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DAILYSHOWPROPAK ASIA 2016 BITEC, BANGKOK, THAILAND 15-18 JUNE, 2016
THE 24TH INTERNATIONAL PROCESSING, FILLING AND PACKAGING TECHNOLOGY EVENT FOR ASIA
P roPak Asia wi l l conclude today, but it has no doubt been successful in the eyes of both
exhibitors and visitors alike. “As the organiser, I’m really happy with the show. It’s running really well, and it’s bigger this year,” said Justin Pau, General Manager, Bangkok Exhibition Services (BES).
ProPak Asia has shown unprecedented growth this year and in many different aspects. In terms of exhibition floor size it was 11 percent, and there were two new national pavilions participating this year: Australia and Denmark. There has also been an increase in the number of visitors every day, such as a 13 percent growth in visitor numbers for the first day.
What is more remarkable is that the visitors have not even been hindered by bad weather—thundery showers in the mornings and afternoons. “The show is such a draw, it’s such a must-visit show that even with bad weather, visitors will come to visit the show, see what is happening here, the technologies displayed, and meet customers and exhibitors,” said Mr Pau.
For next year’s edition, there looks to be quite a few exciting changes to make the show more focused. ProPak Asia has grown organically over the years, but not all exhibitors were allocated by zone due to insufficient space. To make up for this, promotional materials such as focused documents were created, highlighting exhibitors by zone; those not in the right halls where their zones are located would still be made known to visitors.
Next year however, all the relevant exhibitors will be put in their focused zone. "This is one way we improve and focus the show, so it’s a better experience both for the exhibitor and the visitor. It’s a more focused experience,” he said.
ProPak Asia 2017 will have eight zones, two up from the usual six. These include: ProcessingTechnologyAsia, PackagingTechnologyAsia, Lab&TestAsia, DrinkTechAsia, PharmaTechAsia, PackagingMaterialsAsia, Coding, M a r k i n g & L a b e l l i n g A s i a , a n d Coldchain, Logistics&WarehouseAsia.
FoodTechAsia would now be segregated based on processing technology and packaging technology so visitors can find exhibitors with their specific needs more easily.Coding,Marking&LabellingAsia takes over PrintTechAsia, which further specifies the technologies that one might be able to find in that zone.
Coldchain,Logistics&WarehouseAsia will essentially be a new zone, although ProPak Asia has had exhibitors for logistics and warehouse in previous years already. Mr Pau is looking to have about 50 to 60 exhibitors in this new zone, who will help visitors keep pace with the industry and provide new information and resources in terms of technology. These would be industry enhancements to the show.
The eight zones will be spread out and integrated into BITEC halls 98 to 104. A total exhibition space of 80,000 sq m will be made available, though that will include halls 105 to 107 as well, but Mr Pau does not expect to use the full 80,000 sq m as this year’s show only took 50,000 sq m. “I estimate next year’s space to be about 65,000 sq m,” he said.
On his expectations for the industry next year, he expects a further focus on health and functional food and drinks, active and intelligent packaging, and flexible packaging. “Further innovation of food and drinks will create the demand for new processing technology, new packaging, and more.” Pharmaceutical manufacturing, already increasing present in Asia, will grow more as well, and these three—food, drink and pharma—make up the three key zones of what is essentially ProPak Asia, he said.
“The importance of these industries in the region cannot be overlooked or underplayed; they are so important. And ProPak Asia supports this industry literally hand in hand. It’s a perfect fit.”
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Rising Innovation In The Beverage Industry
T he Asia Drink Conference is back for the fourth edition this year. Once again held at BITEC in
Bangkok, the Conference was well-received with an attendance of over 100 participants from all over Asia.
Senior managers and key players in the beverage industry were treated to a wide slew of topics about the sector. The morning sessions touched on innovative solutions including intelligent packaging and plastic closures for PET bottles. Vivek Chhabra, president of Sermsuk PLC delivered a presentation on the emerging beverage markets in Southeast Asia, where he surveyed the trends and the possible directions these markets could take. One of his suggestions for the beverage industry was to go into neck bottle set-ups that were 33mm in diameter for a more lightweight solution.
In addition to the morning sessions, the Conference also featured two parallel tracks in the afternoon, addressing business strategies and technological advances, including topics on the latest trends for processing, packaging and products while also covering advice on marketing tactics.
Echoing Mr Chhabra from the morning session, Paul Schoenheit, the project engineer of Aseptic Technology at Krones AG also spoke on lightweight possibilities in Aseptic PET filling in the technology track. In addition to bottle neck set-ups, he also raised the idea of creating narrower bottle diameters that were slim yet stable. Mr Schoenheit noted the importance for manufacturers to “go beyond the mass market to bring about individual solutions”. He raised the example of how bottle stability can be achieved for a slim bottle through a ‘diamond-like’ shaped design. This enabled one to achieve the twin peaks of slimness and stability.
Other highlights from the technology track include Andreas Klages, the sales manager at KHS who gave a presentation on product protection and offered ideas on
how to keep sensitive beverage and liquid food fresh, as well as Laurent Cristol, who spoke on behalf of Gebo Cermex on end-of-line beverage packaging solutions.
Over at the other side was the business and marketing track, targeted at users in the industry who are keen to gather insights on the latest beverage trends in the market and how to propel their businesses to greater heights.
Dr Surapong Pinitglang from the University of The Thai Chamber of Commerce gave an insightful presentation on seven key trends in the beverage industry, including healthy drinks, attractive labelling, the rise of sweeteners, innovative water, distribution through retailers, global sustainability and innovative packaging.
Citing examples from global brands, Dr Pinitglang noted that these different aspects made up the ever-evolving beverage industry. On what was the most revolutionary, the assistant professor said was healthy drinks, functional beverages that contributed to the betterment of a person’s well-being and beauty. One
example he raised was cold pressed juices, which saw a 62.6-percent growth in the last five years. Cold pressed juices employ a High Pressure Processing (HPP) technology that helps to retain the freshness and nutrients of the fruit.
The business and marketing track also provided a platform for Shikhar Aggarwal from Frost & Sullivan, who shared crucial figures on the ASEAN dairy industry. Participants were also treated to a session by Professor Pierre Pienaar, the vice president of the World Packaging Organisation and the director of education at the Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP) who gave insights into packaging design. The Conference ended on a high note with Marcel Cote, the strategic marketing director of materials group at Avery Dennison, who spoke on enabling closed-loop recycling systems, an environmental solution in the production process for manufacturers to meet corporate sustainability initiatives.
Innovation For Local ConvenienceT he Food Innovation Contest 2016 organised by
FoSTAT concluded successfully yesterday. The contest presents a platform for University students studying Food Science and Technology to compete in innovating new products. This year’s theme was “Modern Thai Health Food.”
‘Modern’ means that the food should be easy to eat and suit our everyday lifestyles, which generally refers to ‘on-the-go’ or ‘convenient’ in terms of preparation, i.e. instant food. Judging criteria for submissions included innovation, cleaning and sanitary, and marketability.
The submissions were made public so ProPak Asia show visitors could take a look at the innovative exhibits. Should any company representative deem a certain product is marketable, or if they express interest
in it, they can contact the students directly to work out a business proposal or purchase the license from the students in order to recreate the products themselves.
This year, 14 teams of six students each participated in the contest. Coming in first place was the Mangurt Cube developed by a team of students from the Department of Product Development, Faculty of Agro-Industrial Kasetsart University.
It is a new style, ready-to-eat frozen traditional Thai mango sticky rice in a cube form, designed to reduce limitations of mango sticky rice consumption. The product is customised to meet the need of healthy and trendy customers.
It is made of coconut milk ice cream mixed with glutinous rice and mango capsule, formed in mango
jelly and coated with yogurt powder which contains probiotics. According to the students who designed this, they chose high quality mangoes (high in antioxidants such as ß-carotene, Vitamin A, E and C), coconut sticky rice from Kiaw Ngu glutinous rice, reduced fat coconut milk and the sweetener, Stevioside.
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A Busier Crowd This TimeA mec is the Spanish association of internationalised
industrial companies, comprising a group of manufacturers that come from different sectors. The association aims to help their member companies compete in the global market. ProPak Asia, therefore, is an essential platform for the processing and packaging manufacturers of Amec as it provides for these companies an environment to which they can acquire contacts and make inroads into not just the Thailand market, but also the entire Southeast Asian market, according to Rosa Meseguer, the person in charge of international promotion at Amec.
Ms Meseguer noted that ProPak Asia is growing every year, and the crowd this year is the biggest she has seen. “It’s just getting busier and busier each year,” she said. “We think it’s the main show in Southeast Asia. If we have to choose one show to attend in this region, it’s going to have to be ProPak Asia.”
Amec has been part of ProPak Asia since 2005,
organising the Spanish pavilion at the trade show. This year sees six packaging machinery companies inside the pavilion. These include AVE, ABC Compressors, Prodec, Ulma and Tavil.
Outside of the pavilion, there are over 30 companies around ProPak Asia. Ms Meseguer pointed out that for the past three years, Spain has been increasing the overall number of Spanish companies exhibiting here which shows that there is greater interest in the region for Spanish manufacturers and their products and technologies.
“In the packaging and processing industry, we are constantly seeing innovation and newer and better trends. And Spanish companies are always at the forefront of innovation, which explains why there is more interest for Spanish manufacturers,” explained Ms Meseguer.
The association and the Spanish pavilion plan to return next year to ProPak Asia with more companies and bigger stands.
Always PresentMasahiro Abe is the deputy secretary-general of
the Japan Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Association ( JPMMA), which hosts the Japan pavilion at ProPak Asia since 10 years ago—an impressive number of years and one that many other countries can only aspire to reach. He tells us that the association has a stand at the trade show even longer than the Japan pavilion, which illustrates the importance of the Thailand and Asia markets to Japan's packaging machinery industry.
Mr Masahiro reveals the figures: “In terms of exporting value, Thailand ranks the third, after China and North America, generating US$30 million annually.”
According to him, Japanese companies are always focusing on the Thailand market as well as those in Indonesia, Vietnam and Myanmar, India, and the Middle East.
There are seven companies at the Japan pavilion this time around, mostly dealing with packaging machinery, industrial detectors and inspecting machines that are exhibiting at the Japan pavilion this year. This
includes JPMMA, with a newcomer, A&D Co, which produces measuring, monitoring, controlling and testing instruments. The main aim of the companies is to look for local distributors.
“The feedback every time from the companies who participated in ProPak Asia is always very good,” said Mr Masahiro, who describes the trade show as the ‘number one exhibition’ in the region. “This is why we return each year.”
JPMMA also hopes to use this platform to promote their Japan International Packaging Machinery Show 2017, also known as Japan Pack, which is hosted by the association. The biennial exhibition brings together users and buyers of devices, technologies and services in packaging and related industries from around the world and will run from 3 to 6 October 2017.
On whether they are returning to ProPak Asia next year, Mr Masahiro has no doubt. “We would even like to expand our space. What we have now is 200 square metres—that’s small for a Japan pavilion; we need more space.”
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The system is capable of running oil-based, solvent-based or UV-curable inks to print up to 185 dpi at 135 feet per minute on a variety of substrates.
For non-porous applications, users have the option of utilising the company’s solvent-based inks—such as the PZ-1000 ink—to print a number of pigmented inks on a variety of non-porous products such as coated cartons, plastics, glass, shrink wrap, metals, etc.
CoPilot 128’s 4.3 inch full-colour touchscreen provides access to the system’s internal messages and print functions. Messages are created and edited on the Orion PC Software and transferred via Ethernet or USB device.
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Social Media For Food SafetyT he world is no doubt becoming more digitalised;
with the advancement of technology and especially the smartphone, the world is at our finger tips—literally. More people are using social media platforms such as Facebook, Youtube or Twitter, and with the ease and long-range reach of the netizens, news travels fast across the world, especially if it’s bad news.
This can be quite scary for food and beverage companies, particularly if it involves food safety scandals. Consumers are becoming more and more aware of the need for food safety, and a lot of this stems from social media, said Peter Bracher, Managing Director, NSF Asia-Pacific. “If people think they have a food safety problem, the first place they go to is Facebook or Line and tell everybody about it,” he explained.
Players in the industry are getting aware of that, and have begun monitoring the vast internet, NSF included. “We have a monitoring service based in India for our customers, where we specifically look for their names and maybe ‘food poisoning’, ‘foreign body’, ‘insect’ and so on. We do this to alert them, because if
there’s any problem, it’ll often be in social media before it hits the newspapers.”
Through monitoring, companies can be given a head start when such an incident occurs, and they can look into it immediately and take action, such as a withdrawal or sampling testing. “The aim is to have fixed the problem even before the newspapers hear about it,”
said Mr Bracher. “They can then say ‘oh yes, we saw it, we sampled, we found the problem, we withdrew the product.’ That is a good answer,” he said.
Social media is a useful and positive tool. “It’s a good sign when customers are expecting more,” he said, “I don’t think anyone should accept that eating food might make you ill, or present a risk to your health.”
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The LM C300 Series from Hitachi is a CO2 based vector laser. The company’s wide range of wave lengths, flexible power and focal lens configuration ensures performance suited to coding on various packaging substrates including paper, cardboard, glass or plastic.
The laser’s compact, single body and space-saving design ensures ease in mechanical integration. A cascading cover design supported by an efficient cooling air stream provides a high level of reliability. The result is a low electrical energy consumption and precise, clear coding even at small font sizes. Small outer dimensions and an on-board control system enable easy hardware and software integration of the LM series into factory networks.
The icon-based 10 inch full colour touch panel provides easy and straightforward navigation, and the design provides stress-free operation by displaying marking data and settings immediately. The machine is capable of printing up to 600 cps (characters per second). It realises significant reduction of print time and can print on a variety of objects which are moving at high speeds on production lines, as well as stationary objects.
The Galvano-scanner realises high-quality and high-speed printing and can properly adjust the edges and curved lines of each character.
Each character of a font can be manually modified and aligned to the application requirements. In order to avoid pin holes, the points of intersections and deep markings can be adjusted on the front data.
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The Basics Of Certification For ExportW ith 20 years of experience, Teeranat Limpichotikul,
SEAP Regional Food Hub Leader, Systems & Services Certification, SGS (Thailand) Limited, is an auditor in food safety and quality management certification. For Southeast Asian manufacturers looking to export, she shares some tips on how they might receive certifications for standards in a more efficient manner.
Before you can do any exporting to any market, it all starts with planning and knowing which markets you want to target, she says. “Before you build your factory, you need to have in mind which country and which product you’re going to produce.” That sounds a little obvious, but there is more than just that.
Which country you target might also determine how you build your factory. “Different countries have specific Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) requirements that begin with the construction of the factory,” she said. These might include details on how you should establish your plan for the factory, how you should construct it, which materials should be used in the construction, or
how the drainage system should look like, she explained.Studying the regulations and knowing what design
is expected is therefore an essential first step to receiving certifications for export. “This is one of the most common problems for factories in Asia,” she said. “Everyone just builds their factories without a thought, and then they realise that their design does not comply with overseas regulations.”
If they are still looking to export, which most of the time they do, then they would require a lot of correcting measures to be in place. “This would require a lot of time and money for investment, so it is better that companies do things right from the first foot forward,” she said.
The second tip she gave was that one should establish a basic management system in the organisation that would help to ensure product quality and safety. They can begin with getting certified for standards such as GMP, Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP), and the ISO 9001 or ISO 22000 standards.
“These are the basic certifications that every single
factory should have,” she informed. These standards are also a lot easier to acquire once the first step—knowing the regulations and having the factory design in line with the regulations of the product destination country—has been successfully done.
Once the factory receives these certifications, the next step is to ensure that they are always kept up to date with new regulations that are passed in the countries of interest or business. “Regulations keep changing, and when they are passed, they are effective from that date with immediate effect,” she said.
A problem for Southeast Asian countries is that most of the time, the regulations are launched in English. However, there might not be factory staff proficient enough in the language, so they would need extra time to translate the documents and then implement them in their processes. “So it would be best if they had a clear system in place to be updated on information regarding regulations of product destination countries,” she concluded.
Understanding Food-Grade LubricantsF ood-grade lubricants can offer more benefits to
food processing manufacturers than industrial lubricants, but it looks like the industry still does not fully understand what they are or why they should be used. Frederic Fan, Sales Manager India & SEA, Anderol, shares more on food-grade lubricants and explains their benefits.
“Food-grade lubricants are essentially lubricants that meet very stringent requirements such as FDA, Halal, or NSF, and these can be used in food processing plants where they may have direct or indirect contact with food,” Mr Fan defines.
A major benefit of food-grade lubricants is that they provide a form of insurance. In the event that there is a contamination issue in the plant, the extent of damage to the company, brand and losses as a result of needing to dispose contaminated products would not be as bad as if one were to being using industrial lubricants instead, he said.
Food-grade lubricants are safer than industrial lubricants, because as long as contamination of food remains within the limit of 10 parts per million contact with the food, the food will still be considered safe to eat. In contrast, once industrial lubricants are in contact with food, the food is immediately seen as contaminated and has to be removed from the line, added Laura Lai, Marketing Communications Executive, Tecsia Lubricants.
Food-grade lubricants are mostly synthetic, i.e. they are engineered products that have been designed to meet certain performance requirements, said Mr Fan. They therefore have a better performance than industrial lubricants, which are refined products. This means they have a better shelf-life, improved cost-in-use, and can serve their purpose as lubricants on the machines longer than industrial lubricants where machines need to be ‘relubed’ more often.
Another advantage food-grade lubricants have over their industrial counterparts is a higher stability over a wider range of temperatures. The food processing industry is vast, so while often the lubricants may be exposed to temperatures of 100 degrees or higher, there are also instances where they have to deal with sub-zero temperatures such as in cold storage. Food-grade lubricants can therefore be used in a much wider range of applications than industrial lubricants.
A slight drawback however of food-grade lubricants is that they are often more expensive than their industrial counterparts. More expensive upfront, that is. When you look at the price objectively, comparing the benefits they can provide as well, food-grade lubricants might even turn out cheaper. Ultimately, they give better performance and are a safer alternative to industrial lubricants.
More companies are adopting the use of food-grade lubricants today, more so because they are part of the
regulations for many export markets. Multi-national companies for example, need to comply to a global standard which has triggered an increased interest in this category, but increasingly, local and regional players are asking for it too, says Mr Fan.
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Automating The Food IndustryF erag has essentially been a manufacturer of
processing equipment for the newspaper industry, but five years ago, the company has gradually diverted its attention to the food and beverage industry.
The company had actually already dabbled in the food and beverage industry as early as some 15 years ago, but the newspaper and printing industry had been growing strong then, so the company was quite dedicated to the graphic arts business, explained Marcel Binder, Sales Director, Ferag.
“As you know, the newspaper industry is not really a growing industry anymore, so in our expansion strategy, we had to determine where we wanted to go. Since our competencies are in the development of engineering of systems, we have decided to utilise that knowledge to develop products for the food and beverage industry,” he said.
The company provides technology for conveyors such as plate-chain or skyfall, which can be used for conveying, buffering, processing, salting, and more.
At the moment, Southeast Asia and Asia do not account for a big portion of their business, but they see a huge potential for automated solutions here, especially in Southeast Asia. Rising salaries in countries such as Malaysia, and Thailand is a driving factor for companies to go into automation, as companies strive to make their processes more efficient in order to save on labour costs.
“I don’t think all the factories in Asia will soon
become automated, but certainly for the ones which have very high outputs or are in the export markets, standardised automated processes will be a requirement,” said Mr Binder.
Regarding countries with the biggest potentials for automation, he listed Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia for Southeast Asia, and India for South Asia.
“I think the smaller markets (i.e. Vietnam, Myanmar) are not yet at the level where they need high grade automation as they are still at very low cost levels. Vietnam is on the rise, but the other countries like Myanmar, Cambodia, or Laos still use very low levels of automation, and we don’t see much interest from them, not yet. Hopefully that will change soon.”
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Improving Quality And Productivity In AsiaW hen asked about trends going forward for
Asia and Southeast Asia, there are two trends, says Sornnarong Thongpas, Business Area Manager, Product Inspection Division, Mettler-Toledo (Thailand). The first is quality of products, and the second is productivity of operations.
Product inspection or ensuring product safety through specialised equipment such as x-ray systems or metal detectors is a basic requirement for the food and beverage industry today, but just 10 years ago, it was a mere option. The focus of the industry had just been different then.
“Seven or ten years ago, if you talked about metal detectors in Asia, nobody would care. Nobody would
want to buy or invest in a metal detector, because it would not help them increase their profits,” he said. “But right now, if you don’t have a metal detector, you cannot qualify for the export market, or even keep up with modern trends.”
Productivity is the second trend. “As you know, labour costs are increasing so customers want to move from using manpower to using machines. In essence, automation, because the cost of labour is increasing every day,” he said.
Increasing productivity does not just mean producing more products faster; it also incorporates more efficient use of manpower. With dynamic checkweighers for example, customers can weigh products or batches of
products easily and automatically, without the need for manpower, he explained.
Productivity can also refer to producing more products, with less material. Or in the case with machines, less power and energy consumption. This is another focus for the industry today—reducing energy consumptions, greenhouse gas emissions, and environmental impact. Typical x-ray machines in the industry would use 400 watts of energy, but one solution by Mettler Toledo for example, would only require 25 percent of that, he said. With the same quality and efficiency, customers can reduce consumption usage and costs with new technology such as this.
Bangkok Exhibition Services and Allworld Exhibitions welcomes you back next year.
Do visit the international pavilions such as Korea's VMECA at Hall 106, booth 6K05.
ProPak Asia 2016 welcomes Pepsi Co.
The Australian Pavilion had a blast at their networking session yesterday.
Despite the rain, business transactions went on as usual today.
Keeping up with the technological trends, the new ProPak Asia app saw good use.