Packaging and Ingredients Together Shape the Future of the Food and Beverage Industry

FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany, October 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ –

The interplay between packaging and ingredients is expected to become a major force in
the innovation of the food and beverage industry worldwide. Packaging provides essential
functions to the product like communicating product characteristics, ensuring product
safety and enabling convenience. Identifying and exploiting the synergies between these
packaging functions and the ingredients is a key success factor for manufacturers of food
and drink products. Three sociographic shifts in the populations of the industrialized and
developing countries currently characterize the dynamic segment of packaging innovations:
urbanization, ageing and morality in terms of sustainable living.

These key trends will be presented at the Hi Europe, NuW (Nutrition and Wellness
Solutions) trade show in Frankfurt/Main from November 13 to 15 – the world’s leading event
for functional foods and ingredients, nutritional supplements and health products.

        1) Sustainability / Naturalness: Elaborate, unnecessarily wasteful packaging
          is increasingly being viewed critically by consumers. Biodegradable, recyclable and
          renewable materials that support a natural product image are undeniably taking the
          spotlight, with bio-plastics and paper- or carton-based packaging clearly becoming the
          topic of the hour. Also, implementation of the upcoming world ISO standards on
          packaging and environment - publication date October 2012 - is on the agenda.
          Ingredients which require or eliminate specific packaging materials or technologies
          can be subject of study here.
        2) Single sizes: In the city, the single-person household has already become the
          predominant way of life. Gone are the days of the family-size package. Buying
          behaviour is focused more on immediate needs than on stockpiling. Apart from small
          sizes, the big trend here is innovative, resealable packaging. Ingredients and
          packaging may play together here in delivering longer storage-time or easier ways to
          prepare foods, e.g. in the microwave.
        3) Products that cater to the needs of "Best Agers": In addition to small size,
          this means packaging must be easy to open and labeling clearly legible.

Specialized background information on key packaging developments (materials,
accessible design, new legislative developments and technologies to enhance patient
compliance) is provided by NVC Netherlands Packaging Centre (http://www.nvc.nl), the
business intelligence partner of the exhibition.

“With great pleasure we work support the exchange of business ideas on packaging and
the use of ingredients at the exhibition. We are convinced that this interaction will be
instrumental to the creation of many new fruitful innovations throughout the industry”,
comments Michael Nieuwesteeg, Managing Director of the NVC Netherlands Packaging Centre.
NVC will be onsite at Health ingredients Europe & NuW in Frankfurt conducting seminars
discussing sustainable packaging, packaging innovations and smart & intelligent packaging.

About Health ingredients Europe & NuW

Health ingredients Europe is part of the world leading Food ingredients, Natural
ingredients and Health ingredients series of ingredients trade shows. These highly
professional trade shows have been held successfully since 1986. Health ingredients Europe
was launched in 2000 with Hi Europe (NuW) 2012 being the 7th edition of this show. Health
ingredients Europe will be joining NuW Nutrition + Wellness Solutions in 2012, creating a
new exhibition that provides a complete 360 perspective of the entire nutrition and
wellness industry. For more information, visit http://www.nuwsolutions.com

About the organiser

UBM Live is a division of UBMplc, which is headquartered in London, UK. The office in
the Netherlands is the organiser of the world-leading Health ingredients, Food
ingredients, CPhi, ICSE and Informex series of food and pharmaceutical ingredients trade
shows. The Dutch office also publishes International Food Ingredients Magazine and
organises related conference activities. For more information, visit

http://www.ingredientsnetwork.com

        Press contact
        Courtney Rol
        Marketing Manager, UBM Live
        de Entree 73, Toren A, 1101 BH
        Amsterdam, The Netherlands
        Tel: +31(0)20-40-99-546
        Courtney.rol@ubm.com

SOURCE UBM Live