# EMPACK

- Dates: 22 September 2026 to 23 September 2026
- Location: Flanders Expo Gent, Gent, Belgium
- Address: Maaltekouter 1, 9051 Gent
- Organizer: Easyfairs Belgium
- Industry: Manufacturing
- Expected attendance: 6,000

## About

Empack Ghent focuses on packaging solutions for an industrial and logistical context. The page says it includes an Industrial and Transit Packaging focus zone and the Belgian Packaging Festival for innovation and current packaging themes.

## Official links

- [Official website](https://www.empack.be/en/gent-2026/)
- [Registration](https://register.visitcloud.com/survey/0lejfoc79a4bv?translation=1y3e4bjlh3me0)
- [Agenda](https://www.empack.be/en/gent-2026/programme/)

## Topics

- Industrial and Transit Packaging
- industrial and tertiary packaging
- transport packaging
- protective packaging
- innovation and current packaging themes

## Speakers

- Geert Bammens, Senior innovatie consultant, VIGC
- Nette De Wachter, Marketing, Communication and Trademark Service Provider, FSC Belgium
- Ronald Kloppert, Commercial director, HB RTS
- Courtney Truong, Senior Communications Consultant, Logos Public Affairs
- Inge Dirinck, Technological Advisor/Consultant, SENSTECH
- Pauline Rosenberg, Senior Consultant Sustainability, Précon Consulting Group B.V
- Prof. Els Du Bois
- Sarah Van Vlierberghe, Business Developer, REuseLab
- Marlies Vermeire, Project and Programme Officer
- Tillia Eestemans, Fundraiser, Bos+

## Sponsors and partners

- VOKA

## Where to stay

- **Hotel onderbergen**: 150 m from the venue, 69 Onderbergen
  - [Hotel website](https://www.hotelonderbergen.be/)
- **Monasterium Poortackere**: 280 m from the venue
- **Ibis Gent Centrum Opera**: 370 m from the venue, 24 Nederkouter
- **B&B Hotel Gent Centrum**: 460 m from the venue
- **Pillows Grand Hotel Reylof**: 530 m from the venue
  - [Hotel website](https://www.pillowshotels.com/ghent/)
- **Hotel de Flandre**: 550 m from the venue
  - [Hotel website](https://www.hoteldeflandre.be/)
- **1898 The Post**: 550 m from the venue, 16 Graslei, Gent, 9000
  - [Hotel website](https://1898thepost.com/)
  - Phone: +32 9 391 53 79
- **Hotel Erasmus**: 560 m from the venue
  - [Hotel website](https://www.erasmushotel.be/)

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Source: https://www.luminik.io/events/empack-gent/