Pack Expo Becomes a Meeting Point for Packaging and Processing Industries

What is Pack Expo?

Pack Expo is the world’s largest packaging trade show and brings together more than 2,000 exhibitors and 50,000 attendees from all over the globe. The show covers all aspects of the packaging industry from design, manufacturing, logistics, and sustainability. Pack Expo also offers a huge number of educational sessions, networking events, and special events. Pack Expo offers a unique opportunity for companies to showcase their products directly to a relevant audience of buyers.

Visitors will get to see the latest innovations and products in the industry including packaging technology, and packaging materials, and see the latest designs on cardboard boxes, containers, cartons, and other items. In-person attendees can also experience live events where exhibitor personnel will showcase advances that have been made in environmentally friendly products and how the packaging industry is actively reducing plastic waste.

The show will also showcase improvements made in processing, packaging, production, printing, shipping, storage, and e-commerce. Suppliers of various packaging materials such as bottles, paper, plastics, bags, boxes, stretch films, and other products will be able to showcase their latest designs directly to a huge global audience.

This Year the show will be held at the Las Vegas Convention Centre from the 28th of September until the end of the Month. The show will be sponsored by PMMI, the Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies. In 2015, Pack Expo will celebrate its 20th Year.

This year the show will be joined by the Pharma Expo which will give in-person attendees the chance to see even more the industry has to offer.

The benefits and importance that the exhibition will create for the packaging world are huge and it will guarantee to deliver all the information needed for businesses and manufacturers to communicate with their customer base.

Who is PMMI?
PMMI the Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies is a trade association that represents the interests of suppliers of packaging and processing technologies. The association promotes the use of technologies in the food and beverage industry and aims to enhance the competitiveness of its members.

PMMI also provides extensive educational resources, networking events and opportunities, and the latest market news and updates to its members. The organisation represents over 600 companies that manufacture packaging and processing machinery, equipment, and materials.

PMMI and Pack Expo are collectively shaping the future of the packaging industry and ensuring the industry continues to move forward on technological and environmental advances.

Who Will Benefit from Pack Expo?
The 50,000 visitors expected to attend the exhibition will be able to benefit in many ways from seeing the latest packaging technology on offer to hearing the latest updates from industry professionals. There will be a huge business benefit to any company that attends the event and to consumers too. Visitors will be able to explore technologies from more than forty packaged consumer goods businesses, including beverage, food, transport, pharmaceutical, and personal care.

The innovations stage education sessions will be held each hour, and these are tailored to ensure that they are as relevant as possible to all attendees so they can benefit the most from the information.

This year’s sessions include presentations and debates on:

• The creation of an extremely engaged workforce
• Regulatory dangers for flexible food packaging
• How packaging will be affected by snacking trends
• Packaging technologies related to anti-counterfeiting
• How advancements in digital sorting would facilitate food processors in achieving yield in quality objectives
• Use of ozone to disinfect poultry and meat operations
• Ways to be ready for the IIOT (Industrial Internet of Things)

The Food Safety Summit Resource Centre will also offer a free 30-minute presentation and one-on-one consultations addressing solutions and issues related to food safety.

Visitors to the Pack Expo can keep their knowledge levels updated by visiting The Centre for Trends & Technology (CTT). It will have informative kiosks, presentations, and an interactive wall displaying various advancements that will give visitors a good understanding of the recent technologies.

Pack Expo will have specific areas for each industry type including packaging innovations, processing zone, confectionery pavilion, brand zone, and reusable packaging.

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