Pick&Pack, the event for professionals from industries such as food and beverage, automotive, textile, retail, pharmaceutical, cosmetics and beauty, or electronics, who are looking for the latest packaging, picking and distribution solutions, closed the doors of its third edition yesterday. A total of 6.243 visitors have gathered at the event, with the purpose of jointly tracing the path of intralogistics, logistics and packaging towards improving competitiveness, based on digitization and sustainability.
The Pick&Pack celebration has turned Madrid into the capital of technological innovation for the supply chain, packaging and packaging, and has brought together more than 180 exhibiting firms that have shown the market innovations in logistics robotics, AGV's, traceability, supply chain, labeling and coding, processing machinery, packaging and packaging materials. At the same time, technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, blockchain, additive manufacturing and 3D Printing or IIoT have become known. MSC, Antalis, DHL, CTC Group, LPR, Minsait, Tetra Pack, Adecco, Carreras, Element Logic, Elopak, Fieldeas, GXO, Jungheinrich, Knauf Industries, Markem-Imaje, Sage, Grupo Sesé, SP Group, Swisslog, System Logistics , Toyota or ULMA, among many other companies, have presented their solutions and materials that allow them to improve productivity and face the socioeconomic and climatic challenges that lie ahead.
"At Pick&Pack 2023 we have verified that digitization and automation are the firm answers that all professionals in intralogistics, logistics and packaging have to adopt if they want to solve the current market needs and continue with the competitive sustainability of their business." has targeted Marina Uceda, Pick&Pack Manager.
The news of logistics and packaging, under discussion at the Pick&Pack 2023 congresses
During the three days, the summit has hosted four specialized congresses, the European Logistics Summit 2023, National Congress of Packaging 4.0, and Alimarket Logistics Meetings y Consumer Packaging. In this sense, the forums have brought together 182 experts who have put on the table the transformation that packaging is experiencing and the business opportunities that arise as a result of climate challenges. In addition, innovation has been an issue that has been analyzed in detail based on Smart Packaging, the application of the metaverse, Augmented Reality, Artificial Intelligence, digital printing, or NaviLens technology and QR codes. , who are promoters of inclusive packaging.
In terms of intralogistics and logistics, robotization has been the great protagonist as a solution that responds to the current challenges of the industry, focused on the new demand that is highly influenced by the rise of e-commerce. Precisely, the logistics of electronic commerce, which requires speed, perfection, anticipation, and collaboration, and its coexistence with urban mobility has also marked the Pick&Pack 2023 agenda. In turn, emphasis has been placed on the need to attract more talent in supply chains, and leading companies such as Palibex, have shared their strategies to successfully retain and retain talent.
Packaging claims a PERTE for the sustainable transformation of packaging
The short-term future of the packaging sector in terms of sustainability has been one of the great themes of Pick&Pack 2023. In this sense, representatives of Aimplas, Tetra Pak, SP Group, Vichy Catalan Corporation, and Antalis Iberia have agreed to claim the shortcomings of the regulations to reduce the new plastic and in the general confusion that the sector has. Francisco Manuel Muriel, Director of Quality and R&D at SP Group has pointed out that “the legislation has not taken the value chain into account, since the deadlines are not realistic. There will be solutions that do not arrive by 2025, 2030 or 2050”. In the same vein, it has been pronounced lola gomez, Packaging R+D+i Technician at Aimplas pointing out that “many customers do not understand the legislation. There is room for interpretation and there are also changes that we do not understand, for example, that now coffee capsules will be considered packaging”.
For its part, Dolores Monterrubio, Packaging Product Manager and head of sustainability projects Antalis Iberia, has warned that with the tax on plastic or the use of sustainable materials "The end customer will be affected, to which it must be taken into account that there are sectors that cannot offer a recyclable alternative either because virgin plastic does not offer the same resistance as recycled plastic, for example." Francisco Manuel Muriel has qualified that “we are in an upward situation in which people do not want to pay more to be sustainable, the same as what happens in companies, especially in SMEs. For this reason, it is necessary to have a line of aid to promote the change of sustainable materials without losing competitiveness, as has happened with the electric vehicle”.
