2nd International Conference on Food and Beverage Packaging June 13-14, 2016 Rome, Italy

About conference

ConferenceSeries Ltd feels honoured and glad in inviting the contributors across the globe to its premier “International Conference on Food and Beverage Packaging (Food Packaging 2016)” to be held during June 13-14, 2016 at Rome, Italy. The previous Food Technology conferences were held at Kansas city-USA 2013, Vegas-USA 2014, and London-UK 2015 and had achieved a grand success. Now it is the time for the prestigious International conference on Food & Beverage Packaging to address latest innovations, industrial & modern technologies in food & beverage packaging, consumer trends, and differentiation in market report. Food Packaging Conference is the premier event that brings together a unique international mixture of experts, researchers and decision makers both from academia and industry across the globe to exchange their knowledge, experience and research innovations to build a better world of Food Packaging Experts and Food Technologists.

ConferenceSeries Ltd organizes 3000+ Global Events inclusive of 600+ Conferences, 1200+ Workshops and 1200+ Symposiums on various topics of Science & Technology  across the globe with support from 1000 more scientific societies .

Food Packaging Conference, the unique International Conference on Food & Beverage Packaging will be an interdisciplinary forum for exchange of knowledge on the traditional and advanced technologies in the field of Food & Beverage Packaging. The interesting topic includes innovation in Food Packaging -  Importance of Food Packaging, Food Packaging Testing, Novel Food Packaging Technologies, Food and Beverage Packaging Machinery, Packaging Tools, Nanotechnology in Food Packaging, Emerging Trends in Food Packaging, Cost -effective Packaging Innovation, Consumer Trends in Food Packaging, Food Packaging industry Scenario in Italy, Market Differentiation: Growing and Mature,  Future of Innovation: Bio-based Packaging.

Rome is the capital of Italy; it is also the country’s largest and most populated commune and fourth-most populous city in the European Union. The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, within Lazio (Latium), along the shores of Tiber River. Rome is a sprawling, cosmopolitan city with nearly 3,000 years of globally influential art, architecture and culture on display. 

We look forward to an exciting scientific event, business meeting, trade fair and exhibition in the beautiful city of Rome, Italy.

Summary:

The International Conference on Food and Beverage Packaging (Food Packaging-2016) to be held during June 13-14, 2016 at Rome, Italy. The conference will focus on “Innovation Drive in Food and Beverage Packaging”. Food Packaging-2016 is the premier event that brings together a unique international mixture of experts, researchers and decision makers both from academia and industry across the globe to exchange their knowledge, experience and research innovations to build a better world of Food Packaging Experts and Food Technologists. The unique International Conference on Food & Beverage Packaging will be an interdisciplinary forum for exchange of knowledge on the traditional and advanced technologies in the field of Food & Beverage Packaging. OMICS International organizes 1000+ Global Events inclusive of 600+ Conferences, Workshops and Symposiums on various topics of Science & Technology across the globe and Publishes 700+ Open Access journals.
Food Packaging 2016 welcomes attendees, presenters, and exhibitors from all over the world to Rome, Italy. This meet enables a common platform for the participants to discuss their research in order to establish a scientific network between the academia and industry leading to foster collaboration and to evaluate the emerging issues, technologies and innovations leads to explore new possibilities and improving the existed opportunities.

Importance & Scope:

The food and beverage markets represent the largest consumption group for packaging materials and machinery. Food and beverages packaging provides protection, tampering resistance and special physical, chemical, or biological needs for the food and beverages. Further food packaging aids food nutrition, rapid and reliable distribution of food among the value chain and reduces post-harvest losses. The different types of packaging materials use in the food and beverages industries are rigid plastic packaging, flexible plastic packaging, paperboard packaging, leather packaging, wood packaging, earthenware packaging, vegetable fibres and textile packaging, metal packaging, beverages cans, aerosols and glass. The major application of these packaging materials in beverages industry is found in beer packaging, carbonated soft drinks (CSD) packaging, energy drinks packaging, ready to drink ice tea packaging and alcoholic drink packaging. It is often observed that single product may require more than one type of packaging. The food packaging market is closely linked to the economic prosperity of a country and its GDP growth as well as being linked to the developments within the food production industries. Food packaging is also linked very closely to the social changes of a country and the lifestyles led.

Globally

The global packaging industry reports an annual turnover of about US$500 billion. Of this, packaging containers account for the highest share and the other major segment is that of packaging machinery, pegged at about US$25 billion.

• The food packaging market is projected to reach a value of $305,955.1 Million by 2019
• The market for beverage packaging is projected to reach $131.1 billion by 2019 at a CAGR of 4.4%.

Until a decade ago, North America was the largest stakeholder in the global packaging market with a significant 32% share, states the World Packaging Organisation. The North America region was considerably larger than Asia and Europe, both of which accounted for 26% of market shares. The United States has for a long time been the largest national market in the global packaging market. But this changed as China is fast outpacing the world’s largest economy in various packaging segments such as food and beverage packaging, pharmaceutical packaging, liquid packaging containers, and other forms of rigid and flexible packaging materials.

The sales of packaging are concentrated in Asia, which accounted for 36% of the total in value terms in 2012. North America and Western Europe totalled shares of 23% and 22% respectively. In 2012, Eastern Europe was the fourth largest consumer of packaging with a global share of 6%, closely followed by South and Central America with 5%. The Middle East represents 3% of the global demand for packaging, while Africa and Australasia each have a 2% share. According to the study, this segmentation of the market is expected to change significantly by 2018; Asia is predicted to represent over 40% of global demand, while North America and Western Europe lose out noticeably.

North-America

The flexible food packaging market in North America will grow at a CAGR of 5.72% during 2014-2019. Flexible Food Packaging Market in North America 2014-2019 is based on an in-depth market analysis, with inputs from industry experts. Flexible packaging is a non-rigid method of packaging. The process uses flexible or easy-yielding materials that can easily change shape based on the nature of the product being packaged. Flexible packaging materials include plastic, aluminium, and paper. The materials undergo detailed conversion process including printing, lamination, coating, and extrusion, to turn into varied types of flexible packaging products, such as plastic bags and pouches, lidding films, foils bags, and sachets.

Europe

During the period of 2010-15 packaged food and drink consumption in Europe is projected to grow by 2% per annum, to exceed an annual volume of 864 billion packaging units by 2015, 80 billion more than in 2010. The packaged food and drink consumption in Europe is projected to grow by 3% per annum to 953 billion packages by 2020.
The demand for fresh food packaging has increased exponentially in recent times; particularly because of increasing health awareness concerns, emphasis on the quality of products and services, and the convenience of carrying packaged fresh food are the drivers for this market, especially in the European countries. The European Fresh Food Packaging Market is projected to reach USD 10,578.6 Million by 2020, with a CAGR of 2.13% from 2015 to 2020. The Beverage Packaging market is expected to witness steady growth in terms of volume with a CAGR of close to 4 percent between 2015 and 2019. Western Europe leads the Beverage Packaging market in terms of revenue generation and sales of packaging products. The demand for packaging solutions is growing because of the increase in beverage consumption. In addition, the growing innovations in the market are encouraging business consumers to look for advanced and high value-added packaging products and solutions. The retail sector has seen stronger packaging penetration rates, growing from 63.0% in 2010 to 66.0% in 2014, with key areas including fresh fruit and vegetables, fresh meat and fish, chilled foods and baked products. This has largely been due to an effort to reduce food waste, but also for ready-to-eat or convenience based products such as cakes and pastries, cereal bars and ready prepared chilled foods.

Asia Pacific

The overall beverage packaging market is anticipated to register a healthy single-digit CAGR of 3.3% during the forecast period to reach US$ 257,547.9 MN by 2025. High-end innovation from manufacturers in design, texture, feel and size of packaging products are key attributes fuelling market growth. Increasing trend towards aseptic, portion and sustainable packaging worldwide is also driving market growth. The global beverage packaging market accounted for around US$ 181,150.9 MN in terms of value in 2014. Region-wise, Asia Pacific Excluding Japan was the largest market in terms of revenue with over 25.6% market share in 2014. The region clearly tops the list due to its huge customer base and improving economic condition.

Middle East

The Middle East and African flexible Packaging industry, which accounts for around 5% of the world market, has the potential to experience the same significant growth as India. The economy of the Middle East countries grew from 3% to more than 5% in 2012 and the inflation rate has remained relatively constant. This gives the consumer more money in hand to spend on products from the markets. Packaging and Lifestyle issues go hand in hand. Middle East has one of the highest GDP per capita, so the consumers have more disposable income to spend on e-commerce retail, luxury retail and retail in stores. With the increase in sales of products the packaging market will be growing to cater to the needs of both the consumers and retailers. Countries like Qatar have GDP per capita more than $100,000 so as the purchasing power increases so does the packaging market. Africa is on the rise. Economy, for the most part, is booming given the relatively stable political scenario in the region. Africa's GDP growth from 4.7% in 2013 to 5.2% in 2014 and the FDI growth of 16%, reaching $43 billion in 2014, show a positive economic trend.

Why Italy??

• Italy is the world's biggest wine producer in 2015
• Italy held the largest market share in Europe non-alcoholic drinks market followed by France.
• Italy is the 4th largest food and drinks manufacturer in the European Union (EU) and Italy’s food and drinks industry is the country’s second-largest manufacturing sector.
• Italy had a gross domestic product (GDP) of US$2.07 trillion in 2013, which is expected to grow by 0.5% in 2014 and by 0.9% in 2015..
• The packaged food market in Western Europe was worth over US$587 billion in 2010. Germany, France, Italy, and the United Kingdom were the largest markets, with a combined value of US$367 billion and a market share of over 60%.
• Annual per capita consumer expenditure was US$20,656 in 2013, with food and non-alcoholic beverages representing US$2,921 or 14.1% of that total.
• Italy has more than 87 million tourists, making it the world’s fourth most attractive tourists destination.

The total food and beverage market in Italy in 2011 was Euro 173.4 billion. In Europe, Italy had a 12.2% share of the market.     

Handling the total production of the twenty-two sectors monitored by Istituto Italiano Imballaggio in the food area involved the use, in 2010, of approximately 2,716,000 tons of packaging. According to estimates by Istituto Italiano Imballaggio, the values indicated above represent approximately 70-75% of the use of packaging of the entire food sector.
The packaging use growth trend during the last thirty years, again referring to the sectors monitored, has a yearly average of 0.8%, compared to the food sector’s yearly average of 0.5%.
The growth rate of packaging consumption is greater than that of the food area can be attributed to various factors:
- an increase in pre-packaged products (for example cold cuts and cheeses);
- an increase in portioned and packaged fresh garden market produce (4th and 5th range vegetables);
- an increase in single dose packaging. The decreased capacity generally entails a greater average packaging weight: when a 550 gram capacity packaging solution of any type is replaced with two of 250 gram packs, the total packaging weight increases;
- the positive development of some sectors, such as ready meals, frozen foods, etc.

Focus on the sectors

The turnover of food and beverage represent 84.5% and 15.5%, respectively.
In the food area (104.797 million euro), the milk and dairy sector presents the largest share with 14%, followed by the confectionery sector with 11.5%, meats processing with 7.6%, pasta with 4.1%, food oil with 4%, frozen foods with 3.9% and vegetable preserves with 3.5%.
The remaining 35.9% refers to a wide range of food products.
It is important to emphasize that the last few years have seen a trend of progressive growth of so-called “advanced” products (sauces, ready meals, frozen foods, coffee pads, refrigerated ready meals, etc.). In 2010, these products reached a share of circa 10% and show promising growth potential.

Italy Food Packaging Industry

• Turnover of 6.221 billion euros (+3.6%)
• 604 number of companies
• 27,307 people Employment
• The European Union was the top export area for Italian technologies in 2014 with 33.1% of the total, corresponding to 1,578.4 million euros, 1.6% up on 2013.
• The largest volumes of machinery sold in the domestic market for the food and beverage sectors, which accounted for a turnover of 669.6 million euros, 57.1% of the Italian total.
• Food industry machinery accounted for 31.8% of total turnover and beverage industry machinery 29.5%.

Fig. European Flexible Packaging by Country
 

Fund Allotment to Food Science Research

• The Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) funds for non-integrated grants (research only, education only, or extension only) to state agriculture experiment stations, colleges, universities, federal agencies, other research institutions, national laboratories, private and non-profit organizations, and corporations.
• The National Institute of Food and Agriculture’s (NIFA) collaborates with leading scientists, policymakers, experts, and educators in organizations throughout the world to find innovative solutions to the most pressing local and global problems.
• The Institute of Food Research is the only publicly funded research institute for food and health. Food and Health Network (FHN) of the IFR, with over 200 corporate members, engages with the food industry in a collegiate atmosphere.
• Institute of Food Science & Technology and Food and Drink Federation funds to serve the industrial and research communities by providing high quality refereed original papers in food science and technology.
• The FSA, together with Defra, BBSRC (the Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council) and NERC (the Natural Environment Research Council) funds for research work.
• National Institute of Food Federation of US government funds allotted to agricultural, food, and nutrition research amount to ≈$1.8 billion annually (out of a total US Department of Agriculture research budget of $2.3 billion), with most of this focusing on agricultural production; in contrast, $28.6 billion is appropriated to the National Institutes of Health.
• Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs are the UK government department responsible for safeguarding our natural environment, supporting our world-leading food and farming industry, and sustaining a thriving rural economy.
• Joint Programming Initiative on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change (FACCE-JPI) brings together over 70 research groups from 18 countries are contributing to this call, which has a budget of €19M of national funding and including a contribution from the European Commission of €4M.
• Swedish Food Federation as approximately 800 member companies Production value: 170 billion SEK and Number of employees: 55 000.
• The National Research Council (CNR), AITA - Italian Food Technology Association, Slow Food Association and Italy Italian Association of Food Technology (AITA) are the society that funds for food science and technology research work in Italy.

Major Food Science and Technology Associations in Italy

• AITA - Italian Food Technology Association
• Slow Food Association
• Italian Nutrition Society
• FEDERALIMENTARE - Italian Federation of Food Industry
• European Federation for the Science and Technology of Lipids
• Institute of Food Technologists
• Institute of Food Science & Technology
• ISEKI Food Association
• The Italian Association for Cereal Science and Technology (AISTEC)
• Italy Italian Association of Food Technology (AITA)
• EFFoST (European Federation of Food Science and Technology)
• IUFoST (International Union of Food Science and Technology)
• European Cocoa Association
• BEAUC (the European Consumer Organisation)
• EFFCA (European Food and Feed Cultures Associations)
• EFFAT (European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions)
• AIM - European Brands Association
• Profel, The European Association Of Fruit And Vegetable Processors
• FEDIAF - European Pet Food Industry Federation
• Europabio, The European Association For Bio-Industries
• EFSA (European Food Safety Authority)
• FEFAC (European Feed Manufacturers Federation)
• European Snacks Association
• Fediol
• Federation of European Nutrition Societies (FENS)

Major Food Companies in Italy

• CocaCola
• Peroni
• Nestle
• PepsiCo
• K & L Craft Beers
• Heinz
• Kagome
• Acram
• Nostromo
• Piaci
• Carli
• Ferrarelle
• Venga
• Barilla
• SuperMonte Group
• Princes
• Jollibee
• Bonarelli
• Barca
• Pesto
• Lualdo
• Amadori

Worldwide Food and Beverages Industries

Projection: Growth of Food Packaging sector for upcoming years

Revenues forecasts to 2024 for the overall world food packaging market and 6 submarkets - discover the industry's prospects, finding promising places for investments and revenues.
The top five disruptive technologies in flexible packaging are forecast to be intelligent (smart) packaging, recyclability, packaging open ability, bio-based polymers and digital printing. Based on current flexible packaging markets, the centre of attention within the report is inevitably food and beverage packaging, but other applications are considered including pharmaceuticals, household chemicals, medical devices and electronics, together with a wide range of flexible packaging materials including plastics, paper and metal foils.
High growth is expected in Europe and North America, as well as in the emerging markets of Asia and Central and South America.
The market is forecast to grow at an annual average rate of 3% reaching $248 billion in 2020. Food Packaging Market forecasts to 2024 for 14 leading countries:
USA, Japan, Germany, France, China, UK, Italy, Canada, Spain, Australia, South Korea, Brazil, Russia, India and Rest of the World.

Fig. World forecast consumer flexible packaging consumption by 2010–20 (‘000 tonnes)

The innovation and implementation of smart and active packaging over the next 10 years will be the key disruptive factor affecting the flexible packaging industry. So far, these technologies have been retarded by high cost, consumer resistance to items such as sachets in packaging, and concerns about excessive packaging. However, the deployment of intelligent packaging is expected to become much more frequent with decreasing cost, increasing emphasis on food safety, anti-counterfeiting, new regulations and brand owner/consumer demand.
The second most disruptive technology in flexible packaging is recyclability. Because of the small amount of material used in a flexible package, it generates much less waste than other formats. More easily recyclable materials and barrier structures, including monolayers, are expected to be introduced over the next 10 years.

References:

1.      Food Packaging Market Forecast 2014-2024 & Future Prospects for Leading Companies (June 18, 2014) -retrieved from http://www.smitherspira.com/news/2014/march/disruptive-technologies-in-flexible-packaging

2.      Beverage Packaging Market in Europe 2015-2019: Forecast, Trends Analysis (March 25, 2015) –retrieved from http://www.technavio.com/report/beverage-packaging-market-in-europe-2015-2019-forecast-trends-analysis

3.      Food Packaging Market by Material (Paper & Board, Plastic, Glass, Metal), Type (Rigid, Semi-Rigid, Flexible), Application (Dairy, Bakery, Confectionery, Convenience Foods, Fruits, Vegetables, Meat, Sauces, Dressings) - Global Trends & Forecast to 2019 (September 2014) –retrieved from http://www.marketsandmarkets.com/Market-Reports/food-packaging-market-70874880.

Food Packaging 2016 Report

Food Packaging 2016: Past Conference Report

ConferenceSeries Ltd hosted the “2^nd International conference on Food and Beverage Packaging” during June 13-14, 2016 at Holiday Inn Aurelia Hotel, Rome, Italy,

The conference was focused on Food Packaging and research in developing new methods of packaging studies with the theme “Innovation Drive in Food & Beverage Packaging”. A series of invited lectures by Keynote Speakers and Honourable Guest on the scientific sessions which include: Importance of Food Packaging, Food Packaging Testing, Novel Food Packaging Technologies, Food and Beverage Packaging Machinery, Packaging Tools, Nanotechnology in Food Packaging, Emerging Trends in Food Packaging, Cost-Effective Packaging Innovation, Consumer Trends in Food Packaging, Food Packaging Industry Scenario in Italy, Market Differentiation: Growing and Mature and Future of Innovation: Bio-based Packaging.

The conference was embarked with an opening ceremony followed by Keynote sessions and followed by series of lectures delivered by both Honourable Guests and members of the Keynote forum. The adepts who promulgated the theme with their exquisite talk were:

Hyun Jin Park, Korea University, Korea

Marco Arlorio, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy

Jane Muncke, Food Packaging Forum Foundation, Switzerland

Best Poster Awardees:

Inyoung Choi, Korea University, Republic of Korea

ConferenceSeries Ltd offers its heartfelt appreciation to Organizing Committee Members, dexterous of field, various outside experts, company representatives and is obliged to other eminent personalities who interlaced with ConferenceSeries Ltd and supported the conference in every aspect, without which the conference would not have been possible.

Your rejoinder is our inspiration; keeping this motto in mind and being witnessed the triumph of Food Packaging 2016, ConferenceSeries Ltd would like to announce the commencement of the  “4th International conference on Food and Beverage Packaging” to be held during May 10-11, 2017 Berlin, Germany.We welcome all the eminent researchers, students and delegate participants to take part in this upcoming conference to witness invaluable scientific discussions and contribute to the future innovations in the field of Food Packaging research.

For More details: http://foodpackaging.conferenceseries.com/

Let us meet again @ Food Packaging 2017

Welcome Message from Helga Naes

Helga Naes
Research Director, Food Safety and Quality, Nofima

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