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A well-rounded range of exhibitions

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In this decade too, the interpack remained a trade fair of superlatives. In 1987 the global importance of the interpack was highlighted in a special way. It became the first investment goods fair in the world to have a proportion of foreign visitors of over 50 %. With this, the interpack beat all other investment goods fairs. To promote orientation towards target groups, producers of packaging materials machines were from 1981 on assigned to other fairs. The interpack was now offering a well-rounded range of exhibitions, covering filling, packaging and final packaging systems as well as packaging and packaging means made of all kinds of packaging materials. In view of their shared history, confectionery machines were still admitted as exhibits. Right in time for the interpack 1984, another new hall was built for the Düsseldorf trade fair grounds. In 1987 the interpack bade farewell to its long-serving President, Otto Hänsel, who handed over his post to the former Vice President Werner Reinhard.