You have a quality health product, attractive and safe to consume. But have you considered your packaging as a strategic component of your global value chain? With deficient packaging, your product will not be stored properly or safely and could significantly affect sales.
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Conference Schedule
For the first time, SET Canada will host during the three days of the show, conferences on packaging with the following topics:
This session will help to identify key questions such as:
Are we aware of the importance of packaging in everyday life? Are we aware of factors determining the choice of packaging, the impact on our corporate decisions, the regulatory framework, global trends and local challenges of this industry?
Packaging is in complete transformation, and at all levels: design, function, manufacturing methods, process, materials, technology and on the environmental impact.
These conferences will address these challenges and opportunities so you can better understand theseissues and make educated decisions when implementing a packaging campaign for your product
May 9 from 12pm to 1pm: Packaging as Communication Vector
Speakers: Sylvain Allard, École de Design de l'UQAM and Élise Brissette Émulsion Stratégie Marketing
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Conference: Sylvain Allard and Élise Brissette will each present on a topic that represents their respective expertise: packaging as a tool of communication, and visual identity, in addition to providing a path to creating packaging that will fit your needs.
3pm to 4pm: Packaging and Sustainable Development: Trends and Issues
Speaker: Bruno Ponsard, Institut de Technologie des Emballages et du Génie Alimentaire
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Conference: This presentation will provide insight into the various elements that must be considered in order to develop sustainable packaging. It will rely on examples of food packaging originating from various markets and will offer up solutions that bolster a sustainable approach to packaging.
May 10, from 12pm to 1pm: The Drive for Retail Ready Packaging
Speaker: Stewart Samuel, IGD
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Conference: Stewart will provide an update on Retail Ready Packaging developments globally, including taking a look at what is behind the interest in RRP in North America, the key drivers for success from a retailer perspective and the opportunities, challenges and implications for manufacturers. Read full description.
Stewart Samuel: Stewart joined IGD, the international food and grocery experts in 2005, initially working in the UK before transferring to Vancouver in Canada in 2009. His role focuses on developing relationships with manufacturers and retailers to better understand the industry challenges and opportunities in the North American market. Regularly conducting primary research with manufacturers in the market, Stewart has also forged close relationships with many leading retailers. He undertakes regular market visits across North America, tracking the latest format, private label, packaging and digital engagement strategies.
Stewart also contributes to IGD’s global supply chain research program, with Retail Ready Packaging being a key focus, including authoring our Global Retail Ready Packaging report and facilitating a number of in-store packaging workshops for retailers and suppliers.
May 11, from 12pm to 1pm: Packaging and legislation: Let's transform the new reality in opportunity!
Speaker: Geneviève Dionne & Marie-Julie Bégin, Éco Entreprises Québec
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Conference: After an overview of the regulatory and legislative context surrounding the Regulations on Compensation for Municipal Services Offered in order to Ensure the Recuperation and Promotion of Residual Matter, this conference will present the voluntary Code and the advancement of the 2nd part. Initiatives will be presented to help companies to improve the environment-friendliness of the packaged products that are put on the market.
Our packaging conference partner
The conference program has been developped in partnership with Mr Fadi Rabbath, president and founder of Gespro Packaging.
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Founding president of Gespro Packaging in 2002, Mr. Rabbath has professionally invested to enhance its expertise in packaging technologies to benefit its customer’s food processors.
His academic background (engineer in 1997 and MBA in 1999), his business intuition and leadership enabled him to capture the needs of customers and team for the success of their projects. After over 100 successful projects, Mr. Rabbath leads a team of technicians and engineers who deal with several industry leaders for projects in food and packaging productivity. These projects range from a simple modification to layout to complete lines of several million dollars.
On the other hand, Mr. Rabbath lingered recently applied to the development of tools to increase productivity of production lines continuously. Among the services offered Gespro, we present:
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The productivity audits and continuous improvement ideas,
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Introduction of new technologies (product / packaging),
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Packaging and Sustainability
Mr. Rabbath has participated in several events related to the food industry in Europe and uses his contacts and skills to build bridges between local needs and technologiesworldwide.
Among these contributions locally, Mr. Rabbath developed the food packaging guide (thanks to the CTAC and FDTA), and is a member of CTAC since 2002, he also sits on the advisory council of ITEGA (Institute linked to the College de Maisonneuve for development in packaging), and serves on the expert committee of EEQ for reducing packaging.
