London Packaging Week strengthens role as UK’ s leading cross-industry packaging and policy platform
New strategic partners, including BRC, FDF, INCPEN and WRAP, underline growing industry collaboration, as London Packaging Week returns to Excel London on September 16 & 17
London Packaging Week returns to Excel London on September 16 & 17, reinforcing its position as the UK’ s leading cross-industry packaging, innovation and policy platform, defined this year by collaboration, credibility and growing ecosystem alignment.
A major development for 2026 is the expansion of its strategic partner network, with leading trade associations, industry bodies and policy organisations further aligning around London Packaging Week as a central platform for collaboration, shared expertise and collective progress on packaging’ s most urgent challenges.
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New partners joining this year include the British Retail Consortium( BRC), Food and Drink Federation( FDF), INCPEN( Industry Council for Packaging and the Environment), Products of Change, Recoup, and WRAP, representing the full spectrum of retail, FMCG, circular-economy leadership, and environmental policy. Their involvement signals a clear shift across the industry from parallel conversations to shared action, where collaboration is now essential to delivering meaningful progress on sustainability, regulation and innovation.
“ London Packaging Week has become a place where the most important conversations in packaging are not only happening but being shaped in real time,” said Sema Tezel Basbug, Head of Marketing at Easyfairs UK.“ Whether you are a global brand, a specialist supplier, a policymaker or a design-led start-up, the value lies in being part of the dialogue. The industry is moving too quickly and becoming too interconnected for anyone to operate in isolation. This is where perspectives meet, where assumptions are challenged, and where practical direction begins to form across sustainability, regulation and innovation. If you are serious about the future of packaging, this is not a show to observe from the sidelines.”
This expanded ecosystem sits alongside long-standing partners, including the British Printing Industries Federation( BPIF), British Plastics Federation, BCMPA- The Association for Contract Manufacturing, Packing, Fulfilment & Logistics, Foodservice Packaging Association, PackUK, Smithers, Walpole and the Wine and Spirit Trade Association, reinforcing the depth of expertise embedded within London Packaging Week and