The unique annual gathering of china&rsquos folding carton industry professionals sinofoldingcarton &ndash is set to open its doors at the china international exhibition center in beijing today. Sinofoldingcarton, organised by reed exhibitions, is one of the most influential events in the local carton industry. This year, the exhibition, which will run from 6 july to 8 july, is taking place in beijing for the first time.as well as spanning a record exhibition area of 20,000 sqm, the show will also attract an all time high of over 300 world leading makers of folding carton manufacturing equipment and consumables suppliers. Over 500 pieces of folding carton manufacturing equipment and 800 post processing consumables will be displayed to nearly 13,000 local and international visitors.high profile exhibitors assemble to sharpen competitive edgesinofoldingcarton 2011 will feature a number of the industry&rsquos leading brands. Several well known folding carton equipment manufacturers from china and abroad will even make their sinofoldingcarton debut in 2011. Among them, qinhua, zhening, jingbao and yiling will show flexo, intaglio and silkscreen printing equipment. Postpress processing equipment suppliers like masterwork, shengding group, yawa, tokyo wenhong, hongjing, yuanheng, chengyuan, dragon, wutai, shengtian and yongshun, who make die cutters, folder gluers, hot stamping machines, laminating machines and laminators, will showcase their latest postpress processing technologies to visiting manufacturers of folding cartons.additionally, exhibitors like henkel, jichuan, huakang, delong, qichuang, rocky and chengming will display the hot melt adhesives and jelly glue that are becoming popularly adopted by folding carton manufacturers in response to today&rsquos lowcarbon economy trends. Companies like esko, xin&rsquoao, zhengbo, shengyuan, jialida, huawei, yueming, kaitian, senmao, yonghua, dais, zhengrun, kangli, hongming, hörauf and lishunyuan will also offer strong support to the exhibition and feature their own folding carton processing solutions onsite.to comply with the latest drug electronic monitoring system and policies issued by the state food and drug administration, and to help medicine packaging and printing companies rapidly develop business channels in electronic monitoring printing, sinofoldingcarton 2011 will, for the first time, have an electronic monitoring code zone. Reputable electronic monitoring code solution suppliers, such as beijing founder, beijing shield science and technology, beijing mengtai, yuanchuang and tiancen, will be featured there to showcase new technologies and equipment for producing drug electronic monitoring codes.strong support from local and international trade associationsthis year, sinofoldingcarton enjoys even more support from major industry partners. The following local trade associations are set to send strong visiting delegations· beijing packaging technology association,· beijing printing association,· tianjin packaging technology association,· hebei province packaging technology association,· anhui province chamber of commerce for packaging & printing materials,· hebei province printing association,· shandong province packaging technology association,· fujian province packaging technology association,· jiangxi province printing and duplicating association,· sichuan province packaging society,· jilin province packaging technology association,· qinghai province packaging technology association,· liaoning province packaging and printing chamber of commerce,· chongqing packaging association,· chengdu packaging technology association,· dalian packaging technology association,· langfang printing association and· putian printing association.additionally, these highprofile international associations will also visit the event via member delegations· association for suppliers of printing, publishing and converting technologies,· australia packaging association,· all india federation of master printers and· north india printers association.these organisations will each contribute to the high caliber of visitors at sinofoldingcarton by leveraging their extensive reach to invite key folding carton industry companies to visit, and make purchases at the show.diverse onsite activitiesto attract key trade professionals and global buyers, as well as to increase the value of sinofoldingcarton 2011, the organisers will run several highlevel activities concurrent to the actual exhibition. One such activity will be a showcase of exquisitely crafted, wellknown brands of cigarette labels. In this feature, 30 boxes of highly anticounterfeit cigarette labels with new chinese epigrams will be displayed to cigarette label producers or companies interested in the cigarette label market.selected winners of the 20092010 &lsquoworld star&rsquo competition will also have their most advanced highend products and designs displayed. These will all be new innovations for the folding carton industry and will include carton structure, manufacturing processes, usage and material selection. The &lsquoworld star&rsquo feature will showcase the high potential of chinese packaging design innovation.the packaging, printing and fortune series summit will examine postpress finishing new opportunities brought by printing and packaging and environmental protection initiatives through a series of lectures. Alongside it, the electronic monitoring code seminar will look at the application of changeable printing technologies to drug monitoring codes. The recent history, future prospects and emerging development trends of electronic monitoring codes will all be analyzed.the chanyetuan group purchasing activity will provide the most competitively priced packaging and printing equipment, as well as consumables, to packaging and printing companies. Companies that form syndicates to buy products through chanyetuan.com onsite will be thrilled with the discounts they secure. Alongside the group buying, the komori infotech delegation activity will bring 100 folding carton industry professionals to visit beijing artron color printing co. Ltd. Additionally, companies like koenig & bauer ag, sandvik and domino will hold special technology lectures at the exhibition to discuss the impact of the latest technologies, cuttingedge equipment and market information.as china&rsquos economic center and the folding carton industry chain migrate northwards, the region&rsquos folding carton packaging and printing industry is beginning to explore its huge development potential. Sinofoldingcarton 2011 will provide folding carton packaging companies with a crucial platform via which to display, evaluate and purchase manufacturing solutions. More importantly, it will also facilitate development and improvement of the folding carton packaging industry across north china.
