Pharmapack Europe 2023 (February 1 and 2, 2023, Paris) ended with sustainability dominating the fair's agenda and innovations. A key benchmark for pharmaceutical packaging and delivery trends, the event marks a potential turning point for industry sustainability.
Pharmapack Europe 2023 hosted 4850 executives, with some 7513 visits and 4210 online attendees. Notably, 78 countries were represented and 42 content sessions were held, with an entire area dedicated to sustainability and two more covering device and packaging innovation and high-volume drug and combination product delivery. The content will remain available online. In total, there were 355 exhibiting companies, from Aptar and BD to Nemera, Körber, West and Owen Mumford, to name just a few.
Laura Indriksone, Brand Director at Pharmapack Europe, commented: “We have seen a really big change in 2023 and our own Pharmapack Report predicted that sustainability will be the biggest issue for the industry this year. What we saw on the exhibit floor was the depth and diversity of the response to meet the challenges of sustainable innovation in medicine delivery and greener packaging supply chains. The other big trend is that companies are trying to combine connected devices and sustainability goals and we see a lot of smaller companies at the event as well. I think this could be a big trend next year, that the industry is looking for new partners and being much more open in its criteria for consideration. Companies both large and small are looking to expand networks and make supply chains more diverse and secure.”
