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Event Name: printpack alger
Category: Printing and Publishing
Event Date: 30 March – 01 April, 2026
Frequency: Biennial
Location: SAFEX Expo Center – Exhibition Center, Maritime Pine – Algiers, Algeria
Organizer: fairtrade GmbH & Co. KG, Ms Dariah Pfaff, Kurfürsten-Anlage 36, D-69115 Heidelberg, Germany
Phone: +49-6221-4565-19
Email: f.detjen[at]fairtrade-messe.de
Timings: 10:00 AM – 18:00 PM
Tickets: Visitor Registration Required – Click Here!
Concurrent Events:
- plast alger: Algeria Plastics, Composites & Recycling Expo
- printpack alger: Algeria Printing & Packaging Technologies
11th Edition of printpack alger from 30 March – 01 April, 2026 at the Palais des Expositions d’Alger – SAFEX Algiers
- Africa’s third largest importer of printing technology
- Africa’s & the Middle East’s largest importer of packaging technology
VDMA: Algeria is one of Africa’s & the Middle East’s largest importers of printing and packaging technology
printpack alger 2026: 11th Edition
Returning to Algiers for its 11th edition, printpack alger 2026 proudly showcases the dynamic momentum of Algeria’s printing and packaging markets. printpack alger is held in conjunction with its sister event plast alger.
Organised by fairtrade Messe and Messe Düsseldorf, printpack alger represents an important event powered by drupa – no.1 for printing technologies and drupa global.
Algeria is Africa’s third largest importer of printing & paper technology and the largest importer of packaging technology
Driven by increasing industrialisation and a rapidly expanding population, Algeria‘s printing and packaging industry is experiencing robust growth.
- Imports of printing and paper technology surged from €57 million in 2016 to €95 million in 2023, solidifying Algeria as the third-largest importer in Africa, trailing only South Africa and Egypt.
- With €225m in 2024, Algeria is the largest importer of packaging technology in Africa, ahead of Egypt (€192m), South Africa (€185m), Morocco (€152) and Nigeria (€121m). (VDMA)
Highlights: 2025
- 5,403 trade visitors
- 302 exhibitors from 22 countries
printpack alger 2026: Range of exhibits
Prepress and Premedia
- Systems
- Appliances
- Software
Printing: printpack alger 2026
- Machinery
- Appliances
- Accessories
- Materials / Consumables
- Services
Bookbinding / Print Finishing
- Machinery
- Appliances
- Accessories
Paper Converting
- Machinery
- Appliances
- Accessories
Consumer goods
Provision of Services
Packaging machines and devices
- Machines for the production of packaging and packaging components for packaging, preparing and feeding to the packaging machine
- Machines for preparing, feeding and packaging of products
- Machines for packaging loose products
- Machines for packaging packaged products
- Machines for additional operations within the
packaging process: printpack alger 2026
- Tools and equipment to assist manual packaging
- Complete packaging lines Packaging materials, packaging means, packaging aids
- Packaging materials
- Packaging
- Complementary packaging means
Services
- Business support
- Trade press
- Research and teachings
- Associations and branch organizations
Market update: Facts about Algeria at a glance
Algeria – The economic powerhouse
Hundreds of billion US$ investment program
Algeria is the largest country in Africa and the most populous in the Maghreb region.
The vast country is the leading gas producer in Africa and the second largest gas supplier for Europe. It is one of the three largest oil producers in Africa.
Considerable oil and gas revenues together with economic opening, liberalization and privatization have created constant GDP growth in most of the past few years.
With a GDP of US$ 147 billion in 2020, Algeria is the economic powerhouse on the African continent, ranking fourth after Nigeria, South Africa and Egypt.
Imports have increased from US$ 38.9 billion in 2010 to US$ 41.9 billion in 2019.
Exhibitors will benefit from the fourth massive investment program of hundreds of billion US dollars for 2020 and 2024, which will contribute to the development of the country’s infrastructure and the improvement of the living conditions of Algerians.
Strengths:
- 18th largest oil exporter and 7th largest exporter of gas in the world
- huge oil and gas reserves
- high cash reserves and minimal foreign debt
- stable government
- fast growing market for consumer and investment goods
Opportunities:
- Public investment programs improve infrastructure and offer chances for supply
- new industrial policy to strengthen competitiveness offering chances for cooperation with foreign enterprises
- oil and gas production to be enlarged
- funding of large-scale projects state guaranteed
- considerable market for capital and consumer goods
- financial strength, young and western oriented population
Commodities: printpack alger 2026
- agrarian: wheat, barley, oats, grapes, olives, citrus fruits, sheep, cattle
- mineral: crude oil, natural gas, iron, phosphate, zinc, lead
