Young Talents Day at interpack 2026
interpack, the world’s leading trade fair for processing and packaging, is focusing on the next generation of the industry on 13 May: the “Young Talents Day” is aimed specifically at trainees, students and young professionals who want to find out about career paths in the packaging industry. The Young Talents Day is free of charge for this target group.
The packaging industry offers a diverse array of career prospects, from engineering and production to food technology, management and electrical engineering. In response to that, the Young Talents Day creates a central platform on which young people can enter into direct contact with companies and gain insights into different professional and training pathways. Concurrently, the format picks up on one of the central themes of interpack: future skills. Interdisciplinary skills are in demand today – and range from technical understanding and digital skills to sustainable thinking.
The focus is on practical exchange: participants have the opportunity to meet HR managers and experts from various fields and find out about degree courses, apprenticeships, dual models, internships and trainee programmes. Along the way, it will become clear how broad the spectrum of possible entry routes is: they can be via packaging technology or machine and plant management, for example. Simultaneously, the day will uncover the skills companies will particularly require in the future and how job profiles are changing as a result of digitalisation and sustainability.
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Launched in 2011, specialist journal sweets processing(sp) keeps confectionery business professionals informed about all the latest confectionery industry supply sector developments and features detailed articles about international companies and suppliers.
sp is the sister publication of SWEETS GLOBAL NETWORK’s SG-Magazine, the highly regarded and well established international confectionery business journal. sp covers all stages and aspects of the value added chain from material sourcing to production and packaging.
sp readership includes leaders and decision makers in charge of production, R&D, QM, purchasing and supply chain management, as well as chief executives and senior managing partners.
sp appears every two months in English and German. Circulation currently stands at 5,500. 3,000 of our subscribers are based abroad, mostly in other European countries. sp is now also available as an E-paper.
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International confectionery association SWEETS GLOBAL NETWORK e. V. (SG) is an established network of over 300 member companies based in ten countries. SG is the leading communication platform for confectionery professionals in German-speaking countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) and beyond. Meanwhile, most companies involved in manufacturing and retailing confectionery (wholesalers, specialist retailers, importers, brokers, producers) are members. All enjoy huge benefits, such as a range of high quality services and invitations to exclusive, member only events. There are an additional 40 supporting members active in the confectionery industry supply sector.
The International Sweets Business Forum in Berlin has taken SG well beyond the traditional territory of conventional training seminars and workshops. Social events, such as the New Year Reception in Munich or the ISM WARM UP held on the eve of the ISM in Cologne now rank as must-attend fixtures in the confectionery business year.
While acknowledging the growing significance of the global information and knowledge community, SG never loses sight of what’s going on at a local level. Articles in SG-Magazin and sweets processing, the SG-Newsletter (several times a week), annual publication of the SG-Directory and worldwide contacts bear witness to the pronounced internationality of the association.