AMI has confirmed the line-up of speakers for the upcoming Flexible Packaging Middle East conference on 9–11 December 2013 at the Sofitel Hotel in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
AMI’s Flexible Packaging Middle East, now in its fifth edition, is a forum for all stages of the packaging supply chain to meet to discuss key trends and developments affecting market growth and profitability.
The conference will open with a market overview, followed by a session on material developments, including topics such as sustainability and nanotechnology in biopolymers.
The session on technology developments will cover varied topics such as recent developments in cast films, monoaxially oriented polyolefin films, online thickness measuring, and simultaneox double bubble extrusion line.
The event will close with a business forum in which brand-owners and converters will share their perspectives on the Middle East flexible packaging industry.
AMI has announced that participants will include: Animesh Bhattacharya, packaging development manager at Mars GCC, UAE; Grant Blewett, strategic account manager flexo EAMER at Kodak; Ahmed Mohamed Habiba, regional marketing manager at Johnson & Johnson, UAE; Dr Marco Dircetti, key account manager at Constantia Flexibles, Italy; and Carlo Ranucci, vice president at Manucor SpA, Italy.
Packaging in the Middle East region is growing at rates of more than 15% per year with all major application areas advancing, according to AMI.
In particular, the growth of sophisticated packaging converter markets is creating an opportunity for firms to participate in added value areas offering high profits.
Flexible Packaging Middle East 2013 will build delegates’ knowledge to provide an opportunity for the industry to meet and discuss the issues of concern today, said AMI.
The conference will end with an AMI paper by Research Director Andrew Reynolds on the development of the Middle East packaging markets.