ITALIAN PACKAGING AND FOOD PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY PRESENCE AT THE PROPAK INDONEISA

Jakarta (November 19, 2013) – Italian Trade Commission, the trade promotion office of the Italian Embassy, together with UCIMA (Italian Packaging Machinery Manufacturers' Association) organized a national pavilion at the PROPAK INDONESIA 2013 to be held on the 20-23 November 2013 at the Jakarta International Expo, Kemayoran, Jakarta - Indonesia.

Four leading Italian companies dealing in the production complete line of packaging machinery such as  turnkey filling lines, free-standing machines for food and beverages industries to produce complete packaging lines for the products such as tomato paste, jams, majonnaise, ketchup, sauces, canned fruits or vegetables, fish, juices,etc (FMT).  Company specializing in the machinery of the production and packaging of rolls for food wrapping called Rotomac who is also member of IMS Delmatic Group will be present in the fair. Another innovative company operating in the graphic arts industries and produce pre-press equipment and related machinery, including flexographic printing machinery associated to converting technologies such as lamination and slitting machines, produce unique machinery for the flexible packaging and label conversion industries (Multipress Srl). Last the pavilion will also be participated by a multinational company who operated  in 24 countries, Sacmi now heads over 70 companies operationing in various business sectors, from machines and complete plants for the ceramic, beverage, packaging, food processing and plastic processing industries to advanced quality control systems.

Indonesia food and packaging Industry grew rapidly and it is expected to continue to grow. The Indonesian Packaging Federation (IPF) estimated the domestic packaging industry to achieve US$4.36 billion (Rp 40 trillion) in revenue this year – an 11.1% increase over last year. This growth is expected to be boosted mainly by the local food and beverage and pharmaceutical industries, particularly food and beverage which consumes around 70% of the total packaging supply. 

Plastic packaging - flexible and rigid – will see the greatest demand, contributing around 56% of total demand, based on market trends over the past three years. “In the past, plastic-based packaging only accounted for around 51%, but now the demand has increased significantly as it is considered more efficient. If the current stable growth rate of more than 10% per anum continues, it is believes that Indonesia’s packaging industry will see revenue double by 2016.

Dr. Samuele Porsia, Italian Trade Commissioner to Indonesia, is convinced that since Italy is strong in the machinery for packaging and food processing, Italy can meet the demand of Indonesian Industry.

This can be confirmed by the constant imports of the Indonesian of packaging machinery from Italy constantly increases where in 2010 the market share was recorded US$ 50,227,873 or 19% of market share and the amount doubled in 2012 reaching US$ 99,566,653 and 23% of the market share.