23 Oct 2022, Chicago: World’s largest packaging industry trade show opened doors this morning at McCormick Place in Chicago, USA. Just over 2,000 exhibitors from all continents display innovations for more than 40 vertical markets across 1.2 million square feet of exhibit space. The show, produced by PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, is the most comprehensive event for packaging and processing in 2022. Over 40,000 industry leaders will visit this expo in 4 days exhibition in order to learn smart and most recycled packaging solutions for their industries.
“As the industry’s largest gathering place, PACK EXPO International is back and better than ever,” says Jim Pittas, president and CEO of PMMI. “No other event this year will showcase entire production line solutions and offer everything needed to compete in today’s changing marketplace.”
The past several years brought about vast advancements in equipment, materials, and technology and PACK EXPO International will showcase these new, never-before-seen solutions in one place. Bringing all vertical industries together generates a cross-pollination of ideas and crossover solutions that can only be discovered in person, on the PACK EXPO International show floor.
2022 Pack Expo International focuses on recyclable material packaging and environment-friendly solutions for the pack/process industry.
Most packaging industries are actively involved in research for using recyclable films to palletize processes and reduce environmental impact.
While talking to the owner of Canadian-based company Encore Custom Performs, Shanta Oudit said her industry is focusing on environmentaly friendly materials for producing performs which is pre bottling form. Encore uses PET (polyethylene terephthalate) as well as R-PET (recycled polyethylene terephthalate), and PLA biopolymer (a sugar-derived bioplastic) much better than petrochemcal based plastic materials. Shanta said her industry is just over $12M, contains around 10 smart machines which can be operated by only one operator and you do not require highly skilled, expensive labor in order to operate pre bottling industry. Encore delivers roughly 100,000 performs in 24hrs cycle with one operator which is most smart industry to be considered due to intensive labore shortage in North America.
She showed intentions to setup a same type of plant in USA in near future.–Reported by Ali
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