Packaging Innovations & Empack Birmingham 2027

How it compares

London Packaging Week is the closer comparison for a team whose main brief concerns the pack's appearance, materials and brand experience. Its London gathering organizes suppliers around luxury, beauty, drinks and food and consumer packaging. Birmingham puts those development decisions alongside equipment, handling and outsourcing, giving a team one place to compare suppliers when a project also changes how a product is produced or packed.

For a factory investment centered on processing equipment, robotics, industrial vision and production automation, PPMA Show offers a more concentrated machinery environment at the NEC. Empack gives operations teams access to that kind of equipment within a broader conversation about the finished pack and the supply chain. The choice depends on whether the project starts with a production line or with a product and its packaging.

interpack places the same decisions in an international processing and packaging market in Düsseldorf. Its coverage includes confectionery, bakery, pharmaceuticals and industrial goods alongside food, drinks and cosmetics. Birmingham suits teams building UK supplier relationships and weighing a combination of material, equipment and contract packing options; interpack is the stronger comparison for a procurement exercise spanning international equipment and process suppliers.

The right UK trip for teams whose packaging project crosses materials, production equipment and outsourced packing.

Who exhibits

Amcor and Huhtamaki anchor the materials and consumer packaging offer, while Sun Chemical brings inks and coatings and Vetroelite adds specialist glass packaging. Formlabs gives development teams a prototyping angle. Across Empack, Sealed Air's protective packaging and automation, Adpak's shrink wrapping systems and Combilift's handling equipment connect the pack to the factory and warehouse. The mix makes supplier conversations about a finished package, its manufacture and its movement possible within the same event.

1. 

   Combilift

2. 

   Amcor

3. 

   Sun Chemical

4. 

   Sealed Air

5. 

   Boplan

6. 

   Formlabs

7. 

   tesa

8. 

   Firefly

9. 

   Huhtamaki

10. 

    Magnum Packaging

11. 

    Dongguan City Jingli Can

12. 

    Berlin Packaging

13. 

    Schur Star Systems

14. 

    Mondi

15. 

    N Smith

16. 

    Lundberg Tech

17. 

    Bandall

18. 

    Uflex

19. 

    Durham Duplex

20. 

    Ecopack

21. 

    Randex

22. 

    Hartmann Packaging

23. 

    Vetroelite

24. 

    Kite Packaging

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Packaging Innovations & Empack Birmingham 2027

The 2027 conference themes connect circular packaging systems with consumer engagement, material innovation, automated factories, smart packaging and resilient supply chains. They bring product development and operational questions into the same program. The Future Trailblazer Awards also add Packaging Mentor of the Year, recognizing people who develop early-career talent. Alongside recognition for emerging professionals, the new category gives the event a way to recognize the people helping them build careers across packaging.

• For a new pack that must run on existing equipment, compare materials and formats in Packaging Innovations with machinery and handling in Empack.
• Use the BCMPA area to compare contract manufacturing, packing, filling and fulfilment as distinct outsourcing services for your product.
• Match your conference interests to the stages: Circular Economy for packaging systems and waste, Design & Innovation for the pack itself, and Production Line for operations and the supply chain.