The recent PRINT4pack Conference held on September 20-21, 2016 in Palermo, Italy was part of the Made BY Italy promotional programme which Italy's ACIMGA association has been developing for years to support the Printing and Converting Industry and was organized in cooperation with ARGI (Italian Association of Graphic Industry Suppliers) and with the support of the Italian Trade Agency and Italy's Ministry for Economic Development.

The Conference provided a unique opportunity to spread in the Mediterranean basin an innovative and propositive culture about the new role of Packaging and the new opportunities it can offer, thanks to more and more performing technologies and to new business models which can be implemented.

The conference’s programme was the result of a joint effort of the associations which represent the entire printing chain. They started to work together in November 2015 and, on the 20/21 of September, delivered a unique mix of content as indicated here:

• A two days event with Round Tables and market learders’ opinions
• A delegation of professionals from USA, Israel, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey, Iran
• An exclusive White Paper on “Innovative Packaging and Labelling”