ACG Worldwide, through its engineering company, participated in the Southpack,2008 exhibition, in Chennai, and it was a Non Pharma Exhibition, held on 27 – 29 June, 2008.

We had displayed AT-Pac from Pam Pac and DCW from Pam, We could manage to get Good number of enquiries for AT-Pac and Sarong. Lots of FMCG customers visited our stall.

The participation was a grand success as machine created a lot of enthusiasm amongst the visitor

"ACG Worldwide, through its four group companies, Pam, Pampac, Associated Capsules & Packshield, participated in Propak Asia 2008 exhibition in Bangkok, Thailand during 11 – 14 June 2008.

The range of products which were displayed in the stall were - Blister packing machine BP 102, Cartoning machine AT Pac, Candy Wrapping Machine FPH2, Check Weigher DCW 1000, Capsules & Packaging films."

A Sales Training Seminar for ACG Sales Team was organized by Packshield in association with Honeywell on April 1, 2008 at SciTech Centre.
The training presentations were delivered by Mr. Daniel Nott and Mr. Walter Grupp from Honeywell.
The objective of this programme was to encourage the ACG sales team to promote Aclar as a blister packaging material.
The programme was divided into technical and commercial aspects of selling Aclar. A detailed presentation as made by Mr. Grupp on technical features of Aclar such as its properties , thermoforming parameters and usage criteria . Honeywell explained about their Sales Tools such as Value Calculator which help in communicating the value proposition to a potential customer of Aclar. Participants also learned about Barrier Calculator which is another good Aclar selling tool from Honeywell.
About 70 delegates participated in Training Programme and the response was good.A written test was also conducted at the end of programme to evaluate the result of the training .

The second largest segment at interpack PROCESSES AND PACKAGING 2008 – packaging materials and packaging – also drew plenty of attention.
ACG @ Interpack 2008:
ACG Worldwide had a 200 sq. mtr stall in Hall no 6. The location of the stall was a good one as it was near one of the entrance of hall no. 6.The stall had a 3 meeting rooms with a seating arrangement of 6 in each

The products on display were as follows:

i Empty Hard Capsules from ACPL which were displayed in elegantly made 14 capsule-shaped containers with light focussing on them
ii  Packaging films – Barrier & Flexible packaging films from Packshield were displayed as flowing rolls from a height of 4 meters giving the films a greater visibility
iii Dies & Punches from Ajas were displayed elegantly on an acrylic stand suspended using tension mounted wires. 
iv  Machines from Pam – Case Packer, Legend 2500, Legacy 6100 & Fluidocap FS machine from Nokasa, Japan
v Machines from Pampac – Tropac & Miniblis
 
 The stall had 2 big seamless graphics explaining the whole gamut of ACG Products. This was also the trend seen in most of the stalls which were theme based with not more than 2 – 3 graphics.

ACG Worldwide participated in Interphex USA, an exhibition held in Philadelphia, from 26th - 28th March 2008, displaying the Encapsulator AF40T. The exhibition had visitors from USA, Canada, Mexico and Europe.

Nepal Expo: 16-17 Feb, 2008  Kathmandu

ACG Worldwide, through its engineering companies, participated in the second Nepal Pharma Expo exhibition organized by “Association of Pharmaceutical Producers of Nepal”  (APPON).
It was held in Kathmandu on 16 – 17 February 2008.
ACG Worldwide stall was one of the biggest and the busiest stalls in the exhibition with the AF 40 T machine in operation as the main attraction of the whole show. We had displayed AF 40 T & Mini-Glatt, the lab model FBE.
A team of 5 ACG personnel had an excellent opportunity to meet the bigwigs of the small Pharma fraternity in Nepal, which consists of around 30 companies.