The Bavarian capital hosted, 15–17 March 2022, ICE Europe, CCE International and InPrint Munich side-by-side at the Munich Trade Fair Centre in Germany. They provided the converting, corrugated and industrial print industries with a much-needed live event.
The three specialised exhibitions marked a long-awaited return of business and networking opportunities and welcomed 10,618 attendees from 65 countries to Munich to discover machinery, systems, materials, and accessories. Over 5,670 of them were trade visitors and there were 474 exhibitors from 23 countries occupying net exhibition space of 12,500sqm.
The majority of visitors came from Germany, Italy, UK, Spain, Austria and France and the most important exhibitor countries were Germany, Italy, France, UK and Switzerland.
“To provide a central platform for the industries and to bring the right people together to do business has always been our contribution to the economy,” said Nicola Hamann, managing director at organiser Mack-Brooks Exhibitions. “However, it was more important than ever to do our job this year. And it felt good to see the appreciation in the attendees’ smiles and to get the mainly positive feedback from all participants.”
The results of the visitor analysis, organisers revealed, showed that the visitors mainly came from the following industry sectors:
- Packaging, printing, plastics, engineering, paper, chemicals, automotive, textiles and non-wovens as well as electronics (ICE Europe)
- Corrugated board plants and sheet plants, packaging, printing, folding carton converters, packaging designers and specifiers, corrugated sheet feeders (CCE International)
- Printing Industry, packaging industry, manufacturing industry, designer/advertising agency (InPrint Munich)
“With ICE Europe, CCE International and InPrint Munich we provided a central marketplace for industry specialists in times where it was needed the most,” said Patrick Herman, event director of the Converting, Paper and Print Events at Mack-Brooks Exhibitions. “Some exhibitors were even able to sell their machines on-site.”
“ICE Europe 2022 provided the ideal platform to finally meet with our existing and new customers again. We were really happy to be back on the show grounds and meet with people in person after such a long time. The quality of the generated business leads at our booth was outstanding and for us the exhibition was a success. We are looking forward to coming back next year,” said Dirk Schröder, sales division manager, Erhardt+Leimer GmbH.
ICE Awards 2022
For the third time, organisers Mack-Brooks Exhibitions honoured best practice, excellence, innovation and outstanding achievements of exhibitors with the ICE Awards, in three categories: ‘Digital Converting Solutions’, ‘Sustainable Products and Manufacturing Processes’, and ‘Efficient Production Solutions’. The winners had been determined via an online voting on the show website. A total of 29 exhibitor entries made it onto the short list; and some 1,000 industry experts cast their vote across the categories.
The next ICE Europe, CCE International and InPrint Munich 2023 editions will take place 21–23 March 2023 at the Munich Trade Fair Centre in Germany.
