International Packaging Association
IPA – the International Packaging Association – is an association of major and independent canmakers from six continents. Its members are corporations manufacturing metal packaging as the main activity.
IPA – the International Packaging Association – is an association of major and independent canmakers from six continents. Its members are corporations manufacturing metal packaging as the main activity.
Welcome to our virtual home for the upcoming Interpack 2023.
Meet us at the world’s biggest packaging trade fair from 4th to 10th of May in Düsseldorf.
IPA will exhibit together with associated members Auxiliar Conservera, Gruppo ASA and Pirlo.
We are located in Hall 7a at booth no. 7aB27 right next to the passage to Hall 6.
In this area of our website we will keep you updated regarding our Interpack presence, our activities and so on.
Watch this space !
Motivated by new trade opportunities opening up in post-WWII Europe, five independent can makers met at the Belleview Hotel in Hilterfingen, Switzerland, in 1953. Thus was born the EUROPEAN CAN ASSOCIATION.
The new association met yearly in a General Assembly and, in 1957, almost all members signed a Technical Assistance Agreement with American Can Company.
With expanding membership and increased project work, the task force was divided into committees which would become the backbone of European Can Association. After the creation of the Technical and Commercial committees, a Purchasing Committee was added in 1973.
By 1986, with 6 out of 14 members being non-European and several dealing also with non-metal packaging, it was clearly time to rename the association to the more accurately descriptive INTERNATIONAL PACKAGING ASSOCIATION.
The following year American Can Company was taken over by Triangle, becoming American National Can Company. After Pechiney’s purchase of ANCC, the licensee arrangements with IPA members ceased. In 2019, there are member companies on all six continents.
Nevertheless, the basic tenets set forth by the founding members still guide the association in the 21st century, the main purpose of which is to create, through an exchange of ideas and know-how in an atmosphere of mutual trust, an organization with a competitive edge for small- and medium-sized metal-can makers in a world of heavy-weight multinational conglomerates.
Think global, act local !
Our mission is to secure the global information exchange between independent canmakers worldwide and to enhance the technical and environmental expertise of each associated company.
Auxiliar Conservera
Envases Antillanos
Fadesa
Hindustan Tin Works
Lageen
Pirlo
Staehle
ASA
Auxiliar Conservera
Brasilata
Envases Antillanos
Fadesa
Hindustan Tin Works
Independent Can Co
Lageen
National Can Industries
Pirlo
Staehle
ASA
Brasilata
Envases Antillanos
Fadesa
Hindustan Tin Works
Independent Can Co
National Can Industries
Pirlo
Staehle
Brasilata
Hindustan Tin Works
Independent Can Co.
Pirlo
Staehle
ASA
Auxiliar Conservera
Envases Antillanos
Fadesa
Fadesa
Lageen
Pirlo
ASA San Marino
Brasilata
Hindustan Tin Works
National Can Industries
Staehle
ASA San Marino
Hoffmann-Neopac
National Can Industries
Independent Can Co.
National Can Industries