Taconic will be exhibiting at this year's IPACK-IMA in Milan, Italy February 14-18th. IPACK-IMA covers a range of markets including processing, packaging and material handling. They include Bevertech, devoted to the processing, bottling, and packaging for the beverage industry, Grain Based Food Technology which covers equipment for pasta, bread, pizza, and oven-baked products, Materials and Solutions for the packaging industry, and Material Handling, offering logistics solutions.

IPACK-IMA 2006 will be held at Fiera Milano New Exhibition Complex at Rho-Pero, on the outskirts of Milan, Italy, conveniently situated half way between Milan’s international airport, Malpensa, and historic downtown Milan.

IPACK-IMA is considered to be one of the most important trade events in one of the richest markets in the world: Europe and the Mediterranean basin, which affects the lives of 900 million people. For packaging machinery manufacturers, this area is worth almost 8 billion euro and Italy alone accounts for 800 million euro every year for investments in technology and machinery. Western Europe produces 26.5% of packaging worldwide, for a value of almost 132 billion euro, and Italy, which is the most important European market after Germany for the production of packaging and related materials, has a share of 4% of world production. The great potential of IPACK-IMA’s target market – Italy, Europe, and the Mediterranean Basin – makes this exhibition an opportunity that should not be missed.

We will be located in Hall 10 - stand no. L21.

Taconic is a global manufacturer and marketer of engineered products for demanding specialty applications. These products serve the aerospace, automotive, chemical, food, medical, packaging, textile, and wireless communication industries; encapsulating a broad spectrum of available substrate materials with PTFE, fluoropolymer based materials.

For more information, contact Taconic at their Mullingar Ireland office at +353-44-9338300 or by fax at +353-44-9338390.