Elopak to showcase personal care packaging

Elopak Plastic Divisions is to showcase an overview of its products and services at the Total Packaging & Processing event in Birmingham next week. Unifill will exhibit its portfolio of innovative portion packages for food, personal care, para-pharmaceutical and chemical-technical products.

Total Packaging & Processing is the first event of its kind to combines four traditional UK exhibitions - Pakex, PPMA machinery show, Eurochem and Interphex.

"With our presence, we want to demonstrate and communicate to the target industries that Elopak is ready to play an important part in the liquid packaging business and that we have many premium possibilities to offer to our actual and potential customers," said a Elopak spokesperson.

Elopak's event stand is to featuring four product display areas to show the range of plastic-based packaging solutions that Elopak offers and to inform manufacturers of Elopak's new developments in machinery and packaging technology.

Unifill - an Elopak subsidary - is to present the new 'Smart Bottle', the thermoform technology used to produce seamless bottles with capacities ranging from 50 to 500 ml. The Italian subsidiary will also display its form-fill-seal machines for thermoformed portion packs offering scope for the shaping of smaller personal care packs.

Elofill - another division of Elopak - will inform visitors about the range of filling machines for plastic bottles available in clean, ultraclean and aseptic technology.

Feature Systems will also exhibit Elopak's wide range of consumer-friendly opening systems for Pure-Pak cartons.

Pure-Pak Diamond - a consumer-friendly system - will be featured and launched for the UK market at the Total show.

Total Packaging & Processing will take place in Birmingham's NEC Center from 29 March to 1 April 2004.