As the Algerian printing and packaging industry continues its rapid growth, many international technology leaders are again expected to exhibit at printpack alger 2022.
Organised by fairtrade and Messe Duesseldorf, the 8th printpack alger will take place in parallel to plast alger from 14 to 16 March 2022 at the state-of-the-art CIC Abdelatif Rahal International Conference Centre in Algiers.
Valuable global support
“We are proud that since 2010 printpack & plast alger have been embraced by leading technology and raw material suppliers from around the globe as their most important business platform in the region”, says Martin März, fairtrade founder and managing partner.
"And we thank the Algerian government as well as Algerian, Maghreb, European, Middle Eastern and Asian embassies, institutions and associations for their unmitigated and ongoing support. For the upcoming edition of printpack & plast alger we are expecting more than 200 leading exhibitors from around the globe."
Algeria is one of Africa's & the Middle East's largest importers of printing and packaging technology
Sabine Geldermann, Director drupa and Global Head Print Technologies with Messe Duesseldorf points out: “According to VDMA, Algeria’s imports of printing and paper technology have increased from 57 million euros in 2016 to 88 million euros in 2019. As a result, Algeria belongs to the three largest importers of printing & paper technology on the African continent, just behind Egypt and South Africa and just ahead of Nigeria.
Also, in comparison to leading importers of printing and paper technology in the Middle East, Algeria holds a leading position with 88 million euros, just behind the UAE (109 million), but still ahead of Saudi Arabia (84 million), Israel (83 million) and Iran (41 million). The most important supplier countries are Germany, Italy, China, France, Switzerland, Spain, Netherlands, Turkey, UK, Belgium, USA and Austria.”
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