50 Years Südpack

Premiere of the Quadro Variant

For their 50th anniversary, the company Südpack organized a corporate celebration together with their employees, customers and business partners from September 25th to 27th, 2014. For this event, we erected the closed Quadro variant of the basic size 18×21 with over 2000sqm of covered area on behalf of the executing agency Uniplan. The Quadro consists of 4 individual roofs that are joined together with an intermediate tarp to form a large event hall. This creates a space spanning over 35m with impressively curved roof surfaces. Thanks to the arch design of the end and intermediate tarps, the tent hall can be individually designed. This allows for the creation of partially open or completely closed spaces that can be equipped differently. From simple white standard side walls with zipper doors to side walls with window film and fixed built-in doors made of aluminum and glass. In addition to the large main tent, we also set up some pagoda and kitchen tents and equipped all tent halls with cassette flooring. To ensure guests wouldn’t freeze in low outdoor temperatures, we also supplied the appropriate tent heating.

“We couldn’t have gotten such atmosphere in any other event hall” said managing director Johannes Remmele. He explains why Südpack chose our rather unusual tent variant with the following statement: “The tent is unusual. It’s not like what we’re used to here in southern Germany, and as it’s also internationally known from Munich’s Oktoberfest. When our customers come to SÜDPACK, they have packaging in mind. Therefore, the packaging of our anniversary celebration should also be something special.”

On September 25th, Südpack invited around 350 customers, business partners and representatives from business and politics to a symposium under the motto “Future Summit”. In addition to food trend researcher Hanni Rützler, guests experienced a panel discussion about packaging with experts from Südpack. Afterwards, trend researcher, journalist and management trainer Sven Gábor Jánszky gave a presentation on the topic of “Living Environments”. The evening event of the customer event impressed with a great gala dinner with show acts and live music.

On the evening of the 26th, around 1000 employees came to celebrate the 50-year existence with an elaborately designed program, great food and good music.

Opera GmbH & Co. KG offers not only exclusive tent construction under the “Opera-Tent” brand, but also classic event technology such as lighting, sound, multimedia, stage and rigging under the “Opera-Eventtec” brand. So we also supplied the event technology (lighting, sound and rigging) for the event. This has a particularly positive effect for the end customer. The assembly of the tents merges with the installation of the technology. These synergy effects save time and money. Moreover, we have a lot of experience with our tents, especially regarding ambient lighting. When properly staged, the dramatically curved roof surfaces come into particularly effective prominence. Here, less is often more.