Russia’s Leading Trade Fair for Packaging & Processing
While Russia’s weak ruble, dramatically declining oil prices and the challenging political situation are affecting the Russian market for packaging and process technology, business has by no means come to a grinding halt. Russia and its neighbors still have a substantial demand for investment and an unbroken interest in advanced machinery, production and process technology and high-tech materials. The domestic food processing and packaging industry is under pressure to improve its competitive edge so as to substitute the decline in imports. Hence, business owners and industrialists are keen to find out more about innovative technologies and maintain or establish business contacts with suppliers, even if business projects cannot be rolled-out immediately.
Accordingly there continues to be keen interest in UPAKOVKA, Russia’s leading trade fair for processing & packaging. Numerous visitors and company representatives who attended the last staging of the show indicated that they had a clear goal in mind: to stay on top of the most recent technologies, to keep existing business relationships warm and develop new potential sales channels in order to be ahead of the field when the economic situation turns around.
The last staging of UPAKOVKA in January 2017 attracted around 23,000 trade visitors from Russia, CIS and neighboring countries, and featured some 800 exhibitors from 33 countries.
