WPO Calendar FILTER BY COUNTRY If you are a WPO Member, click here to add your event. ARGENTINAAUSTRALIAAUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALANDAUSTRIABRAZILCHINACUBAGERMANYGREECEHUNGARYINDONESIAISRAELITALYJAPANKENYAKOREA, NORTHNETHERLANDSPHILIPPINESPOLANDSOUTH AFRICASPAINSRI LANKASWEDENTHAILANDUKRAINEUNITED STATES 2023 JANUARY0FEBRUARY3MARCH3APRIL11MAY4JUNE2JULY7AUGUST0SEPTEMBER6OCTOBER9NOVEMBER6DECEMBER0 SEPTEMBER Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun 123 45678910 11121314151617 18192021222324 252627282930 11MONDAY, SEP 2023 From 11/09/23 till 13/09/23Pack Expo Las Vegas 2023Every two years, PACK EXPO Las Vegas brings together packaging and processing solutions suppliers and end users from 40+ vertical industries. Exhibitors launch products, showcase their latest innovations and problem-solve with customers. Attendees explore thousands of packaging and processing technologies on display and discover game-changing solutions to their packaging and processing challenges. Be there! Contact person: Glen Long - [email protected] United States All day https://www.packexpolasvegas.com/the-show21THURSDAY, SEP 2023 ABRE’s Brazilian Packaging AwardThe Packaging Award for the Brazilian packaging industry is in its 22nd edition, awarding the best packaging innovation already in the Brazilian for FMCG products' categories, design, sustainability, technology and also students’s projects. Brazil https://www.premioabre.org.br/26TUESDAY, SEP 2023 From 26/09/23 till 28/09/23INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: FOOD CONTACT COMPLIANCEWe are celebrating this year the 10th anniversary of the International Food Contact Compliance Conference, organized by the Italian Institute of Packaging. It is already 10 years that we are gathering in this beautiful location on the Lago Maggiore all the most important experts in the field of food contact, and we have seen in Baveno the newest trends of science and law flourishing and pushing forward knowledge and innovati on. Contact person: Giorgia Lovisotto - [email protected] Italy 10:00am - 06:00pm https://www.packagingmeeting.it/en/shop/food-contact-compliance/26TUESDAY, SEP 2023 5th Congress of the Packaging IndustryThis year's Congress, organized by Polish Chamber of Packaging and Poznan International Fairs (MTP), will take place on September 26, 2023 in Poznan, Poland. The theme of the congress is "Packaging industry facing market challenges". During the Congress, the speakers will present the current state of the packaging market, upcoming trends, requirements as well as solutions and innovations. We will also try to answer the question about the packaging of the future. We believe that packaging should be viewed as an industry that fulfills a service role in relation to all other market segments, to ensure appropriate durability for all kinds of packaged products, efficiency, users ease of use and safety, and environmental friendliness. Contact person: Beata Pyś-Skrońska - [email protected] Poland https://www.pakowanie.info/v-kongres-przemyslu-opakowan.html28THURSDAY, SEP 2023 Packforce Packaging Update Nr. 2 (in German only)Neuordnung der Verpackungslandschaft - Lösungen für die Zukunft - Die Packaging Updates der Packforce Austria gehen in die zweite Runde - Eine neue Serie von Informationsveranstaltungen zu aktuellen und brennenden Themen in der Verpackung. - Die zweite Veranstaltung widmet sich den neuesten Informationen zur Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (kurz PPWR) und Ansätzen für das Verpackungsmanagement der Zukunft. - Im Rahmen des Packforce Packaging Updates Nr. 2 findet heuer auch die Verleihung der Green Packaging Star Awards statt. - Das Packforce Packaging Update zeigt Vorgaben, Perspektiven sowie Lösungswege für die nächsten Jahre auf und bietet Möglichkeiten zum Austausch und zur Vernetzung. Location: Haus der Ingenieure Eschenbachgasse 9 1010 Wien Contact: Fiona Kogler, [email protected] Austria 04:00 pm - 08:00pm https://packforceaustria.at/events/details?tx_sfeventmgt_pieventdetail%5Baction%5D=detail&tx_sfeventmgt_pieventdetail%5Bcontroller%5D=Event&tx_sfeventmgt_pieventdetail%5Bevent%5D=6&cHash=8f91d7c4a2d0ec05302e5dcd874330f029FRIDAY, SEP 2023 The ‘International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste’ ‘Packaging can play an integral role in minimizing food waste at the start of the value chain, so that waste can be prevented in the households. Avoiding food waste is a critical packaging issue and one that food producers, manufacturers, brand owners, retailers and consumers need to better understand.” In Kenya, we as an institute of Packaging Professionals purpose to join others in a national conversation on food loss and waste and help recognize the role of packaging in helping to mitigate Food loss and waste. Kenya www.ioopk.com