Responding to strong demand, the organisers have decided to move to an annual exhibition cycle after 16 years. The 9th edition of plast & printpack alger will take place from 24 to 26 February 2025 at the Palais des Expositions d'Alger - SAFEX, showcasing cutting-edge products, technologies, and solutions.
This landmark event will gather industry leaders and innovators, presenting the future of plastics, printing, and packaging in Algeria.
plast & printpack alger 2025 is thematically structured
Pavilion Ahaggar left side:
plast alger 2025 Plastics machinery
Pavilion Ahaggar right side:
printpack alger 2025 Printing and packaging machines and materials
Pavilion C Casbah:
plast alger 2025 Raw materials & auxiliaries, Plastics machinery
Voices from the organisers
“We are proud that since 2010 plast & printpack alger has been embraced by leading technology and raw material suppliers from around the globe as their most important business platform in the region”, says Martin März, fairtrade founder and managing partner. “And we thank the Algerian government as well as Algerian, Maghreb, European, Middle Eastern and Asian embassies, institutions and associations for their unmitigated and ongoing support.”
And Thomas Franken, Project Director K with Messe Duesseldorf adds: “When it comes to plastics technology, Algeria’s investments amounted to 126 million euros in 2022. This makes Algeria the fourth largest investor in plastics technology in Africa according to VDMA.”
Sabine Geldermann, Director drupa and Global Head Print Technologies with Messe Duesseldorf points out: “Algeria’s imports of printing and paper technology in 2022 amounted to €77 million, up from €57m in 2016. Algeria thus ranks among the largest importers of printing technology on the African continent, behind South Africa, Nigeria and Egypt, but ahead of Morocco €60m, Kenya €34m, Tunisia €25m, Ghana €17m and Ivory Coast €14m.”
Official national pavilions and valuable institutional support
plast & printpack alger is proud to host major governmental institutions and market leaders from Algeria's plastics, printing, and packaging industries. From the international side, the event will feature major participations from more than twenty countries and pavilions from Austria, China, France, Germany, India, Italy and Türkiye. Institutional partners supporting the event include Advantage Austria, Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie Mezghena Alger, ACIMGA, AMAPLAST, AUMA, AHK Alger Chambre Algéro-Allemande de Commerce et d'Industrie, AVEP Valencian Plastics Industries Association, CCIAF Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie Algéro-Française, German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, ITA Italian Trade Agency, Türkiye Ministry of Commerce and VDMA.
Investment in technology to boost local production, export and replace imports - Algeria is the Maghreb’s major plast & printpack market. According to the German mechanical engineering association VDMA, Algeria is the Maghreb’s major plast & printpack market and one of the largest investors in plastics, printing and packaging technologies in Africa and the Middle East. These technological imports enable Algeria to develop and diversify its own production, increase its exports, and replace imports of consumables.
In this context, plast & printpack alger plays an important role in raising awareness among the Algerian public of environmentally friendly materials and packaging, and in familiarising the public with the circular economy.
plast alger 2025: For several years now, Algeria has been investing heavily in the production of plastic raw materials in order to gradually reduce its imports. Imports of plastic raw materials have risen sharply over the past 16 years, from 304 kt in 2007 to well over a thousand kt in 2023, worth more than US$2 billion. (EUROMAP) In plastics technology, Algeria's investment has risen by 55% in 2022, from €81 million in 2021 to €126 million. This makes Algeria the largest investor in plastics technology in the Maghreb and, along with Egypt, Nigeria, and South Africa, one of the leading African investors in plastics technology (VDMA).
printpack alger 2025: In the field of printing and paper technologies, demand in Algeria is constantly growing and investment in this area has risen from 57 million euros in 2016 to 101 million euros in 2020 and 77 million euros in 2021 and 2022, making Algeria, along with South Africa and Egypt, one of the three largest investors in printing and paper technologies in Africa. In terms of investment in packaging technologies, with 127 million euros in 2022, Algeria is among the leading investors in packaging technologies on the African continent, along with Nigeria, South Africa and Egypt. (VDMA)
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