Sharjah 2022
PAPER ONE SHOW 2022 ACHIEVED ITS GOALS
Al Furat Fair Organizer hosted Paper One Show, the biggest and most important paper, printing and packaging exhibition in the MENA region, between the dates of March 7-9, 2022, in Expo Centre Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
The CEO of Al Furat Fair Organizer, Eng. Tarik Fakkas, expressed his happiness and pride in organizing this exhibition which is considered as the most important event in the paper, printing and packaging industry. Mr. Tarik mentioned that, as a result of well-planned marketing strategies and creative ideas, the show achieved great success this year and 8897 professional visitors from 98 countries had visited the exhibition. Due to this success, some of paper exhibition organizers made proposals for future cooperation with Paper One Show.
Paper One Show’s 7th edition brought together more than hundred international companies from around the world under one roof. The latest products, technologies in the paper, carton, printing, packaging, and wrapping industries were showcased. As well as, printing and wrapping machines and by products, production lines, raw materials, tissue paper rolls, wrapping paper rolls, wood-free paper, dyes and inks, and hygienic finished products.
The exhibitor companies were amongst the biggest in the paper world and they came from 21 countries; United Arab Emirates, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Algeria, China, Taiwan, India, Pakistan, Japan, Italy, Finland, Sweden, Germany, Holland, Ukraine, Turkey, Japan, Oman and the United States of America.
In the evening of the first day of the exhibition, Al Furat Fair Organizer hosted the gala dinner which was sponsored by Saudi Paper Group. The dinner, hosted at Emaar Club 2020 on Expo 2020 Dubai premises, had 270 attendees between exhibitors and visitors of the exhibition. Prior to the dinner, there was an award ceremony where certain companies and individuals were recognized for their support and loyalty since the start of the exhibition in 2007, such as Saudi Paper Group, Abu Dhabi Paper Mill, and Crown Paper. Afterwards, the gala dinner guests had the opportunity to visit the fascinating Expo 2020 Dubai and the country pavilions within it.
Additionally, during the exhibition, Al Furat Group had launched its new service, papercareers.com platform that serves as a bridge between applicants for jobs and companies who are employing in paper industry.
The 8th edition of Paper One Show will be held in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates on 21-23 February 2023.
We look forward to welcoming you all next year.
For more details about Paper One Show 2023, please visit: https://www.paperoneshow.net
The Paper One Show Team
info@paperoneshow.net
+90 212 916 17 31
On 13th of January 2020 in the United Arab Emirates Dubai at the InterContinental Festival City Arena
His Excellency Mr. Walid Abdul Malik Mohammed, Department Director of Dubai Economic Department, accompanied by Eng. Tarik Fakkas, CEO of Paper One Show, inaugurated the sixth edition of Paper One Show. The inauguration was followed by a tour around the exhibition hall that stretched to a 4000 Square meters displacement and a visit to the national and international participating companies.
The stands’ unique designs gave the hall a distinctive and special character.
More than 95 of the most important paper companies from 23 countries around the world exhibited at Paper One Show. This year included Arab, Southeast Asian, Indian, European and American companies representing various sectors of the paper industry, such as jumbo roll mills for hygienic paper, brown packaging paper and paper products. Also sanitary paper, wipes, towels, paper cups, etc., baby nappies, and the like, as well as printing and writing paper mills, copy paper, cardboard factories, the needs of printers and corrugated cardboard machines and their printing, as well as various raw materials such as cellulose, waste paper, and Chemical and all kinds of machines and production lines for finished products and Paper Converting. In addition to traders and consultants in the paper industry services.
Later that day, Mr. Hasan Onal, the commercial attaché from the Turkish Embassy in the UAE, attended the exhibition and visited the participating Turkish companies, which they were more than eight companies. Mr. Unal got acquainted with their activities, got briefed about their products, urged them to work to strengthen and increase exports and search for economic opportunities. In addition, Mr. Unal demonstrated readiness to help with what might facilitate growth in their businesses.
More than 2,426 professionals in the paper manufacturing and trade visited Paper One Show. They represented about 1,500 specialized companies from all over the world. They learned about the latest innovation and technologies in the paper industry and contracted deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The participants were satisfied by the traffic of visitors even on the first and last day of the exhibition, which generally have less traffic in exhibitions. However, Paper One Show was busy throughout the entire three days of the exhibition.
The persistent work of Paper One Show’s team in preparation for the exhibition and the distinguished relations of Al Furat Paper Trading and exhibitions organizing company with the paper industry locally and globally had a great impact on the success of Paper One Show in Dubai. In addition, the significant publicity and advertising campaigns, and the exhibitions media sponsors, headed by magazine paper Middle East, all made a great impact that accompanied Paper One Show’s success.
Unlike most exhibitions, the Paper One Show management added several unconventional and unprecedented aspects that elevated Paper One Show exhibition in Dubai specifically. These aspects included:
An open presentation room mediating the exhibition booths. Several company representatives gave illustrative lectures on their new products and services to a number of interested attendees. Those Lectures
Mr. Kent from Valmet Technologies company
Mr. Kari from Valmet Technologies company
Mr. Omar from Crown Paper Mill company
Ms. Gulsu from Paper One Show Virtual
Mr. Flavio from Svecom P.E company
Mr. Marian from Plusline company
The official Gala dinner which were held in a restaurant at the InterContinental Festival City Hotel, in which Paper One Show and the official sponsors of the gala dinner, Crown Paper Mill and Ittihad Paper Mill, hosted more than 290 guests from the participants and some important visitors.
Delicious cuisine, dancing, music and entertaining spectacles have created an enjoyable and unforgettable atmosphere.
A mill tour visit to the manufacturers of Crown Paper Mill and Ittihad Paper Mill in Mussafah Industrial Area in Abu Dhabi on the third day of the exhibition sponsored by Crown and Ittihad Paper Mill as well as the Swedish company Valmet, which supplied the manufacturers with their state of art production lines. The trip was a great success from Paper One Show’s team where more than 80 businessmen visited both mills and showed great admiration for Crown Paper’s technically unique production lines, which produce about 220 tons of Tissue per day of the finest quality of tissue. In addition, at Ittihad Paper Mill, which is one of its kind in the Middle East in the production of jumbo rolls of wood free paper with a capacity of 900 tons per day, and the accompanying factory that converts a large amount of them into photocopy paper for copy machines such as A4 and other sizes with different substances.
The Paper One Show virtual exhibition project, where Al Furat Exhibitions Company revealed its new and one of its kind project in the paper world and exhibitions. It is an idea which will save the participants a lot of effort, time and money and will make them in constant and direct communication with the interested visitors who can visit and discover the products without the need to be present and traveling. The registration for the virtual exhibition will start from 25th of February 2020 at the exhibitions websites:
and email:
The management of Paper One Show, represented by the CEO Eng. Tarik Fakkas, has promised to exert more efforts, bring distinguished ideas and continue to work with a professional team in order for Paper One Show to continue the success and innovation of serving the paper industry in all its fields. The company promises Paper One Show, in its seventh edition, which will also be held in Dubai in 2021, will be new example of success.
PAPER ONE SHOW Beirut 2019 Concluded Successfully
Paper One Show Beirut 2019 – The 5th international exhibition of paper industry in the MENA region took place from the 28th to the 30th of January, 2019 at the Biel Centre.
The objectives of the exhibition were to promote trilateral trade relations between Lebanon, the Arab countries and the rest of the world, as well as to promote the Paper One Show brand.
Paper One Show Beirut welcomed 1,703 unique paper industry professionals from 53 different countries.
It was a truly special event, that convened business and investors from various enterprises and institutions of all sizes, both national and international. In a three day exchange, Paper One Show helped foster proactive business to business solutions through a process of qualified matchmaking.
Key decision makers from a diverse range of profiles including traders, distributors, retailers, finished product manufacturers, jumbo roll producers and many more visited and connected at the Biel Centre.
80 internationally recognised companies from 21 countries exhibited this year.
PAPER ONE SHOW 2017 (11 -13 December 2017)
The Paper exhibition POS 2017 brought together the leading figures in the industry. Paper One Show 2017 – 4th International Exhibition of Paper Industry in the MENA region took place from 11 to 13 of December 2017 at Sharjah Expo Centre.
The exhibition, organized by Al Furat Fairs Organiser contributed markedly to the UAE industry which has now become one of the fastest growing paper markets in the world.
Paper One Show provided new opportunities for exhibitors and visitors. Around 100 internationally recognised companies from 26 countries exhibited at Paper One Show 2017. Exhibitors showcased their new technologies as well as tissue paper, cardboard production, converting machines, paper mills lines manufacturing, raw materials, chemicals, spare parts, accessories and finished products. Paper One Show 2017 gathered all the components of the industry with the support of the Arab Federation for Paper, Printing and Packaging.
It was a great honour to have his Highness, Shaikh Khaled Alkasemi as the inauguration guest, alongside Dr. Fadi Gemayel, the President of the Arab Federation for paper printing and packaging. Mr Erdal Sukan the president of the Turkish Paper Association and Tarek Fakkas, the CEO of Alfurat Fairs organiser also honoured POS 2017 with their participation.
Paper One Show provided a perfect opportunity to access the markets in the UAE and its neighbouring countries. Throughout the duration of the fair, nearly 2.500 professional visitors attended from Europe, North Africa, Asia and the Gulf States.