Powerful technologies, intelligent automation, and innovative concepts

Interpack 2026 – Meet the optimists

Duesseldorf | May 07 — 13, 2026 | hall 16 | booth F54 / F55

Interpack 2026 offers the opportunity to discover innovative solutions that take packaging processes in a wide range of industries to a new level. Optima will demonstrate how powerful technology, intelligent automation, and sustainable concepts work together to make production more efficient, safer, and more resource-efficient.

Whether food, cosmetics, or hygiene products – visitors will experience flexible machine platforms, digital services, and future-oriented packaging ideas that address specific challenges in practice and create measurable added value.

Visit us at Interpack 2026 – we look forward to talking to you!

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Trade show highlights at a glance

Fiber Packaging – Future readiness starts with packaging

Optima makes fiber-based packaging an industrial reality – functional, economical, and in high volumes. With technologies such as dry molded fiber and paper forming, we enable the switch from plastic to recyclable fiber solutions without compromising on performance or design.

Cosmetics & Personal Care – Innovation meets brand understanding

Brand diversity, short product life cycles, and the highest quality standards characterize the cosmetics and personal care markets. The Smart machine family offers the perfect solution: modular platforms that can be flexibly adapted to products, formats, and growth – with a minimal footprint and maximum future-proofing.

Household cleaners – Equipped to meet all market requirements

Speed, flexibility, and process control are key in the home care sector. Optima supports manufacturers in producing a wide variety of products – from liquids and powders to fiber-based specialty solutions – efficiently and safely.

Food – Efficient filling of watery to chunky products

Is aroma-protective packaging essential for your requirements? We can find the right solution even for demanding requirements, whether for dairy products, coffee, or other sensitive products.

Solutions for hygiene products

Optima nonwovens gets your paper hygiene in shape – precisely, quickly, and with uncompromising reliability. Highly automated packaging systems transform rolls and tissue products into perfectly coordinated sales units, with full process control and maximum performance. Different formats, package sizes, and volumes? No problem – the technology remains flexible, stable, and efficient.

AI empowering people

At Optima, artificial intelligence means making people more productive, faster, and safer while enhancing their skills and independence. AI becomes a natural tool and everyday companion in the workplace.

Do you think your challenge is too big? 
We will prove you wrong.

Your challenges, our solutions

Do you have a complex question? A tough nut you've been trying to crack for too long? Perfect.

Put us to the test.
Our experts at interpack are ready to dive deep, think critically, and work with you to develop solutions that really make a difference. No standard answers, no excuses — we'll tackle it with you.

The greater the challenge, the more exciting it is for us.
Bring your topics with you. We are ready.

Send a message or make an appointment
Group photo of the Optima team
Your challenges, our solutions

Do you have a complex question? A tough nut you've been trying to crack for too long? Perfect.

Put us to the test.
Our experts at interpack are ready to dive deep, think critically, and work with you to develop solutions that really make a difference. No standard answers, no excuses — we'll tackle it with you.

The greater the challenge, the more exciting it is for us.
Bring your topics with you. We are ready.

Send a message or make an appointment
Group photo of the Optima team
Make the difference Fiber-based packaging – Future readiness starts with packaging

Today, alternative packaging solutions must be just as efficient, flexible, and economical as conventional solutions. Fiber-based packaging meets precisely these requirements—and is ready for its industrial breakthrough. At interpack, Optima will demonstrate how far the technology has already come: market-ready, scalable, and capable of reliably producing high volumes. This is made possible by what is probably the most comprehensive technology portfolio in the industry – from dry molded fiber and paper forming to versatile paperboard solutions.

Our new machine platform takes design possibilities to a new level. It combines maximum performance with exceptional design freedom and, for the first time, enables the forming of paper and dry molded fiber on the same system – based on robust, proven Optima technology. Experience this innovation live at Interpack.

Technology stack
Fiber Packaging Yoghurt

Dry molded fiber – forming fibers
In the dry molded fiber process, loose fibers are pressed into a mold to form a high-strength product.

Fiber Packaging Spices

Paperboard shape forming
With paper board technology, we offer a solution for manufacturing cup-shaped containers or cans—from cardboard blanks or rolls.

Fiber Packaging Cake

Forming paper
Our technology enables efficient and precise forming of paper and other moldable fiber-based materials. Both refined papers with barrier and sealing layers and various types of pulp and highly stretchable materials can be processed.

Produktgruppe Fiber Based Packaging

Barrier technologies
Our fiber-based technologies offer flexible solutions for a variety of barrier requirements—from protection against moisture, oil, and grease to high barriers against water vapor and oxygen.

Dr.-Ing Sven Jacobsen, Senior Fiber Development Manager Amcor Global Core R&D

Optima Dry Molded Fiber technology demonstrates for the first time that DMF can now be scaled economically on an industrial scale.

Dr.-Ing Sven Jacobsen, Senior Fiber Development Manager Amcor Global Core R&D

Bring us your questions and challenges relating to fiber-based products – we will work with you to develop the right solution.

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New machines Cosmetics & personal care – Innovation meets brand understanding

Cosmetics and personal care products thrive on differentiation – both technically and visually. Optima filling and packaging solutions ensure that sensitive formulations, high-quality containers, and complex closures are processed safely, precisely, and reproducibly. Modular platform concepts enable rapid adaptation to new products, formats, and quantities – with high line performance and a compact footprint. This allows you to create production structures that grow with your brand strategy and reliably bring innovation to market.

OPTIMA Moduline Smart

Filling and closing machine for cosmetic products

Modularity & investment security
OPTIMA Moduline Smart grows with your requirements and protects your investment with easily expandable and replaceable modules
Format flexibility & fast product changeovers
Fast format changeovers and high variant flexibility enable new products and designs to be implemented efficiently and without long downtimes
Compact footprint & fast time-to-market
High performance in a small footprint and short delivery and ramp-up times bring your products to market faster and more economically

 

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OPTIMA SpeedCare Line Smart

Filling and closing machine for personal care products

High speed & line performance
The OPTIMA SLS is consistently designed for high output and enables stable high-speed production even with demanding product and packaging concepts
End-to-end process control
An integrated line concept with positive product control ensures that every process step remains transparent, controllable, and reproducible
Scalable platform for growing requirements
The SLS can be flexibly adapted to new products, performance levels, and market requirements, thus providing a future-proof basis for dynamic markets

 

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Working together for future-proof solutions Household cleaners – flexibility, speed, and best practices

Today's home care market demands more resource-efficient packaging, short time-to-market, and high flexibility, all while ensuring consistent process reliability. Flexible platform concepts enable efficient processing of powders, liquids, and fiber-based applications – with fast format changes and a compact footprint.

This will make your home care production a stable foundation for efficiency, quality, and growth.

Where recipes change and variety sets the pace, home care production requires absolute control. We support you in processing your household cleaners precisely, safely, and with a high degree of automation. Different product variants, container shapes, and performance requirements can be mapped flexibly and reliably. Let us design your next line so that you can change over faster, run more reliably, and respond immediately to new market requirements.

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Support with product and packaging development

Customized solutions: From the initial idea to the turnkey system

Broad technology portfolio from a wide range of industries

What can we fill, package, or produce for you?

When sensitive products need to retain their full flavor, packaging is key to quality and trust. Optima filling and packaging solutions reliably protect your food products and process them precisely at high performance. Different consistencies, formats, and production requirements can be handled safely and efficiently. This allows you to create processes that confidently combine product protection, cost-effectiveness, and market success.

More about solutions for food

Optima Nonwovens gets your paper hygiene in shape – precisely, quickly, and with uncompromising reliability. Highly automated packaging systems transform rolls and tissue products into perfectly coordinated sales units, with full process control and maximum performance. Different formats, package sizes, and volumes? No problem – the technology remains flexible, stable, and efficient.  This means that packaging does not become a bottleneck for you, but a real competitive advantage.

More about solutions for hygiene products
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Smart Services always one step ahead AI empowering people

At Optima, our mission is to create maximum value for our customers by consistently advancing the use of digital technologies in filling and packaging machinery. This commitment ensures that you receive intelligently designed, high‑performance solutions and services that optimize both your production operations and all connected processes.

OPTIMA AI Ecosystem – Intelligence that connects

The OPTIMA AI Ecosystem brings together all digital information and services in one unified, AI-driven environment. By analyzing, linking, and combining every available data point—from technical knowledge to visual and operational insights—the system transforms complexity into clear, actionable guidance. The AI delivers precisely the information users need, exactly when they need it, creating a seamless and intuitive support experience.

Your benefits:
  • Instant access to relevant knowledge through intelligent structuring and delivery.
  • More efficient workflows thanks to real-time, context-aware assistance.
  • Improved availability and reliability through faster problem resolutiong.
  • An ecosystem that evolves with your processes.

 

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Pharmaceutical machine on a dark blue background, rays of light suggesting digitalization
Tablet in a man's hand

The AI Assist from Optima makes all machine knowledge instantly accessible by answering questions, searching documentation, and guiding users directly to relevant instructions, troubleshooting steps, or spare parts. It understands process contexts, provides clear insights on performance issues, downtimes, or error codes, and helps resolve problems faster to reduce unplanned stops.

Two people work on the new mobile OMI

Machine Learning – Detect quality, avoid errors. Optima uses machine learning to automatically detect and analyze product quality characteristics. The system identifies anomalies, documents them, and continuously learns – faster than traditional image processing. Optima AI thus protects product quality and process stability.

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Happy Hour is daily from 4:00 p.m. The OPTIMA cocktail bar – meet, enjoy, network Innovation is powerful. Good conversations are even more powerful. But let's be honest, the combination of both is the most powerful – at our large Optima cocktail bar.

This is where everything that makes Interpack exciting comes together:
Customers who want to move new projects forward.
Prospective customers looking for fresh ideas.
And employment candidates who want to know what really makes Optima tick.

No matter why you stop by:
Here, the exchange is guaranteed not to start with a PowerPoint presentation – but with a really good drink.

Bartender mixes cocktails
Happy Hour Olli's Bar – Quality cocktails from our hometown of Schwäbisch Hall

We have brought real professionals on board for our cocktail bar at Interpack: Ollis Bar from Schwäbisch Hall. Known for creative recipes, high-quality ingredients, and drinks that taste as good as they look.

Happy hour is every day from 4:00 p.m.

Come by and see for yourself. Cheers!

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