Conference on sustainable food processing and packaging to stage alongside inaugural East Afripack

The first edition of East Afripack 2014 will include an international conference "Food processing & packaging innovation for a sustainable development", announced the organizer, Ipack-Ima S.p.A. in conjunction with PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies.

East Afripack, the inaugural edition of the processing, packaging and converting exhibition catering to the entire East Africa macro-region and the East African Community, will be held from September 9-12 in Nairobi, Kenya.

The conference, which starts on September 10, will include three sessions continuing throughout the show.

The first day will focus on "Innovation trends in the agro-food chains”, with Mpoko Bokanga, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) Representative to Kenya, Eritrea and South Sudan, providing the keynote speech.

"Sustainable packaging: challenges and solution" is the topic discussed on the second day, September 11, with an introductory speech by Thomas L. Schneider, President, World Packaging Organization.

The closing day, both for the exhibition and the conference, will be centered on "Normative and Educational pre-requisites for a sustainable development in agro-food chains", with a keynote lecture by Paschal Nyabuntu from the East Africa Community (EAC).

"An international conference of this significance testifies to the importance of East Afripack as the first show of considerable international reach taking place in Africa and dedicated to Food Processing and Packaging," underlines Prof. Claudio Peri, President of the Ipack-Ima scientific committee, who together with the members of the East Afripack Steering Committee developed the calendar of the Conference.