Propak West Africa Announces Its Conference Programme for 2022 Show

With a little over a month until the doors open for its eleventh edition, the organisers of Propak West Africa have released the much-anticipated Conference Programme and announced that this year’s event is fully endorsed by the Industrial Development Department of the Federal Ministry of Trade and Investment. 

As the region’s leading exhibition and conference for the plastics, packaging, printing and food processing industries, Propak West Africa is expected to bring together more than 5000 professionals to source machines, products and services from over 200 brands across just three days of industry networking – it will truly be an unmissable event.  

Taking place between the 22nd and 24th of November 2022 at the Landmark Centre, in Lagos, Nigeria, according to organisers, Afrocet Montgomery, attendees of Propak West Africa can expect to discover brand new technology, learn about exciting growth opportunities and benchmark themselves in the market.  

Each session in the programme will give attendees critical insight and provide an opportunity to gain knowledge on evolving consumer behaviour, market trends and take part in important discussions on subject matters affecting the manufacturing industry.

A distinguished panel of speakers are set to deliver insightful talks this year including Dr Jean Marc Ricca, Managing Director Nigeria of BASF West Africa, Prof Pierre Pienaar, President of World Packaging Organisation and Ernest Ighrawve, Technical Project Manager of Doehler.

Session topics this year will cover a range of issues impacting the sector such as Keynote Presentations on ‘Understanding Packaging in the Cold Supply Chain’ and ‘Print and packaging automation and Industry 4.0: Smart Manufacturing and Sustainable Manufacturing’. Panel discussions addressing pertinent matters such as ‘The challenges of recycling food-grade polymer. Can they meet food and beverage industry sustainability targets?’ are also set to take place across the three days.

The conference will take place alongside the largest gathering of companies working in the packaging, plastics, printing and food processing sectors in West Africa, with more than 200 companies exhibiting. Products on display include extrusion, printing, converting machinery, injection moulding machines, flexible packaging, paper and cardboard packaging products all the way to digital and large format printing machines, all will be showcased live on the exhibition floor.

Sponsoring the event in 2022 are Epson, Skysat and Neofyton, all of whom have large stands displaying their goods alongside industry leading names such as TetraPak, Afra Technical Concept, SBA Group, Atlas Copco, Bole Machinery, Exact Solutions, KHS, Miele, Snetor Chimie, Sidel and Snetor to name just a few.

The full schedule for the conference and the exhibitor list is available on the website, with new speakers and companies being announced weekly. All three days of the exhibition and all of the conferences are completely free to attend, all you need to do is register online to receive your badge and keep up to date with the lastest developments.