As this year’s ADF&PCD show kicks off, Easyfairs, which owns the event has made an announcement about an addition to next year’s event.

Packaging Innovations, called “Europe’s largest series of primary and secondary packaging events,” is teaming up with the Pentawards, known for its worldwide packaging design competition, for a new event in New York that will be co-located with ADF&PCD on September 5 & 6, 2018.
 
The event is designed to be an exclusive format of hand-selected suppliers and exclusively-invited buyers, running alongside the Pentawards Conference and Pentawards Live, a global curation of award-winning packaging design. According to Easyfairs, which runs all the events, “this unique concept will bring together an exclusive mix of brands, design agencies, packaging manufacturers, material producers and innovators across all market sectors to learn, network, discover, collaborate and do business.”
 
Easyfairs’ Packaging Innovations events launched in Birmingham, UK in 2006, focusing on innovations in the design and production of packaging as well as materials and finishes. In addition to the New York edition, further global launches are planned for the brand in the coming years.
 
The Pentawards was acquired by Easyfairs in November 2016, and honors its winners in numerous categories in an annual awards ceremony each year.
 
Packaging Innovations New York will be open for booking applications from September 6. More info: