA FOODMACHINE CO., LTD. Asahikawa Scale Co., Ltd. ASANUMA & CO., LTD. ASCe Co.,Ltd. ASIA Hi-TECS CO., LTD. Asian Packaging Federation ASK LIMITED ATA Corporation Auger Enterprise Co., Ltd. Autonics Co., Ltd. B BANDEX CO., LTD. BASF Japan Ltd. Becker Air Techno Co., Ltd. Belpac Inc. Bemis Asia Pacific BERICAP GmbH & Co. KG BP PLASTICS SDN. BHD. bunshi japan Co., Ltd. C C.M. SYSTEMS CO., LTD. CCB Co., Ltd. CENTRAL MACHINERY CO., LTD. CGP EXPAL Inc. CGS Japan, inc. Changzhou Chunyuan Plastic Casing Co., Ltd. Changzhou Tongming Adhesive Products Co.Ltd. China Packaging Federation China Source Development Ltd. Chokoku Plast Corporation. Chubu Packaging and Food Machinery Manufactures Association CHUETSU Co., Ltd. Chuetsu Package Co., Ltd. Chuetsu Pulp & Paper Co., Ltd. COMET AG ebeam Technologies Comnet Co., Ltd. Conitex Sonoco Taiwan Ltd. Consumers Group Federation of Tokyo CORETEC INC. CORNES DODWELL CODING LTD. CORNES Technologies Ltd. CPE CORPORATION CREATE NIPPO Co., Ltd. CROWN-PACKAGE CO., LTD. D

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D.I.ENGINEERING CORPORATION DAC ENGINEERING CO., LTD. Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. Daicel Value Coating Ltd. DAIFUKU CO., LTD. DAIICHI INSTITUTION INDUSTRY Co., Ltd. Daika Kogyo Co., Ltd. DAIKEN CO., LTD. Dailian Takebishi Packing Industry Co., Ltd. Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals Mfg. Co., Ltd. Dairaku Design Studio Co., Ltd. DAISHOWA PAPER CONVERTING CO., LTD. DAISO CO., LTD. DAIWA CO., LTD. Daiwa Gravure Co., Ltd. Daiwa Service Co., Ltd. Dalian ALTMA Industry Co., Ltd. Dase-Sing Packaging Technology Co., Ltd. DELMAX MACHINERY Co., Ltd. Demark (Shanghai) Packaging Technology Co., Ltd. DIC Color Design, Inc. DIC Corporation DIC Graphics Corporation DIXIE JAPAN LTD. DONGGUAN Doohoo Printing CO., LTD. Dongguan Hing Shing Adhesive Product Co., Ltd. DongGuan Uni-pak Packing Co.,LTD Dongguan Zhiteng Plastic Product Co., Ltd. DOPACKHANWA CORPORATION Dow Chemical Japan Limited DuPont-Asahi Flash Spun Products Co., Ltd. DuPont-Mitsui Polychemicals Co., Ltd. E E-PACK Corp ECOS CO., LTD. Ecovative Design, LLC EDM corporation Eepos Shanghai Co., Ltd. EGI JAPAN EICOH Co., Ltd. EJ Co., Ltd. El-Design Co., Ltd. ELCOM Co., Ltd. EMBASSY OF SWEDEN, Investment Office EOE CO., LTD. EPSON SALES JAPAN CORPORATION ESHIN PACK IND. CO., LTD. ESKO-Graphics., Ltd Eversleeve Enterprise Co., Ltd. eWON K.K. Excellent Gravure Industrial Co., Ltd. Exseal Corporation Ltd. F Fangtai Webbing Co., Ltd. FANUC CORPORATION Far Eastern New Century Corp. FASHION CO., LTD. FIBC Vietnam Co., Ltd. Field Pack, co. Finjetchemical Industries, Ltd. FOMO JAPAN FOODS CONTAINER & CO., LTD. Foshan Qiancheng Packing Material Manufacturer Frank & Associates Plastie Co., Ltd. FUJI FILTER MANUFACTURING CO., LTD. Fuji Label Co., Ltd. Fuji Seal, Inc. FUJIFILM Global Graphic Systems Co., Ltd. FUJIIMPULSE CO., LTD. FUJIMURA KOGYO CO., LTD. FUJISEIKI CO., LTD. FUKUDA CO., LTD. Fukunaga Engineering Co., Ltd. FUKUOKA SEAL FUKUZAWA AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY FURUKAWA MFG. CO., LTD. FUSO COMPANY, LTD. FUSO INDUSTRIES CO., LTD. FUTABA CO., LTD. Futamura Chemical Co., Ltd. G GENERAL PACKER CO., LTD. Ginyoung Group Globe Industries Corporation GMS JAPAN CO., LTD. GOJO PAPER MFG. CO., LTD. GOLDWIN INC. GRANPAX LTD. GRAPHIC CO., LTD. GT-MAX INDUSTRIES SDN. BHD. GTB Co., Ltd. GUALA DISPENSING S.P.A. H H.IKEUCHI & CO., LTD. Hakko Corporation HANAGATA CORPORATION HANATSUKA MFG. CO., LTD. Hangzhou Guoli Packing Co., Ltd. Hangzhou Guoli Packing Co., Ltd. Harada Diecast Industries Henkel Japan Ltd. Herrmann Ultraschalltechnik GmbH & Co. KG Hewlett Packard Japan Ltd. HEXA JAPAN CO., LTD. Hi-Pack CO., LTD. HIROSE IRON WORKS CO., LTD. HIROYUKI CO., LTD. Hitachi High-Tech Science Corporation Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd. Hitachi Zosen Corporation HIWIN CORPORATION Hokkaido Government HOKUETSU Kishu Paper Co., Ltd. Hokuetsu Package Co., Ltd. HONDA PLUS CO., LTD. Hong Kong Xiang Yu International Co., Ltd. Hongsbelt International Limited Honma Co., Ltd. HONSHU RHEEM CO., LTD. HONSYU CO., LTD. Hopak Machinery Co., Ltd. Horizon International Inc. HOSOKAWA YOKO Co., Ltd. Hugle Electronics Inc. HUMANTECH CO., LTD. I IAI Corporation IDEX CO., LTD. Iijima Electronics Corporation Image Information Inc.

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IMAO CORPORATION InfoTrans Co., Ltd. INNAMI CO., LTD. Innovia Films Commercial Limited Innventia AB Institute of Packaging Professionals Japan (IPP) Invest in Skane AB IP-System Corporation ISHIDA CO., LTD. ISHIZAKI ELECTRIC MFG. CO., LTD. ITOH DENKI CO., LTD. ITW DYNATEC K.K. IWASAKI ELECTRIC CO., LTD. J JACK & COMPANY JAPAN AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS ASSOCIATION JAPAN BAKERY AND CONFECTIONERY MACHINERY MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION

Japan Certified Packaging Professional Club (JCPPC)

JAPAN CHEMICAL INNOVATION AND INSPECTION INSTITUTE Japan Flexible Packaging Hygiene Association Japan Food Packaging Machinery Co., Ltd. JAPAN INDUSTRIAL EDGED TOOL CO., LTD. JAPAN MECHANICAL DESIGN INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION Japan Pack Japan Packaging Consultants Association (JPCA) JAPAN PACKAGING INSTITUTE JAPAN PACKAGING MACHINERY LEASE CO., LTD. Japan Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Association Japan Pail Corporation JAPAN TAYLOR CO., INC. Jaw Feng Machinery Co., Ltd. Jiangyin Bondtape Technology Corporation Jiangyin Zhongnan Plastic Color Printing Co., Ltd. Jiaxing Jinxin Al Container Co., Ltd. JIC Quality Assurance Ltd. JSR Trading Co., Ltd. K KAETSU CORPORATION KAJIWARA INC. KANAGAWAKEN PACKAGING MACHINERY MANUFACTURERS' ASSO Kansai Electric Heat Corp. KANTOH Co., Ltd. Kantum Electronics Co., Ltd. KASUGA DENKI, INC. Katayama Steel Rule Die Inc. KATO TECH CO., LTD. KAYO ENTERPRISE, INC. KE OS machinery Co., Ltd. KEYENCE CORPORATION KIDA IRON WORKS CO., LTD. KIKUCHI MFG. CO., LTD. KIMURA SEAL CORPORATION King Yih Sen Co., Ltd. KINKI BLADE INDUSTRIES LTD. Kishu Giken Kogyo Co., Ltd. Kita Sangyo Co., Ltd. Kitahara Industry Co., Ltd. KITAMURA CHEMICALS CO., LTD. KITO CORPORATION KOBAYASHI & CO., LTD. KOBIRD CO., LTD. Kodak Japan Ltd. KOGA ISOTOPE LTD. Kollmorgen Corporation KOMACK CO., LTD. Konica Minolta Business Solutions Japan Co., Ltd. KONOHANA Co., Ltd. KOSHINSHA CO., LTD. KPMA KUBOTA CORPORATION KUDO IRON WORKS CO., LTD. Kunimori Kagaku Co., Ltd. Kuo Chang Machinery Co., Ltd. KURARAY CO., LTD. KURZ JAPAN LTD. KYOKUYO PULP & PAPER CO., LTD. KYOMACHISANGYOSHARYO CO., LTD. KYORAKU CO., LTD. KYORITSU PHYSICAL DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM CO., LTD. KYOUEI CO., LTD. KYOWA LIMITED KYUDENSHA CO., LTD. KYUNGYON EXHIBITION CORP. Kyushu PACKAGING CO., LTD. L La Party Corporation Labthink Instruments Co., Ltd. Laiwu Qiancheng Trading Co., Ltd. LASERCK CORPORATION Leister Technologies CO., LTD. Leung Chong Kee Machine Factory Ltd. Long Durable Machinery Co., Ltd. Long New Industrial Co., Ltd. Lucky River Lucky Seven Ocean Corp. Lukio CO., LTD. M MAEDA MFG CO., LTD. MAKINO INDUSTRY CO., LTD. Makino Sealing Co., Ltd. Markem-Imaje k.k. Marking System Technology Co., Ltd. MARUSE CO., LTD. MARUSHIN TELLTAG CO., LTD. MARUSHO CO., LTD. MAST Co., Ltd. MATSUDA MACHINE INDUSTRY Co., Ltd. MATSUO SANGYO CO., LTD. MEIWA SANSHO CO., LTD. MEIWAPAX CO., LTD. Merck Ltd. Japan MESSE DUESSELDOLF JPAPAN LTD. MIDORIKAWA CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CO., LTD. Milliken Japan G.K. MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD. MISUZUKOKI CO., LTD. Mitsui Chemicals Tohcello, Inc. MIURA Co., Ltd. MIYAGEN CO., LTD. mocon MORI SHIGYO CO., LTD. MORICO CO., LTD. MORIPAX CO., LTD. Morrison Enterprises Corp. MURAKOSHI INDUSTRY CO., LTD. MUSASHI ENGINEERING, INC. Myotoku Ltd. N

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N-TECH Co.LTD. N.S CORPORATION Nabeya Bi-tech Kaisha NAKAJYO Plate Working NAKAKIN CO., LTD. NAKAMURA SANGYO CO., LTD. NAKANIHONSYOJI CO., LTD. NAKATANI CO., LTD. Nanhai Matsumoto (Shangqiu) Wood Co., Ltd. Nanjing Hujiang Composite Materials Co., Ltd. Nanjing Pride Plastic Technology Co., LTD. NANSIN CO., LTD. NAVITAS VISION SOLUTION CO., LTD. NAX CO., LTD. NEO ENGINEERING CO., LTD. NET & PRINT CO., LTD. New Mind Co., Ltd. NIHON FASTECIMAGING CO., LTD. NIHON HOUZAI CO., LTD. NIHON PISCO Co., Ltd. NIHON SEKISO CO., LTD. NIKKA DENSOK LIMITED NIKKO Co., Ltd. NIPPON AUTOMATIC FINE MACHINERY CO., LTD. Nippon Busch K.K. NIPPON HOSO-KIKAI CO., LTD. NIPPON KAKO-KIZAI CO., LTD. NIPPON MOLDING CO., LTD. NIPPON PAPER CRECIA CO., LTD. NIPPON PAPER INDUSTRIES CO., LTD. NIPPON PAPER PAPYLIA CO., LTD. NIPPON PLASTIC PALLET CORPORATION Nippon Seitai Corporation Nippon Technology Solution Co., Ltd. Nippon Tokan Package Co., Ltd. NISHIBE KIKAI Co., Ltd. Nishikawa Communications Co., Ltd. NISSEI CORPORATION Nisseysangyo Co., Ltd. NISSIN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. NITTOPACK CO., LTD. NITTSU SHOJI CO., LTD. NKE Corporation NOMURA INDUSTRY CO., LTD. NORDSON K. K. NORITAKE CO., LIMITED NP TRADING CO., LTD. NSK co., ltd. O O'TEC Co., Ltd. Oerlicon Leybold Vacuum Japan Co., Ltd. OG CORPORATION OHKI CO., LTD. Oji Adba Co., Ltd. Oji Container Co., Ltd. Oji F-Tex Co., Ltd. Oji Holdings Co., LTD. Oji Inter Pack Co., Ltd. OJI KINOCLOTH CO., LTD. Oji Materia Co., Ltd. Oji Package Innovation Center Inc. Oji Packaging Co., Ltd. OJI SEITAI Co., Ltd. OKABEKAMIKON CO., LTD. OKAHASHI CO., LTD. OKAYAMA PAPER INDUSTRIES CO., LTD. Oki Data Corporation OKUDA MACHINE CO., LTD. OKUDAYA GIKEN CO., LTD. Okui Co., Ltd. ORIENT SOGYO CO., LTD. ORIHIRO Co., Ltd. ORION MACHINERY CO., LTD. OS MACHINERY CORP. OSAKA SEALING PRINTING CO., LTD. P P. T. Dwi Indah PACIFIC SCIENCE CO., LTD. Pack Leader Machinery Inc. Packaging Arena Packbridge AB PACWELL, INC. PAIONIA FURYOKUKI CO., LTD. Pan Cycle International Co., Ltd. PAPALAB CO., LTD. PAPERWARE CO., LTD. PAPYRUS COMPANY CO., LTD. Pepprl+Fuchs K.K. PHOENIX ENGINEERING CORP. PIAB Japan Ltd. Pictorico ProPak Asia ProPak China PS COMPANY., LTD. Q Qindao Takebishi Packing Industry Co., Ltd. Qingdao Dongxiang Machinery Co.,Ltd. QINGDAO HUARI COLOR PRINTING CO., LTD. Qingdao Renhang Inernational Trading Co.,Ltd Qingdao SG Global Packaging Co.,Ltd. Qingdao Shuangquan Plastic Products Co., Ltd. Quanzhou Far East Environmental Protection Technology Development Co., Ltd.

Quickly Food Machinery Co., Ltd.

R Rayama Pack Co., Ltd. Reach Plastic Industrial Co., Ltd. Rengo Co., Ltd. Reportservice Co., Ltd. Rexnord Flat Top Europe B.V. RINGSTONE CO., LTD. Roots Machinery Laboratories, Inc. RUNCAR CO., LTD. Ryokosha Co., Ltd. RYUKEN Co., Ltd. S SAKATA INX CORP SANKO MACHINERY CO., LTD. SANKOH Co., Ltd. SANKOH INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD. SANPO KASEI CO., LTD. SANRITSU CORPORATION Sanwa Shiko Co., Ltd. SANYO TRADING CO., LTD. SATO INDUSTRY CO., LTD. SATO-TECH SAWA COPORATION Schmalz k. k. SEAL EIGHT CO., LTD. SEAL INDUSTRIAL CO.,LTD Seikosangyo Co., Ltd. SEIKOU CO., LTD.

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SEISAN NIPPONSHA, LTD. Selcam CO., LTD Senbakasei Co., Ltd. Seng Seng Plastic Co., Ltd. Shanghai HuaHuang Packaging Products CO., Ltd. Shanghai Jietong Plastic Packaging Materials Co.,Ltd Shanghai Luxin Packing Materials Science & Technology Co.,Ltd Shanghai Packaging Technology Association Shanghai Takebishi Packaging Material Co., Ltd. SHANGHAI TECHSUN ANTI-COUNTERFEITING TECHNOLOGY

HOLDING CO., LTD. ShangHai Xuanbei Packaging Materials Ltd. SHANGHAI YIAO PACKAGE MACHINERY CO., LTD. Shaoxing Xiangyu Green Packing Co., Ltd. Shen Zhen Ourway Packing Products CO., Ltd. Shenzhen Chouqin Packing Co., Ltd. Shenzhen Dinglisheng Technology Co., Ltd Shenzhen Hongcai New Material Technology Co., Ltd. Shenzhen Honghaolian Packing Gift Co., Ltd. Shenzhen king package co.,ltd Shijiazhuang Fangda Packaging Material Co., Ltd. Shin Tai Plastics Industrial Co., Ltd. SHINKO DENSHI CO., LTD. SHINMEI CO., LTD. Shintaku Industries Co., Ltd. SHINYEI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. SHIRAKAWA DENSAN CORPORATION ShoeiCORPORATION Co., Ltd. Shohoku Laminate Co., Ltd. SHOKO KIKO CO., LTD. SHORAKU CO., LTD. Showa Co., Ltd. Showa Denko Packaging Co., Ltd. SHOWA PAXXS Company Limited Shung Tong Enterprise Co Ltd. SINLIPLAS HOLDING SDN BHD. SKF JAPAN LTD. Lubrication Business Unit SMART CAP INC. SMI S.p.A Society of Packaging Science & Technology, Japan SOJITZ MACHINERY CORPORATION Sojitz Pla-Net Corporation SOLUTECH CO., LTD. SOTOOU CORPORATION Span Tech Japan SPEEMER Spraying Systems Co., Japan STAR TECHNO COMPANY LIMITED STRAPACK CORPORATION SUMITOMO 3M LIMITED Sun A.Kaken Co., Ltd. SUN ENGINEERING CO., LTD. Sunje Hi-Tek Co., Ltd. SUNPACK Corporation Sunrise Pacific Co., Ltd. SUNSTATION SYSTEMS Co., Ltd. Superpacking Korea Co., Ltd. Suzhou Airbag Complexity Plastic Co., Ltd. Suzhou SPK Aluminium Foil Co., Ltd. System Square Inc. T TACOM SA TAGA ELECTRIC CO., LTD. TAISEI FUTABA INDUSTRY CO., LTD. TaiseiLamick Co., Ltd. Taiwan Yizuo Co., Ltd. Taiyo Kogyo Corporation TAIYO SEIKI CO., LTD. Taizhou E-PLAS Packaging Co., Ltd. Taizhou Huangyan Demark Trading Company Taizhou Huangyan Demark Trading Company TAKACHIHO SEIKI CO., LTD. Takahashi Hoso Center, k.k. TAKAKYU INDUSTRIES CO., LTD. Takara Pac Ltd. TAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD. TAKIGAWA CORPORATION JAPAN TAMAPACK CO., LTD. TAMAPOLY CO., LTD. TAMAYA CO., LTD. TANA-X, Inc. Tayi Yeh Machinery Co., Ltd. TDI Product Solution Co., Ltd. TDS Corporation TECH-LONG JAPAN CO., LTD. TECH-LONG PACKAGING MACHINERY CO., LTD. Techno-Tools Co., Ltd. Technocracy Company Limited TECHNOROLL CO., LTD. TENCHI SANGYO CO., LTD. TEPLAS Co., Ltd. TERADA TRADING CO., LTD. THAI FILM INDUSTRIES PCL. The Monthly Packaging The Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun Ltd The Thai Packaging Association THINK LABORATORY Co., Ltd. Tianjin Zerpo Supply Co., Ltd. TM Corporation. Tobii Technology K.K. TOK ENGINEERING CO., LTD. TOKUNAGA MANUFACTURING Co., Ltd. TOKYO FOODS MACHINERY CO., LTD. TOKYO PACK CO., LTD. TOPACK CO., LTD. TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD. Torishige Sangyo Co., Ltd. TOSHIN CO., LTD. Tosico Corporation TOTANI CORPORATION TOYO ADL CORPORATION TOYO AEROSOL INDUSTRY Co., ltd. TOYO FPP CO., LTD. TOYO INK CO., LTD. TOYO JIDOKI CO., LTD. TOYO LABEL CO., LTD. TOYO PACKEN CO., LTD. Toyo-Morton, Ltd. TOYOTA KAKO Co., Ltd. TRYNET Tsubaki FlexLink Co. Tsubaki Yamakyu CHAIN Co. Tsubakimoto Kogyo Co., Ltd. TSUKASA CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CO., LTD. TSUKATANI HAMONO MFG, CO., LTD. TSUTSUMU CO., LTD. TWOWIN Co., Ltd. U Ube Information Systems, Inc. UCHIDA TECHNO Co., Ltd. Uchiyama Manufacturing Corp. UMEDA VACUUM PACKAGING CO., LTD. UNIBUG CO., LTD. Unicontrols Co., Ltd.

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Unid Identification Technology (Shanghai)Co.Ltd Union Corporation Co., Ltd. V VERYPACK Co., Ltd. VIDEOJET X-RITE K. K. Vitalo Packaging International Inc. W WATANABE GOSANDO CO., LTD. WATANABE TSUSHO CORPORATION Weijin Machinery Industry Co., Ltd. Welsonli Co., Ltd. Wenzhou Longhai Import&Export Trading Co.,Ltd Wenzhou Ziqiang Plastic Clip Chain Co., Ltd. WILL CORPORATION WONJI Co., Ltd. WUXI OKAHASHI PACKAGING Co., Ltd. X Xiamen Whole View Supply Chain Management Co., Ltd. XYP JAPAN CO., LTD. Y YABUUCHI INDUSTRY, INC. YAMAMOTO VINITA CO., LTD. YAMANAKA INDUSTRY Co., Ltd. YAMANI PACKAGE Co., Ltd. Yamazaki & Co., Ltd. Yantai Bagmart Packaging Co., Ltd. Yashima Export & Import Co., Ltd. YASKAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION Yem Chio Co., Ltd. Yokohama Automatic Machine Co., Ltd. YUKI CO., LTD. YUPO CORPORATION YUWA INDUSTRIES CO., LTD. Z ZAOH COMPANY, LTD. ZEON KASEI CO., LTD. Zhejiang Jiuteng Packaging Co., Ltd. Zhejiang Xinhengtai Advanced Material Co.,Ltd. Zouken Co., Ltd. China Pavilion Yantai Bagmart Packaging Co., Ltd. Nanjing Hujiang Composite Materials Co., Ltd. Superpacking Korea Co., Ltd. Quanzhou Far East Environmental Protection Technology Development Co.,

Ltd. Dongguan Hing Shing Adhesive Product Co., Ltd. Dongguan Zhiteng Plastic Product Co., Ltd. Shenzhen Honghaolian Packing Gift Co., Ltd. Qingdao Shuangquan Plastic Products Co., Ltd. Shijiazhuang Fangda Packaging Material Co., Ltd. China Source Development Ltd. Xiamen Whole View Supply Chain Management Co., Ltd. Fangtai Webbing Co., Ltd. Tianjin Zerpo Supply Co., Ltd. Shaoxing Xiangyu Green Packing Co., Ltd. Shenzhen Hongcai New Material Technology Co., Ltd. Hongsbelt International Limited Taizhou E-PLAS Packaging Co., Ltd. Taizhou Huangyan Demark Trading Company Shenzhen Chouqin Packing Co., Ltd. Labthink Instruments Co., Ltd. Shanghai HuaHuang Packaging Products CO., Ltd. Air-Paq Composite Material (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. Nanhai Matsumoto (Shangqiu) Wood Co., Ltd. Suzhou SPK Aluminium Foil Co., Ltd. Jiaxing Jinxin Al Container Co., Ltd. Nanjing Pride Plastic Technology Co., LTD. Jiangyin Zhongnan Plastic Color Printing Co., Ltd. Demark (Shanghai) Packaging Technology Co., Ltd. Taizhou Huangyan Demark Trading Company Wenzhou Ziqiang Plastic Clip Chain Co., Ltd. ShangHai Xuanbei Packaging Materials Ltd. Changzhou Chunyuan Plastic Casing Co., Ltd. Shen Zhen Ourway Packing Products CO., Ltd. Hong Kong Xiang Yu International Co., Ltd. Finjetchemical Industries, Ltd. Zhejiang Jiuteng Packaging Co., Ltd. SHANGHAI TECHSUN ANTI-COUNTERFEITING TECHNOLOGY HOLDING CO., LTD.

Qingdao Dongxiang Machinery Co.,Ltd.

Hangzhou Guoli Packing Co., Ltd. Hangzhou Guoli Packing Co., Ltd. Leung Chong Kee Machine Factory Ltd. Shanghai Packaging Technology Association China Packaging Federation Anhui Yibang New Material Technology Co., Ltd Shenzhen king package co.,ltd Shenzhen Dinglisheng Technology Co., Ltd Shanghai Jietong Plastic Packaging Materials Co.,Ltd Laiwu Qiancheng Trading Co., Ltd. Changzhou Tongming Adhesive Products Co.Ltd. Qingdao Renhang Inernational Trading Co.,Ltd Wenzhou Longhai Import&Export Trading Co.,Ltd Unid Identification Technology (Shanghai)Co.Ltd DongGuan Uni-pak Packing Co.,LTD Shanghai Luxin Packing Materials Science & Technology Co.,Ltd Foshan Qiancheng Packing Material Manufacturer Zhejiang Xinhengtai Advanced Material Co.,Ltd. Qingdao SG Global Packaging Co.,Ltd. Jiangyin Bondtape Technology Corporation DONGGUAN Doohoo Printing CO., LTD. Taiwan Pavilion La Party Corporation Weijin Machinery Industry Co., Ltd. Frank & Associates Plastie Co., Ltd. Long New Industrial Co., Ltd. Globe Industries Corporation Alta Publishing Company Dase-Sing Packaging Technology Co., Ltd. Long Durable Machinery Co., Ltd. Auger Enterprise Co., Ltd. Quickly Food Machinery Co., Ltd. Shin Tai Plastics Industrial Co., Ltd. Eversleeve Enterprise Co., Ltd. Yem Chio Co., Ltd. Morrison Enterprises Corp. Lucky Seven Ocean Corp. Pan Cycle International Co., Ltd. Seng Seng Plastic Co., Ltd. Shung Tong Enterprise Co Ltd. Kuo Chang Machinery Co., Ltd. Pack Leader Machinery Inc. Jaw Feng Machinery Co., Ltd. Hopak Machinery Co., Ltd.

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Tayi Yeh Machinery Co., Ltd. King Yih Sen Co., Ltd. Ginyoung Group Sunrise Pacific Co., Ltd. Far Eastern New Century Corp. EOE CO., LTD. Suzhou Airbag Complexity Plastic Co., Ltd. Welsonli Co., Ltd. Reach Plastic Industrial Co., Ltd. Acerca de Tokyo Pack El Instituto del Envase de Japón (JPI) es propietario y operador de Tokyo Pack, la exposición bienal lanzada en 1966, que contará con más de 2600 stands que representan a 600 compañías, sobre una superficie de exposición de 23.000 m2. La feria atrae a más de 70.000 visitantes, provenientes de Japón y del extranjero. Durante la última edición, TOKYO PACK 2012, se recibió a más de 170.000 visitantes a lo largo de los cuatro días de exposición. Si desea obtener más información, visite www.tokyo-pack.jp/en/. Por consultas de expositores y visitantes, comuníquese con: TOKYO PACK 2014 Secretariat - Togeki Bldg. 10F, 4-1-1 Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0045, Japan - Tel: +81-3-3543-1189 - Fax: +81-3-3543-8970 E-mail: tokyopack@jpi.or.jp. - tokyopack@epresources.net. Website: www.tokyo-pack.jp/en. NEWS FROM ARGENTINA: Lic. Emma Fiorentino – Technical Journalist.

- "Packaging" magazine - "Industrias Plásticas" Plastics Industries magazine) - “Noticiero del Plástico / Caucho / Elastómeros / Packaging Pocket + Moldes y Matrices con GUIA de Proveedores”. (Plastics, Rubber, Elastomers and Packaging news Poquet + Molds and Dies with Suppliers Directory, bimonthly magazine) - "Laboratorios y sus Proveedores" (Laboratories and their Suppliers magazine) - "Reciclado y Plásticos" (Recycling and Plastics/Packaging magazine) - Solar Energy (Renewable/Alternative Energies – magazine) Editorial Emma Fiorentino Publicaciones Tecnicas S.R.L. Estados Unidos 2796, 1º P., "A" - (C1227ABT) Buenos Aires, Argentina Tel./Fax: (54-11) 4943-0090 (rotativas/roll over lines) E-mails: <info@emmafiorentino.com.ar> <emmafiorentino@fibertel.com.ar><emmaf@emmafiorentino.com.ar> WEB: www.emmafiorentino.com.ar.

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Empaque  Performance  (online)  

   

Geographical  coverage:    Mexico  

     

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Tokio Pack de 2014, Exposición Premier deEmpaque en Asia, para mostrar los materiales yprocesos de envasado más avanzados

ü Fechas: 7 a 10 Octubre, 2014 (10:00-17:00)ü Lugar de celebración: Tokyo Big Sight

Fechas han finalizado para el espectáculo más grande de envases enAsia, Tokio Pack 2014 , que tendrá lugar los días 07 al 10 de Octubredel 2014 en el recinto ferial internacional de la ciudad capital de TokioBig Sight .

Ahí se presentarán las soluciones y técnicas de envasado, produccióny transformación de las empresas, en los principales sectores de laAlimentación y Bebidas, Confites y productos de Panadería, productosFarmacéuticos y Cosméticos, no alimentarios y bienes de consumo,solo productos industriales.

También en la feria habrá una gama de servicios relacionados;materiales de embalaje; impresión; pruebas e inspección, Logística yDistribución, y reciclado y eliminación.

Lanzada en 1966 es propiedad y está operada directamente por elInstituto del Empaque de Japón (JPI), la exposición bianual (cada dosaños) contará con más de 2.600 stands de 600 empresas en elespacio de exposición de 23.000 m2, que atrae a más de 70.000visitantes desde el interior de Japón y en el extranjero.

Ya muchos de los más grandes jugadores de empaque de Japón hanregistrado su participación como expositores, incluyendo Rengo Co.,Ltd., Toppan Printing Co., Ltd., Toyo Jidoki Co., Ltd., Toyo Ink Co., Ltd.Takara Pac. Ltd., Kyodo Printing Co., Ltd., Idemitsu Unitech Co., Ltd,Ishida Co., Ltd., Anritsu Industrial Solutions Co., Ltd., Taisei LamickCo., Ltd., Furukawa MFG Co., Ltd., Fujiseiki Co., Ltd, así como lasdivisiones japonesas de las corporaciones globales, como la CoronaPack Co., Ltd., EDM Corporation y Strapack Corporation.

La más reciente edición de la feria fue TOKYO PACK 2012, en dondese registró un aumento del número de visitantes de 65.311, de los62.182 visitantes registrados en la edición anterior.

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En total, más de 170.000 personas visitaron TOKIO PACK 2012durante la exposición de cuatro días.

El número de expositores también creció un 8,9% a 600, mientrasque el número total de estands aumentó un 7,2 % a 2.270.

La próxima TOKIO PACK 2014 se hace para satisfacer a todos losexpositores y visitantes anteriores, como la industria de envasado deJapón que continúa su expansión, y los mercados de envasado.

La prensa asiática anunció que a las tasas de rápido desarrollo hacende la región, una de las de más rápido crecimiento en el mundo.

El Sr. Yoichi Sonoyama, Secretario General de la Secretaría TOKIOPACK 2014, dijo: "El evento es la exposición más grande de Asia, conla participación del grupo de China, Corea y Taiwán, que atrae laatención como una exposición de Asia y el específico regional, dondese pueden aprender las últimas tendencias de envasado de toda Asia”.

"Para TOKIO PACK 2014, tenemos la intención de ir por todas paraampliar el alcance y la magnitud de la exposición”.

"Esperamos dar la bienvenida a los visitantes y expositores de TOKIOPACK 2014 como el único lugar en Asia, donde los expositores y losvisitantes pueden recibir información actualizada sobre tendencias deenvasado regionales, se reúnen los principales actores de embalaje, yhacerse un hueco en este mercado de rápido crecimiento de Asia queofrece un considerable potencial de negocio y oportunidades", dijo elSr. Sonoyama.

Para consultas de expositores, póngase en contacto con:

TOKIO PACK Secretaría 2012

Togeki Edificio. 10F, 4-1-1 Tsukiji, Chuo- ku, Tokio 104-0045, Japón

Tel: +81-3-3543-1189Fax: +81-3-3543-8970

E-mail: tokyopack@jpi.or.jp

Sitio web: http://www.tokyo-pack.jp/en

NewsRelease

Brady lanza nuevas etiquetas de identificación resistentes a procesos severosde limpieza

Analizador de gas en línea para el envasado en atmósfera modificada

Se fortalece el mercado mexicano de maquinaria de envasado

Petroplast ha salido fortalecida al abrirse a nuevos mercados

Polar invirtió Bs 260 millones en nueva línea de envasado de San Joaquín

Gobierno ocupa filial de Smurfit para garantizar suministro de empaques dealimentos

Innovación a petición del cliente

Harán en Juárez primera expo de empaques

Tetra Pak galardonado con el Worldstar

El Paquete abre fácil de Amazon ya está disponible en 200.000 productos

Tokio Pack de 2014, Exposición Premier de Empaque en Asia, para mostrar losmateriales y procesos de envasado más avanzados

El consumo de bolsas de plástico se ha reducido un 72% entre 2010 y 2013

PP entra a jugar en el rotomoldeo

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EMPAQUE Performance magazine August 2014

TOKIO PACK 2014 crece el número de expositores: a toda su capacidad

Fecha de Inicio: Friday, August 01, 2014 Fecha de Expiración: Monday, September 01, 2014

Cada metro cuadrado de la superficie de exposición de 51.380 m2 ha

sido totalmente reservado para la exposición más grande de embalaje de Asia: TOKIO PACK 2014.

"Con un total de 654 empresas comprometidas con la exhibición de este

año, hemos crecido nuestro número de expositores en más de un 7% a partir de la edición de 2012", dijo el Sr. Yoichi Sonoyama, Secretario

General.

"Además, del número total de empresas en la feria, un total de 99 son

completamente nuevos expositores."

"Esta es una demostración de la creencia de las empresas que TOKYO PACK, es la feria de envases de primera clase en Asia, y el lugar para

ellos para mostrar las tecnologías de envasado avanzados, soluciones y

obtener nuevas oportunidades de negocio."

Aprovechar las nuevas oportunidades de negocio en TOKYO

PACK

De todos los expositores encuestados en 2012, el 98,2% dijo que entraron en nuevas negociaciones comerciales, debido a potenciales

generados en la feria.

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47,5% de los expositores señaló que muchos de los visitantes a sus

stands eran nuevos clientes.

Cuando se le preguntó sobre el propósito de su visita a Tokio PACK

2012, el 63,7% de los visitantes dijo que estaban buscando información

sobre nuevos productos y tecnologías, mientras que el 21,9% se

abastece de información para la compra de equipos y soluciones.

Este año, los expositores ya se están preparando para un espectáculo

emocionante este mes de octubre.

Rengo Co., Ltd. ha adquirido el mayor espacio en la exposición para

mostrar una amplia gama de soluciones de envasado avanzados en su

stand de 840m2.

Otras empresas japonesas, innovadoras importantes que también han

establecido su espacio de exposición significativa, incluyen Osaka

Sellado Printing Co., Ltd y Oji Pack Innovation Center Inc. con 450m2

espacio de stand cada una, Ishida Co., Ltd y Toppan Printing Co., Ltd, con 360m2 cada una, y Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd y Fuji Seal, Inc

(315m2 espacio de cada uno).

Acerca Tokio Pack

Lanzado en 1966 es propiedad y operado directamente por el Instituto

del Empaque de Japón (JPI), la exposición bienal (cada dos años)

contará con más de 2.600 stands de 654 empresas en el espacio de exposición 51.380 m2, que atrae a más de 70.000 visitantes desde el

interior de Japón y en el extranjero.

Durante la pasada edición, más de 170.000 personas visitaron TOKIO PACK 2012 durante la exposición de cuatro días.

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The cradle of packaging innovation and technology, Japan is at the forefront of the most advanced packagingdevelopments globally; and this year all these cutting-edge solutions will be housed in one location: TOKYOPACK 2014.

The largest packaging exhibition in Asia, Tokyo Pack 2014 is "ここで見つかる、包装のチカラ", or, as translateddirectly into English, "The site of advanced packaging development and solutions technology". This year'sexhibition has lined up a series of special displays, all of which celebrate the Package.

Japan's Packaging Display HighlightsIn addition to the main exhibition, the exhibition organizers are introducing a new showcase of advancedJapanese packaging solutions. The Next Generation High Performance Packaging Pavilion will featurebreakthrough packaging solutions that take extended product shelf life to new levels, highlightenvironmentally-friendly packages, and new decoration and print technology solutions.

The Good Packaging Pavilion will feature the year's best in Japanese packaging innovation and technology -the Japan Star 2014 winners. A special collection of Japan's most advanced and creative packaging designsand technology chosen by expert industry professionals, this is a unique opportunity to see firsthand the topcommercialized packaging solutions in the extremely sophisticated and demanding Japanese consumermarket.

The Global Packaging Pavilion will also return to Tokyo Pack 2014 after a successful first-run at the last show.A showcase of common food and beverage packaging around the world, highlighting the importance ofpackaging to Man, this display will feature packaging applications common to different countries, as anextension of different consumer behavior and habits.

About Tokyo PackLaunched in 1966 and owned and operated directly by the Japan Packaging Institute (JPI), the biennial (everytwo years) exhibition will feature more than 2,600 booths representing 600 companies in the 23,000m2exhibition space, which attracts more than 70,000 visitors from inside Japan and overseas.

During the last edition, more than 170,000 people visited TOKYO PACK 2012 during the four-day exhibition.

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Showcasing Japan at interpack 2014A number of Japanese companies and their subsidiaries will be exhibiting at interpack 2014, including C.I.Kasei Co Ltd (Hall 9 / G35), DNP Indonesia (Hall 10 / C12), Fuji Machinery Co Ltd (Hall 08b / C20), IshidaEurope Limited (Hall 15 / A25-26), Kajiwara Inc (Hall 3 / F15), Kuraray EVAL Europe nv (Hall 10 / D63),Marubeni Europe Plc (Hall 7a / C16), Mitsuhashi Corporation (Hall 8b / E65), Omori Machinery Co Ltd (Hall 8b/ C66), Sanko Machinery Co Ltd (Hall 8b / G28), Strapack Corporation (Hall 11 / D22), Topack Co Ltd (Hall 8b/ D65), Toppan Printing Co Ltd (Hall 11 / A11), Totani Corporation (Hall 11 / C70), Toyo Jidoki Co Ltd (Hall 8b/ C58), Toyo Machine Manufacturing Co Ltd (Hall 8b / D65), etc.

Japan Packaging Institute (JPI), the Tokyo-based packaging industry association of 1,100 members, will alsobe present at interpack (Hall 11 / C03-1) to meet with parties interested in better understanding the Japanesepackaging market and its abundant business opportunities.

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TOKYO PACK 2014 Grows Exhibitor Numbers; at Full Capacity2014-08-04URL:

Every square metre of the 51,380m2 exhibition space has been fully booked for Asia's largest packagingexhibition: TOKYO PACK 2014.

The Tokyo Pack Secretariat reports the number of exhibitors at the premier packaging show have exceeded650 companies. "With a total of 654 companies committed to exhibiting this year, we have grown our exhibitornumber by more than 7% from the 2012 edition," said Mr. Yoichi Sonoyama, Secretary General of the TOKYOPACK 2014 Secretariat. "In addition, of the total number of companies on show, a total of 99 are entirely newexhibitors."

"This is a demonstration of companies' belief that TOKYO PACK 2014 is the premier packaging exhibition inAsia, and the venue for them to showcase advanced packaging technologies, solutions and gain new businessopportunities."

Seizing new business opportunities at TOKYO PACKOf all the exhibitors surveyed at TOKYO PACK 2012, 98.2% said they entered into new business negotiationsdue to leads generated at the show, while 47.5% of exhibitors noted that many of the visitors to their boothswere new customers.

When asked about the purpose of their visit to TOKYO PACK 2012, 63.7% of visitors said they were looking forinformation on new products and technologies, while 21.9% were sourcing for information to purchaseequipment and solutions.

This year, TOKYO PACK 2014 exhibitors are already gearing up for an exciting show this October. Rengo Co.,Ltd. has purchased the largest space at the exhibition to display a wide range of advanced packaging solutionsat its 840m2 booth.

Other prominent innovative Japanese companies that have also taken up significant exhibition space includeOsaka Sealing Printing Co., Ltd and Oji Package Innovation Center Inc. with 450m2 booth space each, IshidaCo., Ltd and Toppan Printing Co., Ltd with 360m2 each, and Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd and Fuji Seal, Inc(315m2 space each).

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The Japanese packaging industry grew to US$59.4 billion in the financial year of 2013, with paper packagingproducts and pouch forming and filling machinery making up the majority of the packaging materials andequipment sector respectively.

In FY2013 (April 2013 to March 2014), Japan's packaging industry grew by more than 2% over the previousyear to hit ¥6.049 trillion (US$59.4 billion) in value - representing 1.27% of the national GDP.

Packaging materials and containers

Of the total, packaging materials and containers represented ¥5.608 trillion, while packaging machinerycontributed ¥441 billion. By volume, 18.75 million tons of packaging materials and container were producedwhile 356,000 units of packaging machinery were manufactured.

Paper packaging products made up the majority of packaging materials and containers produced by bothshipment value and volume at 41.8% and 62.5% respectively. This was followed by plastic packaging productswhich constituted 29.7% of shipment value and 18.7% of volume.

With a total volume of 1.62 million tonnes, metal packaging products returned a value of ¥9.4 billion, giving ita 17% market share. Other packaging materials such as seals, labels, tapes, textile products and cellophanesmade up 7% of total packaging value in 2013, or ¥3.8 billion.

Glass, always the poor relation, accounted for 2% of the total material shipments valued at ¥1.24 billion.Wood, which is still significantly used in the packaging of more traditional products, performed better thanglass with ¥1.39 billion, or 2.5% of value.

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Japan saw packaging machinery sales pick up over the past two years, up 3% since the tsunami disaster of2011 to ¥441.4 billion in 2013.

Pouch forming and filling machines saw the highest demand with a total of 5,686 units delivered, representinga total of ¥60.5 billion. Meanwhile, bottling machinery gained the second highest value at ¥57.9 billion, with atotal of 3,887 units.

Filling equipment also performed well with total installations of 3,075 units valued at ¥37.8 billion, whilegeneral container (non-pouch) form and filling equipment also performed well with sales of ¥13.3bn.

However, canmaking equipment sales remained flat at ¥1.7 billion, with just 130 units installed.

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Next gen solutions at Tokyo PackTokyo Pack 2014 is set to hit Japan on October 7 to 10, aiming to showcase the best the packagingindustry has to offer.

This year’s event features the Next Generation High Performance Packaging Pavilion, with extended shelflife solutions, environmentally-friendly packages and new decoration and print technology solutions.

Interesting packages on display include a special sprout-integrated pouch for beverages and liquid food,from Japan’s Ecodpack, designed to reduce weight and save on raw materials.

Ecodpack says liquid products canbe dispensed by squeezing thepouch, and a mechanism preventsair from flowing into the pack –protecting the product. Liquid foodproducts can also be dispensedwithout solid food particlesclogging.

PopPack from the US willdemonstate its reclosable bubblesolution, which opens and closesflexible packages with a poppingsound to provide assurance thatthe contents are fresh, well sealedand have not been tampered with.

PopPack says it hopes to findpartners at Tokyo Pack to help it introduce the technology to the Japanese market.

To help out international visitors who do not speak Japanese, this year stands will have signs saying‘English speaker available’ to identify where business discussions can comfortably take place in English.

Staff at the Foreign Visitor desk at the International Lounge will be on-hand to assist foreign visitors withenquires and guide them to exhibits showcasing the packaging solutions and technologies they are sourcingfor.

The expo will feature more than 2600 booths representing 654 companies in the 51,380sqm exhibitionspace. Organisers say more than 170,000 people visited the last Tokyo Pack in 2012.

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Industria del Packaging en Japón14.04.14 Editado por Loreto Valdés (*) TOKIO : El Instituto del Empaque de Japón ( JPI ) eimportantes representantes de la industria del empaque japoneses estarán mostrando su tecnologíade punta en Interpack 2014 . Entre septiembre de 2013 y marzo 2014 solamente, la industria delempaque japonés invirtió fuertemente en la expansión de la capacidad de producción parasatisfacer la demanda tanto nacional como extranjera.

Toppan Printing Co. Ltd., una de las mayores empresas deembalaje e impresión más grandes de Japón, anunció a principios de marzo 2014 una de inversiónpor US$ 264,4 millones ( ¥ 27 mil millones ) en una nueva planta de materiales para envasesflexibles, en la Prefectura de Gunma .

Mientras tanto, Rengo Co. Ltd. se está preparando para iniciar operaciones en una nueva planta decorrugado en la Prefectura de Okayama, Japón . En el extranjero, Rengo está construyendo unaplanta de fabricación de cajas de cartón corrugado con una inversión de US $10.000.000 en laprovincia de Dong Nai , Vietnam.

En Indonesia, Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. ( DNP) ha invertido US$ 59,8 millones en laampliación de la capacidad de producción en una planta ya existente , mientras quesimultáneamente está construyendo una nueva instalación. En Vietnam , DNP también iniciórecientemente operaciones en su nueva planta cerca de Ho Chi Minh City para atender a lospropietarios de marcas globales de manufactura en el país, y también para absorber algo de lacreciente demanda de exportación de envases flexibles en el sudeste asiático, la que anteriormenteera satisfecha por las operaciones de DNP en Indonesia .

Aunque mucho se ha dicho sobre el estancamiento de la economía y el envejecimiento de lapoblación en Japón, el país sigue funcionando bien a pesar de las adversidades. En 2013, Japón

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registró un crecimiento del 2 % del PIB , por encima del 1,6 % y del 0,1% de crecimiento del PIBexperimentado por los EE.UU. y la Unión Europea, respectivamente . El PIB per cápita en Japónse registró en US $ 35.855 .

Estadísticas de Mercado de la Industria Japonesa del Empaque

Japón envió un total de 18,37 millones de toneladas de materiales de empaque y contenedores en2012 por un valor de US $ 55,28 miles de millones ( ¥ 5.645 miles de millones ), mientras que364.251 unidades de maquinaria de envasado por un valorizadas en US$ 4,24 mil millones ( ¥ 433mil millones ) fueron enviados , según datos del Japan Packaging Institute (JPI).

El año fiscal de Japón 2012 – que se desarrolló entre abril 2012-a marzo 2013 – abarcó el largoperíodo de recuperación al cual la industria del empaque , y la nación en su conjunto, tuvieron quehacer frente como consecuencia del Tohoku , el devastador terremoto y Tsunami de Japón, del 11de marzo de 2011.

Sin embargo, a pesar de las exigencias enfrentadas para que las cadenas de suministro pudieranvolver a una cierta normalidad y orden después del cierre de gran parte de las instalacionespetroquímicas en Chiba , aunado a la escasez de energía como resultado del cierre de todos susreactores nucleares , la industria del empaque japonesa ha mostrado capacidad de determinación ycontinúa firmemente en el camino hacia la recuperación.

Materiales de empaque y contenedores

Proporcionalmente , el papel fue el segmento de material de empaque que alcanzó el mayor envolumen, con 62.29% de todos los materiales utilizados en 2012 . Esto fue seguido por el plásticocon 18,73 % , y el metal con 8,7%, vidrio con 7% y la madera con 3,2%.

De todos los diferentes formatos de envasado , el PET registró el mayor y más rápido repunte en2012, alcanzando 610.000 toneladas. Esta cifra es significativa a la luz de la agresiva reducción depeso de los contenedores de PET hasta el punto en que las botellas y envases de hoy son un 15% y32 % más ligeras de lo que eran en 1999. Esto significa que la industria no sólo ha aumentado elenvío de PET en volúmen, sino que también ha incrementado masivamente la cantidad real de losenvases de PET que se están colocando en el mercado.

El sector de las bebidas carbonatadas representó el 86,88 % de la cuota del mercado japonés dePET. Mientras tanto , los champús y detergentes mostraron una tendencia creciente hacia elalejamiento de los envases de HDPE (Polietileno de alta densidad o PEAD) rígidos y de las bolsasflexibles, y reemplazándolas por soluciones de envasado de PET – incrementando la cifra desde2.625 toneladas de envases PET en 2007 a más de 11.100 toneladas en 2012.

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De las 364.251 unidades de maquinaria de envases y embalajes fabricadas en Japón en 2012 ,aproximadamente el 75 % corresponde a “máquinas para unidades y de embalaje interior »,incluyendo equipos para el llenado, embotellado , enlatado , máquinas FFS (Form-Fill_Seal ó formadoras, llenadora y selladoras) de bolsa y contenedores; etiquetadoras, encartonadoras,selladoras , máquinas para envoltorios termo encogibles y equipos de envasado al vacío .Máquinas de envasado y embalaje externo representan el 25% restante , incluyendo máquinas paraarmar cajas de cartón y encolar , cerrar con cintas adhesivas , colocar flejes , y encajonar.

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Mientras tanto , en 2012 Japón fabricó 1.108 unidades de máquinas para confeccionar bolsas y303 unidades de máquinas de conversión para papeles y cartón,

Pabellón de Japón en Interpack 2014

Un número de compañías japonesas y sus filiales estará presente en Interpack 2014 , incluyendoC.I. Kasei Co. Ltd. (Hall 9 / G35 ) , DNP Indonesia (Hall 10 / C12 ) , Fuji Machinery Co Ltd (Hall08b / C20 ) , Ishida Europe Limited (Hall 15 / A25 -26) , Kajiwara Inc (Hall 3 / F15 ) , KurarayEVAL Europe nv (Hall 10 / D63 ) , Marubeni Europe Plc (Hall 7a / C16) , Mitsuhashi Corporación(Hall 8b / E65 ) , Omori Machinery Co Ltd (Hall 8b / C66 ) , Sanko Machinery Co Ltd (Hall 8b /G28 ) , Strapack Corporation ( Hall 11 / D22 ) , Topack Co Ltd (Hall 8b / D65 ) , Toppan PrintingCo Ltd (Hall 11 / A11) , Totani Corporation ( Hall 11 / C70 ) , Toyo Jidoki Co Ltd (Hall 8b / C58 ), Toyo Machine Manufacturing Co Ltd (Hall 8b / D65 ), etc

El instituto japonés del envase, Japan Packaging Institute ( JPI ) , la asociación de la industria deenvases con sede en Tokio que cuenta con 1.100 miembros , también estará presente en la feriaInterpack (Hall 11 / C03- 1 ) para reunirse con las partes interesadas en comprender mejor elmercado del empaque japonés y sus numerosas oportunidades de negocio.

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Il 2014 sarà l’anno del derby internazionale delle fiere generaliste del packaging: a distanza di cinquemesi si terranno la più importante manifestazione occidentale, interpack di Duesseldorf, e quellaorientale, Tokjo Pack, ormai diventata punto di riferimento per tutto il continente asiatico. Nel 2012la biennale giapponese ha totalizzato 23.000 mq e 65.311 visitatori in 4 giorni contro i 170.000 mq e165.141 visitatori di quella tedesca del 2011 in 7 giorni. In Giappone il numero di espositori ècresciuto fra 2010 e 2012 del 9%, arrivando a 610, contro i 2.703 di Duesseldorf che ad oggi haconfermato 2.066 presenze. Due manifestazioni molto differenti per numeri e non paragonabili perpeso commerciale ma entrambe da visitare, soprattutto Tokjo Pack per contenuti innovativi e per ilfatto di costituire la nuova frontiera del packaging: la ‘koiné’ di prodotti, usi e costumi diventagiorno per giorno realtà e sarà l’Oriente a dominare il futuro. Le date? interpack dall’8 al 14 maggio2014, Tokjo Pack dal 7 al 10 ottobre.

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Tokyo Pack 2014 is about celebrating thepackageBy Harrison Myers | February 14, 2014

Want to see Japan’s latest packaging developments? You might want to check out Tokyo Pack2014.

The largest packaging exhibition in Asia, Tokyo Pack 2014 has lined up a series of special displays,all of which celebrate the package, show organizers said.

In addition to the main exhibition, the exhibition organizers are introducing a new showcase ofadvanced Japanese packaging solutions. The Next Generation High Performance PackagingPavilion will feature breakthrough packaging solutions that take extended product shelf life to newlevels, highlight environmentally-friendly packages, and new decoration and print technologysolutions.

The Good Packaging Pavilion will feature the year’s best in Japanese packaging innovation andtechnology – the Japan Star 2014 winners. A special collection of Japan’s most advanced andcreative packaging designs and technology chosen by expert industry professionals, this is a uniqueopportunity to see firsthand the top commercialized packaging solutions in the extremelysophisticated and demanding Japanese consumer market.

The Global Packaging Pavilion will also return to Tokyo Pack 2014 after a successful first-run at thelast show, according to show organizers. A showcase of common food and beverage packagingaround the world, highlighting the importance of packaging to “man, this display will featurepackaging applications common to different countries, as an extension of different consumerbehavior and habits.”

Launched in 1966 and owned and operated directly by the Japan Packaging Institute (JPI), thebiennial (every two years) exhibition will feature more than 2,600 booths representing 600 companiesin the 23,000m2 exhibition space, which attracts more than 70,000 visitors from inside Japan andoverseas

During the last edition, more than 170,000 people visited Tokyo Pack 2012 during the four-dayexhibition.

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There’s been lots of talk in the national media about Japan’s economy. Still, the Japan PackagingInstitute (JPI), claims that while much has been said about the stagnant economy and agingpopulation in Japan, the country is still performing well despite the odds. In 2013, Japan posted a2% growth in GDP, higher than the 1.6% and 0.1% GDP growth experienced by the U.S. and theEuropean Union respectively.

As a result, between September 2013 andMarch 2014, the Japanese packaging industryinvested heavily in production capacityexpansion to meet both domestic and overseasdemand.

Toppan Printing Co Ltd, one of Japan’s largestpackaging and printing companies, announcedearlier in March 2014 a $264.4 million

investment in a new flexible packaging materials plant in Gunma Prefecture. Meanwhile, Rengo CoLtd is preparing to start operations at a new corrugated plant in Okayama Prefecture, Japan.

Overseas, Rengo is currently constructing a $10 million corrugated box manufacturing facility inDong Nai Province, Vietnam.

In Indonesia, Dai Nippon Printing Co Ltd (DNP) has invested $59.8 million in expanding productioncapacity at an existing plant while at the same time constructing a new facility. In Vietnam, DNP alsorecently started operations at its new facility near Ho Chi Minh City to service global brand ownersmanufacturing in the country, and also take up some of the growing export demand for flexiblepackaging in South East Asia which was previously met by the DNP Indonesia operations.

Japan packaging industry market statistics

Japan shipped a total of 18.37 million tons of packaging materials and containers in 2012 worth$55.28 billion while 364,251 units of packaging machinery valued at $4.24 billion were shipped,according to data from JPI.

Japan’s fiscal year 2012 – which ran from April 2012 to March 2013 – encompassed the longrecovery period in which the packaging industry, and the nation as a whole, had to cope with in theaftermath of the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami on March 11, 2011.

Despite struggles faced in returning the supply chain to a semblance of order following theshutdown of much of the key upstream Chiba petrochemical material facility, coupled with powershortages as a result of all of its nuclear power reactors, the Japanese packaging industry hasshown resilience and is continuing strongly on the road to recovery, JPI states.

Packaging materials

Proportionally, paper was the largest packaging material segment by volume at 62.29% of allmaterials used in 2012. This was followed by plastic at 18.73%, and metal, glass and wood at 8.7%,7% and 3.2% respectively.

Of all the different packaging formats, PET recorded the strongest and fastest rebound in 2012 at610,000 tons. This figure is significant in light of the PET packaging sector’s aggressivelightweighting of containers to the point where today’s bottles and containers are 15% to 32%

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lighter than they were in 1999. This means that not only has industry been shipping increasedvolumes, but has also massively increased the actual quantity of PET containers it has been puttingon the market.

The carbonated soft drinks sector accounted for 86.88% of the Japanese PET market share.Meanwhile, shampoos and detergents showed a trend of increasingly shifting away from rigid HDPEand flexible pouches to PET packaging solutions – up from 2,625 tons of PET packaging in 2007 tomore than 11,100 tons in 2012.

Packaging machinery

Of the 364,251 units of packaging machinery manufactured in Japan in 2012, approximately 75%were unit and inner packaging machines, including filling, bottling, canning, pouch and containerFFS, labelling, carton, sealing, shrink pack, and vacuum pack equipment. Outer packaging andpacking machines made up the remaining 25%, including case landing and gluing, taping, strapping,and boxers.

Meanwhile, Japan manufactured 1,108 units of bag-making machines and 303 units of paper andpaperboard converting machines in 2012.

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Tokyo Pack 2014 – Asia’s Premier Packaging Exhibition

Dates have been finalized for the largest packaging show in Asia, TOKYO PACK 2014, which will take place on 7-10 October 2014 at thecapital city’s international exhibition centre Tokyo Big Sight.

TOKYO PACK 2014 will present state-of-the-art packaging, production and processing solutions for companies in the main sectors of Food & Beverage,Confectionery & Bakery products, Pharmaceuticals & Cosmetics, Non-food Consumer Goods, Industrial Products. Also on show will be a range of relatedservices; Packaging Materials; Printing; Testing& Inspection; Logistics & Distribution; and Recycling& Disposal.

Launched in 1966 and owned and operated directly by the Japan Packaging Institute (JPI), the biannual (every two years) exhibition will feature more than2,600 booths representing 600 companies in the 23,000m2 exhibition space, which attracts more than 70,000 visitors from inside Japan and overseas.

Already many of Japan’s largest packaging players have registered their participation as exhibitions, including Rengo Co., Ltd., Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.,Toyo Jidoki Co., Ltd., Toyo Ink Co., Ltd. Takara Pac. Ltd., Kyodo Printing Co., Ltd., Idemitsu Unitech Co., Ltd, Ishida Co., Ltd., Anritsu Industrial SolutionsCo., Ltd., Taisei Lamick Co., Ltd., Furukawa MFG Co., Ltd., Fujiseiki Co., Ltd, as well as the Japanese divisions of global corporations, such as Crown-package Co., Ltd., EDM Corporation and Strapack Corporation.

Show Organizers Set to Repeat Last Show’s Stellar PerformanceThe recent edition of the exhibition, TOKYO PACK 2012, saw an increase in registered visitor numbers to 65,311, from the 62,182 registered visitors to theprevious edition.

In all, more than 170,000 people visited TOKYO PACK 2012 during the four-day exhibition.

Exhibitor numbers also grew 8.9% to 600, while the total number of booths rose 7.2% to 2,270.

The forthcoming TOKYO PACK 2014 is set to exceed all previous exhibitor and visitor numbers, as Japan’s packaging industry continues to expand, andAsian packaging markets press on ahead at the rapid development rates that make the region one of the fastest growing in the world.

Mr. Yoichi Sonoyama, Secretary General of the TOKYO PACK 2014 Secretariat, said, “TOKYO PACK is the largest exhibition in Asia with groupparticipation from China, Korea and Taiwan, it attracts attention as a regional Asia-specific exhibition where you can learn the latest trends of packagingfrom across Asia.

“For TOKYO PACK 2014, we intend to go all out to expand the scope and scale of the exhibition.

“We look forward to welcoming visitors and exhibitors to TOKYO PACK 2014 – the one single location in Asia where exhibitors and visitors can get updatedon regional packaging trends, meet key packaging players, and gain a foothold in this fast-growing Asian packaging market that offers considerablebusiness potential and opportunities,” said Mr. Sonoyama.

Title: Tokyo International Packaging Exhibition 2014Dates: 7-10 October 2014 (10:00-17:00)Venue: Tokyo Big Sight

More info:www.tokyo-pack.jp/en

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Japan Packaging Industry – Resilient and Strong

The Japan Packaging Institute (JPI) and significant Japanese packaging players will be showcasing their cutting-edge technology atinterpack 2014.

Between September 2013 and March 2014 alone, the Japanese packaging industry invested heavily in production capacity expansion to meet bothdomestic and overseas demand.

Toppan Printing Co Ltd, one of Japan’s largest packaging and printing companies, announced earlier in March 2014 a US$264.4 million (¥27 billion)investment in a new flexible packaging materials plant in Gunma Prefecture. Meanwhile, Rengo Co Ltd is preparing to start operations at a new corrugatedplant in Okayama Prefecture, Japan.

Overseas, Rengo is currently constructing a US$10 million corrugated box manufacturing facility in Dong Nai Province, Vietnam.

In Indonesia, Dai Nippon Printing Co Ltd (DNP) has invested US$59.8 million in expanding production capacity at an existing plant while at the same timeconstructing a new facility. In Vietnam, DNP also recently started operations at its new facility near Ho Chi Minh City to service global brand ownersmanufacturing in the country, and also take up some of the growing export demand for flexible packaging in South East Asia which was previously met bythe DNP Indonesia operations.

While much has been said about the stagnant economy and ageing population in Japan, the country is still performing well despite the odds. In 2013,Japan posted a 2% growth in GDP, higher than the 1.6% and 0.1% GDP growth experienced by the USA and the European Union respectively. GDP percapita in Japan was registered at US$35,855.

Japan Packaging Industry Market StatisticsJapan shipped a total of 18.37 million tons of packaging materials and containers in 2012 worth US$55.28 billion (¥5,645 billion) while 364,251 units ofpackaging machinery valued at US$4.24 billion (¥433 billion) were shipped, according to data from the Japan Packaging Institute (JPI).

Japan’s fiscal year 2012 – which ran from April 2012 to March 2013 – encompassed the long recovery period in which the packaging industry, and thenation as a whole, had to cope with in the aftermath of the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (known as ‘Tohoku”) of 11 March 2011.

Yet despite the struggles faced in returning the supply chain to a semblance of order following the shutdown of much of the key upstream Chibapetrochemical material facility, coupled with power shortages as a result of all of its nuclear power reactors, the Japanese packaging industry has shownresilience and is continuing strongly on the road to recovery.

Packaging Materials & ContainersProportionally, paper was the largest packaging material segment by volume at 62.29% of all materials used in 2012. This was followed by plastic at18.73%, and metal, glass and wood at 8.7%, 7% and 3.2% respectively.

Of all the different packaging formats, PET recorded the strongest and fastest rebound in 2012 at 610,000 tons. This figure is significant in light of the PETpackaging sector’s aggressive lightweighting of containers to the point where today’s bottles and containers are 15% to 32% lighter than they were in 1999.This means that not only has industry been shipping increased volumes, but has also massively increased the actual quantity of PET containers it hasbeen putting on the market.

The carbonated soft drinks sector accounted for 86.88% of the Japanese PET market share. Meanwhile, shampoos and detergents showed a trend ofincreasingly shifting away from rigid HDPE and flexible pouches to PET packaging solutions – up from 2,625 tons of PET packaging in 2007 to more than11,100 tons in 2012.

Packaging MachineryOf the 364,251 units of packaging machinery manufactured in Japan in 2012, approximately 75% were ‘unit and inner packaging machines’, includingfilling, bottling, canning, pouch and container FFS, labelling, carton, sealing, shrink pack, and vacuum pack equipment. Outer packaging and packingmachines made up the remaining 25%, including case landing and gluing, taping, strapping, and boxers.

Meanwhile, Japan manufactured 1,108 units of bag-making machines and 303 units of paper & paperboard converting machines in 2012.

Showcasing Japan at interpack 2014A number of Japanese companies and their subsidiaries will be exhibiting at interpack 2014, including C.I. Kasei Co Ltd (Hall 9 / G35), DNP Indonesia(Hall 10 / C12), Fuji Machinery Co Ltd (Hall 08b / C20), Ishida Europe Limited (Hall 15 / A25-26), Kajiwara Inc (Hall 3 / F15), Kuraray EVAL Europe nv (Hall10 / D63), Marubeni Europe Plc (Hall 7a / C16), Mitsuhashi Corporation (Hall 8b / E65), Omori Machinery Co Ltd (Hall 8b / C66), Sanko Machinery Co Ltd(Hall 8b / G28), Strapack Corporation (Hall 11 / D22), Topack Co Ltd (Hall 8b / D65), Toppan Printing Co Ltd (Hall 11 / A11), Totani Corporation (Hall 11 /

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C70), Toyo Jidoki Co Ltd (Hall 8b / C58), Toyo Machine Manufacturing Co Ltd (Hall 8b / D65), etc.

Japan Packaging Institute (JPI), the Tokyo-based packaging industry association of 1,100 members, will also be present at interpack (Hall 11 / C03-1) tomeet with parties interested in better understanding the Japanese packaging market and its abundant business opportunities.

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Tokyo Pack Appoints Strategic Markets Consultant to Increase InternationalPresence

The Tokyo Pack Secretariat is pleased to announce the appointment of EP Resources Pte Ltd (Singapore) as its Strategic MarketsConsultant to provide market information, research analysis and communications support for Tokyo Pack 2014 (TP2014) to international

exhibitors and overseas visitors.

Owned and operated by the Japan Packaging Institute (JPI), Tokyo Pack is Asia's premier packaging exhibition, featuring more than 2,600 boothsrepresenting 600 companies in the 23,000m2 exhibition space, and attracting more than 70,000 visitors from inside Japan and overseas."The appointment of EP Resources will strengthen the Tokyo Pack exhibition in the international market as exhibitors and Japan Packaging Institutemembers are increasingly looking to expand sales and operations overseas," said Mr. Yoichi Sonoyama, Secretary General of the TOKYO PACK 2014Secretariat.Based in Singapore, EP Resources is the primary source of specialised packaging industry information in the Asia Pacific region through its marketanalysis and consultancy services and through its publishing division which publishes Asian Packaging Business Insight monthly newsletter and the dailypackaging news website www.PackWebasia.com.Tasked with raising the profile of the Tokyo Pack exhibition and helping JPI members and Tokyo Pack exhibitors grow their international presence, EPResources will provide analysis and assistance to introduce Japan's packaging industry and TP2014 in the strategic overseas markets of South East Asia,Europe and North America. In addition, EP will consult on developing the TP2014 English language website, printed materials, advertising andcommunication.Mr. Hajime Furuya, Director & Secretary General of JPI, said, "Japan Packaging Institute has had a close relationship with Mr. Hoggard since 1996, whenhe first addressed the Japanese International Packaging Symposium held at Tokyo Pack, and we are now pleased that we are able to collaborate with EPResources to further develop our members' overseas interests.""The Japanese packaging industry is frequently mischaracterised in the West as being cute, elaborate and over-packed," commented Stuart Hoggard,CEO of EP Resources Pte Ltd. "This is far from the truth! Our job is to de-mystify that image and help JPI, its members and TP2014 exhibitors expand theirmarkets overseas."Certainly packaging in Japan is elaborate, but the common view in Japan is that 'if a company's packaging is not 100% perfect, the product inside mightnot also be perfect'. This mindset and demand for quality is what has made Japanese packaging so technologically advanced as well as sustainable,"explained Hoggard."The Japanese packaging industry is well-poised for growth not only in Japan, but in international markets. EP Resources is honoured to have beenchosen by Japan Packaging Institute to be its Strategic Markets partner and look forward to helping Japan cement its position as one of the world's leadingpackaging markets."A major part of the co-operation will be a one-day orientation programme to Japanese Packaging for foreign visitors on Monday, 6 October 2014 (the daybefore the TP2014 Opening). Jointly developed by EP Resources and JPI, the Tokyo Pack Insight Japan Tour will provide a unique introduction to theJapanese packaging industry, introducing the key drivers of Japanese consumer packaging, environmental, legislative and the cultural influences onpackaging technology, R&D (research and development) and design.

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Tokyo Pack 2014 Grows Exhibitor Numbers

Every square metre of the 51,380 m2 exhibition space has been fully booked for Asia’s largest packaging exhibition: TOKYO PACK 2014.

The Tokyo Pack Secretariat reports the number of exhibitors at the premier packaging show have exceeded 650 companies. “With a total of 654companies committed to exhibiting this year, we have grown our exhibitor number by more than 7% from the 2012 edition” said Mr. Yoichi Sonoyama,Secretary General of the TOKYO PACK 2014 Secretariat. “In addition, of the total number of companies on show, a total of 99 are entirely new exhibitors."

“This is a demonstration of companies’ belief that TOKYO PACK 2014 is the premier packaging exhibition in Asia, and the venue for them to showcaseadvanced packaging technologies, solutions and gain new business opportunities.”

Seizing new business opportunities at TOKYO PACKOf all the exhibitors surveyed at TOKYO PACK 2012, 98.2% said they entered into new business negotiations due to leads generated at the show. 47.5%of exhibitors noted that many of the visitors to their booths were new customers.

When asked about the purpose of their visit to TOKYO PACK 2012, 63.7% of visitors said they were looking for information on new products andtechnologies, while 21.9% were sourcing for information to purchase equipment and solutions.

This year, TOKYO PACK 2014 exhibitors are already gearing up for an exciting show this October. Rengo Co., Ltd. has purchased the largest space at theexhibition to display a wide range of advanced packaging solutions at its 840m2 booth.

Other prominent innovative Japanese companies that have also taken up significant exhibition space include Osaka Sealing Printing Co., Ltd and OjiPackage Innovation Center Inc. with 450m2 booth space each, Ishida Co., Ltd and Toppan Printing Co., Ltd with 360m2 each, and Dai Nippon Printing Co.,Ltd and Fuji Seal, Inc (315m2 space each).

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Japan Packaging Industry hits US$60bn in 2013

The Japanese packaging industry grew to US$59.4 billion in the financial year of 2013, with paper packaging products and pouch formingand filling machinery making up the majority of the packaging materials and equipment sector respectively.

In FY2013 (April 2013 to March 2014), Japan’s packaging industry grew by more than 2% over the previous year to hit ¥6.049 trillion (US$59.4 billion) invalue – representing 1.27% of the national GDP.

Packaging materials and containersOf the total, packaging materials and containers represented ¥5.608 trillion, while packaging machinery contributed ¥441 billion. By volume, 18.75 milliontons of packaging materials and container were produced while 356,000 units of packaging machinery were manufactured.

Paper packaging products made up the majority of packaging materials and containers produced by both shipment value and volume at 41.8% and 62.5%respectively. This was followed by plastic packaging products which constituted 29.7% of shipment value and 18.7% of volume.

With a total volume of 1.62 million tonnes, metal packaging products returned a value of ¥9.4 billion, giving it a 17% market share. Other packagingmaterials such as seals, labels, tapes, textile products and cellophanes made up 7% of total packaging value in 2013, or ¥3.8 billion.Glass, always the poor relation, accounted for 2% of the total material shipments valued at ¥1.24 billion. Wood, which is still significantly used in thepackaging of more traditional products, performed better than glass with ¥1.39 billion, or 2.5% of value.

Packaging machineryJapan saw packaging machinery sales pick up over the past two years, up 3% since the tsunami disaster of 2011 to ¥441.4 billion in 2013.Pouch forming and filling machines saw the highest demand with a total of 5,686 units delivered, representing a total of ¥60.5 billion. Meanwhile, bottlingmachinery gained the second highest value at ¥57.9 billion, with a total of 3,887 units.

Filling equipment also performed well with total installations of 3,075 units valued at ¥37.8 billion, while general container (non-pouch) form and fillingequipment also performed well with sales of ¥13.3bn. However, canmaking equipment sales remained flat at ¥1.7 billion, with just 130 units installed.

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TOKYO PACK 2014 Opens in Less Than a Month

Asia’s premier packaging exhibition TOKYO PACK 2014 is set to open in less than a month, and will feature some of the most innovativepackaging solutions to meet today’s demanding consumer needs. Special services will also be available at the show to assist foreign

visitors.

Next Generation High Performance Packaging PavilionOne of the highlights of this year’s show edition is the Next Generation High Performance Packaging Pavilion, which will feature breakthrough packagingsolutions that take extended product shelf life to new levels, highlight environmentally-friendly packages, and new decoration and print technologysolutions.

Some of the unique packaging that will be showcased include a special sprout-integrated pouch for beverage and liquid food from Japan’s ECODPACKCo. Ltd., designed to reduce packaging weight and save on raw material usage. Liquid products can be dispensed by squeezing the pouch, and a specialmechanism prevents air from flowing into the pack – protecting the product. Liquid food products can also be easily dispensed without any clogging of solidfood particles.

PopPack LLC from the USA has chosen to exhibit for the first time at TOKYO PACK 2014, and will demonstrate its special reclosable PopPack bubblesolution at the Pavilion. PopPack offers a safe and quick way of opening and reclosing flexible packages with an engaging “popping” sound that providesassurance that the package contents are fresh, well-sealed and have not been tampered with. With this easy-to-use product, PopPack hopes to findbusiness partners at TOKYO PACK to help introduce this exciting packaging technology to the Japanese market.

Overseas Visitor ServicesRecognizing that negotiating the business-language barrier can be a daunting task for the non-Japanese speaking overseas visitor, TOKYO PACK 2014has devised a system where English-speaking visitors can avoid wasting time asking “can you speak English?” Booths will display a special “Englishspeaker 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 enquires they may have, andguide them to exhibits showcasing the packaging solutions and technologies they are sourcing for.

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TOKYO PACK 2014 Helps Businesses and Consumers Create a Sustainable Society

Asia’s premier packaging exhibition TOKYO PACK 2014 opened on Tuesday, 7 October, with 680 companies in the 51,380m2 exhibitionspace showcasing cutting-edge Japanese packaging solutions and technologies designed and developed to meet today’s consumer needs

and demands.

Mr. Shigeki Iwai – Parliamentary Vice Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, Mr. Motoki Ozaki - President of the Japan Packaging Institute, Mr.Shigetaro Asano – Vice President of the Japan Packaging Institute, Mr. Kiyoshi Otsubo – Vice President of the Japan Packaging Institute, Mr. YoshitakaOzawa - Chairman, TOKYO PACK Working Committee, and Mr. Steven Pacitti – Vice President, International Packaging Press Organization (IPPO),officiated at the Opening Ceremony of TOKYO PACK 2014 in the morning.

Describing TOKYO PACK 2014 as a “global venue for the exchange of packaging information, the exploration of next generation packaging, and thepromotion of international friendship”, Mr. Motoki Ozaki, President of the Japan Packaging Institute (JPI) – the industry packaging association that alsoowns and operates TOKYO PACK 2014 – said, “Recently the Japanese economy has begun to see some hopeful signs, but the packaging industry stillhas to negotiate some difficult phases with the hike in consumption tax and the rising raw material costs.

“A major challenge for Japan’s packaging industry today is how it contributes to the formation of a sustainable society by realizing a packaging industryharmonized with society,” he noted.

At TOKYO PACK 2014, Mr. Ozaki expressed confidence that the exhibition will help both exhibitors and visitors alike explore the latest advanced Japanesepackaging solutions and technologies developed for today’s business and consumer needs to help create a sustainable society.

Mr. Ozaki said, “On behalf of JPI, I would like to express my deepest thanks to all of you who have given us liberal support and cooperation for the openingof this fair, and express my genuine appreciation to the exhibitors for their great assistance and to the ministries and agencies concerned and various otherorganizations for their support and cooperation.

Mr. Steven Pacitti, Vice President of International Packaging Press Organisation, said, “Japan has long pioneered developments in all areas of packagingand there remains a direct correlation here between product quality and packaging quality.

“Japanese packaging often transcends the basic objective of protecting a product and creates an object that demands attention in its own right. Thetechnologies and science behind those solutions have enabled Japanese companies to enjoy great success on the international stage. And what betterplace to showcase these solutions than here, at TOKYO PACK.”

AT TOKYO PACK 2014, key industry categories on exhibit include packaging materials and containers, packaging material and substrates and design.Packaging machinery on show includes equipment for the printing and converting sectors, inspection and measurement, food and pharmaceuticalprocessing and transport/logistics sectors, distribution systems and other packaging-related equipment.

For more information, visit www.tokyo-pack.jp/en/

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TOKYO PACK 2014 is Connecting the Japanese Packaging Industry with the World

The 25th edition of the biennial TOKYO PACK, Asia’s largest packaging show (7th – 10th October, Tokyo Big Sight), saw visitor numbers hit178,698, significantly higher than the 175,870 that visited in the last show edition in 2012.

Exhibitor numbers also grew by more than 7% from the last show edition to 654 companies, of which 99 were first-time exhibitors at TOKYO PACK.

A total of 139 foreign exhibitors from 15 countries – China, Taiwan, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Germany, Italy,Holland, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada and the U.S.A - were present at TOKYO PACK 2014, and reported numerous new leads gained from exhibiting atthe show.

A total of 3,422 overseas visitors from 45 countries also registered for the exhibition, jumping almost 40% from the 2,031 who attended the 2012 show. Theofficial Packaging Insight Japan Tour - a one-day orientation program held on 6 October and designed by TOKYO PACK exhibition owner-operator theJapanese packaging industry association Japan Packaging Institute (JPI) and EP Resources Pte Ltd, Singapore, to help foreign visitors gain the maximumbenefit from their visit to TOKYO PACK - was also fully booked, and included the participation of a 42-strong delegation from Thailand.

Mr. Yoichi Sonoyama, Secretary General of the TOKYO PACK 2014 Secretariat, said, “As the only international show dedicated to the Package, TOKYOPACK has always been a key exhibition venue for the latest cutting-edge packaging solutions and technologies. This year has been no different; TOKYOPACK 2014 has enjoyed another successful run with our highest exhibitor figures to date, and record visitor numbers.

“As Secretary General of TOKYO PACK, I would like to extend my sincerest appreciation to all the people, both from Japan and around the globe, whovisited TOKYO PACK 2014.”The exhibition owner and organizer, Japan Packaging Institute (JPI), is already planning for the 26th edition of the show. The next TOKYO PACK will beheld in October 2016.

“We are constantly pushing ourselves to better serve our Japanese packaging industry, and in 2016 we aim to help further promote Japanese packagingcompanies, and build even stronger bridges between them and domestic as well as international customers,” said Mr. Sonoyama.

“We look forward to welcoming exhibitors looking gain to new business opportunities in Japan and Asia, and visitors sourcing for unique advancedpackaging solutions at TOKYO PACK 2016.”

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Supply chain educators recognisedA KEY theme emerging from the recent Supply Chain Management Education Excellence Awards (SCM|EEA) was a need for top-quality supply chain management training in building capacity and ensuring South Africa’s competitiveness and sustainability.

The Corporate Educator of the Year accolade recognises an organisation that has the ability to attract and retain top human capital while tackling the every-day challenges of supply change management. This year, Imperial Logistics took top honours; and runner-up was SYSPRO.

‘Now in its seventh year, the SCM|EEA recognises companies and individuals who contribute to alleviating the global skills crisis in the supply chain profession by making education a part of the company ethos,’ comments chief judge, Gerard de Villiers.

In 2011, Imperial Logistics established a supply chain capability-building framework known as Fast Forward. Encompassing an internal and external industry focus, an Imperial Logistics academy was established, providing customised training and development programmes, aligned to national qualifications.’

Fast Forward is scalable, flexible and designed to develop a broad range of skills, providing practical, effective and sustainable workplace training.

In the face of growing skills shortages in the logistics and supply chain sector, the Institute of Logistics & Supply Chain Management, in conjunction with SAPICS, is determined to contribute to all levels of skills training – from basic certificates to university degrees.

Insight into Japan’s packaging industryTOKYO Pack 2014 organisers are providing a special insight into Japan’s US$77-billion packaging industry by offering visitors a one-day orientation programme.

Known as The Packaging Insight Japan Tour, it’s the result of collaboration between Tokyo Pack, the Japan Packaging Institute (JPI), and EP Resources, Singapore.

‘Packaging in Japan is a fine balance between aesthetics, marketing and advanced technology, much of which is not immediately obvious to the first time

visitor,’ remarks Yoichi Sonoyama, deputy secretary general of JPI and secretary general of Tokyo Pack. ‘Through this orientation programme, we hope to increase foreign understanding of the Japanese packaging market, strengthening the bridge between our industry and the global arena.’

According to Stuart Hoggard, CEO of Singapore-based EP Resources, the programme will assist foreign companies to ‘get under the hood’ of Japanese packaging, understand its drivers and build a network of manufacturers and buyers that has traditionally been inaccessible owing to language differences.

‘There’s a perception that Japanese packaging is technologically intricate, to the point of being over-engineered,’ comments Stuart. ‘Certainly, packaging in Japan is elaborate, but the common Japanese consumer view is that “if the packaging is not 100% perfect, how can I be sure that the product inside is perfect?” Facing this mind-set, Japanese converters and brand owners go beyond basic functionality and seek to use packaging to delight or surprise consumers,’ he continues.

The Packaging Insight Japan Tour programme includes a morning orientation seminar, followed by an afternoon retail tour to see the commercialisation of these ideas. Register before September 1 to enjoy the early bird fee of US$325/€240.

Running from October 7 to 10, Tokyo Pack has attracted more than 600 exhibitors, occupying 2 500 stands at Tokyo’s Big Sight. For more information, visit www.tokyo-pack.jp/en.

EP Resources has been appointed Tokyo Pack's strategic markets consultant. Seen here is Hajime Furuya (Japan Packaging Institute), Stuart Hoggard (EP Resources) and Yoichi Sonoyama (Tokyo Pack).

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JAPANESE DELEGATION HEADING TO INTERPACK31 Mar 2014

The Japan Packaging Institute (JPI) and a number of Japanese packaging companies are to exhibit at interpack 2014 as theylook to demonstrate the technological and financial investments being made by the country’s packaging players.

Showcasing Japan at interpack 2014, which runs May 8-14 in Düsseldorf, will be the likes of C.I. Kasei Co Ltd, Fuji Machinery Co Ltd,Kajiwara Inc, Mitsuhashi Corporation, Omori Machinery Co Ltd, Strapack Corporation, Topack Co Ltd, Toppan Printing Co Ltd and TotaniCorporation.

JPI, the Tokyo-based packaging industry association of 1,100 members, will also be present at the event to meet with parties interested inbetter understanding the Japanese packaging market and its abundant business opportunities.

JPI has reported that between September 2013 and March 2014 alone, the Japanese packaging industry invested heavily in productioncapacity expansion to meet both domestic and overseas demand. Toppan Printing Co Ltd has announced a 264.4 million USDinvestment in a new flexible packaging materials plant in Gunma Prefecture. Meanwhile, Rengo Co Ltd is preparing to start operations ata new corrugated plant in Okayama Prefecture, Japan.

Overseas, Rengo is currently constructing a 10 million USD corrugated box manufacturing facility in Dong Nai Province, Vietnam. InIndonesia, Dai Nippon Printing Co Ltd has invested 59.8 million USD in expanding production capacity at an existing plant while at thesame time constructing a new facility. In Vietnam, it also recently started operations at its new facility near Ho Chi Minh City to serviceglobal brand owners manufacturing in the country, and also take up some of the growing export demand for flexible packaging inSouth-east Asia which was previously met by the DNP Indonesia operations.

Japan itself shipped a total of 18.37 million tons of packaging materials and containers in 2012, worth 55.28 billion USD, while 364,251units of packaging machinery valued at 4.24 billion USD were shipped, according to data from JPI.

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TOKYO PACK TARGETS INTERNATIONAL GROWTH11 Jul 2014

The secretariat of Tokyo Pack has appointed Singapore-based EP Resources as its strategic markets consultant to providemarket information, research analysis and communications support for the show as it looks to grow its international presencewith more overseas exhibitors and visitors.

Owned and operated by the Japan Packaging Institute (JPI), Tokyo Pack is a packaging exhibition that takes place in the Japanese capital,featuring more than 2,600 booths representing 600 companies in the 23,000 sq m exhibition space, and attracting more than 70,000visitors from inside Japan and overseas.

Exhibitors include those presenting packaging substrates and consumables, from inks and laminating adhesives to carton andbiopolymers, and printing and converting equipment, from digital press technology to laminators, die-cutting units and platemakingequipment. Design, workflow, inspection and distribution are other categories and services represented by exhibitors at the event.

During the last edition in 2012, more than 170,000 people visited the four-day exhibition in Tokyo. The next instalment takes place onOctober 7-10, with 2016 to mark the 50 anniversary of the show’s launch.

EP Resources provides specialized packaging industry information in the Asia-Pacific region through its market analysis and consultancyservices, and through its publishing division.

Tasked with raising the profile of the Tokyo Pack exhibition, and helping JPI members and Tokyo Pack exhibitors grow their internationalpresence, EP Resources will provide analysis and assistance to introduce Japan’s packaging industry and Tokyo Pack 2014 in the strategicoverseas markets of South East Asia, Europe and North America. In addition, EP will consult on developing the Tokyo Pack 2014 Englishlanguage website, printed materials, advertising and communication.

A major part of the co-operation will be a one-day orientation program to Japanese packaging for foreign visitors on October 6. Jointlydeveloped by EP Resources and JPI, the Tokyo Pack Insight Japan Tour will provide an introduction to the Japanese packaging industry,introducing the key drivers of Japanese consumer packaging, environmental, legislative and the cultural influences on packagingtechnology, research and development, and design.

‘The Japanese packaging industry is frequently mischaracterized in the West as being cute, elaborate and over-packed,’ said StuartHoggard, chief executive officer of EP Resources.

‘This is far from the truth. Our job is to de-mystify that image and help JPI, its members and Tokyo Pack 2014 exhibitors expand their

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‘Certainly packaging in Japan is elaborate, but the common view in Japan is that “if a company’s packaging is not 100 percent perfect, theproduct inside might not also be perfect”. This mindset and demand for quality is what has made Japanese packaging so technologicallyadvanced as well as sustainable.

‘The Japanese packaging industry is well-poised for growth not only in Japan, but in international markets. EP Resources is honoured tohave been chosen by Japan Packaging Institute to be its strategic markets partner and look forward to helping Japan cement its positionas one of the world’s leading packaging markets.’

Yoichi Sonoyama, secretary-general of the Tokyo Pack 2014 secretariat, said: ‘The appointment of EP Resources will strengthen the TokyoPack exhibition in the international market as exhibitors and Japan Packaging Institute members are increasingly looking to expand salesand operations overseas.’

Hajime Furuya, JPI director and secretary-general, said: ‘Japan Packaging Institute has had a close relationship with Mr Hoggard since1996, when he first addressed the Japanese International Packaging Symposium held at Tokyo Pack, and we are now pleased that we areable to collaborate with EP Resources to further develop our members’ overseas interests.’

Pictured (from left): Hajime Furuya, director and secretary-general of the Japan Packaging Institute; Stuart Hoggard, CEO of EPResources; and Yoichi Sonoyama, secretary-general of the Tokyo Pack 2014 secretariat

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ASAF’S HIGHLIGHTS FROMTOKYO PACK 2014

This year’s Tokyo Pack was a reminder that packaging is a bigdeal in Japan and has its own unique twists, very differentfrom what we produce here in Australia.

They seem to have a lot more packaging, but it’s lightweightand caters for much smaller portions. It’s not unusual to find asingle piece of sushi or one shitake mushroom packaged in itsown thermoformed base and lid.

The show was staged across six halls, showcasing coveringmaterials, materials handling, packaging automation andpackaging design.

As an interesting comparison, while we package sandwichwedges in either expensive cardboard or cheaper clear plasticclams, the Japanese wrap theirs in clear BOPP. Thislightweight option is really something we should look to adoptin Australia. As well as the cost savings, there are additionalenvironmental benefits and it may just require us to look at ourlogistics a little differently.

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Japan Packaging: Starke Zahlen, starkesTeamDas JapanPackagingInstitute(JPI), Tokio,und wichtigejapanische

Verpackungsunternehmen werden ihre zum Teil bahnbrechenden Technologieauf der interpack 2014 zeigen. Darüber hinaus waren und sind dieUnternehmen auch wieder investitionsbereit. Toppan Printing Co Ltd, eines dergrößten Verpackungs- und Druckereiunternehmen des Landes, gab im März2014 eine Investition in Höhe von 264,4 Mio. US-Dollar (27 Mrd. Yen) in eineneue Fabrik für flexible Verpackungsmaterialien in der Präfektur Gunmabekannt. Die Rengo Co Ltd ist ebenfalls dabei, den Betrieb eines neuenWellpappewerks in der Präfektur Okayama aufzunehmen. Im Ausland bautRengo gegenwärtig eine Wellen-Schachtelfabrik für 10 Mio. US-Dollar in dervietnamesischen Provinz Dong Nai.

59,8 Mio. Dollar hat die Dai Nippon Printing Co Ltd (DNP) zur Ausweitung derProduktionskapazität in einer bestehenden Fabrik in Indonesien aufgewendetund gleichzeitig eine neues Werk gebaut. In Vietnam begann die DNP vorkurzem auch eine neue Produktionsstätte in der Nähe von Ho Chi Minh City zurBelieferung internationaler Markenartikler im Inland sowie zur Bedienung deswachsenden Exportbedarfs für flexible Verpackungen in Südostasien, der bisjetzt von Betrieben der DNP Indonesia erfüllt wurde.

Wenn auch viel über die stagnierende Wirtschaft und alternde BevölkerungJapans geschrieben wurde, so zeigt das Land dennoch gute Leistung – trotzaller Widrigkeiten, teilte das JPI jetzt mit. 2013 konnte Japan ein Wachstum von2 % beim Bruttosozialprodukt verzeichnen, mehr als die USA und die EU mitjeweils 1,6 % bzw. 0,1 %. Beim BSP pro Kopf kam Japan laut JPI auf einenBetrag von 35.855 US-Dollar.

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Nach Angaben des JPI lieferte Japan 2012 insgesamt ca. 16,78 Mio. t Verpackungsmaterial und -behälter im Wert von 55,28 Mrd. US-Dollar (5645Mrd. Yen) sowie 364.251 Verpackungsmaschinen und -geräte mit einem Wertvon 4,24 Mrd. US-Dollar (433 Mrd. Yen) aus. Japans Rechnungsjahr 2012(April 2012 bis März 2013) umfasse eine lange Erholungperiode, währendderer die Verpackungsindustrie und das Land insgesamt die Folgen desGroßen Ostjapanischen Erdbebens und Tsunamis vom 11. März 2011bewältigen mussten.

Verpackungsmaterialien & -behälter: Papier war anteilmäßig das größteSegment beim Verpackungsmaterial mit 62,29 % aller 2012 verbrauchtenMaterialien, gefolgt von Kunststoff mit 18,73 % sowie Metall, Glas und Holz mitje 8,7 %, 7 % und 3,2 %. Bei den verschiedenen Verpackungstypenverzeichnete PET 2012 mit 553.383 t die robusteste und schnellste Erholung.Diese Zahl ist insofern bedeutsam als der Verpackungssektor aggressiv eineStrategie der "Materialreduzierung" von Behälter verfolgt hat, sodass Flaschenund Behälter heute im Vergleich zu 1999 15 % bis 32 % leichter sind.

Dies bedeutet, dass die Branche nicht nur mengenmäßig mehr ausgeliefert,sondern auch die tatsächliche Anzahl von auf den Markt gebrachtenPET-Behältern massiv erhöht habe. Der Sektor alkoholfreie Getränke mit COmachte 86,88 % des japanischen PET-Marktanteils aus. Demgegenüber ließsich bei Shampoos und Waschmitteln ein Trend beobachten, der zunehmendvon HDPE und flexiblen Beuteln zu Verpackungslösungen aus PET geht: vonnoch 2.381 t PET-Verpackungen in 2007 auf über 10.070 t in 2012.

Verpackungsmaschinen

Von den 364.251 im Jahre 2012 in Japan produzierten Verpackungsgerätenwaren ca. 75 % Primär- und Sekundärverpackungsmaschinen: Zum Abfüllen inBeutel, Flaschen und Dosen, FFS, Etikettieren, Kartonieren, Sealer, Schrumpf-und Vakuumverpackung. Sekundärverpackmaschinen machten die restlichen25 % aus. 2012 fertigte Japan – laut IPI – 1108 Beutelmaschinen und 303Papier- und Kartonveredelungsmaschinen.

Auf der interpack werden japanische Unternehmen und Tochterunternehmenausstellen, darunter C.I. Kasei Co Ltd (Halle 9 / G35), DNP Indonesia (Halle 10/ C12), Fuji Machinery Co Ltd (Halle 08b / C20), Ishida Europe Ltd (Halle 15 /A25-26), Kajiwara Inc (Hall 3 / F15), Kuraray EVAL Europe nv (Halle 10 / D63),Marubeni Europe Plc (Halle 7a / C16), Mitsuhashi Corp. (Halle 8b / E65), OmoriMachinery Co Ltd (Halle 8b / C66), Sanko Machinery Co Ltd (Halle 8b / G28),Strapack Corp. (Halle 11 / D22), Topack Co Ltd (Halle 8b / D65), ToppanPrinting Co Ltd (Halle 11 / A11), Totani Corp. (Halle 11 / C70), Toyo Jidoki CoLtd (Halle 8b / C58), Toyo Machine Manufacturing Co Ltd (Halle 8b / D65) etc.

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JAPAN PACKAGING INDUSTRY HITS US$60BN IN 2013

Tokyo, Japan – The Japanese packaging industry grew to US$59.4 billion in the financial year of 2013, with paper packagingproducts and pouch forming and filling machinery making up the majority of the packaging materials and equipment sectorrespectively.

In FY2013 (April 2013 to March 2014), Japan’s packaging industry grew by more than 2% over the previous year to hit ¥6.049trillion (US$59.4 billion) in value – representing 1.27% of the national GDP.

Packaging materials and containers

Of the total, packaging materials and containers represented ¥5.608 trillion, while packaging machinery contributed ¥441billion. By volume, 18.75 million tons of packaging materials and container were produced while 356,000 units of packagingmachinery were manufactured.

Paper packaging products made up the majority of packaging materials and containers produced by both shipment value andvolume at 41.8% and 62.5% respectively. This was followed by plastic packaging products which constituted 29.7% ofshipment value and 18.7% of volume.

With a total volume of 1.62 million tonnes, metal packaging products returned a value of ¥9.4 billion, giving it a 17% marketshare. Other packaging materials such as seals, labels, tapes, textile products and cellophanes made up 7% of total packagingvalue in 2013, or ¥3.8 billion.

Glass, always the poor relation, accounted for 2% of the total material shipments valued at ¥1.24 billion. Wood, which is stillsignificantly used in the packaging of more traditional products, performed better than glass with ¥1.39 billion, or 2.5% of value.

Packaging machinery

Japan saw packaging machinery sales pick up over the past two years, up 3% since the tsunami disaster of 2011 to ¥441.4 billion in 2013.

Pouch forming and filling machines saw the highest demand with a total of 5,686 units delivered, representing a total of ¥60.5 billion. Meanwhile, bottling machinerygained the second highest value at ¥57.9 billion, with a total of 3,887 units.

Filling equipment also performed well with total installations of 3,075 units valued at ¥37.8 billion, while general container (non-pouch) form and filling equipment alsoperformed well with sales of ¥13.3bn.

However, canmaking equipment sales remained flat at ¥1.7 billion, with just 130 units installed.

About Tokyo Pack

Launched in 1966 and owned and operated directly by the Japan Packaging Institute (JPI), the biennial (every two years) exhibition will feature more than 2,600 boothsrepresenting 654 companies in the 51,380m2 exhibition space, which attracts more than 70,000 visitors from inside Japan and overseas.

During the last edition, more than 170,000 people visited TOKYO PACK 2012 during the four-day exhibition. For more information, visit http://www.tokyo-pack.jp/en/ .

For exhibitor and visitor enquires, contact:

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Tel: +81-3-3543-1189

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TOKYO PACK 2014 OPENS IN LESS THAN A MONTH

Tokyo, Japan – Asia’s premier packaging exhibition TOKYO PACK 2014 is set to open in

less than a month, and will feature some of the most innovative packaging solutions to meet today’s

demanding consumer needs. Special services will also be available at the show to assist foreign visitors.

Next Generation High Performance Packaging Pavilion

One of the highlights of this year’s show edition is the Next Generation High Performance Packaging Pavilion,

which 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.

Some of the unique packaging that will be showcased include a special sprout-integrated pouch for beverage

and liquid food from Japan’s ECODPACK Co. Ltd., 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.

PopPack LLC from the USA has chosen to exhibit for the first time at TOKYO PACK 2014,

and will demonstrate its special reclosable PopPack bubble solution at the Pavilion.

PopPack offers a safe and quick way of opening and reclosing flexible packages with an

engaging “popping” sound that provides assurance that the package contents are fresh, well-sealed and have not been tampered with. With this

easy-to-use product, PopPack hopes to find business partners at TOKYO PACK to help introduce this exciting packaging technology to the

Japanese market.

Overseas Visitor Services

Recognizing that negotiating the business-language barrier can be a daunting task for the non-Japanese speaking overseas visitor, TOKYO PACK

2014 has devised a system where English-speaking visitors can avoid wasting time asking “can you speak English?” Booths will display a special

“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 enquires they may

have, and guide them to exhibits showcasing the packaging solutions and technologies they are sourcing for.

About Tokyo Pack

Launched in 1966 and owned and operated directly by the Japan Packaging Institute (JPI), the biennial (every two years) exhibition will feature

more than 2,600 booths representing 654 companies in the 51,380m2 exhibition space, which attracts more than 70,000 visitors from inside

Japan and overseas.

During the last edition, more than 170,000 people visited TOKYO PACK 2012 during the

four-day exhibition. For more information, visit http://www.tokyo-pack.jp/en/.

For exhibitor and visitor enquires, contact:

TOKYO PACK 2012 Secretariat

Togeki Bldg. 10F, 4-1-1 Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0045, Japan

Tel: +81-3-3543-1189 E-mail: tokyopack@jpi.or.jp ,tokyopack@epresources.net

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Tokyo Pack 2014Location: Tokyo, JapanVenue: Tokyo Big Sight

07 Oct - 10 Oct, 2014

Owned and operated by the Japan Packaging institute(JPI), Tokyo Pack is Asia's largest biennial packagingexhibition.

Launched in 1966, Tokyo Pack regularly featuresstate-of-the-art packaging, production and processingsolutions for companies in the main sectors of foodand beverage, confectionery and bakery products,pharmaceuticals and cosmetics, non-food consumergoods and industrial products.

Also on show in 2014 will be a range of relatedservices including packaging materials, printingmachinery, testing and inspection equipment andservices and logistics and distribution and recyclingand disposal equipment.

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Tokyo Pack sets 2014dates16 Dec 2013

Organisers of Asia's largest packaging trade show,Tokyo Pack, have announced dates for the 2014edition of the biennial event.

The show, owned and operated by the JapanPackaging Institute (JPI), will take place on 7-10October at Tokyo Big Sight, the Japanese capital'sinternational exhibition centre.

The secretary general of the Tokyo Pack 2014secretariat, Yoichi Sonoyama, has also predicted the2014 show will break records in terms of visitor andexhibitor numbers on the back of continued expansionof the Asian packaging market in general, and theJapanese packaging industry in particular.

“For Tokyo Pack 2014, we intend to go all out toexpand the scope and scale of the exhibition,”Sonoyama said.

“Tokyo Pack is the largest packaging exhibition in Asiawith group participation from China, Korea andTaiwan; it attracts attention as a regional Asia-specificexhibition where you can learn the latest trends ofpackaging from across Asia.”

He said the previous edition, in 2012, had set a strong benchmark for the scale of the show.

In 2012, Tokyo Pack achieved an increase in registered visitor numbers to 65,311, from the 62,182registered visitors to the previous edition. In all, more than 170,000 people visited Tokyo Pack 2012 duringthe four-day exhibition.

Exhibitor numbers also grew 8.9 per cent to 600, while the total number of booths rose 7.2 per cent to2,270.The 2014 show is expected to feature more than 2,600 booths representing 600 companies in the 23,000square metre exhibition space.

Launched in 1966, Tokyo Pack regularly features state-of-the-art packaging, production and processingsolutions for companies in the main sectors of food and beverage, confectionery and bakery products,pharmaceuticals and cosmetics, non-food consumer goods and industrial products.

Also on show in 2014 will be a range of related products and services: packaging materials; printing; testingand inspection; logistics and distribution; and recycling and disposal.

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Many of Japan’s largest packaging players have already registered their participation as exhibitors in 2014,including: Rengo, Toppan Printing, Toyo Jidoki, Toyo Ink, Takara Pac, Kyodo Printing, Idemitsu Unitech,Ishida, Anritsu Industrial Solutions, Taisei Lamick, Furukawa and Fujiseiki, as well as the Japanesedivisions of global corporations such as Crown, EDM Corporation and Strapack Corporation.

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Special tour offersinsights before TOKYOPACK29 Jun 2014

The Packaging Insight Japan Tour is a one-dayorientation programme developed for overseas visitorsto TOKYO PACK 2014 to provide an insight intoJapan’s US$77 billion packaging industry.

Now in its second edition, Packaging Insight JapanTour is a collaboration between TOKYO PACKexhibition owner-operator, the Japanese packagingindustry association Japan Packaging Institute (JPI),and EP Resources, Singapore, to present a full-dayprogramme on Monday, 6 October 2014 – the daybefore the show opens.

Running from 7-10 October, TOKYO PACK 2014 hasattracted more than 600 Japanese and internationalpackaging companies in 2,500 booths across the51,380 square metre exhibition space at Tokyo BigSight.

“Packaging in Japan is a fine balance between aesthetics, marketing and advanced technology, much ofwhich is not immediately obvious to the first time visitor,” said Mr. Yoichi Sonoyama, deputy secretarygeneral of JPI and secretary general of the TOKYO PACK Secretariat.

“Through this orientation programme, we hope to increase our foreign guests’ understanding of theJapanese packaging market, strengthening the bridge between our industry and the global industry.”

According to Stuart Hoggard, CEO of Singapore-based EP Resources, “There is a frequent perception ofJapanese packaging as being technologically elaborate to the point of being over-engineered. Certainlypackaging in Japan is elaborate, but the common Japanese consumer view is that ‘if the packaging is not100 per cent perfect, how can I trust that the product inside is also not perfect’.

“With this mind-set, Japanese converters and brand owners go beyond the basic functionality and seek touse packaging to delight, or surprise consumers,” explained Hoggard. “This unique programme will helpforeign companies get under the hood of Japanese packaging, understand its drivers and build a networkof manufacturers and buyers that has traditionally been inaccessible due to language differences.”

The Packaging Insight Japan Tour programme has been designed in two-parts: a morning orientationseminar and afternoon retail tour to see the commercialisation of these ideas.

Morning Orientation

The morning’s orientation seminar will provide a unique background to the packaging formats, materialsand technologies that will be on show at TOKYO PACK 2014.

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will introduce consumer trends and buying patterns in Japan today, as well as discuss the retail formats.Participants will learn the key concerns and requirements of the Japanese consumer, and the factors thatinfluence the purchase decision.

Participants will also understand the laws that industry players have to comply with in order to do businessin Japan and the impact of Packaging Environmental legislation on Japanese packaging design andformats.

Experts from Japan Packaging Institute (JPI) will provide a pre-show orientation to the new advancedpackaging materials, formats and technologies that will be on display at the TOKYO PACK 2014 exhibition.

Guided Retail Tour of Tokyo

After a typical Japanese bento lunch, participants will be taken on a guided tour of key retail formats inTokyo to discover how Japan’s packaging industry commercializes its packaging technology for theconsumer.

With its emphasis on ‘share of eye’, shopping in Japan is very a different retail experience than in the West:With elegant product displays and close attention to detail, packaging - structural and graphic - design playa pertinent role in selling the packaged product.

Visits to a hypermarket and high-end supermarket/department store will demonstrate the contrast betweendifferent levels of Japanese retail and consumer sectors, and the vast range packaging formats andtechnology commercially available to meet varied consumer needs.

JPI guides will be on-hand to help participants, answer questions and point out technologies unique to theJapanese market.

Open for registration

This unique Packaging Insight Japan Tour 2014 is now open for registration. Register before 1 Septemberto enjoy the early bird discount fee of US$325/ EUR 240. Group discounts are also available.

Participants will receive:

Free complimentary 4-day entry to TOKYO PACK 2016 (7-10 October 2014)TOKYO PACK 2014 exhibition guideInvitations to the official TOKYO PACK 2014 official opening ceremony (7 October 2014)Invitation to the official Networking Reception (7 October 2014): A sumptuous Japanese buffetbanquet and the opportunity to network with senior executives of Japanese corporations.Access to all concurrent conferences, seminars and no fewer than three distinct packaging pavilions.FREE Admission to the concurrent exhibition Health Ingredients Japan 2014/Safety & TechnologyJapan 2014 worth ¥3,000

Seats are limited, so register now. (mailto:tokyopack@epresources.net) For more information aboutTOKYO PACK 2014, visit the website (http://www.tokyo-pack.jp/en) .

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Tokyo Pack 2014: full tothe brim04 Aug 2014

Every square metre of the 51,380 m2 exhibition spacehas been fully booked for Asia’s largest packagingexhibition.

At the next Tokyo Pack, 7-10 October, more than 650companies will put their products and services onshow. “With a total of 654 companies committed toexhibiting this year, we have grown our exhibitornumber by more than 7% from the 2012 edition” saidYoichi Sonoyama, secretary general of the Tokyo Pack2014 secretariat. “In addition, of the total number ofcompanies on show, a total of 99 are entirely newexhibitors."

“This is a demonstration of companies’ belief thatTokyo Pack 2014 is the premier packaging exhibitionin Asia, and the venue for them to showcaseadvanced packaging technologies, solutions and gainnew business opportunities.”

Tokyo Pack launched in 1966 and is owned andoperated directly by the Japan Packaging Institute(JPI). The exhibition is held every two years and its2,600 booths representing 654 companies in the 51,380m2 exhibition space, attract more than 70,000visitors from inside Japan and overseas.

The last Tokyo Pack (2012) was attended by more than 170,000 people across its four days.

98.2% of exhibitors said they entered into new business negotiations due to leads generated at theshow. 47.5% of exhibitors noted that many of the visitors to their booths were new customers.63.7% of visitors said they were looking for information on new products and technologies21.9% of visitors were sourcing for information to purchase equipment and solutions.

This year, Rengo has purchased the largest space at the exhibition to display a wide range of advancedpackaging solutions at its 840m2 booth.

Other prominent Japanese companies that have taken up significant exhibition space are:

Osaka Sealing Printing and Oji Package Innovation Center Inc. with 450m2 booth space eachIshida and Toppan Printing with 360m2 eachDai Nippon Printing and Fuji Seal with 315m2 space each

PKN will be reporting live from Tokyo Pack in October.

Find out more about the event here (http://www.tokyo-pack.jp/en/) .

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COUNTDOWN TOTOYKO PACK17 Sep 2014

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 PackagingPavilion

This is Tokyo Pack’s showcase of the future. It willfeature breakthrough packaging solutions that takeextended product shelf life to new levels, highlightenvironmentally-friendly packages, and newdecoration and print technology solutions.

Highlights include a sprout-integrated pouch forbeverage and liquid food from Japan’s Ecodpack, thatis designed to reduce packaging weight and save onraw material usage. Liquid products canbe dispensed by squeezing the pouch, and a specialmechanism prevents air from flowing into the pack –protecting the product. Liquid food products canalso be easily dispensed without any clogging of solidfood particles.

USA’s PopPack will make its Tokyo Pack debut, andwill demonstrate its reclosable PopPack bubblesolution at the Pavilion. PopPack is a safe and quickway of opening and reclosing flexible packages.The “popping” sound it makes on sealing providesassurance that the package contents are fresh,well-sealed and have not been tampered with.PopPack is hoping to find business partners at Tokyopack to help to introduce its easy-to-use product to theJapanese market.

Overseas Visitor Services

Tokyo Pack understands that negotiating the business-language barrier can be a daunting task foroverseas visitors who don’t speak Japanese. So that they don’t have to keep asking, “can youspeak English,” booths will display an “English speaker available” sign where business discussions cancomfortably take place in English.

In addition, staff at the Foreign Visitor desk at the International Lounge will be on hand to assist foreignvisitors with any enquiries and guide them to the exhibits where the packaging solutions and technologiesfor which they are sourcing are on display.

Tokyo Pack FAQs (http://www.tokyo-pack.jp/en/)

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The show, Asia's biggest for packaging, launched in 1966 and is owned and operated directly by the JapanPackaging Institute (JPI). It is held every two years and will feature more than 2600 booths representing654 companies in the 51,380m2 exhibition space this year. More than 170,000 people visited Tokyo Pack2012 during its four days.

PKN will be attending. So keep visiting PKN for our first hand reports during Tokyo Pack week.

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COUNTDOWN TO TOKYO PACK:Could packaging be closer tonature than this?22 Sep 2014

While plastics and bioplastics continue slogging it out to develop the mostsustainable plastic options, one company has developed a packaging formthat makes plastic redundant.

Material science company, Ecovative, has created a new class ofhome-compostable bioplastics based on mycelium, a living organism.Mycelium is mushroom 'root', the vegetative part of a fungus. The newpackaging is grown from mycelium and low value crop waste.

Ecovative's Mushroom Packaging is a high-performance, environmentallyresponsible, cost competitive alternative to plastic protective packaging formssuch as the plastic foam EPE, and moulded packaging made from EPP, EPSand paper pulp. It performs well as cushioning for high end products, likeconsumer electronics, appliances, furniture, and industrial equipment.

At the end of its life, Mushroom Packaging is compostable both at home andin industrial operations.

The company is to be a first time exhibitor at Tokyo Pack 2014, and willdemonstrate Mushroom Packaging at booth 3-47.

“Asia is a world leader in multiple industries, from designing and manufacturing high-tech products that require specialisedpackaging, to state of the art mushroom cultivation. We’ve had global customers asking us when we would be bringing MushroomPackaging to Asia. We’re thrilled to be in a position now to grow global partnerships for Mushroom Packaging,” stated Ecovativechief executive officer, Eben Bayer.

In 2012, Ecovative formed a partnership with Sealed Air Corporation and is currently producing Mushroom® Packaging at itsproduction facilities in Iowa and New York, USA.

The packaging form is already doing well in the US. It has been adopted by major companies there such as Dell, Crate & Barreland Steelcase, and has won a number of packaging awards, including the DuPont Packaging Innovation Diamond Award, theGreener Package “Innovator of the Year” award and Popular Science’s “Best of What’s New”.

Food for thought (and new packaging development projects): Read the story about Ecovative's new “Grow It Yourself” (/webtop/conjuror/%20http:/www.ecovativedesign.com/news/?guid=8F0216CF2A036835311529B730C6AFE01A9E7E895C891E4AE5CCF579F128BF4B69270C5A0266ACB72F895D7AFE3EBEEF%20%20%20) (GIY) product. This enables designers, artists, educators, and innovators to grow their own creations with MushroomMaterials – like the 10,000 bricks created for architect, David Benjamin, to construct the 14 metre Hy-Fi tower that now stands inthe MoMA PS1 courtyard.

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COUNTDOWN TOTOKYO PACK: Toyo Inkpackages up the future30 Sep 2014

If you’re not completely sure what’s around the cornerin packaging solutions, Toyo Ink may well be the TokyoPack exhibitor you want to follow. PKN will be at TokyoPack, so keep coming back here to explore what is onshow there.

The package processing innovations Toyo Ink will bepresenting are based on the concept, Total PackagingSolutions of the Future. They cover materialprocurement, manufacture, distribution, sale,consumption, disposal and recycling.

Toyo Ink’s exhibition is divided into four solutionscategories: Colour Management, Environment andSafety, High Performance and Advanced Design andGlobal Market Solutions.

Colour Management: As flexible packaging becamemore and more, colour management became anincreasingly important issue. Colour management maywell be one of your most pressing concerns. Toaddress it, Toyo Ink will feature two live presentationson colour management support for process printingand colour management solutions on stage at itsbooth. The company will also hold live demos of its latest ink dispensing system for the labelling market.

Environment and Safety: Toyo Ink solutions for flexo printing are experiencing a surge in interest. Thecompany will therefore showcase a complete product line-up based on its water-based flexo inks, fromprepress to post-printing. It will also introduce case studies of innovative solutions that combine itswater-based inks and water-based adhesives, and offer a hands-on display of its solvent-free adhesivemixing device.

High Performance and Advanced Design: Toyo Ink will introduce a completely new line-up of UV inks atTokyo Pack. It will also showcase advanced packaging and design techniques based on a wide array ofToyo Ink high-performance materials, such as ultraviolet (UV) coatings, overprint varnishes, functionalscreen inks and hot-melt adhesives.

Global Market Solutions: More of Toyo Inks' customers are making forays into international markets, sothe company will highlight packaging products and services that support geographic expansion andintroduce packaging ink solutions representative of those the Toyo Ink Group has launched in markets allover the world. A comprehensive line-up of food packaging inks compliant with the Swiss Ordinance willalso be on display.

Yasuyuki Kawada, manager of Toyo Ink’s Graphic Solution Center, Technical Center, will also deliver a

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presentation on “Colour Management for Package Design” on October 10 at 2:00 p.m., at the seminarroom in East Hall 6. Kawada will provide details on Toyo Ink’s colour management system architecture thatcan improve colour quality and operational efficiency throughout the package production workflow. And hewill introduce Toyo Ink’s first colour management system based on the International Color Consortium (ICC)profile format.

Toyo Ink will be located in booth 2-28, East Hall 2, at Tokyo Pack. For more info on Tokyo Pack 2014,click here. (http://www.tokyo-pack.jp/en/)

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COUNTDOWN TOTOKYO PACK: Kurarayto exhibit for Plantic30 Sep 2014

Japanese company, Kuraray, has just signed acontract with Australia’s Plantic Technologies todistribute the full range of Plantic products exclusivelyin Japan and South Korea. Kuraray will beginpromoting bio-based barrier material, Plantic film inJapan immediately. And it will exhibit Plantic productsat its booth at Tokyo Pack.

The Kuraray Group includes about eighty companiesin Japan. Kuraray Co., Ltd. was established inKurashiki City, Japan, in 1926, where it began theindustrial production of viscose rayon. The companyused research and development to build expertise andtechnological strength in the fields of polymerchemistry, synthetic chemistry and chemicalengineering. It develops highly innovative productsranging from synthetic resins, fine chemicals,non-woven fabrics and synthetic leather to laser discsand medical products.

Plantic film is a barrier film primarily composed of arenewable source starch and is ideal for use as freshfood packaging material. It reduces food waste bykeeping foods fresher longer, which benefits foodproducers and the environment.

These are its primary characteristics:

1. High oxygen impermeability, perfect for fresh foodsin modified atmosphere packaging and vacuumpackaging.

2. Excellent formability and heat sealability enablesprocessing with existing facilities

3. High transparency enables visual confirmation offood freshness

4. Being derived from biomass resources, it helps cut CO2 emissions and is certified as a biobasedproduct by the European authority Vinçotte.

“The ability to be able to offer a sustainable ultra-high barrier material complements our existing range ofresins and films and we are pleased to be working with Plantic. Plantic materials will be showcased at ourbooth at the international packaging expo TOKYO PACK 2014,” stated Kenzo Okamoto, manager global

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marketing group, EVAL Division, Kuraray Ltd.

“We are pleased to be working with Kuraray. Kuraray are the global leader in the supply of EVOH barrierresins and they will be able to provide customers in Japan and South Korea with access to our proprietarysustainable ultra-high barrier materials. Kuraray has unmatched capability in these markets and will providecustomers outstanding sales and technical support,” added Brendan Morris, managing director and chiefexecutive officer, Plantic Technologies Limited.

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LIVE FROM TOKYOPACK: PopPack pops apackaging revolution08 Oct 2014

PopPack has launched a packaging innovation thatmakes flexible packages easy to open, using air in abubble to ‘pop’ open packages. The packages arebased on a simple “bubble in the seal” concept thatuses air as a lever to pop open packages with ease.The PopPack’s “pop-open” packages are easy and funto pop, easy to open and use, and it’s easy to accessthe packages’ contents.

PopPack’s pop-open packs are now available forlicensing to the packaging industry.

PopPack’s pop-open greatly reduces food andpackaging waste without product spillage – so productcontents are fully consumed. The range of safe andeasy to reclose package designs apply to multipleflexible and semi-rigid package types. Prototypes arein continuous development by industry collaborators inJapan. PopPack’s patented technologies are patentedglobally, in both first world countries and high-growthmarkets such as China, Philippines, Malaysia,Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Thailand, and Brazil.

PopPack has also developed a technology called “double bubble”, which applies to pouches and sachets,

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allowing product controlled dispensing and package reclosing options.

Applications for PopPack packages range from cheeses, fish cakes, sliced meats, sausages, sauces,condiments, candy, chocolate, sweets, snack foods, shampoos and conditioners, liquid soaps, lotions,personal care products, household goods and other food and non-food products.

These next generation packaging solutions eliminate the need to use scissors, knives or teeth to openflexible packages. Packages are senior-friendly, child-friendly, safe, easy to open, use and reuse. For onthe go use, some PopPack package designs can be opened with only one hand. The packagingtechnologies have been prototype-tested with specialty films using machinery readily-adaptable to existingpackaging lines with minimal or no loss of line speed.

PopPack has developed relationships with packaging collaborators in Japan, including Oji PackageInnovation Center (exhibiting at East Hall 3-17),J-Film, Kawashima Packaging Machinery, MitsubishiPlastics and Tokyo Foods Machinery Company/Multivac (exhibiting at East Hall 4-04). These partners arealready bringing PopPack technologies to global markets.

Business opportunities and design engineering development functions are managed by PopPack’s JapanTeam of packaging consultant specialists. The primary PopPack Japan Team contact is Mr. Toshio Arita,Senior Chief Consultant. Other team specialists are package consulting engineers Mitsuhiro Sumimoto andJira Noda, both of whom have been developing next generation packaging prototypes for PopPack’s suiteof technologies. Licensing agreements for use of the PopPack technologies may be made directly withPopPack.

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LIVE FROM TOKYOPACK: The goal is tocreate a sustainablesociety09 Oct 2014

Tokyo Pack 2014 opened on October 7 with 680companies in the 51,380m2 space exhibitingcutting-edge Japanese packaging solutions andtechnologies designed and developed to meet today’sneeds and demands.

At the official opening Motoki Ozaki, president of theJapan Packaging Institute (JPI), the industrypackaging association that also owns and operatesTokyo Pack 2014, outlined its purpose.

Tokyo Pack is the “global venue for the exchange ofpackaging information, the exploration of nextgeneration packaging, and the promotion ofinternational friendship…

“…Recently the Japanese economy has begun to seesome hopeful signs, but the packaging industry stillhas to negotiate some difficult phases with the hike inconsumption tax and the rising raw material costs. Amajor challenge for Japan’s packaging industry today is how it contributes to the formation of a sustainablesociety by realizing a packaging industry harmonised with society.”

Ozaki expressed confidence that the exhibition will help both exhibitors and visitors alike explore the latestadvanced Japanese packaging solutions and technologies developed for today’s business and consumerneeds to help create a sustainable society.

“On behalf of JPI, I would like to express my deepest thanks to all of you who have given us liberal supportand cooperation for the opening of this fair, and express my genuine appreciation to the exhibitors for theirgreat assistance and to the ministries and agencies concerned and various other organisations for theirsupport and cooperation.”

Steven Pacitti, vice president of International Packaging Press Organisation, commented, “Japan has longpioneered developments in all areas of packaging and there remains a direct correlation here betweenproduct quality and packaging quality.

“Japanese packaging often transcends the basic objective of protecting a product and creates an objectthat demands attention in its own right. The technologies and science behind those solutions have enabledJapanese companies to enjoy great success on the international stage. And what better place to showcasethese solutions than here, at Tohyo Pack.”

Key industry categories on exhibit at Tokyo Pack include packaging materials and containers, packaging

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LIVE FROM TOKYOPACK: Compact solutionwins accessibility award09 Oct 2014

With Japan’s ageing population, and the packagingindustry’s commitment to designing with the needs ofthe consumer in mind, accessibility is a focus in muchof the design coming to market and on show at TokyoPack 2014.

In the Japan Star Awards, this year’s winner of thePresident of The Accessible Design Foundation ofJapan Award, is the ‘Primavista Dea Compact Case(Sponge Up)’, by Kao Corporation for YoshidaCosmeworks Co., Ltd.

The entry rationale reads as follows:

“This is a compact case to be comfortably used by allpeople including persons with weak fingertip motionand low vision due to ageing.

“When you open the compact, the base will raise up asponge to apply foundation with. The magnifyingmirror reflects every facial part larger and in detail.

“Plastic sheet over the face powder is attached to the case on one side so as to reduce the trouble ofputting it many times after use and of being lost easily.

So, the design takes into account the need to be able to easily open the compact, to see what you’re doingwhen you’re applying the make-up, and to retain the plastic sheet that typically slips off the top and couldbe lost to a vision impaired user.

The Japan Star Awards are all on display at Tokyo Pack. Apart from the 13 top awards, of which theCompact Case is one, the awards include a Good Packaging section. In the category for AccessibleDesign, four designs were commended as ‘good packaging’.

1. Squeeze & Turn Bottle by Tokan Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Entry Rationale; “Universal Design concept is incorporated into this package, making itself highly functionaland usable. The package consists of a HINEL cap with a small-diameter nozzle and an easy-to-squeezebottle that can go through the hot-filling process. Discharging quantity is easily controllable. The structureenables clear liquid discharge and prevents unfavorable dripping.”

2. BATHTOLOGY Foam Body Care Wash by LIONCORPORATION

Entry Rationale: “We have developed a foam dispensingpump that creates fine foam in a large amount and

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washes [your hands] gently. In order to create creamyfoam, an improvement was made in the pump so thatthe liquid content and air can be mixed effectively. Pumpoperation has also been improved.”

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Easy-to- open Clear Case by Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

Entry Rationale: “This package is pre-perforated, which users can pull to open it. Users don’t have to puttheir finger between the flaps for opening any more.”

4. Refill Package for BATHCLIN (Bathclin Corporation) by Dai NipponPrinting Co., Ltd.

Entry Rationale: “The gusseted pouch is easy to open and creates thespout for dispensing the content. The spout perfectly fits into the mainbottle, preventing powder from scattering. By adopting the refill package,package weight has been reduced. This is both environmentally and userfriendly.”

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LIVE FROM TOKYOPACK: Material reductiona focus09 Oct 2014

For Japanese packaging converters, who pay a feebased on material type and weight, using less materialis as much a good business decision as it is aboutdoing good for the environment.

In the Japan Star Awards this year, the winner of theDirector of General, Manufacturing Industries Bureau,Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Award is‘Wine Box for Six Bottles’ by Compack System Co.,Ltd.

The Entry Rationale reads as follows:

“This six-pack has opening on its side, allowing thelabel of the bottle to face upward.

“The physical flexibility of corrugated flute is utilized tosecure the wine bottles with the help of the partitionand the outer box.

“By reducing the amount of use of corrugated board,shipping and packing costs have been restrained.“

According to the company, the total volume of thecontainer has been reduced by 20% and the amount of corrugated used for the partition has been reducedby 36% compared to the conventional box.

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LIVE FROM TOKYOPACK: Big thinkingabout flexibles11 Oct 2014

A flexible pouch called pacXpert and promoted byDow Chemical under licence from Smart Bottle IncUSA, will enable the transition from larger rigidcontainers to flexible packaging options. Also shown atinterpack in May, Dow was using TokyoPack as agateway for promoting the concept into the AsiaPacific market.

Hideki Ozawa, value chain manager for packaging andspecialty plastics at Dow Chemical told PKN thatnumerous enquiries at Tokyo Pack had come from theB2B sector, where companies involved in food serviceand manufacturing saw the value of using thepacXpert container as an easy to handle ingredientdispensing system. Of course, there are also B2Capplications where edible and non-edible products,typically packed in bulk, would benefit from thesystem. What makes this pouch so handy for precisepouring/dispensing is the handle on the base as wellas the top. And its flat bottom makes it easy to store.

See how it works here:(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN0Hltmd5eo)

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It also offers a reclosable cap and different fitment options for a variety of dispensing and reclosingsystems.

The pouch structure with broad ‘billboard’ space offers good branding real estate; graphic design optionsinclude four printable sides and see through windows.

Size range for pacXpert is from 1 to 20 litres.

On the sustainability scorecard, fewer raw materials are used to make this pouch than to make other rigidpackaging alternatives. The empty pouches can be shipped flat, increasing transport efficiency andreducing CO2 emissions

The pouch structure also makes it easy to empty all of the contents out of the container, reducing waste.

After opening, the flexible pouch can be compacted as its contents are dispensed. This has four keybenefits: reduces the spaces required for storage; can help prolong the shelf-life of air-sensitive products;improves the ease of dispensing; and allows easy visual identification of the amount of product left.

Hideki Ozawa told PKN that Dow has global exclusivity on pacXpert, and is sublicensing the technology toconverters who can promote it in their markets.

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LIVE FROM TOKYOPACK: Snap-opensolution takes hold inTokyo13 Oct 2014

The idea for Snapsil, an easy-open portion controlcontainer, was conceived a number of years ago, butit's only in recent months that the company has madeits breakthrough commercially. With a few products onthe market in Australia and New Zealand sinceOctober last year, and some about to launch in the USand UK, Snapsil and machinery partner Multivac weremaking their foray into the Japanese market at TokyoPack.

PKN spoke to Neil Cashman, CEO of Snapsil, aboutthe response at Tokyo Pack. Cashman said Snapsil'sintegrated, one-handed easy open solution hadattracted a lot of interest at the four-day event, withover 2000 samples handed out in the first two days.

“Snapsil technology has a lot of appeal for theJapanese market, which has an eye for solutions thatpresent products attractively while providing anengaging consumer experience,” he said.

Applications are varied across wet and dry products, but in Japan particular interest had been shown in theconcept for sauces and dressings, beverage additives and alcohol.

“It's also suitable for the vending market, which has huge penetration in Japan,” Cashman said.

Cashman said that Multivac provides the proven thermoforming processing technology, and the companypartners with material suppliers like Bemis, Klockner Pentaplast, Sealed Air and Visy depending on themarket, to support Snapsil commercialisation. Customers are free to use their material supplier of choice.

Snapsil can also provide a design service, tailoring the technology by shape, opening size and function toprovide an optimal portion control solution.

A few off-the-shelf options include a snap-bottle four pack, available in 25ml to 100ml sizes; snap bottle in50ml to 250ml; crush pack in 10ml to 50ml; snap stick in 6ml to 40ml; refill bottle in 10ml to 100ml. Alloptions offer O2 and H20 barrier properties.

Cashman told PKN he is extremely excited about the opportunities for the Snapsil business in all markets.

“After years of development work, the technology is finally taking hold. It's an idea that's time has come,” hesaid.

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Toyo Seikan won a Good Packaging Award for itspouch designed for House Foods Group.

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LIVE FROM TOKYOPACK: Making the mostof the microwave13 Oct 2014

Packaging innovation for microwaveable meals,especially in single portion packs, was in strongevidence. Some innovation very much still in theprototype phase so no photos were available orallowed to be taken.

On the Toppan Printing stand, for instance, PKN saw anew prototype concept in which a steam ventingpouch is enclosed in a perforated outer carton. Whencooked in the microwave, the venting steam pushesopen the perforations, which pop the carton so that aflap forms a a tray/handle with which you can removethe pack and contents from the microwave withoutburning yourself.

In another development by Toppan Printing, thisalready commercialised (for Bell Shokuhin Co.) and awinner of a 2014 Good Packaging Award, theprecursor of the latest design mentioned above is amicrowaveable carton with a perforated strip thatoffers simplicity and convenience to users: you canjust tear off the perforated strip and heat the pouchpack contained in the carton in the microwave. Even if the heated pouch boils over, the microwave will stayclean as everything is contained in the outer carton.

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company also won a Good Packaging Award for its microwaveable meal ready pouch for Mizkan.Seasoned liquid is pre-packaged into this pouch, users add ingredients (like meat and/or vegetables) to thepouch and mix it for about a minute before heating in the microwave oven for ten minutes. The rationalestates, in a most charming fashion: “This will provide a perfect dish and joy of cooking. The pouch helpshousewives as a cooking tool and contributes to reducing total time engaged in cooking.”

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Seikan won a Good Packaging Award for its pouch designed for House Foods Group Inc. It's a stand-up,cook-in microwaveable pouch with indentations in the shape to show clearly where the consumer shouldhold the pack, away from the steam vent valve. Markings for where to open the pack are also clearlyshown.

It has a wide sealing area and R-notch to prevent users from getting a burn or an injury, while the shorterheight and wide bottom of the pouch ensures safety and stability.

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Flexible packaging printing specialist RollsPack made the launch of its new nine-colour gravure printing line official on 26 June at its Braeside, Vic-toria facility.

The event was attended by customers, local dignitaries and RollsPack staff from Aus-tralia and New Zealand.

Paul Peulich, mayor of Kings-ton Council, John Roskam, the executive director of the Insti-tute of Public Affairs, and Ken Morgan OAM of Kids Under-cover (a charity supported by RollsPack), each gave an ad-dress which echoed two key sentiments. Firstly, this invest-ment by RollsPack is a signifi-cant step by a forward-thinking SME that will bring valuable employment to the district and help keep packaging converting work in Australia. And second-ly, the man behind it all, com-pany founder and MD Phillip Rolls, should be commended for his ongoing commitment to the packaging printing indus-try, to his staff and to his com-munity in the years since he founded the company in 1986.

“Be proud of what you’ve done, it’s a tribute to your pas-sion, your commitment and your craft,” said John Roskam, addressing Phillip Rolls.

As previously reported in PKN (May-June 2014) Rolls-Pack’s latest multimillion dol-lar investment represents a massive leap forward for the business in delivering high-end

flexible packaging solutions to the food packaging sector, and it creates an opportunity for brand owners to upgrade the quality of their print graphics at a time when competition for shelf space and consumer at-tention has never been higher.

“The gravure press brings unique capabilities and effi-ciencies to RollsPack and our customers,” said Phillip Rolls. “It offers high resolution, pho-tographic reproduction quality that is not achievable through the flexographic process.”

Rolls said he is proud of the company’s capacity to invest in Australian packaging when many companies are moving their business offshore.

RollsPack is the only SME in the market offering this tech-nology at a time when this lev-el of quality is in high demand, he said.

“It meets a recognised shift in the market that is increasing its demand for ready-to-con-sume products, single-serve packs, increased packaging per unit and multiple varieties

of products,” he said.“In world terms, Aus-

tralia is a small market, yet we’re the most com-petitive when it comes to pricing and expectations. Supermarkets are de-manding just in time, most industry sectors are demanding just in time, and that’s what we can

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ViSiToRS to Tokyo Pack 2014 stand to benefit from the Pack-aging Insight Japan Tour, a one-day orientation programme de-veloped for overseas visitors to provide an insight into Japan’s US$77 billion packaging in-dustry. Now in its second edi-tion, Packaging Insight Japan Tour is a collaboration between Tokyo Pack exhibition owner-operator Japan Packaging Insti-

tute (JPI), and EP Resources, Sin-gapore, to present a full-day programme, including a retail tour, on 6 October 2014 – the day before the show opens.

Running from 7-10 October, Tokyo Pack 2014 has attracted more than 600 Japanese and in-ternational packaging companies in 2,500 exhibition booths at To-kyo Big Sight.

“Packaging in Japan is a fine

balance between aesthetics, marketing and advanced tech-nology, much of which is not immediately obvious to the first time visitor,” said Yoichi Sonoyama, deputy secretary general of JPI. “Through this orientation programme, we hope to increase our foreign guests’ understanding of the Japanese packaging market, strengthening the bridge be-

tween our industry and the global industry.”

According to Stuart Hog-gard, CEO of EP Resources, “This unique programme will help foreign companies get un-der the hood of Japanese packag-ing, understand its drivers and build a network of manufactur-ers and buyers that has tradi-tionally been inaccessible due to language differences.” ■

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1. The ribbon – aptly a strip of tamper-evident tape – is cut and the new gravure line is officially opened by the mayor of Kingston, Paul Peulich (second from left), with John Roskam, Phillip Rolls and Ken Morgan.

2. James Luttick, RollsPack factory and operations manager, explains the workings of the new press.

3. Phillip Rolls (right) demonstrates the clarity and the vibrancy delivered by the new gravure press to John Roskam.

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Michael Grima, director of QDesign enterprises and pictured here in Aeon supermarket, was one of the Australian delegates on the 2012 Packaging Insight Japan Tour.

supply – accuracy, vibrancy, quality and speed to market.

“This is how we can compete with imports, being able to offer a short lead time combined with high quality.” He said that the new technology is well suited to SMEs with lower print runs, al-lowing them to compete using so-phisticated packaging that speaks clearly to their customers.

“As an SME ourselves, we know how important it is to be able to com-pete with larger players. This is a sig-nificant capital investment for us, however, it’s a strategic move that will allow us as a manufacturer to compete with not just the best tech-nology but also with the greatest quality and efficiency.”

The new press landed in Decem-ber last year in 12 40-foot contain-ers, was assembled at the Braeside plant and commissioned in three months. By early April the company had started running trials for a ma-jor food manufacturer. ■

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he art of beautiful, thoughtful packaging finds a rich source in Japan, where gift giving is central to socio-cultural prac-tices and where an overarching respect for the individual’s needs plays itself out in clever and creative design. Examples of this can be seen on the shelves of high end department stores like Mitsukoshi,

supermarket giants like Aeon, 24-hour con-venience outlets like Lawsons, or in any of the five million-plus vending machines that punctuate Japan’s thoroughfares. That’s not to say that every pack on shelf is a showstop-per. But care-filled design is prolific, and packaging developed with the consumer in mind is par for the course. Evidence of this abounded at Tokyo Pack 2014, much of it still in the early prototype stage.

eASe OF USeEase of use and accessibility (also termed Universal Design) have come to the fore strongly as design drivers, along with ma-

terial reduction, shelf life extension and food waste reduction, the latter three un-der the broad umbrella of sustainability.

Ticking quite a few of these boxes and making its Japanese debut was PopPack’s in-novation that makes flexible and semi-rigid packaging easy to open, using air in a bubble to ‘pop’ open a variety of package types. The package designs are based on a simple ‘bub-ble in the seal’ concept that uses air as a le-ver to pop open packages with ease, and gives easy to access the packages’ contents.

PopPack has also developed a technol-ogy called “double bubble”, which ap-plies to pouches and sachets, allowing product controlled dispensing and pack-age reclosing options.

Easy-open is also the selling point for Snapsil, a one-handed, snap-open portion control container. The idea for Snapsil was conceived a few years ago, but it’s only in recent months that the Australian compa-ny of the same name has made its break-

through commercially. With products on the market in Australia and New Zealand since October last year, and some about to launch in the US and UK, Snapsil and ma-chinery partner Multivac made their foray into the Japanese market at Tokyo Pack.

Neil Cashman, chief executive officer of Snapsil, said: “Snapsil technology has a lot of appeal for the Japanese market, which has an eye for solutions that present prod-ucts attractively while providing an engag-ing consumer experience.”

Applications are varied across wet and dry products, but in Japan particular inter-est had been shown in the concept for sauces and dressings, beverage additives and alcohol.

ABOVE: Tokyo Big Sight was abuzz with activity as 680 companies showcased cutting-edge solutions and technologies designed to meet today’s consumer needs.

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“It’s also suitable for the vending market, which has huge penetration in Japan,” Cashman said.

An easy open idea that’s been commer-cialised for some time by Nitto Pack Co, but will be brought to Australia for the first time soon by Metalprint, is called ‘Wide Open Cut’ (WOC), a flexible pouch that has an integrated tab and easy tear strip on the top of the pouch, which opens the pack cre-ating a neat 25mm wide strip in one easy movement. Metalprint director Terry Wa-terson says this solution is ideal for the Aus-tralian market where we have numerous small food manufacturers, like cookie com-panies, whose brands would benefit from this consumer-friendly packaging and who would now have access to the technology without having to invest in large stock runs.

The product is also suitable for micro-waveable pouches, where the WOC also acts as a venting exit as well as an access point after the cooking is complete.

LeSS IS MOReFor Japanese packaging converters, who pay a fee based on material type and weight, using less material is as much a good

business decision as it is about doing good for the environment.

There were numerous examples of this trend across material types. In corrugated, one of the Japan Star Award winners this year is ‘Wine Box for Six Bottles’ by Com-pack System Co, which claims a 20 per cent reduction in the total volume of the con-tainer, while the amount of corrugated used for the partition has been reduced by 36 per cent compared to the conventional box. Other neat features are the carton opening on the side, allowing the bottle label to face upward, and the use of the corrugated flute to secure the wine bottles with the help of the partition and the outer box.

Hot off the converting line and launched at Tokyo Pack was Soft Cheer, the next gen-eration of the popular pouch pack concept, Cheer Pack. Soft Cheer uses 15 per cent less material to produce than Cheer Pack. As its name implies, it’s a soft pouch, designed without the ridged edges that Cheer Pack has, and with a single seal down the side.

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FAR LEFT: Snapsil containers have wide appeal for the Japanese market. ABOVE LEFT: Metalprint will bring Wide Open Cut pouch formats to the Australian market, targeted at SMEs. LEFT: Winner of a 2014 Japan Star Award, this six-pack wine carton claims a 20% material reduction.

ABOVE: Toshio Arita, veteran packaging expert and president of Packaging Strategies Japan (left), shows Phillip Rolls of RollsPack some neat packaging ideas in Aeon supermarket during the tour. Looking on is RollsPack’s James Luttick (centre).

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Toru Ichikawa, MD International Busi-ness at packaging converter Hosokawa Yoko Co., Ltd. told PKN the need for a redesign arose because many of the applications are for products consumed by children (for ex-ample, juices, yoghurts, fruit snacks) and also by the sick or elderly (like nutritional products), so the new design is aimed at en-suring the pack has no sharp edges that could potentially cause discomfort.

Hosokawa Yoko is represented in Austra-lia by Metalprint, and director Terry Water-son told PKN that Soft Cheer will be avail-able in Australia soon. He noted that the pouch material, a PET / Aluminium Foil / Nylon / PE laminate delivers a long shelf life at ambient conditions, but also makes the pouch suitable for freezing, creating op-portunities in the frozen yoghurt and ice cream sectors.

MICROWAVe COnVenIenCePackaging innovation for microwaveable meals with self venting mechanisms, espe-cially in single portion packs, was in strong evidence. Some innovation was very much still in the prototype phase so no photos were available or allowed to be taken.

On the Toppan Printing stand, for in-stance, PKN saw a new prototype concept in which a steam venting pouch is enclosed in a perforated outer carton. When cooked

in the microwave, the venting steam pushes open the perfora-tions, which pop the carton so that a flap forms a tray/handle with which you can remove the pack and contents from the microwave without burning yourself.

In another development by Toppan Printing, this already commercialised and a winner of a 2014 Good Packaging Award, the precursor of the latest de-sign mentioned above is a micro-waveable carton with a perforated strip that offers simplicity and convenience to users: you can just tear off the perforated strip and heat the pouch pack contained in the carton in the microwave. Even if the heated pouch boils over, the microwave will stay clean as everything is contained in the outer carton.

Toyo Seikan won a Good Packaging award for its stand-up, cook-in microwave-able pouch with indentations in the shape to show clearly where the consumer should hold the pack, away from the steam vent valve. Markings for where to open the pack are also clearly shown. It has a wide sealing area and R-notch to prevent users from get-ting a burn or an injury, while the shorter height and wide bottom of the pouch ensures safety and stability.

PACKeD FOR OneA banana wrapped as a sin-gle unit, a carrot, a cob of corn ... for many this would seem like gross over-packag-ing. Not so in Japan, where single person households are in the majority, and ac-count for 16,785 million people, according to re-search company EP Re-sources, and where much

of the packaging caters for singles.On Innovia Films’ stand, Richard Fernan-

dez, Asia Pacific marketing manager, showed PKN a new fruit/fresh produce film packaging option (pictured) for single serve packs. The biobased film is NatureFlex 30NVS, and for this project Innovia teamed up with HP and Seikou to showcase the idea at Tokyo Pack. The prototype has not been commercialised yet but Fernandez says dis-cussions with major convenience store re-tailers have commenced.

NatureFlex NVS has been certified by the Japan Organics Recycling Association (JORA) and can use the Biomass Mark. The aim of JORA is to encourage people to utilise organic resources in a wide range of applications and to promote material recy-cling and reduction of environmental im-pacts in Japan. ■

This report is just a small taste of the exten-sive array of innovation that was on show. More coverage is available on our website, www.packagingnews.com.au and further insights will be available on request from flexible packaging specialist RollsPack (see facing page).

BELOW: The new version of the popular pouch format Cheer Pack, Soft Cheer (right), launched by hosokawa Yoko and soon available in Australia through Metalprint. AS DEMAnD FORbiobasedmaterialscontinuesto

grow,JapanesecompanyKurarayhasjustsignedacontractwithAustralia’sPlanticTechnologiestodistributethefullrangeofPlanticmaterialsexclusivelyinJapanandSouthKorea,newsitwaspromotingatTokyoPack.

Planticfilmisabarrierfilmprimarilycomposedofarenewablesourcestarch.IthashighoxygenpermeabilityandisidealforfreshfoodinMAPandvacuumpackagingapplications.Itreducesfoodwastebykeepingfoodsfresherlonger,whichbenefitsfoodproducersandtheenvironment.

KurarayisthegloballeaderinthesupplyofEVOHbarrierresinssoaddingthePlanticmaterialstoitsportfoliowouldbeasoundstrategicmove.

Warwick Armstrong, GM business and marketing for Plantic, on the Kuraray stand.

ABOVE: Toppan Printing’s award-winning pouch-in-carton pack. RiGhT: Toyo Seikan was recognised for its user-friendly stand-up pouch.

KURARAy BRIngS PLAnTIC MATeRIAL TO JAPAn

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EDITORIAL

http://www.packagingsouthasia.com/blog/ — PRINT ASIA

Japanese packaging companies are looking at IndiaJapan’s packaging industry peaked in terms of value in 2009— 6.28 trillion Yen (3.3 trillion Indian Rupees) and then de-clined by approximately 10% in the ensuing four years to 5.61trillion Yen (2.8 trillion Rupees) in 2013. However, in 2013 therewas a slight upturn in both value and packaging volumes from2012, inspite of the tsunami that hit the country and its econ-omy hard in November 2012.

The basic fact is that volumes in tonnage may never recoverto previous highs since glass, wood and metal packaginghave been in consistent decline in Japan. To a large extent,these have been replaced by paper-based packaging (approx-imately 42%) and plastics (approximately 30%) of the currentpackaging volumes in Japan. (These figures are based on thepresentation of the Japan Packaging Institute at the TokyoPack Insight conference.) The factors that have contributed tothe decline in volumes are the enactment of containers andpackaging law in 2002; its implementation in 2006-07; theglobal economic crisis of 2009; and finally the great tsunamithat struck Japan on 3 November 2012.

Japan has lost its nuclear power generation and roughlyhalf of its petrochemical processing capacity since the tsuna-mi and its GDP growth is in the lowest single digits at best andnegative at worst. Essentially it is leading cutting-edge inno-vation in materials and packaging design technology that haskept this industry remarkably buoyant so that its values arenow stable at significantly lower volumes. The Tokyo Pack bi-ennial exhibition should prove very useful to Indian brandowners and packaging converters because of the huge inter-

est that Japan has in Indian packaging. The Japanese pack-aging industry is committed to earning 50% of its revenuesfrom outside Japan and it is clear that it is looking at marketssuch as India.

zPack Expo International in the December issue ofPackaging South AsiaWe were able to cover the Pack Expo exhibition in Chicago in

early November with the help of Amy Munice of Alms Com-munications. Munice writes, “If you think that Pack Expo In-ternational’s 21st century focus and uber-automated solu-tions have a long time yet to go before they will have impact onSouth Asia packaging you should probably re-think this inlight of the South Asia students and South Asian engineersand salesmen who came to the show to learn or find new op-portunities.”

Munice’s extensive coverage of exhibitors that are relevantand keen on South Asia will appear in our last monthly issue ofthe year to be released on 20 December 2014. She concludesher overview article of the exhibition by saying, “It took a centu-ry to make Sandburg’s description of Chicago seem quaint butit’s likely we will all need to adjust our sense of time to the paceof change afforded by today’s technologies. It’s not too hard toimagine that in relatively short order the innovations on displayat future Pack Expo International shows will have equal impactin Mumbai or Karachi as Chicago. Won’t we be saying —‘Whata difference a decade can make!’?” z

–Naresh Khanna editor@ippgroup.in

z Tokyo Pack and Pack Expo International

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z Learnings from Tokyo Pack

Tokyo Pack showed that not onlythe large converters have extensiveresearch and development for new

packaging innovations but this is also thelifeblood of relatively smaller but expertpackaging converters. It is the convert-ers who mainly bring innovations in theuse of new materials, materials savings,sustainability and accessibility to TokyoPack. As Stuart Hoggard of PackwebA-sia.com said in his presentation, “TokyoPack is the producer-converters’ show-case for prototypes and early iterationsready to be commercialized.”

Hoggard also spoke about Japan’scircular economy at the Insight confer-ence on the first day of the show. Hesaid that the fundamental Japaneselaw for establishing a sound material-cycle was passed in 2000. This legisla-tion cannot be contradicted by any oth-er legislation and defines the responsi-bilities of societal segments includinglocal and national government, busi-ness, industry and citizens. It redefinesthe terminology — waste is somethingthat cannot be sold to someone else;and recycling is defined as somethingthat has been transformed into some-thing else. One result of this is thathouseholders must deconstruct pack-aging for disposal while at the front endof the pipe all packaging producers andbrand owners pay an ex-works feebased on packaging material type andweight. For instance, the producers of2.5 million plastic detergent bottles

At the Tokyo Pack Insight conference several interesting presentations broughtlearnings for global brand owners, packaging designers and converters. In Japan itis the packaging converters who are the innovators and who develop new designsfor their customers. Naresh Khanna reports.

From Stuart Hoggard’s presentation on packaging in Japan’s circular economy.Courtesy PackwebAsia.com. Top: Stuart Hoggard of PackwebAsia.com making hispresentation at the Tokyo Pack Insight conference. Photo PSA

The circular economy compels design and material innovation

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weighing 33 grams each in one year,would pay a recycling fee of Yen 85.8 akilogram that would come to approxi-mately US$ 28,000 each year or US$0.01104 (or little over one US cent) foreach bottle. This naturally leads to bothlight-weighting and a preference formaterials that attract lower recyclingfees. An example is the elimination ofcushioning using styrofoam insulatedpackaging of industrial and profession-al equipment by substitution of the en-tire packaging with complex profiles ofcorrugated and plastic materials.While packaging is only one aspect of

the Japanese economy and not the tar-get of its fundamental circular econo-my legislation, by virtue of the recyclingtax it is totally accounted for — there isno lack of data on either the inputs, theoutputs or the recycling and ultimatewaste. Every packaging material is ac-counted for as is every input to theJapanese economy as a whole — thetotal annual raw material inputs to theeconomy both domestic and importedfor a particular year, according to Min-istry of Environment data were of the or-der of 1.591 billion tonnes. The totallandfill waste at the end of the year was29 million tonnes. As far as packaging,the annual recycled paper utilizationwas 63.8%; paper packaging recovery— 44.2%; corrugated cardboard recov-ery — 98.4%; PET bottles recycling rate— 85%; mixed plastics recycling rate —80%; steel can recycling rate — 80%;and aluminium can recycling — 94.7%.

z Innovations at Tokyo PackThe innovations were there to see at

the show and some were fairly small in-novations such as the Bosch one hand-ed blister pack pill extractor and othersfrom a local converter using the springlike properties of folding carton boardto producer accessible cartons fromwhich the product popped out insteadof having to be extracted. As Toshio Ari-ta of Packaging Strategies Japan, aleading commentator and consultantto the packaging industry showed inhis presentation at the Insight confer-ence, the major trends in Japanesepackaging are aimed at reducing foodloss by extending shelf-life, and by theuse of easy-to-reseal, re-close and easy-to-empty packaging. Easy-to-open tech-nologies include the open by one hand,squeeze out and no spill technology be-

Above: The Oji stand at Tokyo Pack showing student designed packaginginnovations. Below: Award winning Panasonic video camera packaging that doesaway with styrofoam cushioning on right. Photos PSA

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ing displayed for the first time at theTokyo Pack show by PopPack.Another innovation talked about by

Arita and that we also saw at the Toyostand was the non-stick water-repellentnano-technology coating which meansthat a yogurt cup lid remains clean andthere is no wastage of the yogurt. Re-sealable packaging is accomplished bylaser scoring the resealable flaps oncheese slice packets and by the restick-able properties of multilayer films suchas Mitsubishi’s Diamiron MR-RE.Arita also talked about chilled ready-

to-eat meals that are coming based on afood cooking or manufacturing processthat cooks the meal to a ‘just done’ sta-tus and chills it without freezing it withextended shelf-life. It can be consumedwithin 45 days of storage at 5 degreescentigrade and simple reheating. Aritaspoke of many innovations includingbetter coatings that allow PET to beused for Sake retail packs and mi-crowavable packs with self-ventingmechanisms that allow lower tempera-ture distribution and extended shelf-lifeas well as outstanding decorative ap-pearance.He explained that the new Delta flut-

ed corrugated board developed by Ren-go offers greater transportation andstorage efficiency and crush strengththan B-flute. Because it is stronger thanE-flute and can be printed with greatersharpness than B-flute, it can be usedfor outer packaging with some of thefunctions of inner boxes as well. It isclear that the biennial Tokyo Pack is theplace to go to for those looking for pack-aging innovation in terms of new mate-rials, technologies and design. z

Clockwise: Toyo Group’s new adhesive that allows the product to be directly pastedon a display hanger; Neil Cashman, CEO of Snapsil shows his company’s patentedtechnology for producing packaging for various products including jams, jellies andsauces that can be opened with one hand; Toyo Group’s new non-stick coating foraluminium lids for food packaging. Photos PSA

Toshio Arita of Packaging StrategiesJapan shows easy-to-reseal, re-closeand easy-to-empty packaging. Easy-to-open technologies include the open byone hand, squeeze out and no spilltechnology displayed for the first timeat the Tokyo Pack show by PopPackRight: A simple tablet extractor underdevelopment for making blisterpackaging more accessible – at theBosch Packaging Technology stand atTokyo Pack. Photos PSA

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Naresh Khanna

Tokyo Pack was a revelation of Japan’s circular econ-omy that aims to eliminate all waste with packagingmerely one segment of the economy. On show were a

variety of designs that are easier to recycle, use less energyand are increasingly secure but also easy-to-use, handle andaccessible to all. The material suppliers and packaging con-verters displayed ingenious ingredients and sustainabletechnologies for containment, protection, display and use.

Shigeki Iwai, parliamentary vice minister of economy, tradeand industry; Motoki Ozaki, president of the Japan PackagingInstitute; Shigetaro Asano, vice president of the Japan Pack-aging Institute; Kiyoshi Otsubo, vice president of the JapanPackaging Institute; Yoshitaka Ozawa, chairman, Tokyo Packworking committee; and Steven Pacitti, vice president, Inter-national Packaging Press Organization, took part in the open-ing ceremony of Tokyo Pack on the morning of 7 October.

zExploration of next generation packagingDescribing Tokyo Pack 2014 as, “A global venue for the ex-

change of packaging information, the exploration of next gen-eration packaging, and the promotion of international friend-ship,” Motoki Ozaki, president of the Japan Packaging Insti-tute — the industry packaging association that also owns andoperates the show said, “Recently the Japanese economy hasbegun to see some hopeful signs, but the packaging industrystill has to negotiate some difficult phases with the hike inconsumption tax and the rising raw material costs.

“A major challenge for Japan’s packaging industry today ishow it contributes to the formation of a sustainable society byrealizing a packaging industry harmonized with society,” henoted. Ozaki expressed confidence that the exhibition willhelp both exhibitors and visitors alike to explore the latest ad-vanced Japanese packaging solutions and technologies de-veloped for today’s business and consumer needs to help cre-ate a sustainable society.

Key industry categories at the show included packagingmaterials, substrates and containers and design in three hallson one side of the concourse at Tokyo Big Sight. The three

z Tokyo Pack 2014 – global exploration of next generation packaging

Design, innovation and sustainabilityAsia’s premier packaging exhibition, Tokyo Pack 2014, took place from 7 to 10 October with 680 companies in the51,380 square metres exhibition space showcasing cutting-edge Japanese packaging solutions and technologiesdesigned and developed to meet today’s consumer needs and demands. With a particularly high turnout on the last twodays, this year’s event with 178,000 visitors exceeded by about 8,000 the numbers at the biennial event two years ago.

Yoshitaka Ozawa,member of the board

and executive vicepresident, Rengo

welcominginternational

exhibitors andvisitors to Tokyo

Pack on the eveningof 7 October 2014.

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Showing the resultsof DIC’s color

standardizationacross substrates

and printtechnologies usingthe DIC Colorcloud.

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halls on the other side held packaging machinery for theprinting and converting sectors, inspection and measure-ment, food and pharmaceutical processing and transport, lo-gistics sectors, distribution systems and other packaging-re-lated equipment. The conference tower was used for specialengagement including an insight conference with excellentpresentations on Japan’s circular economy and packaging in-dustry by Stuart Hoggard and on Innovations in JapanesePackaging by Toshio Arita speaking on Japanese packagingtrends and innovations that could be seen at the show.

z Technology solutions of the future

Tokyo Pack was a fascinating opportunity to see innova-tion in packaging design and machinery as well as inno-

vation in standardization and color management. All thethree Japanese ink companies that have multiple plants inIndia showed several types of solutions that were meant toreduce the total quantity of inks used as well as color man-agement solutions. DIC showed its standardization solution that can match

brand colors and complex graphics across substrates andprint processes using its DIC Colorcloud. Precise data of spotand brand colors can be shared anywhere in the world whilereducing cost with quick makereadies and startup that obvi-ate the need to give approval on press in person. SimilarlyDIC’s Fineart toluene and MEK free gravure ink has lowerresidual solvents which are environmentally friendly. The lowviscosity high intensity inks can reduce the ink consumptionvolume by as much as 34% using shallower engraving.Sakata Inx showed its CorrectEye color management solu-

tion as well as an interesting development with Oki which hasmanufactured the very small Oki Microline Vinci C941 dn dig-ital label press that can output labels on film and paper stock. Toyo Ink sponsored a special seminar on a global approach

to color management together with X-Rite and Pantone topromote the use of Pantone live, the cloud-based color man-agement and color communication system to the Japanesemarket at Tokyo Pack. Toyo Ink, one of the more than 70 com-panies of the Toyo Ink Group, showed several interesting so-lutions for the packaging industry at the show. These includ-ed a new gravure shallow engraving and ink solution for de-creasing ink volumes, and interesting adhesive and coatingsolutions. A new Toyo Ink adhesive permits the spot gluing ofproducts directly on the pack, eliminating the need for a blis-ter or wrap on top. Another interesting coating prevents orminimizes the appearance of fingerprints on metallic pack-aging substrates.There were numerous other innovations at the show includ-

ing Rengo’s Delta fluted corrugated boards and boxes, andnumerous innovations in packaging design for both tamperproofing and accessibility. z

Top: At Tokyo Pack Sakata showed its CorrectEye color managementsolution. Middle: Sakata also showed an interesting development withOki — the Oki Microline Vinci C941 dn digital label press for film andpaper stock. Bottom: Like several other companies Toyo Groupshowed new gravure engraving techniques that take advantage oflower viscosity and higher pigment intensity inks. Photos PSA

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Young Indians, a group of youthful business persons that are part of the Confederationof Indian Industry, embarked on its Global Excellence Mission 2014 to Japan from 6 to 9October 2014. Photo PSA

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Young Indians, a group of youthful businesspersons that are part of the Confederationof Indian Industry (CII), embarked on its

Global Excellence Mission 2014 to Japan from6 to 9 October 2014. The 30-member delegationfrom across India visited the Tokyo Pack Fair2014 as well as the Yashio mill belonging toRengo, one of the leading Japanese substrateand packaging manufacturers. A variety of industrial backgrounds ranging

from pharmaceuticals, steel and spinning to au-tomobile and packaging were represented bythe Young Indians CII group. The all-India dele-gation was headed by Ankit Agarwal of CentralIndia Packaging based in Hyderabad in SouthIndia.The Yashio mill belonging to the General Pack-

aging Industry — Rengo produces approximate-ly 3,000 tonnes a day on five machines, of whichthe PM 7 is the latest, producing corrugatedboard at a maximum speed of 900 metres aminute or approximately 50 tonnes an hour. Thecompany’s philosophy of ‘less is more’ wasdemonstrated in multiple ways during the visit,which caught the attention of the entire delega-tion. The Young Indians were given some goldenpearls of wisdom by the Japanese firm’s topmanagement — “Take responsibility and owner-ship of all actions; and, invest in the latest tech-nology.”At Tokyo Pack the Young Indians saw many in-

teresting innovations including the Lukio ad-vanced digital printing system and cutting andsamplemaking systems of several manufactur-ers including Zund. Other highlights popular atthe show were the visits to the Rengo and Ojistands.Apart from Tokyo Pack, the Young Indians Mis-

sion visited leading Japanese firms and institu-tions including Aisen, Nagoya University, AsahiBrewery, Nissan, The Tokyo Stock Exchange,KWE Logistics, and Makino. The group also metthe Indian Ambassador in Japan at the IndianEmbassy, where they were told about the verypositive interest and concrete indications of in-vestment coming to India from all over Japan, inthe near future. The packaging industry was cit-ed in particular. Young Indians is an integral part of the CII. It

currently has 33 chapters in India with more than1,600 members and 10,500+ students. z–Naresh Khanna with inputs from Ankit Agarwal

zGlobal Excellence Mission 2014

Young Indians take part in Tokyo Pack

Above: Rengo’sdelta flute at itsTokyo Pack standBelow: Rengotransport andinner packagingusing its deltaflute. Photo PSA

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Jordskjelvet og den påfølgende tsunamien i Tohuku i 2011 førte til den verste økonomis-ke nedturen i Japans historie. Nå er emballe-ringskjeden i ferd med å reise seg igjen.Av Per Øyvind Nordberg

Flere fabrikker gikk tapt etter jordskjelvet. Det førte til at papirproduksjonen ble redusert med 10-20 prosent,

mens trykkapasiteten gikk ned med 10-25 prosent. Alle fabrikker som produserte PP, PE, kaustisk soda og klorin ble ødelagt.

Krise på krise- Tidspunktet var verst tenkelig, siden jordskjelvet kom rett etter den økonomiske krisen i 2009, forteller Akira Shirikura, teknisk rådgiver i det japanske emballasjeinstituttet JPI (Japan Packaging Institute).

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Japansk emballerings-industri på vei tilbake

Tokyo er verdens største by med 37 millioner innbyggere. Et besøk i bydelen Shibuya, kjent fra filmen «Lost in translation», er et must.

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Ting ble såpass ille at japanerne fikk føle hvordan det er å oppleve matmangel. Det har fått dem til å tenke nytt. Samtidig begynner bransjen endelig å komme på beina igjen.

- Det skyldes først og fremst at materialprisene øker, slik at verdien av emballasjeproduksjonen nesten er tilbake på gammelt nivå, fortel-ler Shirikura.

Men emballasjemengden på markedet er på vei ned. Og det kommer først og fremst som et resultat av avfallsloven som ble vedtatt i 2000 og satt i verk i 2005.

Sirkulær økonomi- Loven stiller trolig de strengeste miljøkrav i verden. Miljøet er likevel et sekundært motiv, da loven først

og fremst ble innført for å redusere importen av råstoff og å spare penger, forteller Stuart Hoggard, CEO, EP Resources Pte Ltd.

Den japanske avfallsloven er ba-sert på sirkulær økonomi, der man øker gjenvinning og gjenbruk av materialer. For et land som Japan, som importerer nesten alt råstoff, får dette store økonomiske utslag.

Den japanske avfallsloven er ba-sert på redefinert terminologi: Som avfall menes nå kun materialer som ikke kan selges til andre. Alt som kan gjøres om til noe annet skal gjenvinnes.

- Loven har stor innvirkning på økonomien og på emballasjede-sign. Alle produkter som vises her på messen reflekterer dette, sier Hoggard.

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5Akiri Shirukura forteller at Japan opplevde sitt verste økonomiske tilbakeslag noensinne etter jordskjelvet i 2011. Krisen førte til matmangel og vinkling på behovet for å forlenge holdbarheten på mat.

5– Den japanske avfallsloven har stor innvirkning på økonomien i landet og på emballasjedesign. For å betale mindre avgift velger man gjerne større porsjoner, tynnere film og R-PET, forteller han.

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Høye gjenvinningstallI Japan er det nå 12 avfallsstrøm-mer som husholdningene må sor-tere selv. Dette gjelder ikke bare emballasje, men alle økonomiske sektorer. Avfallet deles i gjenvinn-bare, brennbare og ikke-brennbare kategorier.

- Det stilles dermed strenge krav

til husholdningene, men de får hjelp gjennom tydeligere merking på emballasjen, som viser hvilken avfallsstrøm emballasjen skal i og hvordan man kan komprimere størrelsen på emballasjen. Det er produsentenes ansvar at embal-lasjen er enkel å sortere.

Japan er best i verden når

5En gruppe eldre damer viste frem den japanske tradisjonen med å pakke inn flasker i tøystykker.

5All emballasje er gjennomsiktig, og ferdigmaten ser veldig fristende ut.

3- Produktene i Japan er designet for kvinner, for det er de som gjør alle innkjøpene. Japanske herreprodukter er gjerne lyse og fargerike, siden det er kvinnene som kjøper disse til mannen, sier Trina Tan Ker Wei.

3Toshio Arita viser frem Pop Pack, som ble messens «snakkis». Ved å klemme en luftboble, åpnes emballasjen (les mer under produktny-heter).

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det kommer til gjenvinning og gjenbruk av emballasje. Hoggard forteller at gjenvinningstallene er oppunder 100 prosent for bølge-papp (98,4 %), aluminiumbokser (94,7 %) og stålbokser (90,8 %). PET-flasker har imidlertid ikke innfridd gjenvinningsmålene, noe som skyldes utstrakt bruk av farget PET.

Påvirker emballasjedesign- Farget PET skapte problemer i gjenvinningen og ble derfor forbudt, noe som gjorde at produktene mistet sin visuelle identitet. Løsningen ble å bruke fargede krympeetiketter, forteller Hoggard.

Både produsenter og brukere av emballasje må betale et vederlag basert på vekt og materialtype til et gjenvinningsselskap som eies av industrien og som finansierer gjenvinningen.

Med andre ord, dette er ganske så likt den norske ordningen.

- For å redusere avgiften går man nå over til lettere emballa-sjevekt og større porsjoner. Her i Japan kan man for eksempel finne femliters whiskyflasker i PET. Vi ser også at man tar bruk tynnere film og R-PET. Det er slutt på å bruke styrofoam, sier Hoggard.

MatkastingTrenden med større porsjoner er ikke helt forenlig med ønsket om å redusere matkasting. Men fokus på produkter med lang holdbar-het oppveier noe av dette.

- I Japan blir det kastet mat tilsvarende landets totale risavling årlig, hele 17 millioner tonn. Av dette er 5-8 tonn mat som fortsatt er spiselig, forteller emballasje-eksperten Toshio Arita, som er redaktør i Packaging Strategies Japan.

Han viste blant annet frem emballasje der holdbarheten var påført med klokkeslett: «Må spises før 9.oktober 2014 kl. 0600», en majonesboks som kan åpnes og lukkes med en hånd og en PET-flaske som kan krølles sammen for å ta mindre plass etter bruk.

Les mer om disse produktene under «produktnyheter».

Estetiske tradisjonerTrina Tan Ker Wei, Director, EP Resources Pte Ltd, fortalte om husholdningene i Japan, der kvin-nene holder styr på hjemmet. Hun får mannens lønn og gir ham lom-mepenger. Det er hun som står for innkjøpene.

- Japanske forbrukervarer er derfor laget for å fange interessen

4Alt pakkes inn i Japan, også klementiner og bananer (enkeltvis). Smaken er upåklagelig.

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hos kvinner. Og de krever kvalitet, perfeksjon og produkter som fremstår som estetiske.

Japansk design er preget av Edo-perioden (1603-1868), Shinto og Zen. Den er preget av respekt og enkelhet, og samtidig en kultur for å gi gaver.

- Det brukes mye kalligrafi. Sake-flaskene er ofte laget for å formidle disse tradisjonene.

Lyse herreprodukterOgså «manne-emballasjen» er annerledes enn i vesten, der den ofte er mørk eller svart.

- Japanske herreprodukter er gjerne lyse og fargerike. Og årsaken er fortsatt den samme:

Det er kvinnene som handler disse produktene til sine menn, som helst ikke går i butikken.

Det er trangt om plassen i japanske butikkhyller. Derfor lages det ofte produkter med min-dre fotavtrykk og større høyde. Manglende hylleplass kan også favorisere mindre porsjoner.

Behovet for å utnytte plassen har også resultert i firkantede flas-ker som passer bedre i kjøleskapet og som utnytter hylleplassen fullt ut.

Særpreg- Det finnes 5,5 millioner handle-automater i Japan, og disse setter sitt preg på emballasjen. Det

nye nå er at man kan betale med mobil og pante flasker i samme automat som man kjøper produk-tet i, forteller Ker Wei.

Et annet særpreg for den japan-ske emballeringsskjeden er at det er konvertereren som står for em-ballasjeutvikling og – design, ikke merkevareeieren. På messer som Tokyo Pack er det derfor hovedsa-kelig produsenter og konverterere som viser sine løsninger.

- Alle produsenter og konver-terere av en viss størrelse har en egen forsknings- og utviklingsav-deling. På messen vil man stor sett se prototyper og tidligversjoner som er klare for kommersialise-ring, forklarer Stuart Hoggard. n

6Emballasjen er lys, fargerik og innbydende, designet for å tekkes kvinner.

«Japanske herreprodukter er gjerne lyse og fargerike. Og årsaken er fortsatt den samme: Det er kvinnene som handler disse produktene til sine menn.»

4Varene er mange og tilbudet stort, men køene blir også lange.

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ProduktnyheterTrendene i Japan er som trendene ellers i verden. Emballasjen skal være lett å åpne og lukke og den skal være enkel å sortere etter bruk. Den skal også bidra til bærekraftig utvikling og mindre matkasting.

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Pop PackEn av «snakkisEnE» på Tokyo pack var Pop Pack, en pose som kan åpnes ved å trykke på en luftboble på toppen. Produktet er patentert i 25 land og skal etter hvert også komme i en gjenlukkbar variant.

Oppfinner og President i PopPack, William Perell forklarer: -PopPack er basert på en «bubble in the seal-technology». Dette er et enkelt konsept der man benytter luft for å «poppe» opp emballasjen.

Pop Pack ble messens «snakkis» blant journalistene.

Det flasker segDET blE visT mangE nyhETEr når det gjelder PET-flasker. I LOHS har laget en PET-flaske for Coca-Cola som kan vris til en tynn «streng» etter bruk. Soken Bicha har utviklet en Plant Bottle for samme produsent med 30 prosent bioplast.

Det ble vist PET-flasker med høybarriere DLC-belegg (Diamond-like-car-bon) til sake og vin.

Papir av kokosnøtt-avfallDET gEnErErEs 40 millionEr Tonn avfall fra kokosnøtter årlig i Sørøst-Asia. Dette avfallet har Crown Packaging brukt til å lage papirmasse som kan blandes inn i tradisjonell papirmasse fra trevirke. Papiret blir brukt til å produsere emballasje.

Japan Packaging Contest 2013oxyguarD smarT cup TEchnology har vunnet pris for sin plastboks som både har barriere og oksygenabsorbent. Dal Nippon Printing har benyttet strekkoder og mobiltekno-logi for å hjelpe synshemmede. Kao Corporation har sammen med Avery Dennison utviklet en ny etikett med universell design.

Lett å åpne og lukkeDispEnpak Japan viste en ny majonesemballasje som kan åpnes og tøm-mes med en hånd. Den har også en oksygenabsorbent som har økt holdbar-heten fra fire til syv måneder.

Mistubishi Plastics viste en flerlags co-ekstrudert film med gjenlukkbare egenskaper. Den kan brukes på kjøttpålegg og osteprodukter.

Emballasjen kan åpnes og tømmes med en hånd.

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Delta FluteEn hElT ny type bølgepapp ble vist på messen. Delta Flute har en tykkelse mellom B Flute (3 mm) - som ofte brukes som D-pak for drikkebokser - og E Flute (1,5 mm), som gjerne brukes i gaveesker.

Delta Flute skal være bedre enn B Flute når det gjelder transport- og lagringseffektivitet, kompre-sjonsstyrke og trykkvalitet. Redu-sert vekt gir lavere CO2-utslipp. Og siden Delta Flute er sterkere enn E Flute kan den brukes som i bølge-papp for transportesker.

Delta Flute har tykkelse mellom B Flute og E Flute.

Ståpose for sakeToppan har lagET en ståpose med helletut, som har en luftfylt spalte som holder den stående. Konseptet minner svenske Ecole-ans poser.

Med en stor krise i friskt minne lager japanerne nå også nødprovi-ant med lang holdbarhet på fem år ved hjelp oksygenabsorbenter.

Forbedret mikrobølgeteknologiDET blE visT nye poser for oppvarming av ferdigmat i mikro med selvventilerende emballasje. Det hender visstnok at folk glemmer å stikke hull på emballasjen før de setter den i ovnen, noe som kan gi ubehagelige opplevelser.

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TOKYO - To provide a unique insight into Japan’s US$77 billion packaging industry, the TOKYO PACK 2014 management is offering a one-day orientation program designed to help foreign visitors gain the maximum benefit from their visit to TOKYO PACK.Now in its second edition, Packaging Insight Japan Tour is a collaboration between TOKYO PACK exhi-bition owner-operator, the Japanese packaging in-dustry association Japan Packaging Institute (JPI), and EP Resources Pte Ltd, Singapore, to present a full-day programme on Monday, 6 October 2014 - the day before the show opens.Running from 7-10 October, TOKYO PACK 2014 has attracted more than 600 Japanese and international packaging companies in 2,500 booths across the 51,380 square metre exhibition space at Tokyo Big Sight.“Packaging in Japan is a fine balance between aes-thetics, marketing and advanced technology, much of which is not immediately obvious to the first time visitor,” said Mr. Yoichi Sonoyama, Deputy Secretary General of JPI and Secretary General of the TOKYO PACK Secretariat. “Through this orientation pro-gramme, we hope to increase our foreign guests’ understanding of the Japanese packaging market, strengthening the bridge between our industry and the global industry.”According to Stuart Hoggard, CEO of Singapore-based EP Resources, “There is a frequent perception of Japanese packaging as being technologically elaborate to the point of being over-engineered. Certainly packaging in Japan is elaborate, but the common Japanese consumer view is that ‘if the packaging is not 100% perfect, how can I trust that the product inside is also not perfect’. “With this mind-set, Japanese converters and brand owners go beyond the basic functionality and seek to use packaging to delight, or surprise consumers,” explained Hoggard. “This unique programme will help foreign companies get under the hood of Japa-nese packaging, understand its drivers and build a network of manufacturers and buyers that has tradi-tionally been inaccessible due to language differ-ences.”The Packaging Insight Japan Tour programme has been designed in two-parts: a morning orientation seminar and afternoon retail tour to see the commer-cialisation of these ideas. Morning OrientationThe morning’s orientation seminar will provide a unique background to the packaging formats, mate-rials and technologies that will be on show at the

TOKYO PACK 2014 exhibition.In addition to presenting the Japanese packaging market data, production and trade statistics, the session will introduce consumer trends and buying patterns in Japan today, as well as discuss the retail formats. Participants will learn the key concerns and requirements of the Japanese consumer, and the factors that influence the purchase decision.Participants will also understand the laws that in-dustry players have to comply with in order to do business in Japan and the impact of Packaging Envi-ronmental legislation on Japanese packaging design and formats.Experts from Japan Packaging Institute (JPI) will provide a pre-show orientation to the new advanced packaging materials, formats and technologies that will be on display at the TOKYO PACK 2014 exhibi-tion. Guided Retail Tour of TokyoAfter a typical Japanese bento lunch, participants will be taken on a guided tour of key retail formats in Tokyo to discover how Japan’s packaging indus-try commercialises its packaging technology for the consumer.With its emphasis on ‘share of eye’, shopping in Japan is very a different retail experience than in the West: With elegant product displays and close atten-tion to detail, packaging - structural and graphic - design play a pertinent role in selling the packaged product.Visits to a hypermarket and high-end supermarket/department store will demonstrate the contrast be-tween different levels of Japanese retail and con-sumer sectors, and the vast range packaging formats

and technology commercially available to meet varied consumer needs.JPI guides will be on-hand to help participants, an-swer questions and point out technologies unique to the Japanese market.

Packaging Insight Japan Tour offers unique orientation programme for overseas visitors to Tokyo Pack 2014

Open for registrationThis unique Packaging Insight Japan Tour 2014 is now open for registration. Register before 1 Sep-tember to enjoy the early bird discount fee of US$325/ EUR 240. Group discounts are also available.Value-add benefits:

✓ Free Complimentary 4-day entry to TOKYO PACK 2016 (7-10 October 2014)

✓ TOKYO PACK 2014 exhibition guide✓ Invitation to the official TOKYO PACK 2014

official opening ceremony (7 October 2014)✓ Invitation to the exclusive Networking Recep-

tion (7 October 2014): A sumptuous Japanese buffet banquet and the opportunity to network with senior executives of Japanese corporations.

✓ Free Access to all concurrent conferences, semi-nars and no fewer than three distinct packag-ing pavilions.

✓ Free Admission to the concurrent exhibition Health Ingredients Japan 2014/Safety & Tech-nology Japan 2014 worth ¥3,000

Seats are limited, so email now to tokyopack@epresources.net. For more information about TOKYO PACK 2014, visit http://www.tokyo-pack.jp/en.

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JAPAN - The Tokyo Pack Secretariat has ap-pointed EP Resources Pte Ltd (Singapore) as its Strategic Markets Consultant to provide mar-ket information, research analysis and com-munications support for Tokyo Pack 2014 (TP2014) to international exhibitors and over-seas visitors.Owned and operated by the Japan Packaging Insti-tute (JPI), Tokyo Pack is Asia’s premier packaging exhibition, featuring more than 2,600 booths repre-senting 600 companies in the 23,000m2 exhibition space, and attracting more than 70,000 visitors from inside Japan and overseas.“The appointment of EP Resources will strengthen the Tokyo Pack exhibition in the international market as exhibitors and Japan Packaging Institute members are increasingly looking to expand sales and opera-tions overseas,” said Mr. Yoichi Sonoyama, Secretary General of the TOKYO PACK 2014 Secretariat.Based in Singapore, EP Resources is the primary source of specialised packaging industry information in the Asia Pacific region through its market analysis and consultancy services and through its publishing division which publishes Asian Packaging Business Insight monthly newsletter and the daily packaging news website www.PackWebasia.com.Tasked with raising the profile of the Tokyo Pack exhibition and helping JPI members and Tokyo Pack exhibitors grow their international presence, EP Resources will provide analysis and assistance to introduce Japan’s packaging industry and TP2014 in the strategic overseas markets of South East Asia, Europe and North America. In addition, EP will consult on developing the TP2014 English language website, printed materials, advertising and commu-nication.Mr. Hajime Furuya, Director & Secretary General of JPI, said, “Japan Packaging Institute has had a close relationship with Mr. Hoggard since 1996, when he first addressed the Japanese International Packaging Symposium held at Tokyo Pack, and we are now pleased that we are able to closely collaborate with EP Resources to further develop our members’ over-

seas interests.”“The Japanese packaging industry is frequently mischaracterised in the West as being cute, elaborate and over-packed,” commented Stuart Hoggard, CEO of EP Resources Pte Ltd. “This is far from the truth! Our job is to de-mystify that image and help JPI, its members and TP2014 exhibitors expand their markets overseas. “Certainly packaging in Japan is elaborate, but the common view in Japan is that ‘if a company’s pack-aging is not 100% perfect, the product inside might not also be perfect’. This mindset and demand for quality is what has made Japanese packaging so technologically advanced as well as sustainable,” explained Hoggard.

“The Japanese packaging industry is well-poised for growth not only in Japan, but in international mar-kets. EP Resources is honoured to have been chosen by Japan Packaging Institute to be its Strategic Mar-kets partner and look forward to helping Japan ce-ment its position as one of the world’s leading pack-aging markets.”

A major part of the co-operation will be a one-day orientation programme to Japanese Packaging for foreign visitors on Monday, 6 October 2014 (the day before the TP2014 Opening).

Jointly developed by EP Resources and JPI, the To-kyo Pack Insight Japan Tour will provide a unique introduction to the Japanese packaging industry, introducing the key drivers of Japanese consumer packaging, environmental, legislative and the cul-tural influences on packaging technology, R&D (re-search and development) and design.

Launched in 1966 and owned and operated directly by the Japan Packaging Institute (JPI), the biennial (every two years) exhibition will feature more than 2,600 booths representing 600 companies in the 23,000m2 exhibition space, which attracts more than 70,000 visitors from inside Japan and overseas.

During the last edition, more than 170,000 people visited TOKYO PACK 2012 during the four-day exhibition.

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JAPAN - Overall packaging value rose more than 2% in 2013 over the previous year, accord-ing to recently released data from the Japan Packaging Institute (JPI).In real terms, the total value of Japan’s packag-ing industry reached ¥6,049.20 billion, which at today’s exchange rate is approximately US$59.4 billion. This represents 1.27% of the national GDP.Before we dig into the numbers, two things must be understood: Firstly, the Japanese ac-counting period for 2013 runs from April 2013 to March 2014, so when the annual data for 2013 is released it actually refers to the last nine months of 2013 and the first three months of 2014. Secondly, the current government under Premier Shinzō Abe has been pursuing a policy designed to arrest two decades of falling prices and stimulate the economy. Known colloquially as Abenomics, the policy has seen the Yen tumble through ¥100 against the Dollar to hit its weakest level in more than four years. Since November 2013, the Yen has slid nearly 30% against the Dollar, matched recently by a similar slide against the Euro.So honestly, any attempt at converting the cur-rency from Yen and making the data values more user friendly to anyone outside Japan, is rendered completely meaningless. Where we do give a US dollar conversion, it should be considered as little more than a vague notion. After all, the Japanese year-end for the final data was March 2013, and we are writing this mid-August 2014.Under the Japanese data reporting system, the total scale of the packaging industry combines the values and volumes of both packaging materials/containers and packaging equip-ment.It is a pretty uneven combination: The total value of packaging materials and containers for the period represented ¥5.6 trillion.Market share — packaging materials and containersAccording to JPI data, the total value of packag-ing material and containers for the 2013 period amounted to ¥5.607 trillion (approximately US$54.9 billion).As a material, paper occupied the highest shipment value, at 42% at ¥2.34 trillion on the back of volume of just over 11.7 million tonnes.

Plastics held its own with 30% of the total packaging material shipments by value. Valued at ¥1.66 trillion, the total volume of plastics shipments reached 3.5 million tonnes for the period.With a total volume of 1.62 million tonnes, metal returned a value of ¥944.6 billion giving it a 17% market share.Glass, always the poor relation accounted for 2% of the total material shipments valued at ¥124.7 billion.While most industries in Japan use plastics pallets for transport shipping, wood does still play a significant role in the packaging of more traditional products. Wood actually managed to overtake glass packaging values at 2.5% or ¥139.8 billion.Since the data represents actual package ship-ments, ‘other materials’ such as seals, labels, tapes, textile products, and cellophanes are component parts of the shipped package and are not represented in volume terms. However, since they are part of the package, they do have a recognised value of ¥388.2 billion - a full 7% of the total packaging shipment value in 2013. Japan’s packaging industry equipment sales grew to US$4.3bn in 2013 Sales of packaging equipment in Japan have picked up over the past two years. In 2013 the machine sector saw total sales of ¥414 billion, or at today’s exchange rate, US$4.3bn. That’s a 3% increase over the 2011 sales figures, and an absolute Yen value increase of ¥13.5 billion (US$1.35bn).Primary packagingOf all of the primary packaging equipment sold in 2013, pouch forming and filling machines were the star buys, with a total of 5,686 units delivered, representing a total value of ¥60.5 billion (US$594 million).In equipment sales value terms, the second hottest items in the Japanese market were bot-tling equipment, with a total of 3,887 units

shipped and installed. This represented a total value of ¥57.9 billion (US$569 million).Logically, with so many FFS and bottling lines going into the market, filling equipment also delivered a strong performance with total in-stallations of 3,075 units valued at ¥37.8 billion (US$371 million). General container (non-pouch) form and filling equipment also per-formed well with sales of ¥13.3 billion.Vacuum packaging machines also did well in 2013 with sales of ¥10.7 billion, while sales of labelling machines increased by 8.6% over the previous year, with values reaching ¥12.9 bil-lion.At the bottom end of the market, sales of can-making kit remained flat with sales of just 130 units and a value of ¥1.7 billion (US$16.7 mil-lion). While that is good money in anyone’s bank account, it is an area that has seen no growth for the past six years.Secondary packaging Secondary packaging, or ‘outer packaging’ as the Japanese refer to it, remained in depression with only strapping machinery posting reason-able figures of ¥12.4 billion from sales of 64,642 units – that’s approximately ¥191,825 or about $1,884 per unit.But case gluers (folding carton), tape sealers, typesetting and carton makers all saw negative growth of 5-11%.However, an interesting sector to watch is the ‘un-casing machine’ sector – automated empty and disassembly equipment — which has been developing over the past three years. It had a 2013 sales value of ¥400 million (US$19 million), but in 2010 sales were not significant enough to warrant recognition as a machine category. This year, however, ‘un-casers’ have been accorded their own, albeit small, category, an indication that with high labour costs, an ageing population and minor labour shortages, the demand for a machine that will unpack the product is on the increase.

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JAPAN – Every square metre of the 51,380 m2 exhibition space has been fully booked for Asia’s largest packaging exhibition: TOKYO PACK 2014.

The Tokyo Pack Secretariat reports the number of exhibitors at the premier packaging show have ex-ceeded 650 companies. “With a total of 654 compa-nies committed to exhibiting this year, we have grown our exhibitor number by more than 7% from the 2012 edition” said Mr. Yoichi Sonoyama, Secre-tary General of the TOKYO PACK 2014 Secretariat.

“In addition, of the total number of companies on show, a total of 99 are entirely new exhibitors."

“This is a demonstration of companies’ belief that TOKYO PACK 2014 is the premier packaging exhibi-tion in Asia, and the venue for them to showcase advanced packaging technologies, solutions and gain new business opportunities.”

Seizing new business opportunities at TOKYO PACKOf all the exhibitors surveyed at TOKYO PACK 2012, 98.2% said they entered into new business negotia-tions due to leads generated at the show. 47.5% of exhibitors noted that many of the visitors to their booths were new customers.

When asked about the purpose of their visit to TO-KYO PACK 2012, 63.7% of visitors said they were looking for information on new products and tech-nologies, while 21.9% were sourcing for information to purchase equipment and solutions. This year, TOKYO PACK 2014 exhibitors are already gearing up for an exciting show this October. Rengo Co., Ltd. has purchased the largest space at the exhi-bition to display a wide range of advanced packag-ing solutions at its 840m2 booth. Other prominent innovative Japanese companies that have also taken up significant exhibition space include Osaka Sealing Printing Co., Ltd and Oji Package Innovation Center Inc. with 450m2 booth space each, Ishida Co., Ltd and Toppan Printing Co., Ltd with 360m2 each, and Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd and Fuji Seal, Inc (315m2 space each).

Next Generation High Performance Pack-aging PavilionOne of the highlights of this year’s show edition is the Next Generation High Performance Packaging Pavilion, which 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.Some of the unique packaging that will be show-cased include a special sprout-integrated pouch for beverage and liquid food from Japan’s ECODPACK Co. Ltd., 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. PopPack LLC from the USA has chosen to exhibit for the first time at TOKYO PACK 2014, and will dem-onstrate its special reclosable PopPack bubble solu-tion at the Pavilion. PopPack offers a safe and quick way of opening and reclosing flexible packages with an engaging “popping” sound that provides assur-ance that the package contents are fresh, well-sealed and have not been tampered with. With this easy-to-use product, PopPack hopes to find business part-ners at TOKYO PACK to help introduce this exciting packaging technology to the Japanese market. Overseas Visitor Services Recognizing that negotiating the business-language barrier can be a daunting task for the non-Japanese speaking overseas visitor, TOKYO PACK 2014 has devised a system where English-speaking visitors can avoid wasting time asking “can you speak Eng-lish?” Booths will display a special “English speaker available” sign where business discussions can com-fortably take place in English.In addition, staff at the “Foreign Visitor” desk at the International Lounge will be on-hand to assist for-eign visitors with any enquires they may have, and guide them to exhibits showcasing the packaging solutions and technologies they are sourcing for.

A publication of EP RESOURCES PTE LTD, the Singapore-based packaging and print-ing publishing house established in 1995.

PACKAGING BUSINESS INSIGHT ASIA is a monthly subscription-only newsletter fo-cused on the business of packaging in the Asian region.It is available in English as hard-copy airmailed to subscribers or as soft-copy (pdf) by e-mail.

Publisher: Stuart HoggardEditor: Trina Tan Ker Wei

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JAPAN – Asia’s premier packaging exhibition TOKYO PACK 2014 opened on Tuesday, 7 Oc-tober, with 680 companies in the 51,380m2 ex-hibition space showcasing cutting-edge Japa-nese packaging solutions and technologies designed and developed to meet today’s con-sumer needs and demands.Mr. Shigeki Iwai – Parliamentary Vice Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, Mr. Motoki Ozaki - President of the Japan Packaging Institute, Mr. Shige-taro Asano – Vice President of the Japan Packaging Institute, Mr. Kiyoshi Otsubo – Vice President of the Japan Packaging Institute, Mr. Yoshitaka Ozawa - Chairman, TOKYO PACK Working Committee, and Mr. Steven Pacitti – Vice President, International Packaging Press Organization (IPPO), officiated at the Opening Ceremony of TOKYO PACK 2014 in the morning. Describing TOKYO PACK 2014 as a “global venue for the exchange of packaging information, the ex-ploration of next generation packaging, and the promotion of international friendship”, Mr. Motoki Ozaki, President of the Japan Packaging Institute (JPI) – the industry packaging association that also owns and operates TOKYO PACK 2014 – said, “Re-cently the Japanese economy has begun to see some hopeful signs, but the packaging industry still has to negotiate some difficult phases with the hike in con-sumption tax and the rising raw material costs.“A major challenge for Japan’s packaging industry today is how it contributes to the formation of a sustainable society by realizing a packaging industry harmonized with society,” he noted. At TOKYO PACK 2014, Mr. Ozaki expressed confi-dence that the exhibition will help both exhibitors and visitors alike explore the latest advanced Japa-nese packaging solutions and technologies devel-oped for today’s business and consumer needs to

help create a sustainable society.Mr. Ozaki said, “On behalf of JPI, I would like to express my deepest thanks to all of you who have given us liberal support and cooperation for the opening of this fair, and express my genuine appre-ciation to the exhibitors for their great assistance and to the ministries and agencies concerned and various other organizations for their support and coopera-tion.Mr. Steven Pacitti, Vice President of International Packaging Press Organisation, said, “Japan has long pioneered developments in all areas of packaging and there remains a direct correlation here between product quality and packaging quality. “Japanese packaging often transcends the basic ob-jective of protecting a product and creates an object that demands attention in its own right. The tech-nologies and science behind those solutions have enabled Japanese companies to enjoy great success on the international stage. And what better place to showcase these solutions than here, at TOKYO PACK.”AT TOKYO PACK 2014, key industry categories on exhibit included packaging materials and containers, packaging material and substrates and design. Pack-aging machinery on show included equipment for the printing and converting sectors, inspection and measurement, food and pharmaceutical processing and transport/logistics sectors, distribution systems and other packaging-related equipment.The 25th edition of the biennial packaging show saw registered visitor numbers hit XXX, more than the XXX which visited in the 2012 edition. In all, more than XXX people visited TOKYO PACK 2014.Exhibitor numbers also grew by more than 7% from the last show edition to 654 companies, of which 99 were first-time exhibitors at TOKYO PACK.

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Japanese converter ups the volume of plastic food traysCHOKOKU PLAST CORPORATION – On display for the first time at Tokyo Pack 2014 was the Volume Up Tray from Chokoku Plast, which enhances product presentation of ready-to-cook meals and ready meals on retail shelves, while maintaining product safety fea-tures.The Volume Up Tray features a pair of convex-shaped tray faces that creates a unique tray shape that “makes the food packed in the tray look big in volume”, according to Sakaru Takahashi, President and CEO of Chokoku Plast. A plastic lidding sheet is sealed on the tray flange, ensuring the inner space is airtight. Due to the struc-tural strength and security of the package, the Vol-ume Up Tray does not require the additional shrink wrap commonly used in similar food trays – reduc-ing plastic material usage. The stackable Volume Up Tray can be used for ready-to-cook or ready meals, as well as deli, pasta,

meat, seafood, desserts. Depending on the customer’s needs, Modified At-mospheric Packaging (MAP) or the company’s self-venting solution for microwavable packaging (Chokoku Plast’s patented self-vent film technology ‘MicroSteamer’) can be applied. Customers can also choose to customize the shape of the tray, and apply more unconventional shapes to the tray faces, such as trapezoid, triangle, or a circu-lar arc.

DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO LTD (DNP) – One of the packaging solutions showcased by DNP at the recent Tokyo Pack 2014, was the plastic capsule used for My Bottle Drink drop – a new beverage concept jointly developed by Thermos KK and Suntory Beverage & Food Limited.My Bottle Drink Drop was launched in the Japan market in November 2014 as a next-generation bev-erage solution which allows consumers to drink any beverage they’re in the mood for, anytime, any-where. It consists of 12 flavours – comprising five kinds of tea, four kinds of coffee and three types of juice – and a thermos cup compressing system which weighs just 400g and retains heat for two to three hours.Inspired by the recent capsule coffee machine boom, this portion based dilution system works by placing a 25ml flavour capsule at the opening slot of the thermos bottle, and pushing a handle component which compresses the liquid flavour into either hot or cold water. Depending on the number of times the user pushes and compresses the capsule, he can have either a stronger or weaker-flavoured beverage depending on personal preference. For Suntory, which developed the 12 flavour varie-ties, this product has helped create new demand in the beverage market. Thermos KK, a pioneer of vacuum bottle technology and company seeking to further increase the use of personal thermos bottles, shared the idea for and jointly developed My Bottle Drink drop.

Suntory paid special attention to the development of the capsule packaging, which was complicated, as the brand owner needed a container that was strong enough to withstand shocks during transport from factory to retail and onwards to wherever consum-ers wanted to carry them, without any product leak-age.

At the same time, the container had to be easy to

crush when pushing its contents into the thermos bottle, with minimal effort and strength needed on the consumer’s part.

Dai Nippon Printing worked closely with Suntory to develop the right plastic con-tainer, ensuring the structural strength of the capsule meets Suntory’s abovementioned requirements, on top of having the barrier properties necessary to protect the flavours.

The project took three years of research and devel-opment before My Bottle Drink drop was ready to be introduced in the market and can now be found in convenience stores across Japan.

The companies also introduced a new plastic com-ponent which allows consumers to compress the My Bottle Drink drop capsule over any mug or PET bottle – offering consumers even more flexibility in usage.

Next-generation beverage solution: My Bottle Drink drop

The Bottle Drink Drop set; The plastic capsule before and after crushing (top to bottom)

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RENGO CO LTD – We highlight two of the most innovative packaging solutions that Rengo showcased at its booth at Tokyo Pack 2014: An award-winning transport and display tray for strawberries, and the new Delta Flute corrugated board.On display for the first time at Tokyo Pack 2014, Rengo has developed an award winning transport and display tray for strawberries in conjunction with Ja Zen-Noh Tochigi.Designed as a substitute for the standard plastic containers commonly used in Japan to transport the fragile fruit, the new corrugated tray holds 10 straw-berry punnets suspended and cushioned by corru-gated ribs, to prevent spoilage in transit.

When stacked, each tray has a rigid corrugated flange that ‘locks’ into the side-folds of tray above, leaving ample head-space between layers. This mechanism both supports the upper trays and also provides strength to the column of trays, preventing them from slipping and possibly collapsing into the lower trays, crushing the product.

Since strawberry farmers rarely have box-erecting equipment, the trays have been designed to be easy and quick to assemble from flat-pack at the farm.

Simple, but attractive two-colour red and green di-rect print onto the outer top linerboard, while a brown pattern for the interior tray supports resem-bles traditional wood containers and gives the illu-sion of a more expensive three or four colour flexo print job. This allows the tray to do double duty as both transport container and point of purchase dis-play.

When the strawberry punnets have been sold, the cartons are easily dis-assembled into flat packs and are 100% recyclable.The company was awarded the Japan Packaging Institute’s prestigious President’s Award in the Japan Star 2014 contest and was displayed with the win-ning packs at Tokyo Pack 2014.Giving new meaning to less is more in corrugated cartonsWorking with the company philosophy of ‘Less is More – Less Weight, Less Carbon’, Rengo also dem-onstrated the versatility of its recently developed Delta Flute corrugated board at Tokyo Pack 2014, using it for a range of product packaging applica-tions that would conventionally be packed in heavier cartons.As a dominant player in the Asian corrugated carton industry since incorporation in 1920, Rengo has two paper mills, 44 corrugated and paperboard plants in Japan with a further 56 production facilities in China, South East Asia and one in Hawaii, USA.The Delta Flute was developed to provide function-ality, strong construction, and an attractive platform that can serve as both a point of purchase and trans-port container. With a thickness of 2mm, the Delta Flute (D-flute) is aimed at filling the industry gap between the stan-dard heavyweight beverage, the canned food carton B flute which has a typical thickness of around 3mm,

and the more delicate lighter weight of E flute’s 1.5mm thickness, which is generally used for gift boxes and products that do not require the addi-tional strength of the B flute carton.The D-flute uses about 8% less medium and is 25% thinner than the B-flute while its architecture of ap-proximately 60 flutes per 30cm run (+/-2) delivers a compression strength that is approximately 35% higher than E flute and has a greater flat crush strength than B-flute providing brand owners with a strong yet lighter weight carton.Because D-flute is stronger than E-flute, it can be used as outer corrugated packaging with the func-

tions of inner boxes commonly used for product display. This effectively eliminates the need for an exterior packing shipment carton altogether when multiple Delta Flute boxes are shrink wrapped to-gether and stacked on the pallet, resulting in greater transportation and storage efficiency than B-flute, accomplishing the further optimization and stream-lining of packaging.

Launched in April 2013, Rengo Co Ltd has been actively promoting the new corrugated format to customers in the beverage industry, and at Tokyo Pack 2014 officially showcased a range of different applications for Delta Flute.

Rengo corrugated board packaging solutions stand out

Transport & display tray for strawberries; Rigid corrugated flange ‘locks’ into side-folds of tray; Comparing Delta Flute with other options; Delta Flute is stronger enough to use for shipping and product display (From top, clockwise)

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Quirky yet stylish Japanese packaging design nails itCREATIVE WORKSHOP - An eye-catching packaging design concept used for both the mass consumer and higher-end gift packages of a major Japanese nail care brand was one of the highlights at the Package Design Pavilion of Tokyo Pack 2014.At the recently concluded Tokyo Pack 2014, one of the exhibition highlights was the Package Design Pavilion. Co-organized by the Japan Industrial De-signers' Association (JIDA) EAST JAPAN BLOC and supported by the Japan Package Design Association (JPDA) and Japan Graphic Designers Association (JAGDA), this special display area showcased the works of some of the top packaging design agencies in Japan.One such agency was Creative Workshop (CWs Ltd), based on Tokyo. Amongst the many creative graphic packaging designs which the company was show-casing at its Pavilion booth, one particularly out-standing one was the packaging for the Nail Pro product range of nail clippers from Japanese brand Maruto Hasegawa Kousakujo Inc, featuring the curve of a fingernail as its graphic design theme motif. While the packaging is itself a simple plastic case containing a nail clipper cushioned in protective foam, and a transparent plastic flexible pack that holds the case, the cute graphic design on the plastic pack enables the product to stand out.Curved transparent windows that look like finger-

nail outlines break up the brightly coloured back-ground of the pack. Not only does this effectively advertise the purpose of the product, the playful curves and vibrant colour easily captures the eye on retail shelves.To differentiate between the different types of nail clipper products available, different background colours are used. The same fingernail motif is extended to the

luxurious-looking paper gift packaging design range which Maruto offers to consumers who want a spe-cial package which they can use to give presents of Maruto nail clippers to family and friends.

Creating a whole different mood and feel, the fold-ing carton and paper bag secondary packaging have been designed using a creamy-white background and softer, pastel tones of pink, beige and grey to paint a stylish yet feminine look for Maruto.

Fingernail graphic design theme motif: Primary packaging, and secondary paper gift packaging (left to right)

JAPAN - The 25th edition of the biennial TO-KYO PACK, Asia’s largest packaging show (7th – 10th October, Tokyo Big Sight), saw visi-tor numbers hit 178,698, significantly higher than the 175,870 that visited in the last show edition in 2012. Exhibitor numbers also grew by more than 7% from the last show edition to 654 companies, of which 99 were first-time exhibitors at TOKYO PACK. A total of 139 foreign exhibitors from 15 countries – China, Taiwan, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Germany, Italy, Holland, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada and the U.S.A - were present at TOKYO PACK 2014, and reported numerous new leads gained from exhibit-ing at the show. A total of 3,422 overseas visitors from 45 countries also registered for the exhibition, jumping almost 40% from the 2,031 who attended the 2012 show. The official Packaging Insight Japan Tour - a one-day orientation program held on 6 October and designed by TOKYO PACK exhibition owner-operator the Japanese packaging industry association Japan Packaging Institute (JPI) and EP Resources Pte Ltd, Singapore, to help foreign visitors gain the maxi-mum benefit from their visit to TOKYO PACK - was also fully booked, and included the participation of a 42-strong delegation from Thailand. Mr. Yoichi Sonoyama, Secretary General of the TO-KYO PACK 2014 Secretariat, said, “As the only in-

ternational show dedicated to the Package, TOKYO PACK has always been a key exhibition venue for the latest cutting-edge packaging solutions and technologies. This year has been no different; TO-KYO PACK 2014 has enjoyed another successful run with our highest exhibitor figures to date, and record visitor numbers.“As Secretary General of TOKYO PACK, I would like to extend my sincerest appreciation to all the people, both from Japan and around the globe, who visited TOKYO PACK 2014.” The exhibition owner and organizer, Japan Packag-ing Institute (JPI), is already planning for the 26th

edition of the show. The next TOKYO PACK will be held in October 2016.

“We are constantly pushing ourselves to better serve our Japanese packaging industry, and in 2016 we aim to help further promote Japanese packaging companies, and build even stronger bridges be-tween them and domestic as well as international customers,” said Mr. Sonoyama.

“We look forward to welcoming exhibitors looking gain to new business opportunities in Japan and Asia, and visitors sourcing for unique advanced packaging solutions at TOKYO PACK 2016.”

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Rengo Rides the Retail

Revolution

Japan is undergoing a ‘retail revolution’ as the main retail con-glomerates race to open smaller format convenience stores and fewer large format supermarkets.

The ‘big three’ – FamilyMart, Lawsons and Seven &I (7-Eleven) are doing battle on street corners throughout the country as they seek valuable real estate for new store openings - it has been estimated that most urban Japa-nese will live no further than 200 meters from a convenience store operated by one of the three operators by 2020.

With this revolution in small format stores, retailers are turning to Just-In-Time deliveries and are beginning to exert more pressure on the brand own-er for faster deliveries, smaller product shipments that can be unpacked faster, are easily stacked and displayed, and generate less in-store packag-

Founded in 1909, by Teijiro Inoue,

the company was the first commer-

cial producer of corrugated board in

Japan. Today Rengo has more than

13,000 employees and throughout

Japan it directly operates 35 manu-

facturing plants – paper mills,

corrugated packaging and folding

cartons - which form the core of the

Rengo Group network.

Outside Japan, Rengo has 52 joint

ventures and wholly owned plants

and 7 representative and sales oper-

ations throughout China, Thailand,

Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia,

Vietnam, and United States.

Underpinning this are three techni-

cal laboratories for the design and

testing of new packaging formats.

Listed on the Tokyo Stock Ex-

change, Rengo has a US$261 million

(¥31,066 million) market capitalisa-

tion, and for the FY 2013-2014 it

generated net sales of US$4 billion

(¥ 523.141 billion).

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smaller but just-in-time deliveries, shorter shelf stacking times and attractive displays. The brand owner needs to produce and deliver in high volume at specific price points. That is where the conflict oc-curs.

“We looked at both sides and saw that most often the problem was simply technical and realised we could develop a solution that satisfies both our di-rect brand-owner customer, and his retail customer while also presenting the product on the shelf in an attractive way for the consumer.”

and exerting more influence on the supply-chain.

“But Japan is not the UK; our circumstances and sup-ply chains are different, so to anticipate this trend we have to understand this new direction and the long-term effect” says Otsubo-san.

Rengo Smart Display Packaging (RSDP)According to Otsubo-san, “With this new Retail Rev-olution, there is sometimes a conflict between the brand owner and the retailer about how the prod-ucts should be distributed, packed and displayed.

“The retailer has specific requirements, shelf size,

dous power. As a packaging supplier, Rengo has to understand this and look beyond our conventional customer, the brand owner, and develop solutions for his customer, the retailer.

“This has been a trend in other markets like the UK where a single retailer, Tesco, controls most of the dis-tribution channel and has the power to place product on the shelf, or not, and how and when those prod-ucts are delivered to them. The retailer is looking for more shelf-ready packaging that is both easy to stack and is attractive and convenient for consumers.

“We are starting to see this packaging trend here in Japan, where our retailers are consolidating and ex-panding the number of outlets across the country

ing waste which has to be disposed of.

Adapting to this retail revolution, Japan’s largest cor-rugated carton company, Rengo, is revolutionising the way it markets, designs and produces packaging.

According to Rengo Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Kiyoshi Otsubo, who I interviewed in the company’s Shinagawa offices during Tokyo Pack 2014, “As the retail revolution picks up mo-mentum, we anticipate major changes in the way the packaging industry does business in the coming years.”

“Conventionally packaging just focused on the cus-tomer, the brand owner, but the market is changing,” says Otsubo-san. “Today the retailer has tremen-

today the RetaileR has tRemendous PoweR. as a PacKaging suPPlieR, Rengo

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When stacked face-forward these shampoo pouches would occupy

too much shelf-space, but with shelf-ready packaging cartons they

can be stacked sideways with no loos of brand identity

Clever die-cutting and gluing allow the top and front-face of the

carton to be tugged off to reveal the product in an attractive dis-

play that also gives consumers easy access

The shelf-presence difference is clear in bottled water displays Higher volume pouches benefit from the structural support provided

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a PaRadigm shift:

the Rise of the

Konbini

in Japan, the large format su-permarket is in decline due to a combination of factors; the

high cost of land and property in population-dense urban areas has pushed the supermarkets to the outskirts while efficient public transport networks result in low-er levels of car ownership than in the West.

As a result the concept of the

‘weekly shopping’ trip has almost disappeared: householders are reluctant to stock-up with a week’s provisions and lug them home on public transport, regardless of how cost-efficient it is.

Over the past 15-20 years retailers have been growing their business by expanding the number of small-er format Minimarts - convenience stores (or as they are known in

The brief Otsubo-san gave his technicians at the company’s three support centres – The Design and Marketing Center, Packaging Technical Center, and Central Laboratory – was to analyse the problem and develop a system of shelf-ready containers, called the Rengo Smart Display Packaging (RSDP), based on the concept that retail-ready packaging must be Easy to Show, Easy to Shelf, Easy to Sell.

Easy to Show: This means that in the warehouse, or the Konbini store-room, the product’s carton must be easily identifiable by the staff – who may not be Japanese – so one or two colour printed brown cor-rugated containers containing many smaller paper-board folding cartons are inconvenient. Staff has to find the correct carton, open it, remove just enough smaller boxes to stock the shelf because the brown corrugated carton cannot be attractively displayed on the shelf.

Easy to Shelf : Currently, store staff have to remove the product from the outer corrugated carton and

place them individually on the shelf. In a busy store, time is of the essence and stacking product individ-ually is time wasting.

Easy to Sell: An attractive neat shelf display sells product, while an untidy display does not – so staff waste a lot of time tidying the shelves.

Devising the solution wasn’t as simple as it might appear at first; structural considerations had to be factored in: the brand owner’s filling and packing production lines, pallet sizes, truck capacity, in-store trolley sizes, shelf dimensions – and of course Ren-go’s existing production systems.

The entire supply chain had to be analysed in min-ute detail. At some point in the analysis it was clear that Rengo had the capacity to produce a range of standard size cartons – eight at the moment - that would meet most of the product lines carried by both Konbini and Supermarket formats.

But to be truly effective the company would have to develop an entirely new corrugated board format.

Japan, Konbini), with typical floor area of 100m2 (1,076 sq ft).

This has fuelled a long running Konbini War: It is not unusual to find outlets from all three ma-jor retail chains 7&I, Lawsons and Family Mart, in one street, less than 200 meters from each other – turn a corner and the situation is replicated again and again throughout towns and cit-ies across Japan. It has been esti-mated that the majority of Japan’s population live less than 500 me-ters from a Konbini.

Householders shop for daily ne-cessities on a daily basis, and demographics play an important role here: Before the 1960s the typical homemaker was shopping for a family of five. Today the av-erage homemaker is shopping for 2.5 people or less; almost 30% of Japanese households are single

Rengo at a GlanceCompany Name Rengo Co., Ltd.

Head Office Nakanoshima Central Tower, 2-2-7 Nakanoshima, Kita-ku,

Osaka, Japan 530-0005

TEL. +81-6-6223-2371

Tokyo Head Office Shinagawa East One Tower, 2-16-1 Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo,

Japan 108-0075

TEL. +81-3-6716-7300

Founded April 12, 1909

Incorporated May 2, 1920

Capital Stock 31.066 billion yen (as of March 31, 2014)

Net Sales 523.141 billion yen (For the year ended March 31, 2014)

Staff Strength 13,095 (as of March 31, 2014)

Business Scope Manufacturing and sales of corrugated board, corrugated

boxes, folding cartons and other paper products

Manufacturing and sales of paperboard (containerboard, box-

board and tube board, etc.)

. Manufacturing and sales of flexible packaging and cellophane

Manufacturing and sales of heavy duty packaging (polyeth-

ylene heavy duty bags, kraft paper bags, flexible container

bags, etc.)

Sales of packaging-related machinery

. Manufacturing and sales of a variety of functional

materials（porous beads made from cellulose, high-perfor-

mance zeolite pulp natural antibacterial agent made from

wasabi and mustard, etc.（

Manufacturing and sale of nonwovens, paper converting ma-

chinery, printing paper and transportation business, etc.

Mega retailer Seven&I rebranded premium

store in upmarket Ginza

Konbinis deploy advanced predictive com-

puter modeling for JIT stock control

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This generally involves each store receiving each day several small deliveries of products timed to cater for specific target markets who frequent the store at differ-ent times of the day: the morning salaryman on his way to the office, the lunchtime schoolchildren, the afternoon housewife, the elderly, the late night reveller on his way home – all have different purchas-ing profiles.

Some stores in Tokyo receive more than six deliveries per day; with shelf-space at a premium, it is not uncommon for a shelf to turn-over stock two to three

times daily, and to maximise the yield that means densely packed shelves and smaller packages that are clearly labelled for the con-sumer to be able to instantly rec-ognise the product so consumers won’t waste time aimlessly cruis-ing the aisles.

In the West, the most expensive part of the fast moving goods supply chain is the final 50 meters from the warehouse to the su-permarket shelf. In Japan, where speed is of the essence, stores are usually staffed by maximum of two assistants so staff need to take in a delivery, unpack it and move product directly to the shelf in the minimum amount of time possible while also serving cus-tomers.

This is where shelf-ready packag-ing is emerging as the solution, and it is this market space that Rengo seeks to dominate.

The rise of the Konbini is also driving the

demand for ever more Private Label prod-

ucts on their shelves

at the heart of the RSDP solution is Delta Flute; developed by Rengo to provide functionality, strong construction, and an attractive light weight platform that can

double as a point of purchase shelf-ready pack while also performing the functions of a secondary packaging transport container.

With a thickness of 2mm, the Delta Flute is aimed at filling the gap between B-flute and E-flute.

B-flute is the industry workhorse, a transport carton for most supermarket consumer products; bever-age, canned and packed food, with a typical thick-ness of around 3mm.

E-flute is a more delicate, lighter weight carton with thickness of 1.5mm, generally used for gift boxes and

occupancy where the household-er lives alone and is shopping for just themselves.

For a convenience store to be tru-ly convenient, it has to stock what-ever the customer’s daily needs are. It must be located close to the customer’s home, stock at least two brands of most household items, a wide range of packaged food and beverages, and offer an array of other services such as, an ATM, instant hot meals from in-store microwaves and steamers for hot food; consumers can even buy air, rail and concert tickets at their local Konbini.

With smaller store sizes, less shelf space, and smaller cus-tomer households, the portion and package sizes are necessarily smaller.

All of the major retailers have so-phisticated computer modelling systems dominated by the princi-pal of TPO: Time, Place, Occasion. This means delivering the con-sumer the correct product at the correct place to match the specif-ic occasion when the right prob-lem is solved at the right time with a well-thought-out package in the outlet where it is needed.

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products that do not require the additional strength of the B-flute carton. But it is not strong enough to serve as a transport container.

The Rengo Delta flute uses about 8% less medium, and is 25% thinner than the B-flute while its archi-tecture of approximately 60 flutes per 30cm run (+/-2) delivers a compression strength that is ap-proximately 35% higher than E-flute and also gives a greater flat crush strength than B-flute.

This provides a strong yet lighter weight carton.

Rengo Smart Display PackageA New Era for Retail in Japan

The corrugator line at Rengo’s Fukushima-Yabuki

Because Delta Flute is stronger than E-flute, it can be used as outer corrugated packaging yet retain the functionality of inner cartons commonly used for product display.

This effectively eliminates the need for an external shipment carton.

Multiple Delta flute boxes can be shrink-wrapped and stacked on the pallet and results in greater transportation and storage efficiency than B-flute, further optimizing and reducing the package layers

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how the PRoducts should be distRibuted, PacKed & disPlayed, we looKed at both

sides and saw that most often the PRoblem was simPly technical.

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On the Right, RSDP shelf-ready both contains and stacks the flexible packaging food pouches, in contrast to the traditional shelf-ready

in an unattractive brown carton on the left

Tokyo Pack Launch

In probably the most innovative product demon-stration of the Tokyo Pack 2014 exhibition, Rengo demonstrated the functionality of RSDP on its 840m2 stand.

The stand featured a mock-up of a store, complete with store-room, stocked shelves and, as a nice touch, the sounds of a busy supermarket. At regu-lar intervals throughout the four-day event, a lady

Easy to Sell: Once on the shelf, the printed Delta flute carton becomes an effective Point of Pur-chase vehicle. With the growth of flexible packaging pouches for soups, gravy and as refill personal care products, the carton’s remaining sides and back provide a rigid ‘frame’ for the products, keeping them upright and uniform on the shelf. The remain-ing printed carton faces also give the brand owner additional promotional real estate to capture con-sumer ‘share of eye’.

– basically eliminating the B-flute.

Easy to Show: Since the Delta flute box is designed to be printed in two, three, four or more colours, it can display the brand owner’s product sales im-age in the same way as a folding carton would, and can travel through the supply chain to the Konbini’s store-room shelf and be instantly recognisable to store staff when required to re-stock the shelf.

A side advantage is that by eliminating the B-flute carton, the Minimart is also able to reduce the vol-ume of packaging waste that has to be collected, removed and sent for recycling – an obligation un-der Japan’s Containers & Packaging Law.

Easy to Shelf: Minimarts have limited floor space, and particularly narrow aisles, so the trolleys used are typically small and are not designed for heavy loads. Delta flute’s lighter weight is ideal for the trolley to transport products the last few meters from store-room to shelf with little stress.

Once at the shelf, the staff simply pulls a tab on the top of the carton, and, through the use of ingenious die-cuts, perforation and gluing, the entire top and part of the side panel sections detach, leaving be-hind a structurally sound, open-faced shelf-ready tray that displays the product. This can simply be placed on the shelf – of course the carton has been measured to exactly fit the standard Konbini shelv-ing unit.

It’s a Store & More: Rengo’s 840m2 stand at Tokyo Pack 2014 featured a mock-up supermarket, complete with signage and piped ‘muzak’

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would wheel out a trolley and proceed to re-stock the shelves.

This demonstration helped showcase the RSDP sys-tem as solution comprising a set of different sized shelf-ready cartons, each aimed a different product range: Flexible pouches, metal canned food and bev-erage, PET bottles, fruit and vegetables, in a way no static display could.

Each of the RSDP formats featured specific standard modifications to suit the intended product: raised ‘tongue and groove’ notches and slots for easy stack-ing, or internal baffles for product separation in the case of strawberry punnets.

When the strawberry punnets have been sold, the cartons are easily dis-assembled into flat packs and

are 100% recyclable.

The carton was awarded the Japan Packaging Insti-tute’s prestigious Chairman’s Award in the Japan Packaging Contest 2014 and displayed with the win-ning packs at Tokyo Pack 2014.

as part of its Tokyo Pack 2014 RSDP launch, Rengo displayed its award winning transport and display tray for strawberries which was

produced in conjunction with JA Zen-Noh Tochigi.

Designed as a substitute for the standard plastic containers commonly used in Japan to transport the fragile fruit, the new corrugated tray from Rengo holds 10 strawberry punnets suspended and cush-ioned by corrugated ribs, to prevent spoilage in tran-sit.

When stacked, each tray has a rigid corrugated flange that ‘locks’ into the side-folds of tray above, leaving ample head-space between layers. This mechanism both supports the upper trays and also

provides strength to the column of trays, preventing them from slipping and possibly collapsing into the lower trays, crushing the product.

Since strawberry farmers rarely have box-erecting equipment, the trays have been designed to be easy and quick to assemble from flat-pack at the farm.

Simple, but attractive two-colour red and green direct print onto the outer top liner-board, while a brown pattern for the interior tray supports resem-bles traditional wood containers and gives the illu-sion of a more expensive three or four colour flexo print job. This allows the tray to do double duty as both transport container and point of purchase dis-play.

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The state of Penang has banned the use of PS(polystyrene) containers from 1 December 2012.This ban applies to all supermarkets, hyper-

markets and food and beverage outlets in Penang. Businesses violating the ordinance will be severely punished, warned the state gov-ernment. “All food and beverage outlets in Penang will

have to adhere to this ban or else have their licences revoked,” said Phee Boon Poh, state executive councillor for environment,health, welfare and caring soci-ety.“This applies to all busi-

nesses, no exceptions; so for hypermarkets they are not allowed to use poly-styrene containers for packing of raw or cooked food items too,” he stressed.The implementation date of the ban has been

carefully timed to start from 1 December 2012 as all traders and hawkers will need to renew their business licenses by January 2013; if any

of them are found to have flouted the ban, their licenses could then be immediately revoked.As local businesses have had ample notice

and time to clear any old stock of PS con-tainers, Phee said they have no excuse not to adhere to the ban.This new regulation is part of the state gov-

ernment’s ‘Cleaner, Greener Penang’ initia-tive to increase recycling, reduce pollution, and promote a cleaner, greener sustainable state. Phee explained that PS packaging is one of

the main pollutants that choke up drains, and increase the risk of flooding in the state: “When we use less polystyrene containers, which are also bad for our health, we see less blocked drains so this brought on a

chain effect of fewer flash floods and dengue cases.”The Penang govern-ment started raising more awareness among local consumers and industry against the use of PS containers in July 2009, and from 2010,

consumers were encouraged to use alterna-tive packaging, explained Phee.“In 2010, we started encouraging the public to

switch to recyclable containers or to use tiffin carriers to pack food and last year, we appealed to the public for a total change of mindset,” he said.

The Business of Packaging in the Asian Supply Chain ! Vol 2 #1 January 2013

Economic Report Card:Indonesia

Demographics:• Population: 48 million• Average age: 28 years • Population growth rate: 1.04% • GDP per capita: US$3,494• GDP growth: 6.5%

Consumer Figures:• $134bn retail sales in 2011, up 11.9% over

previous year • Retail sales comprised 19.2% of GDP• Retail sales per capita was $568.10• Traditional retail contributed 77% of total retail

sales• $69.54bn spent on food consumption in 2011

The Packaging Statistics✓ Indonesia’s packaging industry is expected to

grow by 11.1% in 2012 reaching US$4.36 billion.

✓ In 2016, the industry is expected to reach a value of US$9.6 billion.

✓ Plastic packaging - both rigid and flexible - makes up nearly 60% of total domestic pack-aging demand.

✓ The local plastic market expanded by 22.47% in 2011, but at a slower pace in 2012 at 7.75% to 3.48 million MET

Legislation Asia:

Malaysian state bans polystyrene packaging containers

FROM 1 DEC 2012, ALL SUPERMARKETS, HYPER-MARKETS AND F&B OUTLETS

IN PENANG ARE BANNED FROM

USING POLYSTYRENE CONTAINERS

In this IssuePackaging Legislation Asia 1• Penang’s ban on polystyrene containers• Economic Report Card: Indonesia• Thailand’s plain cigarette packaging law

M&A 2• MeadWestvaco, Ruby Macons |

Asia Packaging, Yuanxing Package | Huhtamaki, Webtech Labels

Installations 3• Taisei, KBA | Indonesia, Xeikon

Growth Investment 4-5• Laos: Coca-Cola, ThaiNamthip• VietNam: UPM Raflatac• China: Nissei Plastic Industrial• Thailand: IRPC• Malaysia: Schutz• Japan/India: Oji, Marubeni, JK Paper

Market Forces: Indonesia 6-7• Plastics industry growth potential• Indonesia’s bottled water market• Packaging Drivers: Retail sector

Packaging Environment Legislation 8• Thailand: Plastic recycling struggle

• China: Excessive Packaging LawAsiaPhile: The packaging back-story 9• Japan’s gender driven packaging

The Ministry of Public Health has proposed a Tobacco Consumption Control Act (TCCA), which calls for plain cigarette packaging that only shows the brand name in standardized font, amongst other measures.All forms of branding – trademarks, logos,

colors and graphics – will have to be removed from the cigarette packs. Retailers will be required to submit costly

annual reports, restrict the age of people al-lowed to purchase cigarettes, sales near educa-tional institutions, as well as the display of prices. Retailers will also have to participate in anti-

smoking campaigns, and are prohibited from partnering government agencies to conduct charitable programmes, such as providing dis-aster relief support to, for example, flooding. If approved by the Health Minister and Cabi-

net, the measures are set to be in place next year.

Thailand to tighten cigarette laws, introduce plain cigarette packaging

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PAKISTAN – Massive capital flight from Pakistan between July 2012 to February 2013 could paralyse the packaging industry that already imports the majority of its packaging materials and machinery, according to the State Bank.The latest report by Pakistan’s State Bank shows traditionally attractive sectors like food and packaging have failed to attract any US$ in-vestment whatsoever during the first eight months of this fiscal year, which started in July 2012. According to the State Bank, Pakistan imports US$187.8 million worth of plastic, packaging and printing ma-chinery in the 2011 fiscal year. The country also exported US$540.6 million worth of plastic material but spent US$1.506 billion on plastic material imports. PET material production in the country is estimated at 120,000

tons, followed by PVC at 100,000 tons and GPPS/HIPS/EPS at 36,000 tons.The 1,028 paper and paperboard companies in Pakistan also imported US$396.5 million in paper and paperboard imports in FY2011.Pakistan FDI outflowEvery industry sector in Pakistan noted outflows of foreign investment during the eight months in the national economy, which has been struggling with an average of about 3.2% growth during the last five years. Telecommunications saw the highest out-flow at US$456 million, followed by chemi-cals which had a net erosion of US$152 mil-lion and just US$62 million inflow, leaving the chemicals sector with minus US$89 mil-

lion.The largest inflow was in oil and gas explora-tion at US$343 million, followed by the financial sector. Law and order and ter-rorism have kept foreign investors away from Pakistan.

During the last five years, investors flocked instead to Asian countries such as China, India, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore.

The Business of Packaging in the Asian Supply Chain ! Vol 2 #5 May 2013

ECONOMIC REPORT CARD:PAKISTAN

Trade & Legislation

Packaging in Pakistan hit by massive capital flight

PAKISTAN IMPORTED US$187.8 MILLION WORTH OF PLASTIC,

PACKAGING & PRINTING MACHINES IN 2011

In this IssuePackaging Legislation Asia 1• Penang’s ban on polystyrene containers• Economic Report Card: Indonesia• Thailand’s plain cigarette packaging law

M&A 2• MeadWestvaco, Ruby Macons |

Asia Packaging, Yuanxing Package | Huhtamaki, Webtech Labels

Installations 3• Taisei, KBA | Indonesia, Xeikon

Growth Investment 4-5• Laos: Coca-Cola, ThaiNamthip• VietNam: UPM Raflatac• China: Nissei Plastic Industrial• Thailand: IRPC• Malaysia: Schutz• Japan/India: Oji, Marubeni, JK Paper

Market Forces: Indonesia 6-7• Plastics industry growth potential• Indonesia’s bottled water market• Packaging Drivers: Retail sector

Packaging Environment Legislation 8• Thailand: Plastic recycling struggle

• China: Excessive Packaging LawAsiaPhile: The packaging back-story 9• Japan’s gender driven packaging

B U S I N E S S I N S I G H T A S I APackaging

THAILAND - The Thai government plans to increase the space allocated to health warnings on cigarette packaging to 85% from its current 55%, in an effort to further curb smoking. Although it is still being drafted, Public Health Minister Pradit Sintanawarong recently an-nounced that the legislation will be imple-mented soon. This will make Thailand the country with the largest cigarette packaging health warnings in the world. However, the ministry is facing criticism over the regulation, not from industry, but from two government departments. The Department of Intellectual Property and the International Trademark Association have submitted a joint complaint to Prime Minister Yingluck Shinwatra and the Public Health

Minister, saying the new law contravenes intellectual property regulations under Thai legislation, breaks the Thai Trademark law, and violates international treaties. They warned that if the law is passed, it might be in conflict with the World Trade Organization (WTO).Law will hurt retailers, says TTTAThe Thai Tobacco Trade Association (TTTA) has also complained about the law, saying larger health warnings will have a negative impact on the retail sector. “The announce-ment shocked retailers. There were no warn-ings or call for discussion. “The well-being of about 480,000 Thai retailers is more important than just making a world record,” said TTTA executive director Varaporn Namatra.

Thailand to increase cigarette packaging health warning space

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2012 Pakistan Plastic Materials Production

Economic Indicators:• GDP (2011): US$211.09 billion• GDP per capita (2011): US$672.10• Consumer spending: US$49,053Pakistan’s Plastic Industry:• Plastic processing units: 6,500 units• Plastic materials imports: US$1.506 billion• Plastic materials exports: US$540.6 million• Plastic/packaging/printing machinery imports:

US$187.8 million• Direct & indirect employment: 750,000• FDI in Petrochemicals: US$16.5 million

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THAILAND – Japan Tobacco International (JTI) is suing the Thai government over plans to introduce larger and more prominent anti-smoking warnings on cigarette packets. Philip Morris has threatened similar action.

Set to take effect from 31 December 2013, the rule from the Public Health Ministry requires tobacco companies to enlarge warning labels to cover 85% of the total visible cigarette packaging space, from the current 55%.Big Tobacco says though that the Ministry over-stepped its authority under Thailand’s Tobacco Product Control Act by issuing a notification that conflicts with higher law. In addition, the companies allege that the new rule violated Thailand’s due process requirement because it excludes the public and those whom this requirement will impact from voicing their views and failed to adequately assess the poten-tial negative consequences of the requirement.Charging that it would have a “disproportionate impact on legitimate com-petition, intellectual prop-erty rights and freedom of expression”, JTI filed a lawsuit in Thailand on 19 June based on the allega-tion that the new mandate would adversely affect its operations in Thailand. "In order to protect its ability to continue to use its brands and key trademarks in Thailand, JTI (Japan Tobacco In-ternational) has initiated a legal challenge against

this notification," the company said in a statement.While acknowledging that adult smokers should be "appropriately informed" before deciding to smoke and that smokers "should continue to be reminded" about the health risks, the tobacco giant said, "JTI however does not believe that increasing the size of graphic health warnings to cover 85% of cigarette packaging is effective or propor-tionate."Philip Morris gears up to fight cigarette packaging ruleMeanwhile, Philip Morris says it will also file a lawsuit against the Thai government before 4 July. (Ed’s note: As of publish date, no lawsuit has been filed by Philip Morris.)Onanong Pratakphiriya, Manager Commu-nications & External Affairs, Philip Morris (Thailand) Ltd, said, "Given the negative impact this policy will have on our trade-

marks and the fact the Ministry ignored our voice and the voices of thousands of retail-ers enacting this rule, we have no choice but to ask the court to intervene.According to Onan-ong, the mandate is

“not about increasing the public’s awareness of the risks of smoking – which is universal.”

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The Business of Packaging in the Asian Supply Chain ! Vol 2 #8 August 2013

ECONOMIC REPORT CARD:THAILAND

Trade & Legislation

Big tobacco goes to court over new Thai cigarette packaging rule

In this IssueTrade & Legislation Asia 1-2• Economic Report Card: Thailand • Big tobacco goes to court over new

Thai cigarette packaging rule• Eco group seek plastic bag ban across

the Philippines | Heineken reassures consumers after Vietnam counterfeit beer bust

Market Forces: China retail industry 3• China food and grocery market to hit

US$1.5 trillion by 2016Mergers & Acquisitions 4-5• Amcor - Jiangsu Shenda Group | Cam-

pari - Copack Beverage | SCG | CCL - Avery Dennison | ProPac Packaging - Eco Food Pack | Bemis - Foshan New Changsheng

Expansion & Growth 6-11• UPM Raflatac | Kian Joo Can Factory |

hubergroup | Visy | | MHI-PPM & Ryobi | NSRP | BP | PT Well Harvest | Lanxess | China Shengda Packaging Group | Greatview Aspetic Packaging | Indopoly | Oliver-Tolas | Fonterra | NatureWorks | Jet Technologies

Branding & Retail 12-14• Unilever | Heineken & APB | Nestle |

Sanofi | Berli Jucker | Walmart | CP All • Hanoi struggles to develop modern

retail formatsMarket Statistics: Japan Packaging Industry 15-16• Japan’s Packaging Sector, still leaking,

but weathering the storm

B U S I N E S S I N S I G H T A S I A

Economic Indicators:• Population (2010): 66 million• Minimum wage (as of 1 April 2012): BHT 300/day• GDP (2011): US$345.6 billion• GDP growth (2011): 0.1%• GDP per capita (2011): US$5,113• Manufacturing Production Index (2011): 172.39• Corporate Income Tax: 10-23%

Plastic Packaging in Thailand:• Thailand’s plastic resin consumption is estimated to

have grown at approximately 5.5% in 2012.• The Thai packaging industry’s consumption of

plastics totals US$3.42 billion annually, according to the Plastics Institute of Thailand.

• Packaging also accounts for 31% of Thailand’s plastic exports.

• Plastic packaging is the second largest materials sector in the Thai packaging market at 25% share; paper is the largest sector at 40% share.

• About 60% of all plastic packaging in the country is used for food products; the Thai packaged food market was valued at US$7.2 billion in 2009.

• In 2012, about US$32.79 billion of food products were exported by Thailand, according to the Na-tional Food Institute.

• The Kingdom is the second largest food exporter in Asia, after China.

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COVER 85% OF THE TOTAL VISIBLE CIGARETTE PACKAG-

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CHINA - New rules have banned more than 900 foreign infant milk brands from China’s supermarket shelves leaving only 94 foreign brands havng been granted approval for sale in China. This is a significant drop from the 800 to 1,000 imported brands previously al-lowed into the country.According to the China Certification and Accredita-tion Administration (CNCA), from 1 June 2014, only 94 foreign liquid or powdered infant formula brands produced by 49 different companies from Europe, North America and Asia have been allowed to enter the Mainland for sale.

Amongst the approved list of foreign brands are Abbott Laboratories, Nestle, Mead Johnson Nutri-tion, FrieslandCampina Domo, Fonterra, Nutricia, Arla Foods and Murray Goulburn.

Infant milk brands not on the CNCA List of Regis-tered Overseas Dairy Manufacturers are banned from entering China. CNCA says this list can be updated at any time, based on the appli-cations filed by foreign manu-facturers.

A Chinese audit is necessary before foreign infant formula brands can be added to the CNCA list.

The regulation, known as Administrative Measures for Registration of Overseas Manufacturers (or Decree 145), was issued by the State General Administra-tion of the People’s Republic of China for Quality Supervision and Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ), .

Under this revised law, foreign ministries and agen-

cies, including the US Food and Drug Administra-tion (FDA) and the New Ministry for Primary In-dustries (MPI) must provide CNCA with a list of accredited manufacturers.

Improving domestic formulaIn recent months, the Chinese government has been working to boost the standard of domestically-produced infant formula.

In a crackdown designed to “further strengthen the quality and safety” of infant formula manufactured in China, the government issued new stricter regula-tions in December 2013 entitled ‘Infant Formula Milk Powder Production License Examination Rules (2013).

This revised law increased compliance over raw material procurement, production inspection, prod-uct traceability and product safety control.

At the end of May 2014, the China Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) announced that production permits held by more than one-third of local infant

formula manufacturers had not been renewed; only 82 of the 133 domestic companies that applied for the renewal had been successful.

Local media reported that the 82 successful compa-nies had invested nearly US$400 million (RMB 2.5 billion) to ensure their production lines met new standards.

The rejected 51 applications “failed or applied to postpone the investigation and some of them with-drew from the industry”, reported CCTV.Companies required to cease production must do so by the end of June 2014.

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IN THIS ISSUE:Trade & Legislation Asia 1

• New Chinese rules ban import and sales of 900 infant milk formula brands

Packaging the Environment 2

• Dell to introduce new carbon neutral plastic packaging material made from air

• AB InBev to reduce carbon emissions in logistics by 15%

Packaging Technology 3

• New one-step co-extruded production process for retort food packaging

Mergers & Acquisitions 4-5

• KKR - Goodpack | Thai Containers - Prepack Thailand | Dynapack Asia | Asia Packaging Group | Roland

Expansion & Growth 6-8

• Miko Pac - Innoware Indonesia | Kyodo Printing | Bosch Packaging Technology | Ball Corporation | PolyOne | Schott | Perlen Packaging | Skanem Interlabels

Installations 9• Maju Jaya Agung Labelindo | Amcor

Flexibles - Atlas Converting Equipment | Packages Limited

Packaging Event 10

• Packaging Insight Japan Tour offers unique orientation programme for over-seas visitors to Tokyo Pack 2014

Branding & Retail 11-13

• Saha Group | Tesco Lotus | China Re-sources Enterprise | Metro Cash & Carry | Aeon | Wal-Mart China

Market Trends 14-15

• Asian consumers more likely to buy sus-tainable products than Westerners

AsiaPhile 16-17

• Bringin’ it all back home: Reshoring pro-duction

Trade & Legislation

New Chinese rules ban import and sales of 900 foreign infant milk formula milk brands

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A Chinese audit is necessary before foreign infant formula brands can be added to the CNCA list.

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Packaging journalist Joanne Hunter looks back on her recent visit to Tokyo Pack 2014 28Oct 2014

Pelican commissioned a special report from Joanne Hunter, a talented packaging journalist, who was attending Tokyo Pack – one of the largest packaging shows in the world! Whilst there she discovered a variety of packaging innovations and design. In the blog post below Joanne highlights her ten most memorable products from the show.

I visited Tokyo Pack for the first time this year with a terrific gang of fellow members of the International Packaging Press Organisation. I went with high expectations that I’d learn from Japan’s packaging design and technology about modern Japanese lifestyles and how ancient traditions and culture are being kept alive. I wasn’t disappointed. The tail-end of two typhoons and a showstopper of a moon eclipse made the trip extra-memorable….and so did the warmth of the welcome for international visitors inside the show-ground and everywhere you went in the city.

Here, I’ve selected my top 10 highlights of Tokyo Pack 2014. Each one has elements that stand out for me in different ways and all of them have an identifiable appeal to the Japanese market – a market with a unique set of values.

PopPack • Accessible; hygienic; resource efficient

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This flexible pack uses air in a bubble as a lever that opens the product with a popping sound. We are already familiar with ‘bubble in the seal’ technology in bubble-wrap, which now boasts a popping-crazy following. But more than just a fun, pop-tastic novelty, PopPack claims benefits including reduced food waste and packaging waste and less chance of spillage. Good for lunchbox cheese sticks, single portions of dried snacks and confectionery, the handy sachet makes dispensing ketchup or mayo into a burger a one-handed operation that’s cleaner and more hygienic says PopPack’s American inventor.

Exhibiting his showman skills, Bill Perell (pictured) was at Tokyo Pack 2014 to offer licensing opportunities. Issued patents are estimated to cover 70% of the world’s population.

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Bill showed me how PopPack’s ‘double bubble’ system makes the sachet pouch resealable without a cap, which would add extra expense to the overall product. The result is that PopPack can make hair shampoo affordable for low-income families in the developing world, with each pack able to hold enough to wash four heads of hair.

The PopPack development team in Japan include Oji Package Innovation Center, Tokyo Foods Machinery Company/Multivac, J-Film Corporation, Kawashima Packaging Machinery and Mitsubishi Plastics.

Crown Packaging • Resource efficient; natural beauty

Image source: Joanne Hunter

These packs are an elegant of an alternative to cartonboard with naturally beautiful, very subtle hues and textures. Crown Packaging Company produces the material by taking selected byproducts from agricultural crops processed on an industrial scale and blending it with recycled wood pulp. Attractive flecking in the paper is a reminder of its origins. It could be bamboo, safflower petals (discarded from the manufacture of food dye), cacao bean husks, or palm husks (known as Empty Fruit Bunch of Palm or EFB). In the case of used tea leaves from the production of green tea beverages, there may also be natural antibacterial and deodorising effects. This resource-saving approach to high-quality packaging production has been developed in Japan under the brand name Smartpapier since 2008.

Kyoshin Pharm Retractable Handle • Inventive use of paper; end-user benefits

Image source: Joanne Hunter

In Japan it’s typical for packaging converter/manufacturers to run large R&D departments and develop designs for winning business from brand owner customers. Tokyo Pack is an important shop window for them. Kyoshin Printing Co has produced an especially clever range for the pharma market and each has a specific marketing feature: child-resistant, easily accessible, shock-absorbent for transport, extra space for promotional information, and so on. The pictured example has a retractable hanger for easy retail display and it’s already been commercialised.

The ingenious design work for this and every mini masterpiece in paper was done by the firm’s executive director Yasuo Hirose. He unfolds the hanger-pack to reveal its intricate construction. How does he get that level of strength? “I really understand paper character,” he tells me.

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Buy Me Stickers • Share of eye

Image source: Joanne Hunter

What’s important to brands is so-called ‘share of eye’ – ability to grab attention. And with so much shine and glitz on the shelf it’s easy to see why. Attention stickers, as they are known, on a package are all the rage in Japan. They hijack extra shelf space for flagging up additional information to sell a product. It may look messy to Western eyes, but Japanese marketing companies have done the research and found it is the way a consumer finds reason to buy (RTB, in marketing speak). Shoppers even say that without a sticker the pack can look old-fashioned. Attention stickers are also used by a brand to make news announcements.

Evacuation Pack • Health & safety; accessible

Image source: Joanne Hunter

Among the exhibits I spied this: the Evacuate from radioactive contamination compression pack. It lists the items to put in for personal safety and how to act in an emergency. In recent years the country has gone through a major earthquake and a tsunami, and typhoons are a fact of life. Tokyo experienced the tail-end of two typhoons in the 10 days I was there.

Long-dated packaged food is valued as part of a comprehensive life-saver kit. To keep up a citizen’s strength and morale with hot food, the Japanese packaging industry has produced a self-heating pack for warming up ‘emergency provisions’. You just add water, heat and eat. In emergencies the zippered retort pouches and cans come into their own.

Oxygen-scavenging technology is held in high esteem by Japanese consumers, so food manufacturers make the sachet component easy to spot in transparent plastic packs. It can give some products up to a five-year shelf life.

Irodre Trio • Attention tag; accessible

Image source: Joanne Hunter

The sauce brand creates a strong visual presence through its labelling and carries this through with user information clearly stated in graphic form and then with a positive user experience.

A Good Packaging 2014 accessible design category award-winner, the Irodre “squeeze and turn” bottle was judged “highly functional and

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usable”, developed by Tokan Kogyo Co.

The pack consists of a cap with a small diameter nozzle that dispenses with a controllable flow without dripping. The bottle is designed to be easy to squeeze and to withstand hot-filling.

Toiletcleaner Mirror • Hygienic

Image source: Joanne Hunter

Japanese take their toilet technology seriously. In my travels round Tokyo I saw the state-of-the-art reach a point where, as I entered the cubicle the lid rose as if to greet me and I had to suppress an urge to bow. (I’d been in the city for 10 days by this time and bowing had become practically second nature.) So it isn’t such a surprise to find the Japan Packaging Contest honouring a toilet cleaner with a place on the Good Packaging 2014 winners’ list. The unusual feature of the fragrant deodorant agent Bluelet is a mirror-effect surface on the shoulder of the container, designed to reflect any stains lurking on hidden areas of the toilet bowl. This added-value pack is a ‘first’ for the category claim the co-developers Dai Nippon Printing Co. and Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co. Also note the attention sticker shouting out to shoppers why they should buy the product.

Akihabara Station • Supports Japan’s circular economy; convenience

Image source: Joanne Hunter

Machine vending is a sales channel that’s appealing for food and drink products, and a lot more besides. There are an estimated 5.5 million vending machines in Japan – one for every 23 people. I came across a number of them using state of the art, LED touchscreen technology and which accept payment by smart card and mobile phone as well as good old-fashioned cards and cash.

An integral smaller screen runs product ads on a loop, explains how to use the machine and gives weather details. It acts as a complete system, doubling up as a collection point for empties – you just chuck back the empty can or bottle into one of three different-sized holes.

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PIC: ShiningExampleMoldRefill_Awardwinner

• Resource-saving refill; positive user benefit

Image source: Joanne Hunter

I like the explicit design of this refill standup pouch for a mould remover developed by Johnson and Dai Nippon Printing; especially the image of the ‘mother-pack’ and the metallic shine to give a sense of cleanliness. Aluminium layers and special adhesives function to protect the highly concentrated alcohol product.

By replacing the bottle, the pouch has reduced packaging waste weight by 70%. Added features aim to ensure stability when dispensing a large amount of content. These elements respond to two of the key trends that are shaping the world of Japanese packaging design; resource-saving and ease of use.

Pair of wrappers • Respect for traditional craftwork; packaging reuse

Image source: Joanne Hunter

All-day demonstrations of traditional gift-wrapping went on in the main thoroughfare of the exhibition halls and rarely did I see the tables empty of visitors. It was a charming feature of Tokyo Pack and what helped make it my new favourite packaging industry show. The small team of, let’s call them, ‘ladies experienced in their craft’ enthused as they showed you step by step how to produce an impressive end result.

Finally, this bonus choice is my number one favourite of the hundreds of products I saw on the shelves when I swapped the exhibition aisles for the supermarket aisles of Tokyo city.

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Power of Aloe – Pelican Soap Company • Respect for age-old wisdom

Image source: Joanne Hunter

Here’s a product from the Pelican Soap Company, of Japan, with a stand-out marketing message that hit me between the eyes. It’s not a product I found at Tokyo Pack but on a visit to a top-ranked department store called Takashimaya. It’s a rare thing to find any product, let alone a beauty product, using the face of a woman of a grand old age to sell its virtues. This handmade face soap endorses the “wisdom of our grandmothers” and Nature’s gift of aloe, to achieve “beautiful soft skin”. Inside the pouch pack is a foam dispenser delivering aloe’s active ingredients for moisturising the skin without chemicals.

With my non-existent Japanese, at first it struck me as a product aimed at the older woman. But then the light went on and I twigged that the lightbulb symbolised “our grandmother’s wisdom”.

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For its many visitors, Tokyo Pack 2014 supplied a key tounderstanding Japan’s retail packaging culture that to outsiders mayat first seem unfathomable. For Joanne Hunter, not much was lost intranslation.

Japanese retail packaging is as culturally unique to Japan as itslanguage, traditional dress and customs, and it took four days atTokyo Pack 2014 to begin to make sense of characteristic traits inpack construction and consumer communication. Whatimmediately strikes you walking into Tokyo Big Sight’s show hallsis the packaging eye-candy, a focus on attention-seeking productlabels, easy-open features and novel dispensing technology. Andrefills, refills, refills: ‘new and improved’ in so many different ways.

You realise that certain design choices that seem quirky are in factan expression of Japan’s grand plan for dealing with the criticalissues of an ageing population and the need for the island nationto use resources economically. You also learn that what is knownin Japanese as “share of eye” is linked to share of the market anddesign cues aim for big shopper impact. The result isextraordinary retail theatre that assembles visually exaggeratedelements not surprisingly akin to Kabuki style.

AwardsJapanese packaging innovation is largely in the hands ofmachinery manufacturers and material converters. Organised byJapan Packaging Institute, Tokyo Pack is a two-yearly opportunityfor companies to find new audiences from across Japan andaround the world for concept prototypes and latest designsalready on the market with early-bird brands. Brand ownersdepend on the sector’s expertise to create robust supply chainsand make them more economical and less wasteful of rawmaterial and energy resources.

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This route to the shelf in a market-ready pack design iscost-effective for the brand owner says Kyoshin Printing executivedirector Yasuo Hirose, the originator of mini paper masterpiecesaimed at the pharma sector, to provide benefits for retailers andend users. He deconstructed one to reveal the intricatemechanics of a retractable hanger; another of them was a JapanPackaging Contest 2014 winner with an easy open and closesystem being used by Teva Pharma Japan.

Winners of Good Packaging awards go to entries that judges think“meet the demands of society and the times”. Practical dispensingtechnologies did well this year such as Success MedicatedShampoo with a six-panel nozzle to distribute shampoothoroughly over the scalp. The product family by Kao Corporationis completed by a companion refill pack showing the typical use ofan attention-sticker to highlight reasons to buy. The Japanesetoiletry soap company’s scatter-proof spout for Softy Hand CleanGel also had the judges’ approval.

Packaging design makes a big feature of user-friendly elements.Produced for the Japanese market, instructions are sometimesgiven in English, as in Irodre’s “squeeze and turn” bottledeveloped by Tokan Kogyo, a winner in the accessible awardcategory. The cap has a small diameter nozzle to give acontrollable flow without dripping and the easy-squeeze bottle issuitable for hot-filling.

Extended Producer Responsibility obligations favour lightweightmaterials, larger portion packs and mono-material packaging andas a consequence whisky and gin are found being sold in four-litrePET bottles. Refill packs get a positive environmental rating andare common for household cleaning and personal care products.Tokyo Pack was awash with technically refined examples.

A refill standup pouch for SCJohnson mould remover earned DaiNippon Printing a technical award for its metallic, clean look andstability when dispensing a large amount of content. Anotherwinner was the anti-slip refill pouch pack for Oleo D’Or BotanicalOil Treatment co-developed by exhibitors Kitamura Chemicalsand Meiwa Pax with brand owner Kosé. Choice! detergent is a

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first-time user in Japan of mechanical recycled PET in a laminatedpackaging format, claim Toppan Printing and Japan Gateway.Toppan Printing also won a Japan Trade and Industry Award forKao’s Attack Reset Power detergent refill pack that affixes to thereusable original box.Of the more extraordinary Japan Packaging Contest winners, atoilet cleaner called Bluelet has a mirror-effect surface on theshoulder of the pack to reflect any stains lurking on hidden areasof the toilet bowl – a ‘first’ for the category claim the co-developersDai Nippon Printing and Kobayashi Pharmaceutical.

Overseas influenceThe show attracted some overseas exhibitors with products theybelieved a perfect fit for Japan’s future vision. Australian companySnapsil has devised a flexible pack and patented the “easy,one-handed opening action, with a snap sound reinforcing productfreshness and integrity”. It teamed up with Multivac to ensurewould-be users of an easy path to market. The thermoformedpack is offering cost and barrier advantages for condiments, infantformula and confectionery. Snapsil is suitable for beverages up to300ml, restricted by the force required to open it. The SnapsilSquirt or Dunk pack first launched in Australia with a tomatoketchup. Chief executive Neil Cashman says UK production isdue to start by the end of 2014. Co-packer Bakkavor is using it fora foodservice condiments application. The focus is now on Japan,which suits Snapsil because the market is “very sophisticated interms of packaging aesthetics and demands for functionality”adds Cashman.

PopPack’s American inventor Bill Perell relied on Japaneseexpertise to develop a flexible pack that uses air in a bubble as alever to pop it open with an audible ‘pop’. The list of creditsincludes Oji Package Innovation Center, Tokyo Foods MachineryCompany/Multivac, J-Film Corporation, Kawashima PackagingMachinery and Mitsubishi Plastics. Condiments, dried snacks andconfectionery are PopPack’s target markets, where Perellbelieves it can improve food hygiene and avoid waste. PopPack’s‘double bubble’ variation reseals the sachet pouch without theadded expense of a cap, making hair shampoo affordable forfamilies in the developing world says Perell.

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Japan’s circular economy (CE) approach is based on the reuse ofwaste from one industrial process as a feedstock for another.Ecovative is producing a compostable substitute for expandedfoam packaging made from mycelium (mushroom ‘roots’) –actually grown by the American producer – and low value cropwaste. The company whose customers in North America includeelectronics giant Dell, is preparing the ground for a futureexpansion in the Asian market. “Japan looks like an excitingopportunity for mushroom packaging due to the need to findproducts that are less wasteful,” says Ecovative’s businessdevelopment manager Jonathan Parry.Food freshness must be ‘seen to be believed’ and oxygenscavengers for enhanced shelf-life are positioned to be easilyvisible inside the pack. Exhibitor Nordson promoted the improvedsafety afforded by a hotmelt adhesive system that fixes sachets topackaging film with small dots of adhesive, to prevent accidentalingestion.

Luxury packaging is expected to reach the same highenvironmental targets. A shiny, holographic surface is relativelylow-energy when produced by a technique that transfers a 30nanometer layer of aluminium from a reusable PET film to paperand paperboard, which can range from 35gsm to 500gsm. Theresulting material retains its machinability and is recyclable claimsShanghai Luxin Packing Materials Science and Technology,developer of the TransMet range. Target sectors are cosmetics,perfume and personal care products, gift boxes and labels forwine and liquor.

Integrity and efficiencyKonica Minolta Japan recently became the local distributor ofFrench-based MGI Digital Graphic Technology printing andfinishing equipment. The MGI JETvarnish digital spot UV coater,which claims resource-saving benefits, produced glamorouscosmetics packaging enhanced by 3D raised effects.

Driving up levels of pack integrity and efficiency in manufacturingprocesses and the retail distribution chain was a recurring theme.A show debut was production machinery for retail readypackaging (RRP) with potential to shake up Japanese groceryretailing. The RRP concept has barely reached Japan’s shoresbut this soon could change if the Rengo Smart Display Packagingsystem wins business from Japan’s biggest supermarket chain.Rengo executive vice president Yoshitaka Ozawa revealed Aeonwas the target in an exclusive interview during a personal tour ofthe Rengo stand. The corrugated specialist also launched the“revolutionary” variable height I-Pack and Gemini PackagingSystem for mail order channels, a Delta Flute standard board forlightweight packaging and a system for fresh produce that usesinorganic filler to stop moisture pass-through.

The eye-catching, speedy twin-arm Yaskawa ElectricMotoman-SDA5D was filling up trays at two or three every minutewith wrapped baked items of two different sizes and shapes.

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Japan’s retail sector is multi-channelled and packaging anddistribution has to be tailored to its different needs. There is aconvenience store every 200 metres in Tokyo, a 7-Eleven, FamilyMark or Lawson. The focus is on single-portion packs and foodsbought for eating the same day. Natural Lawson is a high-endC-store and NatureFlex producer Innovia is selling into thatspecialist area. Exhibitor Saikou is partnering Innovia inpackaging for fresh produce and has introduced the new N946grade for tomatoes.

Japan has an estimated 5.5 million vending machines. That’saround one for every 23 people. Latest designs are hi-tech withthe LED touch-screen and integrated collection system for emptydrink bottles. Vending systems are not just for drinks and snackson the go; people can use them to do a top-up shop. HP Indigodisplayed cans with digitally printed shrink sleeves for dried rice.

Japanese cultural aesthetics call for immense effort for packagingdesign to delight the eye with flair and flourish, attention to detailand unblemished perfection. Tokyo Pack looked deeper into whatis ‘typically Japanese’ packaging besides dazzling decoration,revealing that brand relevance in modern Japan depends on totalcommitment of the packaging industry to the country’s social,economic and environmental aims.

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Tuesday, June 24 2014 Steven Pacitti

Insight into Japan

Overseas visitors to Tokyo Pack 2014 can benefit from a one-day

orientation programme after the Japan Packaging Institute (JPI)

and EP Resources Pte confirmed that it would run a Packaging

Insight Japan Tour on 6 October 2014, the day before the show

starts.

The tour, which was run at the last Tokyo Pack two years ago, is

designed to provide an insight into Japan's US$77 billion packaging

industry.

"Packaging in Japan is a fine balance between aesthetics, marketing and advanced technology, much of which is

not immediately obvious to the first time visitor,” said Yoichi Sonoyama, Deputy Secretary General of JPI and

Secretary General of the Tokyo Pack Secretariat. “Through this orientation programme, we hope to increase our

foreign guests’ understanding of the Japanese packaging market, strengthening the bridge between our industry

and the global industry.”

The programme consists of a morning seminar, providing a background to the packaging formats, materials and

technologies that will be on show at Tokyo Pack (7-10 October), and an afternoon guided retail tour of Tokyo. Here,

participants will discover how Japan's packaging industry commercialises its packaging technology for the

consumer in hypermarkets and supermarkets/department stores.

Visit www.tokyo-pack.jp/en for more information.

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COMMENTARY

I t has become something of a tradition (well,this is the second time) that I write my edi-tor’s comment in a hotel room in my favourite

city, Tokyo, during a typhoon (I guess it should beexpected whilst visiting Japan during the coun-try’s typhoon season). Indeed, two typhoons anda lunar eclipse were to greet visitors to the coun-try in the space of one week.

Japan is a fascinating country, a land with aunique approach to packaging, and an unerringknack for marrying the traditional with the mod-ern. Packaging often transcends the simple (orsometimes not so simple) function of protecting aproduct to become an object that demands atten-tion in its own right, rather apt in a culture witha strong tradition for gift-giving.

I feel almost packaged myself sat here in mycomplimentary hotel pyjamas and slipperswatching the torrential rain pound the streets ofthe Shinbashi (meaning ‘new bridge’) district. Itillustrates the fabulous attention to detail thatyou witness in so many aspects of Japanese life.

I was honoured to be asked by the JapanPackaging Institute (JPI) to deliver a speech dur-ing the opening ceremony of October’s TokyoPack exhibition, and to help cut the ribbon mark-

ing the opening of the 25th edition of the interna-tional show. I did this in my role not just as edi-tor of Plastics in Packaging, but also asvice-president of the International PackagingPress Organisation (IPPO), which has had along-standing relationship with the JPI.

The uniqueness of the packaging industry inJapan, which I discussed in my speech, was illus-trated during a trip I made one afternoon to aTokyo department store’s food hall, which pro-

claims itself a ‘Theatre of Food’.I have never before seen such a diverse range

of packaging in one place, from technicallyadvanced barrier packaging formats to packswith board backing and low-quality heat-seal;the latter could be explained by the fact thatsome stores have staff preparing and packingfresh products such as fish in-house.

Flexible packaging is a mainstay of theJapanese food sector, with a huge variety ofpouch formats, soft touch packs featuringpolypropylene and polyethylene combinations,bags that combine polyethylene with metallisedpolyester, packs featuring a Japanese paper top-layer to provide a unique sensory experience,and polypropylene and polyamide formats toenable microwave cooking.

A conglomerate of products are packaged in

Steven Pacitti - editor

Two typhoons, a lunar eclipse and fascinating packaging

(From left to right) Kiyoshi Otsubo (vice president of Japan Packaging Institute/JPI), Shigetaro Asano (vice president of JPI), Motoki Ozaki (president of JPI),Shigeki Iwai (Parliamentary Vice Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry), Steven Pacitti, and Yoshitaka Ozawa (chairman of the Tokyo Pack Working Committee)open Tokyo Pack 2014

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rigid or flexible formats containing desiccantsachets for oxygen absorption in order to extendshelf-life. Japanese consumers are known foronly trusting packs where the desiccant sachetis visible.

Shoals of fresh fish are packaged beautifullyin transparent trays adorning the shelves,including sushi packed in expanded foam traysthat resemble wood and transparent lids. Somefish is even presented hanging from plasticsstraws within the pack; no expense is sparedwhen it comes to the aspect of presentation.

What was noticeable was the large number offresh products featuring very short shelf-lives(Japanese consumers shop regularly, hence theabundance of small convenience stores in Tokyo,with one located every 200-metres).

Toshio Arita, owner of Packaging StrategiesJapan Corporation, alluded to this during a pres-entation at the exhibition where he explainedthat 40 per cent of food is wasted in Japan (inJapan they call it ‘loss’).

The term Mottainai is used in Japan to con-vey a sense of regret at wastage, whether it befood or time, and it has ties with the Shinto ideathat objects have souls. Arita explained that inJapan, fresh food packs often feature labels witha shelf-life so specific that it might tell the con-sumer to use the product by 2am the followingday. He bought a Bento box (meal) that morning,which had to be eaten by 8pm on the same day.Bearing in mind that retail outlets must removefood from the shelves two hours before the ‘dead-line’, it is obvious where all the wastage comesfrom.

In tandem with Japan’s considerable freshfood market is a view that barrier, retort andaseptic are essential technologies. It provides agreat contrast. And, of course, the consumer isexpected to dispose of packaging responsibly andis often required to separate the various con-stituents of a pack for recycling. As such, thedrive for mono-material packaging is much morevisible here.

Longer shelf-life is an obvious trend too in thecountry’s packaging, not least as a fall-out fromthe devastating earthquake and tsunami thatbefell Japan in recent years.

Just as Shinto and Zen carry a mantra for

respect, simplicity and frugality, Japan’s gift-giv-ing culture calls for perfection, while longer shelf-life calls for greater use of barrier technologies.And then you have the modern twists attached totraditional Japanese calligraphy or tea cere-monies that manifest themselves in the retailpackaging, all contributing to the impressivearray of products that adorn the shelves of retailoutlets.

It should also be mentioned that the largenumber of brand companies operating in theJapanese retail space ensures that rapid innova-tion in terms of packaging is seen as essential, asthose companies vie for market share.

The recent protests in Hong Kong, like Japan-ese society in general, were startlingly orderlywhen you consider that students would return themorning after protesting to collect for recycling theplastics bottles that littered the streets. Every-thing in Japan has a reason, a place, an order; itis fascinating to watch. And recycling is essentialin Japan, a country with a small land mass andtherefore little space for landfill.

I cannot finish without a mention of Japan’sfamous Shinkansen (the high-speed bullettrain), which celebrates its 50th birthday thisyear. And like a bullet, a full report on the TokyoPack exhibition will be shooting your way in theDecember issue of Plastics in Packaging.

Let me know what you think:stevenp@sayers-publishing.com

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ASIAPHILE

T o understand the key drivers of packag-ing technology in Japan it is important tounderstand the evolution of the package.

Originally, Japanese packaging performed acompletely different function than in the West,where it first emerged as product protection andpreservation: Think 18th Century barrels ofsalted meat on the long haul round the Cape tofar flung colonies, or wooden clipper-shipsreturning from India laden with wooden tea-chests lined with tin foil (the first standard sizetransport container). As Britain became a ‘nationof shopkeepers’ the retail trade began torequire that the package also perform a promo-tional function, and technology evolved fromthere to where we are today.

Japanese packaging, however, has a com-pletely different base starting point. From 1603until 1868, Japan was a feudal society – the Edoera – ruled by a class system that side-lined theEmperor and placed the Shogun and his vassalsat the centre of power. Industrialisation did notbegin in Japan until the late 19th century, andwith no far-flung colonies, Japan had no realneed for transport containers.

Golden ageThe 250-year long Edo period isfondly looked back on as the‘golden age’. Most of today’sJapanese arts and culture – thetea ceremony, flowerarranging, art, poetry, aswell as jujitsu, kendo andthe marshal arts –emerged in the Edo era.

But in any highlystructured feudal society,‘gift giving’ is embeddeddeep. Today we mightcall it institutionalisedcorruption as those oflower rank seek favourfrom their betters or inreverse as those aboveseek the support of theirserfs and retainers byspreading largesse.

And herein liesthe problem: thelower ranks in 17thCentury Japanwere grindinglypoor, and their abil-i ty to presentimpressive gifts lim-ited. Over time thegift itself became less important than the elabo-rate wrapping and presentation that containedwhatever humble present it contained.

Furoshiki, the tradition of wrapping, survivestoday as an art-form just as complex as calligra-

phy, flower arranging or the tea ceremony.In a Furoshiki demonstration at the recent

Tokyo Pack 2014, ladies from the equivalent ofthe Women’s Institute showed how squares ofprinted cloth, often cut from an old kimono, couldbe folded, corners tied in complex knots to wrapthe shape of whatever product is to be given: Anapple, a book, a sake bottle – or two.

In Furoshiki the objective is to ‘delight’, andthere lies the base-line key word for modernpackaging design in Japan: The object is to‘delight’ the consumer, not just with graphics(though they do play an important role) but todeliver a total packaging experience. Forexample, a clever self-spouting closure that elim-inates the drip in a detergent pouch, a valve in acoffee pack that permits the aroma to be smelledin store, or an odour absorbent film for take-away meals.

It is not a word that would necessarily appearin the Western packaging designer’s lexicon, but

all contemporary packaging design in Japanmust ‘delight’.

Converting the marketToday’s industrialised packag-ing sector has come a longway from Furoshiki. Nowdominated by the converter,the package manufactureris responsible for bothdesign and manufactur-ing of most retail packs.

But the concept of‘delight’ remains.

In Japan very fewbrand owners investin packaging R&D,

preferr ing todirect theirresourcestowards prod-uct develop-ment andmarketing.

Instead, it isthe converter, or pack-

age manufacturer, that develops the material,laminates, barrier properties, shape and evenrecommends portion size.

Many manufacturers have developed backup the supply chain to include co-packing – mix-

ing and manufacturing the product to the brandowner’s recipe, filling and taking responsibilityfor final delivery to the brand owner’s ware-houses throughout the country – a real one-stopshop.

Packaging manufacturers such as Rengo,Toppan, Oj, Dai Nippon and Toyo Seikan aremajor conglomerates in their own right, withdivisions converting and manufacturing mostmaterials; paper, metal, plastics, corrugated.Along with their smaller competitors, they arethe real drivers of packaging innovation,investing heavily in research and development;from substrate to structure.

Toyo Seikan, for example, was founded in1917 as Japan’s first canmaker, but hasevolved into a full service manufacturer offeringsteel and aluminium cans, PET bottles, flexiblepackaging pouches, aerosols, paper and plasticscups, from 16 plants throughout Japan and sub-sidiary manufacturing in 15 plants across Asia.The group has more than 18,000 employees andsales to the year ending March 2014 topped ¥785trillion (US$6.88bn).

Package formats developed by conglomeratessuch as Toyo Seikan are then sold to brand own-ers as a complete product. In this system, theconverter retains ownership of the intellectualproperty, allowing the pack concept to be mar-keted to different customers – with the resultthat the package format is often commoditisedand (in the case of PET bottles) the same packcan contain a range of beverages from differentbrand owners.

True, it results in standard, uniform bottles– but the results are ‘delightful’ and theeconomies of scale massive, and competition isfierce.

Toyo Seikan’s ribbed PET bottle rectangularformats for both hot-fill and aseptic packaginghave become ubiquitous in the market, pro-duced in their tens of millions and they can con-tain fruit juices, RTD (ready to drink), soyamilk, teas, carbonated soft drinks and water. Onthe supermarket shelf the form is identical; it isthe shrink sleeve that provides the point of

Japanese packaging: the delight factor

Stuart Hoggard - from Singapore

Above: Graphic instructionsaid the consumer when it comes to separating the various packaging components post-useRight: The tradition of

wrapping provides a'delight' to the consumer

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brand differentiation.Pretty boring, eh? So one might

ask, where is the ‘delight’ in sucha dull rectangular pack? Wellfirst it is rectangular because,unlike the more traditionalcylindrical bottle, it can bestored either standing verticallyor on its side and fits neatly intothe door compartment in all standard fridge withminimal wasted space – nicely practical, buthardly what would ‘delight’.

On examination, the bottle’s ribbed structurehas three indentations for the consumer to grip:one at the top near the neck so that it can be eas-ily lifted out of the fridge with no fear of slippage.

A second hand grip just above the centre isconvenient for pouring, while a third at the baseallows the bottle to be completely inverted topour out those final drops… important if the con-tents are a more viscous liquid like cooking oil.As a ‘delighting’ pack it is getting there, but notquite!

The ultimate delight for the consumer is thatonce the shrink sleeve has been ripped off usingthe handy perforated pull-tab, the pre-stressedrib structure can, with minimal pressure, col-lapse allowing the entire bottle to be folded in onitself to form a small square; origami with PET.

Under Japan’s Containers and PackagingLaw, householders are required to wash, cleanand return PET bottles to bins outside most con-venience stores – carrying a week’s supply ofbulky drinks and cooking oil bottles could besuch a chore, but the origami collapsible struc-ture reduces the volume to less than 15 per centof its original dimensions – and there is the‘delight’.

Women to the foreWith more women entering the workforce inJapan you might be forgiven for believing thatJapan is a fairly egalitarian society. Not in theslightest.

Even though they may hold a full-time job,women’s work is still in the home. Today not somuch as a drudge but as a professional manager.This is not a one-way street, however. Typicallythe husband hands over his entire salary to hiswife who returns to him what she judges to bereasonable pocket money.

Almost exclusively, it is women that do thehousehold shopping, even buying their husband’sclothes, so it is not at all surprising that most theproduct graphics on the supermarket shelves tar-get women. Even male personal care items suchas hair gel are packaged in pastel-coloured cutesycontainers that even the most metrosexual malewould find just too ‘kawaii’ (super cute).

Take the case of Gatsby Hair Jam (gel) byAble Design and Dentsu, Kanzai, which is across-shaped male hair grooming product pack.

Blow moulded as a double-layer polyethylenecontainer, it uses two different densities of PE togive a rigid interior with a soft tactile, almostspongy, outer layer to improve the grip – bynature hair gel is slippery. With a small form fac-tor, about the same footprint as an eye shadow ormake-up compact, it fits comfortably in thepocket of the trendy man-about-town.

All of the packaging (except transportpacks) is designed with women in mind, and mostR&D teams include female technicians. Womenshoppers, not only enjoy being delighted – theyexpect it.

Age factorsJapan’s population is aging much faster than inthe West; birth rate growth is less than one percent per year, while people are living longer, dueto advances in medicine.

At 82 years for men and 87 years for women,Japan has the highest life expectancy in theworld, according to 2014 World Health Organisa-tion data, and with women living an average offive years longer than men this creates a dispro-portional number of single women households.

This puts pressure on packaging designers tocater for this market segment with its require-ments for smaller single-person portions.

Principals of Universal Design (also known asAccessible Design) play a dominant role in pack-age design. Easy to open, easy to re-close andeasy to store are some of the main requirementsof this consumer segment.

With failing eyesight and frail fingers the eld-erly consumer needs help in identifying the open-ing – so notches cut in flexible packaging,coloured pull tab strips to indicate the openingare essential.

Easy to re-close packs cater for singletons whopossibly don’t want to eat the entire contents of apackage at one sitting.

Easy-to-store packs allow food to be storedand stacked neatly in a cupboard, or in the fridge.

Tsunami after effectsIn the tsunami of 2011, and the Fukushimanuclear reactor failure that followed, Japan lost

more than 60 per cent of its package productioncapability, and although almost all of this capac-ity has been restored, it taught some valuable les-sons.

Material reduction was necessary; full-length shrink sleeves were replaced with simplewrap around labels, while for the best part of2012 all soft drink bottle tops were white ascolourants were unavailable in the domestic mar-ket. Having found that sales of the brand wereunaffected, many of these material saving meas-ures continue today.

However, the biggest impact of the emergencyhas been in the drive for food product packagingthat can be stored, unfrozen and kept under nor-mal household kitchen conditions for longer. Forexample, oxygen-scavenging EVOH lami-tubeskeep mayonnaise fresh for up to five years. Oxy-gen scavenging sachets in Ritz cracker tins, or inrice-cake packs, also give a five-year shelf-life.

Japan’s largest on-line retailer, Ratukn, ismarketing an ‘emergency pack’ containing suffi-cient food rations for three days. Containingpacks of rice, noodles, curry sauce, bottled water,soya bean and a ‘self heating’ pack to warm foodwithout flame, the emergency provisions can bestored for up to five years.

Disposable cultureAs households are required to selectively sepa-rate domestic waste into at least 12 differenttrash bins (see Plastics in Packaging, September2014), an emphasis on convenience of disposal isa requirement. Containers must be clearlymarked and where multiple materials are used,the pack must be easy to separate so that eachmaterial can be discarded individually. Thisresults in ingenious solutions — such as perfora-tions in the board around the closure allow thebag to be ripped out with minimal force.

To increase the rate of PET recycling, theJapanese Beverage Association forbids the use ofcoloured or tinted PET bottles in 2006. This keepsthe waste stream ‘pure’ but has also heavily influ-enced the structural design of PET beverage con-tainers, as brand owners use shape and shrinksleeves for brand differentiation.

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Ribbed bottles provide anergonomic grip for the consumerwhilst also being collapsible for

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T he ongoing recovery of a fragile supplychain was the topic of discussion for AkiraShirakura, technical advisor for the

Japan Packaging Institute (JPI), in an openingday presentation at Tokyo Pack 2014.

As packaging volumes and values graduallyimprove and return to 2003 levels, the Great EastJapan Earthquake of 2011 has certainly left alegacy, as the loss of production led to cripplingraw material shortages.

But Japanese people have evolved followingthis country-wide disaster, with longer shelf-life nolonger seen as a luxury but now viewed as a mat-ter of life or death. As natural disasters happen,Japanese consumers want to know they will haveenough provisions to last.

Close contact of the food kindRecent reports claim that 1.3 billion tonnes of foodis wasted every year at an annual cost of US$680billion in industrialised countries, and $310bn indeveloping countries. This would imply that 30-50per cent of the world’s food goes to waste — ashocking statistic.

A US company made a significant impact atTokyo Pack with a ‘pop-open’ package developedwith Japanese packaging partner companies. Itsstrap-line was ‘PopPack: Ending Food and Pack-aging Waste — one package at a time’.

The ‘bubble in the seal’ technology can beapplied to various consumer packages in the food,healthcare, personal care, and household productsectors.

“It uses air to simplify the opening of packagesbut has a very strong seal,” said Toshio Arita,owner of Packaging Strategies Japan Corpora-tion. “You pop, then open. And fold down toreclose.”

Specifically on the Japanese market, Aritaexplained that food-based waste totals about 17million tonnes, of which more than half is from the

home. Loss of still edible foodequates to around eight milliontonnes, which he adds is almostas large as Japan’s yearly riceharvest.

This food loss comes from“Unsold, off-grade and left-over products” or the con-sumer-driven issue he referredto as “Too much buy”.

PopPack’s recent technologyand prototype developmentmoved to Japan several yearsago, when Arita met an inven-tor from San Francisco, William Perell, who hadalready developed a portfolio of innovations basedon popping bubbles to open flexible packaging.

Enlisting the help of other Japanese engineers,namely Mitsuhiro Sumimoto and Jiro Noda, thePopPack Japan Team then worked closely withKawashima Machinery, J-Film Corporation, Mit-subishi Plastics, Tokyo Foods Machinery Com-pany/Multivac, and others to develop newmarket-ready prototypes.

Some of these PopPack prototypes were dis-

played at the exhibition organ-ised by PopPack’s collaborationpartners, Oji Package Innova-tion Center and Tokyo FoodsMachinery Company/Multivac,and of course by PopPack itself.

Speaking to Plastics in Pack-aging, PopPack LLC president,William Perell, said that thecompany has patents covering70 per cent of the world’s popula-tion; patents have been issued incountries whose total popula-tions exceed five billion.

He continued: “For successful inventions, thesimpler it is, the easier it is to understand and use.PopPack makes packages easy to open... everyoneknows how to pop a bubble!”

Designed to reduce food and packaging wastewithout product spillage, whilst being reclosable,PopPack’s technologies for ‘pop-open’ packageshave been applied to the production of pouches,sachets and thermoformed trays.

“The machinery is ready to go... the film isready and tested, and the PopPack prototypes are

&&OriginalityOriginalityingenuity

Food waste and materialreduction were two pivotalthemes at this year’s Tokyo Packexhibition. Steven Pacittireports from Japan

Food waste and materialreduction were two pivotalthemes at this year’s Tokyo Packexhibition. Steven Pacittireports from Japan

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Main: An artistic view for visitors to Tokyo Big Sight exhibition centre as they arrive at the train station.Above left: PopPack works on prototype development at Kawashima Machinery. Above right: Japanese consumers demonstrate the easy-to-open packs. Below: PopPack's marketing director, Cheryl Harrison(left), and president William Perell explain that everyone knows how to pop a bubble

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being constantly improved,”said Arita, who is PopPack’ssenior packaging engineer.

Elsewhere at Tokyo Pack,the presence of WarwickArmstrong, general managerand business developmentand marketing for Plantic, onthe Kuraray booth was aresult of the Australian andJapanese firms’ distributionagreement signed in Septem-ber. Kuraray has becomePlantic’s distributor in theJapanese and South Koreanmarkets and is promoting thebio-based barrier material.

It is an interesting partnership when you con-sider that Kuraray is the world’s biggest producerof EVOH, which is a rival barrier material to Plan-tic’s renewably sourced starch barrier plastics.

“It gives us access to their existing EVOH cus-tomer base,” said Warwick Armstrong at the exhi-bition. “We can offer a 5-10 per cent improvementon EVOH for fresh meats.”

Plantic supplies sheet (for the tray) toKuraray, and a typi-cal packaging struc-ture could bePE/Plantic/PE (eco

Plastic), PET/Plantic /PET(eco Plastic R) or PET/Plan-tic/PET/PE (eco PlasticUltra). During recycling, thePlantic material washesaway to leave recyclable plas-tics.

“We want 5 per cent of the$60bn Japanese market –that’s $3bn,” said Armstrong.“The final cost using ourmaterial is the same asEVOH.”

Asked where any resist-ance to change could comefrom in the Japanese market,

Armstrong said: “Maybe a customer likes theexisting overwrap format, but this looks like clingfilm. It looks like it has been wrapped at the backof the building. 20 years ago this was the same sit-uation in the UK or Australia.

“In Australia, Coles has been a good customerand they see the benefits of the longer shelf life,while you do not need to promote the green cre-dentials to the consumer as it’s obvious. Somecompanies in New Zealand even use the Plantic

logo on the packaging.”Vacuum-sealed skin-packs are increas-

ingly popular for meat in markets such asthe UK, while ultra-high barrier trays witha polyethylene peel layer are becomingcommon for the packing of fresh fish, whichmay be a good opportunity for Japan.

Speaking about a recent life-cycle assessment,Armstrong said that over the course of 12 months,it was shown that each 100 tonnes of eco-plasticused in place of oil-based polymers, reduced car-bon emissions equivalent to planting 42,100 trees.

Targeting a “doubling of our business thisyear” in Japan, Milliken is growing hard in a mar-ket that sees polypropylene clamshells dominateand increasingly replacing oriented polystyrene(OPS) in recent years.

“We’ve also recently had food-contact approvalhere for ClearTint,” explained Vincent Wang, whois marketing, regulatory and supply chain andMARCOM manager, Asia-Pacific for the Chemi-cal Division of Milliken, as he enthusiastically pre-sented his company to the Tokyo Pack audiencefor the first time.

The company demonstrated applications forMillad NX 8000 in thermoforming, which it saidenables the substitution of less expensive, morefunctional and more sustainable materials for tra-ditional methods. Polypropylene clarified withMillad NX 8000 can therefore overcome the tradi-tional undesirable milky appearance of PP in ther-moforming applications.

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Above left: Companies including Seikou Company and Osaka SealingPrinting used acting and live demonstrations/contests to promotetheir products. Above centre: Presentation is everything in Japan -

Japanese Cosplay (costume play) has become a global phenomenoninspiring groups such as The Wish Sisters in the UK. Above right:Characters and animation are hugely popular in Japan. Below left:

Taiwanese conglomerate Far Eastern Group was one exhibitor promot-ing the importance of recycling to industry. Below centre: Delegates

participate in a prize draw at one Japanese exhibitor's booth.Below right: Some of the colourful, vibrant and cute packaging

formats seen in Japan are inspired by young consumers and their modern style

Photo credit: Paper Cube

Plantic's general manager and businessdevelopment and marketing, WarwickArmstrong, promoted his company's

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“There is lots of interest in Japan in clear PPsheet, which is heat-resistant and thermo-formable, for example, in cups,” said Wang. “It issuitable for tea and coffee as PET struggles withheat. There are few players here that can produceclear PP sheet.

“We are starting to see the replacement of PVCand PET in Japan. Downstream customers haveincreasing levels of power.”

A creative way of promoting a new productwas found on the Takigawa Corporation stand, asvisitors were offered a choice of meals, freshlycooked in the microwave using the company’spackaging system, and then served through ahatch, to enjoy during a meeting.

Dream Steam uses a special valve to allowvapour from the food to ‘steam cook’ the meal at apressure of 2-bar. Designed for cooking fresh food(not pre-cooked), the temperature reaches a max-imum of 121 deg C and is said to not destroy ‘microcells’ of food so that the flavour, texture and nutri-tion remains unaffected.

“We have a plant here and in Taiwan,”explained Hirotsugo Ohno, general manager ofthe sales development department at TakigawaCorp. “It is used in the UK for hospital food but notin the retail sector. Our objective is to supplysupermarkets in Japan.”

The technology itself is from Switzerland andthe push into Japan is a recent development forthe company.

“We supply the pack, not the food inside. So wesell to the likes of Mitsubishi Shokuhin and Nip-pon Access, which are Japan’s two leading foodwholesalers. They then sell to the food producer.”

The chilled food sector is growing, and Japanis a prime location. A polypropylene tray, PET film(with valve) and PP lamination would be a typicalformat.

The company has recently invested in an HPDigital 20000 printing press, which will open moredoors for innovation in a fast-moving market.

Doing more with lessA year on from its launch in Europe, the StarpackAward-winning EasyLid has arrived in Japan asa recloseable solution for fresh products such assnacks, nuts and creams.

The EasyLid concept was developed by Seal-pac in close cooperation with Dutch companyNaber Plastics, which is the patent holder for thespecial pre-formed tray, and was presented on anautomated Sealpac A7 traysealer (Sealpac alsodoes the tooling).

What makes the opening of the EasyLid traynovel is that it has a regular sealing edge in alongwith an additional ring. Both are sealed at differ-ent temperatures in one process, resulting in ahermetic seal. After opening, the film and lid inone solution provides a reclosable lid. The trayscan be produced both from mono materials as wellas with full barrier properties.

By requiring no separate lidding process, thecompany says that savings are made on invest-ment, production and storage costs. EasyLid alsooptimises the production chain by eliminating onestep in the process.

Speaking to Plastics in Packaging, Naber’ssales and marketing manager, Joop Meerbeek,said: “We have 11 or 12 shapes already for this,and without a conventional lid you can see theproduct more easily, so it looks fresher.”

Meerbeek added that the EasyLid representsa 25 per cent raw material saving and no de-nest-ing is required or end-of-line storage.

“Usually you would have a box of trays and abox of lids, so this can provide a 40 per cent spacesaving. The film is the lid. Traditionally, when buy-ing pre-packed salads you peel the lid off and can-not mix the salad easily. Now you can reapply thelid and shake the salad dressing in.”

A new oxygen barrier adhesive for dry lami-nate processes was the biggest launch on the DICCorporation’s booth. DIC, which owns Sun Chem-ical, unveiled PASLIM, which it says allows forweight and cost reduction for simple substrates.

The PASLIM series consists of oxygen barrierlaminating adhesives that can replace organic-resin barrier film with general-use film. It is appli-cable for boil and retort packages with strongadhesiveness to film constructions such asPET/PE, Ny/CPP, PET/VM-CPP, PET/Ny/CPPand PET/Ny/CPP (after retort).

Using the analogy of a golf ball, Japan’sTsukasa Chemical Industry exhibited an ultra-thin stretch film called Nano 6, which replaces a15-micron film with a 6-micron alternative offer-

ing the same strength properties. In addition togetting more film into a reel, more pallet stabilitybrings advantages in a fast-moving industry suchas industrial packaging.

Alongside its Japan Packaging Contest suc-cess with a microwaveable pouch/carton pack forkobe beef curry, Toppan Printing had a veritablegallery of innovative packaging on display at itsbooth. Earlier this year the company announcedthat Georgia, USA, would be the location of itsfirst North American barrier film plant in March2016.

This plant, the company says, will enablepackaging converters to deliver the lighter andeco-friendly solutions that supermarket chains areincreasingly demanding.

An aerosol system that discharges two differ-ent contents at the same time through a singlepush was exhibited by Japan’s Toyo Aerosol Indus-try. DUAL utilises technologies from ToyoSeikan and contains two pouches within a metalcan, using nitrogen as propellant.

“We have on display a three- or four-layer alu-minium pouch for foam cosmetics,” said NozomiMori, overseas sales department for Toyo AerosolIndustry. “The can on our booth we are selling intoEurope. We have a site in Japan and are planningto open one in Germany.”

Japanese steelTokyo Pack is not so much a machinery exhibi-tion, but that is not to say that there is nothingnew in this area. Nishibe of Japan demonstratedits SBM-600-SPG automatic pouch makingmachine for zippered stand-up pouches, whichfeatured a new control system. The machinecomes with 3-servo computer control.

“There is the possibility of setting a fixed seal-

Right: Hirotsugu Ohno, general manager of the sales developmentdepartment at Takigawa Corporation (left), and company president

Hiroyuki Takigawa served up Dream Steam.Below: The EasyLid concept has arrived in Japan, explained Naber

Plastics' sales and marketing manager, Joop Meerbeek.Below far right: Tsukasa Chemical Industry has replaced a

15-micron film with a 6-micron alternative

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ing time independent from the running speedwith this machine,” said Takahiro Muramatsu ofNishibe. “It has a user-friendly touch screen andan auto-tuning function for mark sensor.”

Production speed is 30-120 cycles per minutefor zippered stand-up pouches, 30-140 cycles perminute for stand-up pouches, and 30-160 cyclesper minute for 3-side seal. Film size ranges fromwidths of 400mm up to 1,250mm.

Taiwanese firm Xu Yuan Packaging Technol-ogy (XYP) exhibited a range of automatic shrink-

able label inserting machines (XYL-250AJ, XYL-350AJ, XYL-450AJ and XYL-600AJ).

Labels of PVC, PET, or OPS can be used withinsertion lengths of 50mm-200mm.

Grace Huang, international marketing special-ist for XYP, said: “We will have new thin shrinklabels this year, made from PVC and 30 per centthinner than before. We started selling them inBrazil this year.

“But the thinner sleeve is harder to control sowe introduced the new XYL machine range.”

Above left: Takahiro Muramatsu explains the latest control systems on Nishibe's pouch machines. Above right: Toyo Aerosol Industry's DUAL is a metal can containing two pouches and nitrogen as a propellant

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Bringing new meaning tolarger portion packs: In Japanit is normal to find 4- or 5-litre PET bottles of whisky

Left: Japanese brand owners do not thinkanything of adding extra processes to the

packaging, such as a straw running throughthe mouths of fish to resemble a fishing line.

Below: Cultural cues: The art of Shodo(calligraphy) is used to combine the modern

with the traditionalt

Left: Polypropylene pouches with polyamide (PA)as the barrier layer can provide a unique paper-likeappearance for productsBelow: Plastics often dominates the supermarketshelves in Japan

Above: Fish is often prepared in theretail premises and packed in heat-sealed plastics traysLeft: More cultural cues in packaging:Samurai were placed at the top of societyas they set a high moral example for oth-ers to follow

As packaging producers andbrand owners pay a fee to anindustry association based onpackaging material type andweight, single-material structuressuch as polypropylenecontainers/tubes and caps forsauces (pictured right is a tube ofWasabi) are targeted

Above: Plastics that resembleJapanese paper bring a new dimen-sion to noodle packagingAbove right: Dashi is a Japanesesoup stock that is usually boiled inthe pack over a high heat for severalminutes. It is a cornerstoneof Japanese cuisine Right: PET bottles for hot-fill applications are blownbefore a PP cap is fitted,which remains fixed tothe bottle until recycling,when it can be cut off

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Steven Pacitti took a tour of some Japanese retailoutlets for a fascinating insight into the range ofplastics packaging on offer to consumers

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Left: Presentation iseverything: Fresh fish/sushiis often displayed onexpanded foam trays thatresemble woodAbove: A novel way todisplay stand-up pouchesAbove right: It is often saidthat Japanese consumersonly trust packs where theycan see the oxygenabsorber/desiccant sachet.Maybe the absorber couldbe integrated into the film

Left: As with Japan's packaging, presentation is key toenjoying sushi. Each piece is intricately presented along withgarnishments to create a piece of artAbove: Animation is extremely popular in Japan and it oftenfinds itself adorning packaging. Male styling products areoften designed with female shoppers in mind

Right: Food products such as Okra aresold in clear PET containers withdesiccant sachets to absorb oxygen,giving the item a one-month shelf lifeBelow: The latest vending machines inJapan feature a much wider range ofproducts, advertising opportunitiesand the option to pay by mobile (cell)phone. There is also a unit (to theright) for usedpackaging so thatconsumers canseparate at source(for recycling). InJapan there are5.5 million vend-ing machines,which is one forevery 23 people

Above: A soft touch polyethylene/polypropy-lene flexible pack for a bakery productBelow: Colourful flexible packs of varyingconstructs adorn the shelves

Left: Amongst the high-quality packaging formats is the odd packwith cardboard backing fixed withadhesive tape, illustrating the hugecontrast in options on the shelf

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 Tokyo  Pack  2014  –  Asia’s  Premier  Packaging  Exhibition  to  showcase  advanced  packaging  materials  and  processes    

Title:  Tokyo  International  Packaging  Exhibition  2014  Dates:  7-­‐10  October  2014  (10:00-­‐17:00)  Venue:  Tokyo  Big  Sight  

 Dates  have  been  finalized  for  the  largest  packaging  show  in  Asia,  TOKYO  PACK  2014,  which  will  take  place  on  7-­‐10  October  2014  at  the  capital  city’s  international  exhibition  centre  Tokyo  Big  Sight.    TOKYO  PACK  2014  will  present  state-­‐of-­‐the-­‐art  packaging,  production  and  processing  solutions  for  companies  in  the  main  sectors  of  Food  &  Beverage,  Confectionery  &  Bakery  products,  Pharmaceuticals  &  Cosmetics,  Non-­‐food  Consumer  Goods,  Industrial  Products.  Also  on  show  will  be  a  range  of  related  services;  Packaging  Materials;  Printing;  Testing&  Inspection;  Logistics  &  Distribution;  and  Recycling&  Disposal.    Launched  in  1966  and  owned  and  operated  directly  by  the  Japan  Packaging  Institute  (JPI),  the  biannual  (every  two  years)  exhibition  will  feature  more  than  2,600  booths  representing  600  companies  in  the  23,000m2  exhibition  space,  which  attracts  more  than  70,000  visitors  from  inside  Japan  and  overseas.    Already  many  of  Japan’s  largest  packaging  players  have  registered  their  participation  as  exhibitions,  including  Rengo  Co.,  Ltd.,  Toppan  Printing  Co.,  Ltd.,  Toyo  Jidoki  Co.,  Ltd.,  Toyo  Ink  Co.,  Ltd.  Takara  Pac.  Ltd.,  Kyodo  Printing  Co.,  Ltd.,  Idemitsu  Unitech  Co.,  Ltd,  Ishida  Co.,  Ltd.,  Anritsu  Industrial  Solutions  Co.,  Ltd.,  Taisei  Lamick  Co.,  Ltd.,  Furukawa  MFG  Co.,  Ltd.,  Fujiseiki  Co.,  Ltd,  as  well  as  the  Japanese  divisions  of  global  corporations,  such  as  Crown-­‐package  Co.,  Ltd.,  EDM  Corporation  and  Strapack  Corporation.      Show  Organizers  Set  to  Repeat  Last  Show’s  Stellar  Performance  The  recent  edition  of  the  exhibition,  TOKYO  PACK  2012,  saw  an  increase  in  registered  visitor  numbers  to  65,311,  from  the  62,182  registered  visitors  to  the  previous  edition.      In  all,  more  than  170,000  people  visited  TOKYO  PACK  2012  during  the  four-­‐day  exhibition.    Exhibitor  numbers  also  grew  8.9%  to  600,  while  the  total  number  of  booths  rose  7.2%  to  2,270.    The  forthcoming  TOKYO  PACK  2014  is  set  to  exceed  all  previous  exhibitor  and  visitor  numbers,  as  Japan’s  packaging  industry  continues  to  expand,  and  Asian  packaging  markets  press  on  ahead  at  the  rapid  development  rates  that  make  the  region  one  of  the  fastest  growing  in  the  world.    Mr.  Yoichi  Sonoyama,  Secretary  General  of  the  TOKYO  PACK  2014  Secretariat,  said,  “TOKYO  PACK  is  the  largest  exhibition  in  Asia  with  group  participation  from  China,  Korea  and  Taiwan,  it  attracts  attention  as  a  regional  Asia-­‐specific  exhibition  where  you  can  learn  the  latest  trends  of  packaging  from  across  Asia.  

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 “For  TOKYO  PACK  2014,  we  intend  to  go  all  out  to  expand  the  scope  and  scale  of  the  exhibition.    “We  look  forward  to  welcoming  visitors  and  exhibitors  to  TOKYO  PACK  2014  –  the  one  single  location  in  Asia  where  exhibitors  and  visitors  can  get  updated  on  regional  packaging  trends,  meet  key  packaging  players,  and  gain  a  foothold  in  this  fast-­‐growing  Asian  packaging  market  that  offers  considerable  business  potential  and  opportunities,”  said  Mr.  Sonoyama.        For  exhibitor  enquires,  contact:    TOKYO  PACK  2012  Secretariat  Togeki  Bldg.  10F,  4-­‐1-­‐1  Tsukiji,  Chuo-­‐ku,  Tokyo  104-­‐0045,  Japan  Tel:  +81-­‐3-­‐3543-­‐1189          Fax:  +81-­‐3-­‐3543-­‐8970    E-­‐mail:  tokyopack@jpi.or.jp    Website:  http://www.tokyo-­‐pack.jp/en    

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Tokyo  Pack  2014  –  A  Celebration  of  the  Package    

Title:  Tokyo  International  Packaging  Exhibition  2014  Dates:  7-­‐10  October  2014  (10:00-­‐17:00)  Venue:  Tokyo  Big  Sight  

 The  cradle  of  packaging  innovation  and  technology,  Japan  is  at  the  forefront  of  the  most  advanced  packaging  developments  globally;  and  this  year  all  these  cutting-­‐edge  solutions  will  be  housed  in  one  location:  TOKYO  PACK  2014.    The  largest  packaging  exhibition  in  Asia,  Tokyo  Pack  2014  is  "ここで見つかる、包装のチカラ", or,  as  translated  directly  into  English,  “The  site  of  advanced  packaging  development  and  solutions  technology”.  This  year’s  exhibition  has  lined  up  a  series  of  special  displays,  all  of  which  celebrate  the  Package.    Japan’s  Packaging  Display  Highlights  In  addition  to  the  main  exhibition,  the  exhibition  organizers  are  introducing  a  new  showcase  of  advanced  Japanese  packaging  solutions.  The  Next  Generation  High  Performance  Packaging  Pavilion  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.    The  Good  Packaging  Pavilion  will  feature  the  year’s  best  in  Japanese  packaging  innovation  and  technology  -­‐  the  Japan  Star  2014  winners.  A  special  collection  of  Japan’s  most  advanced  and  creative  packaging  designs  and  technology  chosen  by  expert  industry  professionals,  this  is  a  unique  opportunity  to  see  firsthand  the  top  commercialized  packaging  solutions  in  the  extremely  sophisticated  and  demanding  Japanese  consumer  market.    The  Global  Packaging  Pavilion  will  also  return  to  Tokyo  Pack  2014  after  a  successful  first-­‐run  at  the  last  show.  A  showcase  of  common  food  and  beverage  packaging  around  the  world,  highlighting  the  importance  of  packaging  to  Man,  this  display  will  feature  packaging  applications  common  to  different  countries,  as  an  extension  of  different  consumer  behavior  and  habits.    About  Tokyo  Pack  Launched  in  1966  and  owned  and  operated  directly  by  the  Japan  Packaging  Institute  (JPI),  the  biennial  (every  two  years)  exhibition  will  feature  more  than  2,600  booths  representing  600  companies  in  the  23,000m2  exhibition  space,  which  attracts  more  than  70,000  visitors  from  inside  Japan  and  overseas.    During  the  last  edition,  more  than  170,000  people  visited  TOKYO  PACK  2012  during  the  four-­‐day  exhibition.    For  exhibitor  and  visitor  enquires,  contact:    TOKYO  PACK  2012  Secretariat  Togeki  Bldg.  10F,  4-­‐1-­‐1  Tsukiji,  Chuo-­‐ku,  Tokyo  104-­‐0045,  Japan  Tel:  +81-­‐3-­‐3543-­‐1189         E-­‐mail:  tokyopack@jpi.or.jp    Fax:  +81-­‐3-­‐3543-­‐8970       Website:  http://www.tokyo-­‐pack.jp/en  

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Japan  Packaging  Industry  –  resilient  and  strong      TOKYO:  The  Japan  Packaging  Institute  (JPI)  and  significant  Japanese  packaging  players  will  be  showcasing  their  cutting-­‐edge  technology  at  interpack  2014.    Between  September  2013  and  March  2014  alone,  the  Japanese  packaging  industry  invested  heavily  in  production  capacity  expansion  to  meet  both  domestic  and  overseas  demand.      Toppan  Printing  Co  Ltd,  one  of  Japan’s  largest  packaging  and  printing  companies,  announced  earlier  in  March  2014  a  US$264.4  million  (¥27  billion)  investment  in  a  new  flexible  packaging  materials  plant  in  Gunma  Prefecture.  Meanwhile,  Rengo  Co  Ltd  is  preparing  to  start  operations  at  a  new  corrugated  plant  in  Okayama  Prefecture,  Japan.    Overseas,  Rengo  is  currently  constructing  a  US$10  million  corrugated  box  manufacturing  facility  in  Dong  Nai  Province,  Vietnam.      In  Indonesia,  Dai  Nippon  Printing  Co  Ltd  (DNP)  has  invested  US$59.8  million  in  expanding  production  capacity  at  an  existing  plant  while  at  the  same  time  constructing  a  new  facility.  In  Vietnam,  DNP  also  recently  started  operations  at  its  new  facility  near  Ho  Chi  Minh  City  to  service  global  brand  owners  manufacturing  in  the  country,  and  also  take  up  some  of  the  growing  export  demand  for  flexible  packaging  in  South  East  Asia  which  was  previously  met  by  the  DNP  Indonesia  operations.    While  much  has  been  said  about  the  stagnant  economy  and  ageing  population  in  Japan,  the  country  is  still  performing  well  despite  the  odds.  In  2013,  Japan  posted  a  2%  growth  in  GDP,  higher  than  the  1.6%  and  0.1%  GDP  growth  experienced  by  the  USA  and  the  European  Union  respectively.  GDP  per  capita  in  Japan  was  registered  at  US$35,855.    Japan  Packaging  Industry  Market  Statistics  Japan  shipped  a  total  of  18.37  million  tons  of  packaging  materials  and  containers  in  2012  worth  US$55.28  billion  (¥5,645  billion)  while  364,251  units  of  packaging  machinery  valued  at  US$4.24  billion  (¥433  billion)  were  shipped,  according  to  data  from  the  Japan  Packaging  Institute  (JPI).    Japan’s  fiscal  year  2012  –  which  ran  from  April  2012  to  March  2013  –  encompassed  the  long  recovery  period  in  which  the  packaging  industry,  and  the  nation  as  a  whole,  had  to  cope  with  in  the  aftermath  of  the  Great  Eastern  Japan  Earthquake  and  Tsunami  (known  as  ‘Tohoku”)  of  11  March  2011.      Yet  despite  the  struggles  faced  in  returning  the  supply  chain  to  a  semblance  of  order  following  the  shutdown  of  much  of  the  key  upstream  Chiba  petrochemical  material  facility,  coupled  with  power  shortages  as  a  result  of  all  of  its  nuclear  power  reactors,  the  Japanese  packaging  industry  has  shown  resilience  and  is  continuing  strongly  on  the  road  to  recovery.        

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 Packaging  Insight  Japan  Tour  offers  unique  orientation  programme  for  

overseas  visitors  to  Tokyo  Pack  2014      TOKYO  -­‐  To  provide  a  unique  insight  into  Japan’s  US$77  billion  packaging  industry,  the  TOKYO  PACK  2014  management  is  offering  a  one-­‐day  orientation  program  designed  to  help  foreign  visitors  gain  the  maximum  benefit  from  their  visit  to  TOKYO  PACK.    Now  in  its  second  edition,  Packaging  Insight  Japan  Tour  is  a  collaboration  between  TOKYO  PACK  exhibition  owner-­‐operator,  the  Japanese  packaging  industry  association  Japan  Packaging  Institute  (JPI),  and  EP  Resources  Pte  Ltd,  Singapore,  to  present  a  full-­‐day  programme  on  Monday,  6  October  2014  -­‐  the  day  before  the  show  opens.    Running  from  7-­‐10  October,  TOKYO  PACK  2014  has  attracted  more  than  600  Japanese  and  international  packaging  companies  in  2,500  booths  across  the  51,380  square  metre  exhibition  space  at  Tokyo  Big  Sight.    “Packaging  in  Japan  is  a  fine  balance  between  aesthetics,  marketing  and  advanced  technology,  much  of  which  is  not  immediately  obvious  to  the  first  time  visitor,”  said  Mr.  Yoichi  Sonoyama,  Deputy  Secretary  General  of  JPI  and  Secretary  General  of  the  TOKYO  PACK  Secretariat.  “Through  this  orientation  programme,  we  hope  to  increase  our  foreign  guests’  understanding  of  the  Japanese  packaging  market,  strengthening  the  bridge  between  our  industry  and  the  global  industry.”    According  to  Stuart  Hoggard,  CEO  of  Singapore-­‐based  EP  Resources,  “There  is  a  frequent  perception  of  Japanese  packaging  as  being  technologically  elaborate  to  the  point  of  being  over-­‐engineered.  Certainly  packaging  in  Japan  is  elaborate,  but  the  common  Japanese  consumer  view  is  that  ‘if  the  packaging  is  not  100%  perfect,  how  can  I  trust  that  the  product  inside  is  also  not  perfect’.      “With  this  mind-­‐set,  Japanese  converters  and  brand  owners  go  beyond  the  basic  functionality  and  seek  to  use  packaging  to  delight,  or  surprise  consumers,”  explained  Hoggard.  “This  unique  programme  will  help  foreign  companies  get  under  the  hood  of  Japanese  packaging,  understand  its  drivers  and  build  a  network  of  manufacturers  and  buyers  that  has  traditionally  been  inaccessible  due  to  language  differences.”    The  Packaging  Insight  Japan  Tour  programme  has  been  designed  in  two-­‐parts:  a  morning  orientation  seminar  and  afternoon  retail  tour  to  see  the  commercialisation  of  these  ideas.          Morning  Orientation  The  morning’s  orientation  seminar  will  provide  a  unique  background  to  the  packaging  formats,  materials  and  technologies  that  will  be  on  show  at  TOKYO  PACK  2014.    In  addition  to  presenting  the  Japanese  packaging  market  data,  production  and  trade  statistics,  the  session  will  introduce  consumer  trends  and  buying  patterns  in  Japan  today,  as  well  as  discuss  the  retail  formats.  Participants  will  learn  the  key  concerns  and  

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requirements  of  the  Japanese  consumer,  and  the  factors  that  influence  the  purchase  decision.    Participants  will  also  understand  the  laws  that  industry  players  have  to  comply  with  in  order  to  do  business  in  Japan  and  the  impact  of  Packaging  Environmental  legislation  on  Japanese  packaging  design  and  formats.    Experts  from  Japan  Packaging  Institute  (JPI)  will  provide  a  pre-­‐show  orientation  to  the  new  advanced  packaging  materials,  formats  and  technologies  that  will  be  on  display  at  the  TOKYO  PACK  2014  exhibition.      Guided  Retail  Tour  of  Tokyo  After  a  typical  Japanese  bento  lunch,  participants  will  be  taken  on  a  guided  tour  of  key  retail  formats  in  Tokyo  to  discover  how  Japan’s  packaging  industry  commercializes  its  packaging  technology  for  the  consumer.    With  its  emphasis  on  ‘share  of  eye’,  shopping  in  Japan  is  very  a  different  retail  experience  than  in  the  West:  With  elegant  product  displays  and  close  attention  to  detail,  packaging  -­‐  structural  and  graphic  -­‐  design  play  a  pertinent  role  in  selling  the  packaged  product.    Visits  to  a  hypermarket  and  high-­‐end  supermarket/department  store  will  demonstrate  the  contrast  between  different  levels  of  Japanese  retail  and  consumer  sectors,  and  the  vast  range  packaging  formats  and  technology  commercially  available  to  meet  varied  consumer  needs.    JPI  guides  will  be  on-­‐hand  to  help  participants,  answer  questions  and  point  out  technologies  unique  to  the  Japanese  market.    Open  for  registration  This  unique  Packaging  Insight  Japan  Tour  2014  is  now  open  for  registration.  Register  before  1  September  to  enjoy  the  early  bird  discount  fee  of  US$325/  EUR  240.  Group  discounts  are  also  available.  Participants  will  receive:  

• Free  Complimentary  4-­‐day  entry  to  TOKYO  PACK  2016  (7-­‐10  October  2014)  • TOKYO  PACK  2014  exhibition  guide  • Invitations  to  the  official  TOKYO  PACK  2014  official  opening  ceremony    (7  

October  2014)  • Invitation  to  the  official  Networking  Reception  (7  October  2014):  A  sumptuous  

Japanese  buffet  banquet  and  the  opportunity  to  network  with  senior  executives  of  Japanese  corporations.  

• Access  to  all  concurrent  conferences,  seminars  and  no  fewer  than  three  distinct  packaging  pavilions.  

• FREE  Admission  to  the  concurrent  exhibition  Health  Ingredients  Japan  2014/Safety  &  Technology  Japan  2014  worth  ¥3,000  

 Seats  are  limited,  so  send  your  registration  to  tokyopack@epresources.net.  For  more  information  about  TOKYO  PACK  2014,  visit  http://www.tokyo-­‐pack.jp/en.  

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Packaging  Materials  &  Containers  Proportionally,  paper  was  the  largest  packaging  material  segment  by  volume  at  62.29%  of  all  materials  used  in  2012.  This  was  followed  by  plastic  at  18.73%,  and  metal,  glass  and  wood  at  8.7%,  7%  and  3.2%  respectively.    Of  all  the  different  packaging  formats,  PET  recorded  the  strongest  and  fastest  rebound  in  2012  at  610,000  tons.  This  figure  is  significant  in  light  of  the  PET  packaging  sector’s  aggressive  lightweighting  of  containers  to  the  point  where  today’s  bottles  and  containers  are  15%  to  32%  lighter  than  they  were  in  1999.  This  means  that  not  only  has  industry  been  shipping  increased  volumes,  but  has  also  massively  increased  the  actual  quantity  of  PET  containers  it  has  been  putting  on  the  market.    The  carbonated  soft  drinks  sector  accounted  for  86.88%  of  the  Japanese  PET  market  share.  Meanwhile,  shampoos  and  detergents  showed  a  trend  of  increasingly  shifting  away  from  rigid  HDPE  and  flexible  pouches  to  PET  packaging  solutions  –  up  from  2,625  tons  of  PET  packaging  in  2007  to  more  than  11,100  tons  in  2012.      Packaging  Machinery  Of  the  364,251  units  of  packaging  machinery  manufactured  in  Japan  in  2012,  approximately  75%  were  ‘unit  and  inner  packaging  machines’,  including  filling,  bottling,  canning,  pouch  and  container  FFS,  labelling,  carton,  sealing,  shrink  pack,  and  vacuum  pack  equipment.  Outer  packaging  and  packing  machines  made  up  the  remaining  25%,  including  case  landing  and  gluing,  taping,  strapping,  and  boxers.    Meanwhile,  Japan  manufactured  1,108  units  of  bag-­‐making  machines  and  303  units  of  paper  &  paperboard  converting  machines  in  2012.    Showcasing  Japan  at  interpack  2014  A  number  of  Japanese  companies  and  their  subsidiaries  will  be  exhibiting  at  interpack  2014,  including  C.I.  Kasei  Co  Ltd  (Hall  9  /  G35),  DNP  Indonesia  (Hall  10  /  C12),  Fuji  Machinery  Co  Ltd  (Hall  08b  /  C20),  Ishida  Europe  Limited  (Hall  15  /  A25-­‐26),  Kajiwara  Inc  (Hall  3  /  F15),  Kuraray  EVAL  Europe  nv  (Hall  10  /  D63),  Marubeni  Europe  Plc  (Hall  7a  /  C16),  Mitsuhashi  Corporation  (Hall  8b  /  E65),  Omori  Machinery  Co  Ltd  (Hall  8b  /  C66),  Sanko  Machinery  Co  Ltd  (Hall  8b  /  G28),  Strapack  Corporation  (Hall  11  /  D22),  Topack  Co  Ltd  (Hall  8b  /  D65),  Toppan  Printing  Co  Ltd  (Hall  11  /  A11),  Totani  Corporation  (Hall  11  /  C70),  Toyo  Jidoki  Co  Ltd  (Hall  8b  /  C58),  Toyo  Machine  Manufacturing  Co  Ltd  (Hall  8b  /  D65),  etc.    Japan  Packaging  Institute  (JPI),  the  Tokyo-­‐based  packaging  industry  association  of  1,100  members,  will  also  be  present  at  interpack  (Hall  11  /  C03-­‐1)  to  meet  with  parties  interested  in  better  understanding  the  Japanese  packaging  market  and  its  abundant  business  opportunities.    For  enquires,  contact:    Japan  Packaging  Institute  Togeki  Bldg.  10F,  4-­‐1-­‐1  Tsukiji,  Chuo-­‐ku,  Tokyo  104-­‐0045,  Japan  Tel:  +81-­‐3-­‐3543-­‐1189         E-­‐mail:  pack@jpi.or.jp    Fax:  +81-­‐3-­‐3543-­‐8970       Website:  http://www.tokyo-­‐pack.jp/en  

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Tokyo  Pack  Appoints  Strategic  Markets  Consultant  to  Increase    International  Presence  

Tokyo,  Japan  -­‐  The  Tokyo  Pack  Secretariat  is  pleased  to  announce  the  appointment  of  EP  Resources  Pte  Ltd  (Singapore)  as  its  Strategic  Markets  Consultant  to  provide  market  information,  research  analysis  and  communications  support  for  Tokyo  Pack  2014  (TP2014)  to  international  exhibitors  and  overseas  visitors.  

Owned  and  operated  by  the  Japan  Packaging  Institute  (JPI),  Tokyo  Pack  is  Asia’s  premier  packaging  exhibition,  featuring  more  than  2,600  booths  representing  600  companies  in  the  23,000m2  exhibition  space,  and  attracting  more  than  70,000  visitors  from  inside  Japan  and  overseas.  

“The  appointment  of  EP  Resources  will  strengthen  the  Tokyo  Pack  exhibition  in  the  international  market  as  exhibitors  and  Japan  Packaging  Institute  members  are  increasingly  looking  to  expand  sales  and  operations  overseas,”  said  Mr.  Yoichi  Sonoyama,  Secretary  General  of  the  TOKYO  PACK  2014  Secretariat.  

Based  in  Singapore,  EP  Resources  is  the  primary  source  of  specialised  packaging  industry  information  in  the  Asia  Pacific  region  through  its  market  analysis  and  consultancy  services  and  through  its  publishing  division  which  publishes  Asian  Packaging  Business  Insight  monthly  newsletter  and  the  daily  packaging  news  website  www.PackWebasia.com.  

Tasked  with  raising  the  profile  of  the  Tokyo  Pack  exhibition  and  helping  JPI  members  and  Tokyo  Pack  exhibitors  grow  their  international  presence,  EP  Resources  will  provide  analysis  and  assistance  to  introduce  Japan’s  packaging  industry  and  TP2014  in  the  strategic  overseas  markets  of  South  East  Asia,  Europe  and  North  America.    In  addition,  EP  will  consult  on  developing  the  TP2014  English  language  website,  printed  materials,  advertising  and  communication.  

Mr.  Hajime  Furuya,  Director  &  Secretary  General  of  JPI,  said,  “Japan  Packaging  Institute  has  had  a  close  relationship  with  Mr.  Hoggard  since  1996,  when  he  first  addressed  the  Japanese  International  Packaging  Symposium  held  at  Tokyo  Pack,  and  we  are  now  pleased  that  we  are  able  to  collaborate  with  EP  Resources  to  further  develop  our  members’  overseas  interests.”  

“The  Japanese  packaging  industry  is  frequently  mischaracterised  in  the  West  as  being  cute,  elaborate  and  over-­‐packed,”  commented  Stuart  Hoggard,  CEO  of  EP  Resources  Pte  Ltd.  “This  is  far  from  the  truth!  Our  job  is  to  de-­‐mystify  that  image  and  help  JPI,  its  members  and  TP2014  exhibitors  expand  their  markets  overseas.    

“Certainly  packaging  in  Japan  is  elaborate,  but  the  common  view  in  Japan  is  that  ‘if  a  company’s  packaging  is  not  100%  perfect,  the  product  inside  might  not  also  be  perfect’.  This  mindset  and  demand  for  quality  is  what  has  made  Japanese  packaging  so  technologically  advanced  as  well  as  sustainable,”  explained  Hoggard.  

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“The  Japanese  packaging  industry  is  well-­‐poised  for  growth  not  only  in  Japan,  but  in  international  markets.  EP  Resources  is  honoured  to  have  been  chosen  by  Japan  Packaging  Institute  to  be  its  Strategic  Markets  partner  and  look  forward  to  helping  Japan  cement  its  position  as  one  of  the  world’s  leading  packaging  markets.”  

A  major  part  of  the  co-­‐operation  will  be  a  one-­‐day  orientation  programme  to  Japanese  Packaging  for  foreign  visitors  on  Monday,  6  October  2014  (the  day  before  the  TP2014  Opening).  Jointly  developed  by  EP  Resources  and  JPI,  the  Tokyo  Pack  Insight  Japan  Tour  will  provide  a  unique  introduction  to  the  Japanese  packaging  industry,  introducing  the  key  drivers  of  Japanese  consumer  packaging,  environmental,  legislative  and  the  cultural  influences  on  packaging  technology,  R&D  (research  and  development)  and  design.  

About  EP  Resources  Pte  Ltd  EP  Resources  Pte  Ltd  was  established  by  Stuart  Hoggard  in  1999  in  Singapore  as  a  specialist  consultancy  and  information  provider  for  the  packaging  industry  in  Asia  Pacific.    

Its  consultancy  division  has  worked  on  projects  for  multinational  corporations  entering  the  Asian  Print  and  Packaging  Markets  and  has  undertaken  market  potential  analysis  in  the  packaging  design  sector  for  Apple  Computers,  digital  label  markets  for  HP  Indigo,  and  folding  carton  markets  for  a  major  European  paperboard  converter.  It  has  also  advised  on  developing  a  Mergers  &  Acquisition  strategy  in  South  East  Asia  for  a  major  Japanese  food  service  packaging  producer,  and  market-­‐entry  analysis  for  a  Japanese  specialty  films  supplier.  

Its  publications  department  is  responsible  for  the  monthly  newsletter  Asian  Packaging  Business  Insight  and  the  daily  internet  news  website  www.packwebasia.com  .  It  also  publishes  a  series  of  multi-­‐client  market  analysis  reports  on  Packaging  Environment  Legislation  in  Asia,  Sustainability  Compliance  Guides  and  Packaging  Design.                  

About  Tokyo  Pack  Launched  in  1966  and  owned  and  operated  directly  by  the  Japan  Packaging  Institute  (JPI),  the  biennial  (every  two  years)  exhibition  will  feature  more  than  2,600  booths  representing  600  companies  in  the  23,000m2  exhibition  space,  which  attracts  more  than  70,000  visitors  from  inside  Japan  and  overseas.  

During  the  last  edition,  more  than  170,000  people  visited  TOKYO  PACK  2012  during  the  four-­‐day  exhibition.  For  more  information,  visit  http://www.tokyo-­‐pack.jp/en/.  

For  exhibitor  and  visitor  enquires,  contact:    

TOKYO  PACK  2012  Secretariat  Togeki  Bldg.  10F,  4-­‐1-­‐1  Tsukiji,  Chuo-­‐ku,  Tokyo  104-­‐0045,  Japan  Tel:  +81-­‐3-­‐3543-­‐1189         E-­‐mail:  tokyopack@jpi.or.jp  ,tokyopack@epresources.net  Fax:  +81-­‐3-­‐3543-­‐8970       Website:  http://www.tokyo-­‐pack.jp/en  

Photo  caption:    Hajime  Furuya,  Director  &  Secretary  General  of  the  Japan  Packaging  Institute  (JPI),  Stuart  Hoggard,  CEO  of  EP  Resources  Pte  Ltd,  and  Yoichi  Sonoyama,  Secretary  General  of  the  TOKYO  PACK  2014  Secretariat  (left  to  right).  

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TOKYO  PACK  2014  grows  exhibitor  numbers;  at  full  capacity  

 

Tokyo,  Japan  –  Every  square  metre  of  the  51,380  m2  exhibition  space  has  been  fully  booked  for  Asia’s  largest  packaging  exhibition:  TOKYO  PACK  2014.  

The  Tokyo  Pack  Secretariat  reports  the  number  of  exhibitors  at  the  premier  packaging  show  have  exceeded  650  companies.  “With  a  total  of  654  companies  committed  to  exhibiting  this  year,  we  have  grown  our  exhibitor  number  by  more  than  7%  from  the  2012  edition”  said  Mr.  Yoichi  Sonoyama,  Secretary  General  of  the  TOKYO  PACK  2014  Secretariat.  “In  addition,  of  the  total  number  of  companies  on  show,  a  total  of  99  are  entirely  new  exhibitors."  

“This  is  a  demonstration  of  companies’  belief  that  TOKYO  PACK  2014  is  the  premier  packaging  exhibition  in  Asia,  and  the  venue  for  them  to  showcase  advanced  packaging  technologies,  solutions  and  gain  new  business  opportunities.”  

Seizing  new  business  opportunities  at  TOKYO  PACK  

Of  all  the  exhibitors  surveyed  at  TOKYO  PACK  2012,  98.2%  said  they  entered  into  new  business  negotiations  due  to  leads  generated  at  the  show.    47.5%  of  exhibitors  noted  that  many  of  the  visitors  to  their  booths  were  new  customers.    

When  asked  about  the  purpose  of  their  visit  to  TOKYO  PACK  2012,  63.7%  of  visitors  said  they  were  looking  for  information  on  new  products  and  technologies,  while  21.9%  were  sourcing  for  information  to  purchase  equipment  and  solutions.    

This  year,  TOKYO  PACK  2014  exhibitors  are  already  gearing  up  for  an  exciting  show  this  October.  Rengo  Co.,  Ltd.  has  purchased  the  largest  space  at  the  exhibition  to  display  a  wide  range  of  advanced  packaging  solutions  at  its  840m2  booth.    

Other  prominent  innovative  Japanese  companies  that  have  also  taken  up  significant  exhibition  space  include  Osaka  Sealing  Printing  Co.,  Ltd  and  Oji  Package  Innovation  Center  Inc.  with  450m2  booth  space  each,  Ishida  Co.,  Ltd  and  Toppan  Printing  Co.,  Ltd  with  360m2  each,  and  Dai  Nippon  Printing  Co.,  Ltd  and  Fuji  Seal,  Inc  (315m2  space  each).  

About  Tokyo  Pack  

Launched  in  1966  and  owned  and  operated  directly  by  the  Japan  Packaging  Institute  (JPI),  the  biennial  (every  two  years)  exhibition  will  feature  more  than  2,600  booths  representing  654  companies  in  the  51,380m2  exhibition  space,  which  attracts  more  than  70,000  visitors  from  inside  Japan  and  overseas.  

During  the  last  edition,  more  than  170,000  people  visited  TOKYO  PACK  2012  during  the  four-­‐day  exhibition.  For  more  information,  visit  http://www.tokyo-­‐pack.jp/en/.  

For  exhibitor  and  visitor  enquires,  contact:    

TOKYO  PACK  2012  Secretariat  Togeki  Bldg.  10F,  4-­‐1-­‐1  Tsukiji,  Chuo-­‐ku,  Tokyo  104-­‐0045,  Japan  Tel:  +81-­‐3-­‐3543-­‐1189         E-­‐mail:  tokyopack@jpi.or.jp  ,tokyopack@epresources.net  Fax:  +81-­‐3-­‐3543-­‐8970       Website:  http://www.tokyo-­‐pack.jp/en  

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Japan  Packaging  Industry  hits  US$60bn  in  2013  

 

Tokyo,  Japan  –  The  Japanese  packaging  industry  grew  to  US$59.4  billion  in  the  financial  year  of  2013,  with  paper  packaging  products  and  pouch  forming  and  filling  machinery  making  up  the  majority  of  the  packaging  materials  and  equipment  sector  respectively.  

In  FY2013  (April  2013  to  March  2014),  Japan’s  packaging  industry  grew  by  more  than  2%  over  the  previous  year  to  hit  ¥6.049  trillion  (US$59.4  billion)  in  value  –  representing  1.27%  of  the  national  GDP.  

Packaging  materials  and  containers  Of  the  total,  packaging  materials  and  containers  represented  ¥5.608  trillion,  while  packaging  machinery  contributed  ¥441  billion.  By  volume,  18.75  million  tons  of  packaging  materials  and  container  were  produced  while  356,000  units  of  packaging  machinery  were  manufactured.    

Paper  packaging  products  made  up  the  majority  of  packaging  materials  and  containers  produced  by  both  shipment  value  and  volume  at  41.8%  and  62.5%  respectively.  This  was  followed  by  plastic  packaging  products  which  constituted  29.7%  of  shipment  value  and  18.7%  of  volume.    

With  a  total  volume  of  1.62  million  tonnes,  metal  packaging  products  returned  a  value  of  ¥9.4  billion,  giving  it  a  17%  market  share.  Other  packaging  materials  such  as  seals,  labels,  tapes,  textile  products  and  cellophanes  made  up  7%  of  total  packaging  value  in  2013,  or  ¥3.8  billion.    

Glass,  always  the  poor  relation,  accounted  for  2%  of  the  total  material  shipments  valued  at  ¥1.24  billion.  Wood,  which  is  still  significantly  used  in  the  packaging  of  more  traditional  products,  performed  better  than  glass  with  ¥1.39  billion,  or  2.5%  of  value.  

Packaging  machinery  Japan  saw  packaging  machinery  sales  pick  up  over  the  past  two  years,  up  3%  since  the  tsunami  disaster  of  2011  to  ¥441.4  billion  in  2013.    

Pouch  forming  and  filling  machines  saw  the  highest  demand  with  a  total  of  5,686  units  delivered,  representing  a  total  of  ¥60.5  billion.  Meanwhile,  bottling  machinery  gained  the  second  highest  value  at  ¥57.9  billion,  with  a  total  of  3,887  units.  

Filling  equipment  also  performed  well  with  total  installations  of  3,075  units  valued  at  ¥37.8  billion,  while  general  container  (non-­‐pouch)  form  and  filling  equipment  also  performed  well  with  sales  of  ¥13.3bn.  

However,  canmaking  equipment  sales  remained  flat  at  ¥1.7  billion,  with  just  130  units  installed.  

About  Tokyo  Pack  

Launched  in  1966  and  owned  and  operated  directly  by  the  Japan  Packaging  Institute  (JPI),  the  biennial  (every  two  years)  exhibition  will  feature  more  than  2,600  booths  representing  654  companies  in  the  51,380m2  exhibition  space,  which  attracts  more  than  70,000  visitors  from  inside  Japan  and  overseas.  

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During  the  last  edition,  more  than  170,000  people  visited  TOKYO  PACK  2012  during  the  four-­‐day  exhibition.  For  more  information,  visit  http://www.tokyo-­‐pack.jp/en/.  

For  exhibitor  and  visitor  enquires,  contact:    

TOKYO  PACK  2012  Secretariat  Togeki  Bldg.  10F,  4-­‐1-­‐1  Tsukiji,  Chuo-­‐ku,  Tokyo  104-­‐0045,  Japan  Tel:  +81-­‐3-­‐3543-­‐1189         E-­‐mail:  tokyopack@jpi.or.jp  ,tokyopack@epresources.net  Fax:  +81-­‐3-­‐3543-­‐8970       Website:  http://www.tokyo-­‐pack.jp/en  

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TOKYO  PACK  2014  opens  in  less  than  a  month  

 

Tokyo,  Japan  –  Asia’s  premier  packaging  exhibition  TOKYO  PACK  2014  is  set  to  open  in  less  than  a  month,  and  will  feature  some  of  the  most  innovative  packaging  solutions  to  meet  today’s  demanding  consumer  needs.  Special  services  will  also  be  available  at  the  show  to  assist  foreign  visitors.  

Next  Generation  High  Performance  Packaging  Pavilion  

One  of  the  highlights  of  this  year’s  show  edition  is  the  Next  Generation  High  Performance  Packaging  Pavilion,  which  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.  

Some  of  the  unique  packaging  that  will  be  showcased  include  a  special  sprout-­‐integrated  pouch  for  beverage  and  liquid  food  from  Japan’s  ECODPACK  Co.  Ltd.,  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.    

PopPack  LLC  from  the  USA  has  chosen  to  exhibit  for  the  first  time  at  TOKYO  PACK  2014,  and  will  demonstrate  its  special  reclosable  PopPack  bubble  solution  at  the  Pavilion.  PopPack  offers  a  safe  and  quick  way  of  opening  and  reclosing  flexible  packages  with  an  engaging  “popping”  sound  that  provides  assurance  that  the  package  contents  are  fresh,  well-­‐sealed  and  have  not  been  tampered  with.  With  this  easy-­‐to-­‐use  product,  PopPack  hopes  to  find  business  partners  at  TOKYO  PACK  to  help  introduce  this  exciting  packaging  technology  to  the  Japanese  market.    

Overseas  Visitor  Services    

Recognizing  that  negotiating  the  business-­‐language  barrier  can  be  a  daunting  task  for  the  non-­‐Japanese  speaking  overseas  visitor,  TOKYO  PACK  2014  has  devised  a  system  where  English-­‐speaking  visitors  can  avoid  wasting  time  asking  “can  you  speak  English?”  Booths  will  display  a  special  “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  enquires  they  may  have,  and  guide  them  to  exhibits  showcasing  the  packaging  solutions  and  technologies  they  are  sourcing  for.    

About  Tokyo  Pack  

Launched  in  1966  and  owned  and  operated  directly  by  the  Japan  Packaging  Institute  (JPI),  the  biennial  (every  two  years)  exhibition  will  feature  more  than  2,600  booths  representing  654  companies  in  the  51,380m2  exhibition  space,  which  attracts  more  than  70,000  visitors  from  inside  Japan  and  overseas.  

During  the  last  edition,  more  than  170,000  people  visited  TOKYO  PACK  2012  during  the  four-­‐day  exhibition.  For  more  information,  visit  http://www.tokyo-­‐pack.jp/en/.  

 

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For  exhibitor  and  visitor  enquires,  contact:    

TOKYO  PACK  2012  Secretariat  Togeki  Bldg.  10F,  4-­‐1-­‐1  Tsukiji,  Chuo-­‐ku,  Tokyo  104-­‐0045,  Japan  Tel:  +81-­‐3-­‐3543-­‐1189         E-­‐mail:  tokyopack@jpi.or.jp  ,tokyopack@epresources.net  Fax:  +81-­‐3-­‐3543-­‐8970       Website:  http://www.tokyo-­‐pack.jp/en  

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TOKYO  PACK  2014  helps  businesses  and  consumers  create  a  sustainable  society  

 

Tokyo,  Japan  –  Asia’s  premier  packaging  exhibition  TOKYO  PACK  2014  opened  on  Tuesday,  7  October,  with  680  companies  in  the  51,380m2  exhibition  space  showcasing  cutting-­‐edge  Japanese  packaging  solutions  and  technologies  designed  and  developed  to  meet  today’s  consumer  needs  and  demands.  

Mr.  Shigeki  Iwai  –  Parliamentary  Vice  Minister  of  Economy,  Trade  and  Industry,  Mr.  Motoki  Ozaki  -­‐  President  of  the  Japan  Packaging  Institute,  Mr.  Shigetaro  Asano  –  Vice  President  of  the  Japan  Packaging  Institute,  Mr.  Kiyoshi  Otsubo  –  Vice  President  of  the  Japan  Packaging  Institute,  Mr.  Yoshitaka  Ozawa  -­‐  Chairman,  TOKYO  PACK  Working  Committee,  and  Mr.  Steven  Pacitti  –  Vice  President,  International  Packaging  Press  Organization  (IPPO),  officiated  at  the  Opening  Ceremony  of  TOKYO  PACK  2014  in  the  morning.    

Describing  TOKYO  PACK  2014  as  a  “global  venue  for  the  exchange  of  packaging  information,  the  exploration  of  next  generation  packaging,  and  the  promotion  of  international  friendship”,  Mr.  Motoki  Ozaki,  President  of  the  Japan  Packaging  Institute  (JPI)  –  the  industry  packaging  association  that  also  owns  and  operates  TOKYO  PACK  2014  –  said,  “Recently  the  Japanese  economy  has  begun  to  see  some  hopeful  signs,  but  the  packaging  industry  still  has  to  negotiate  some  difficult  phases  with  the  hike  in  consumption  tax  and  the  rising  raw  material  costs.  

“A  major  challenge  for  Japan’s  packaging  industry  today  is  how  it  contributes  to  the  formation  of  a  sustainable  society  by  realizing  a  packaging  industry  harmonized  with  society,”  he  noted.    

At  TOKYO  PACK  2014,  Mr.  Ozaki  expressed  confidence  that  the  exhibition  will  help  both  exhibitors  and  visitors  alike  explore  the  latest  advanced  Japanese  packaging  solutions  and  technologies  developed  for  today’s  business  and  consumer  needs  to  help  create  a  sustainable  society.  

Mr.  Ozaki  said,  “On  behalf  of  JPI,  I  would  like  to  express  my  deepest  thanks  to  all  of  you  who  have  given  us  liberal  support  and  cooperation  for  the  opening  of  this  fair,  and  express  my  genuine  appreciation  to  the  exhibitors  for  their  great  assistance  and  to  the  ministries  and  agencies  concerned  and  various  other  organizations  for  their  support  and  cooperation.  

Mr.  Steven  Pacitti,  Vice  President  of  International  Packaging  Press  Organisation,  said,  “Japan  has  long  pioneered  developments  in  all  areas  of  packaging  and  there  remains  a  direct  correlation  here  between  product  quality  and  packaging  quality.    

“Japanese  packaging  often  transcends  the  basic  objective  of  protecting  a  product  and  creates  an  object  that  demands  attention  in  its  own  right.  The  technologies  and  science  behind  those  solutions  have  enabled  Japanese  companies  to  enjoy  great  success  on  the  international  stage.  And  what  better  place  to  showcase  these  solutions  than  here,  at  TOKYO  PACK.”  

AT  TOKYO  PACK  2014,  key  industry  categories  on  exhibit  include  packaging  materials  and  containers,  packaging  material  and  substrates  and  design.  Packaging  machinery  on  

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show  includes  equipment  for  the  printing  and  converting  sectors,  inspection  and  measurement,  food  and  pharmaceutical  processing  and  transport/logistics  sectors,  distribution  systems  and  other  packaging-­‐related  equipment.  

 

About  Tokyo  Pack  

Launched  in  1966  and  owned  and  operated  directly  by  the  Japan  Packaging  Institute  (JPI),  the  biennial  (every  two  years)  exhibition  features  more  than  2,489  booths  representing  680  companies  in  the  51,380m2  exhibition  space,  which  attracts  more  than  70,000  visitors  from  inside  Japan  and  overseas.  

During  the  last  edition,  more  than  170,000  people  visited  TOKYO  PACK  2012  during  the  four-­‐day  exhibition.  For  more  information,  visit  http://www.tokyo-­‐pack.jp/en/.  

 

For  exhibitor  and  visitor  enquires,  contact:    

TOKYO  PACK  2012  Secretariat  Togeki  Bldg.  10F,  4-­‐1-­‐1  Tsukiji,  Chuo-­‐ku,  Tokyo  104-­‐0045,  Japan  Tel:  +81-­‐3-­‐3543-­‐1189         E-­‐mail:  tokyopack@jpi.or.jp  ,tokyopack@epresources.net  Fax:  +81-­‐3-­‐3543-­‐8970       Website:  http://www.tokyo-­‐pack.jp/en  

 

Photo  captions:  

• TokyoPack14_OpeningCeremony.jpg:  Opening  Ceremony  of  TOKYO  PACK  2014  on  Tuesday,  7  October  2014  

• TokyoPack14_Reception.jpg:  Cheerleaders  celebrated  the  start  of  TOKYO  PACK  2014  at  the  Official  Welcome  Reception  on  the  evening  of  Tuesday,  7  October  2014.  

 

 

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TOKYO  PACK  2014:    Connecting  the  Japanese  Packaging  Industry  with  the  World    

 

Tokyo,  Japan  -­‐  The  25th  edition  of  the  biennial  TOKYO  PACK,  Asia’s  largest  packaging  show  (7th  –  10th  October,  Tokyo  Big  Sight),  saw  visitor  numbers  hit  178,698,  significantly  higher  than  the  175,870  that  visited  in  the  last  show  edition  in  2012.    

Exhibitor  numbers  also  grew  by  more  than  7%  from  the  last  show  edition  to  654  companies,  of  which  99  were  first-­‐time  exhibitors  at  TOKYO  PACK.    

A  total  of  139  foreign  exhibitors  from  15  countries  –  China,  Taiwan,  South  Korea,  Thailand,  Malaysia,  the  Philippines,  Vietnam,  Indonesia,  Germany,  Italy,  Holland,  Sweden,  Switzerland,  Canada  and  the  U.S.A  -­‐  were  present  at  TOKYO  PACK  2014,  and  reported  numerous  new  leads  gained  from  exhibiting  at  the  show.    

A  total  of  3,422  overseas  visitors  from  45  countries  also  registered  for  the  exhibition,  jumping  almost  40%  from  the  2,031  who  attended  the  2012  show.  The  official  Packaging  Insight  Japan  Tour  -­‐  a  one-­‐day  orientation  program  held  on  6  October  and  designed  by  TOKYO  PACK  exhibition  owner-­‐operator  the  Japanese  packaging  industry  association  Japan  Packaging  Institute  (JPI)  and  EP  Resources  Pte  Ltd,  Singapore,  to  help  foreign  visitors  gain  the  maximum  benefit  from  their  visit  to  TOKYO  PACK  -­‐  was  also  fully  booked,  and  included  the  participation  of  a  42-­‐strong  delegation  from  Thailand.    

Mr.  Yoichi  Sonoyama,  Secretary  General  of  the  TOKYO  PACK  2014  Secretariat,  said,  “As  the  only  international  show  dedicated  to  the  Package,  TOKYO  PACK  has  always  been  a  key  exhibition  venue  for  the  latest  cutting-­‐edge  packaging  solutions  and  technologies.  This  year  has  been  no  different;  TOKYO  PACK  2014  has  enjoyed  another  successful  run  with  our  highest  exhibitor  figures  to  date,  and  record  visitor  numbers.  

“As  Secretary  General  of  TOKYO  PACK,  I  would  like  to  extend  my  sincerest  appreciation  to  all  the  people,  both  from  Japan  and  around  the  globe,  who  visited  TOKYO  PACK  2014.”    

The  exhibition  owner  and  organizer,  Japan  Packaging  Institute  (JPI),  is  already  planning  for  the  26th  edition  of  the  show.  The  next  TOKYO  PACK  will  be  held  in  October  2016.    

“We  are  constantly  pushing  ourselves  to  better  serve  our  Japanese  packaging  industry,  and  in  2016  we  aim  to  help  further  promote  Japanese  packaging  companies,  and  build  even  stronger  bridges  between  them  and  domestic  as  well  as  international  customers,”  said  Mr.  Sonoyama.  

“We  look  forward  to  welcoming  exhibitors  looking  gain  to  new  business  opportunities  in  Japan  and  Asia,  and  visitors  sourcing  for  unique  advanced  packaging  solutions  at  TOKYO  PACK  2016.”  

 

About  Tokyo  Pack  

Launched  in  1966  and  owned  and  operated  directly  by  the  Japan  Packaging  Institute  (JPI),  the  biennial  (every  two  years)  exhibition  will  feature  more  than  2,600  booths  representing  680  companies  in  the  51,380m2  exhibition  space,  which  attracts  more  than  70,000  visitors  from  inside  Japan  and  overseas.  

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During  TOKYO  PACK  2014,  more  than  XXX  people  visited  during  the  four-­‐day  exhibition.  For  more  information,  visit  http://www.tokyo-­‐pack.jp/en/.  

 

For  exhibitor  and  visitor  enquires,  contact:    

TOKYO  PACK  2012  Secretariat  Togeki  Bldg.  10F,  4-­‐1-­‐1  Tsukiji,  Chuo-­‐ku,  Tokyo  104-­‐0045,  Japan  Tel:  +81-­‐3-­‐3543-­‐1189         E-­‐mail:  tokyopack@jpi.or.jp  ,tokyopack@epresources.net  Fax:  +81-­‐3-­‐3543-­‐8970       Website:  http://www.tokyo-­‐pack.jp/en  

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