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Retort pouches recorded all-time top sales this year in Japan and the sector had its strongest-ever showing at Tokyo Pack 2016—an important shop window for companies serving the Asia region—where Swedish pouch manufacturer Ecolean competed with domestic suppliers for new business in arguably the most testing global market, and Japanese-owned Kururay Plantic revealed its future intentions to expand into pouches.

Europe finally is facing up to the same stark environmental and economic realities of producing goods in increasingly massive volumes that Japanese industry accepted more than two decades ago and has shaped Japan’s resource-aware approach to packaging production and design. Trailing behind but with Japan’s experiences to learn from, Europe now has an action plan and measures to nudge the Union’s 28 countries – or at least 27 of them – towards a manufacturing model based on a circular, rather than linear, model.

Tokyo Pack 2016, a biannual exhibition will be held from 4 to 7 October at Tokyo Big Sight and will feature more than 2,600 stands representing 600 companies in the 23,000 square metre exhibition space, which attracts more than 70,000 visitors from inside Japan and overseas. As a reflection of the Tokyo Pack theme for this year, ‘The Heart of Advanced Packaging Solutions in Asia,’ the exhibition aims to be the venue choice for Japanese and global companies to exhibit their cutting-edge packaging solutions and technologies.