Moscow

Flexible packages are gaining increasingly large market shares throughout the food industry. At the same time, film/foil laminates have to meet ever more stringent technological and food law requirements. With its international series of "Liofol Academy Road Show" events, Henkel offers packaging manufacturers from Eastern Europe region the opportunity to learn about current challenges and about forward-looking solutions for the packaging industry. Flexible packages for foods are right on trend. In the past decade they were already one of the fastest-growing packaging categories. The reasons are easy to see. They offer top functionality combined with low material costs and

Messe Düsseldorf will participate in PACK EXPO 2010 in order to promote its worldwide program of international packaging trade fairs, including interpack PROCESSES AND PACKAGING 2011; UPAKOVKA/ UPAK ITALIA 2011; Packaging Production and Packaging Material; and PACK PRINT INTERNATIONAL 2011.

For the past several years I have been teaching professional English for the printing industry at the University of Wuhan, China. I had delivered lectures there while I was president of the NPES, The Association for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing and Converting Technologies. After retirement, I was asked if I would teach the subject for a 3-month period to which I readily agreed. I was well prepared because, for 30 years, I had served as the CEO of the association which had offices in -Tokyo, Shanghai, New Delhi, Sao Paulo, and Moscow, and I frequently made presentations about the state of the U.S. printing