PACKadelphia Season Three: Coming Soon!

Your PACK EXPO East Packaging Vlog returns with the inside scoop on all things packaging and processing.

Jan 11th, 2022

Mr. PACKadelphia returns with an East Coast Packaging Vlog in Jan. 2022. Stay tuned for the inside scoop on all things PACK EXPO East taking place March 21-23 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia. Check out what attendees have to say about what they are looking for in Philadelphia (Spoiler Alert: It’s solutions), as well as some Philly Attractions should you want to take a quick break from the show floor.

PMMI Silent Auction Returns

After raising over $44,000 in donations during its first run last year, the Annual Meeting's Silent Auction benefitting the PMMI Foundation is back.

Great Resignation Driving Employee Poaching

It’s a buyer’s market for job seekers as 81,000 left manufacturing from Aug. 2020 through Aug. 2021. Manufacturers are climbing over each other to poach workers to meet increases in production.

Mergers and acquisitions are hampering collaboration.

Consolidation Threatening CPG-OEM Relationships

The shift in the CPG-OEM relationship from transactional to strategic collaboration has hit a snag.

Neither gas prices nor inflation, rising interest rates nor global conflict, will deter financially well-situated Americans from spending their way through the new Roaring 20s.

Economist: Improving Supply Chain, Easing Demand, Let Packaging Machine OEMs Catch Up

ITR economists forecast a soft landing—not a recession—in coming months as consumers ease out of the pandemic and the revved-up stimulus-era economy fades. This will allow the supply chain to recalibrate and packaging machine OEMs to catch up on orders.

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unPACKed with PMMI: Next Stop PACK EXPO International 2022

Hear about automation and software options from PACK EXPO which directly address continuing workforce issues and materials to meet consumer demand for sustainable packages.

Solve motion transfer problems with quality Rod End & Spherical Bearings

Solve motion transfer problems with quality Rod End & Spherical Bearings

Aurora Bearing Company develops key components for dairy machinery, high speed sorters and inserters, baggers and carton erectors. Aurora's engineering experts solve the most difficult applications using ISO 9001:2015 and AS9100D certified products.

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unPACKed with PACK EXPO East: Easy F/F/S Options for Emerging Brands

Hear about machinery for emerging brands looking to make their first inroads into packaging and automation software for not only OEE, but also establishing ROI for C-Suite decision makers.

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unPACKed with PACK EXPO East: The Rise of Mono Materials and Robot Staffing Agencies

Hear about eye-catching sustainable materials and workforce enabling automation seen at PACK EXPO East.

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PACK EXPO International Returns with Eight New Show Additions

In response to unprecedented demands on the industry, the most comprehensive packaging and processing show in the world in 2022 gets even bigger.

PACK EXPO East 2022

PACK EXPO EAST Returns, Bigger than Ever

Largest PACK EXPO East welcomed 6,600 attendees across nearly 100,000 net square feet of exhibit space

Largest PACK EXPO East to Date Opens

Philadelphia showcases countless solutions addressing packaging and processing industry's top priorities.

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Challenges for Pharma Amid Shifting Consumer Needs

Largest PACK EXPO East to date offers the latest life sciences and CPG packaging and processing solutions.

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PMMI Announces the 2022 Packaging & Processing Hall of Fame Commission

Leading consumer products goods companies, retailers, suppliers and other organizations will select the Class of 2022.

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Cyber Alert: Secure Your Operations, Now

IT Specialist Andy Lomasky and OT Specialist Bryan Griffen deliver five quick recommendations to assist all employees — on and off the plant floor — in doing everything they can to thwart potential Russian interference.

PMMI specialists in IT, Andy Lomasky, and in OT, Bryan Griffen, conducted a podcast and video days after threats came in from Russia with the following five steps to keep your company and supply chain secure.

Thwart Foreign Cyberattacks

Five steps to protect your organization and supply chain against the political and literal warfront.

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unPACKed with PMMI Podcast: A Raw Talk with Steve’s Real Foods

HPP + FSMA = Longer shelf life and more international markets for raw pet food.

Longtime President of PMMI Media Group, Joe Angel, Will Take on New Expanded Role With PMMI

Longtime President of PMMI Media Group, Joe Angel, Tackles New Expanded Role

As EVP, Industry Outreach for PMMI, Angel will focus on industry outreach and building relationships that support the packaging and processing industry.

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unPACKed Podcast: Sustainability's Difficult Dance with Life Sciences

Listen as Keren Sookne breaks down the difficult paradox that is sustainability in healthcare packaging, including positive progress and areas that need immediate improvement.

Visit packexpoeast.com/packready for the most updated information and details on vaccination requirements and exemptions.

Exhibitor Sales Pushing PACK EXPO East 2022 to Near Record Size

March's show has already surpassed the size of the last two PACK EXPO East events in 2018 and 2020, offering solutions unmatched at a regional event.

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Learn Why Manufacturers Should Target Cobots

Upcoming PMMI Business Intelligence webinar focuses on The Evolution of Components Used in Industrial Robots.

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Beverage manufacturers can find the right solutions for these challenges at PACK EXPO East (March 21-23, Philadelphia).

Four Drivers Changing the Beverage Industry

PACK EXPO East offers CPG solutions to the packaging and processing beverage challenges of functionality, sustainability, consumer health consciousness and convenience.

Sustainability Secrets from Tetra Pak & Compass Group USA

Tetra Pak and Compass Group Talk Sustainability

Listen as global packaging and processing heavyweights break down how brands develop on-pack messaging that appeals to consumers.

F4SS joins The Cold Pressure Council, CPA, IoPP and OMAC as PMMI Association partners.

F4SS Partners with PMMI

Foundation for Supply Chain Solutions is the latest addition to PMMI's Association Partners, including The Cold Pressure Council, CPA, IoPP and OMAC.

PACK EXPO East Returns

PACK EXPO East Brings Latest Packaging & Processing Solutions to the East Coast

After PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2021 led the way in bringing the industry together, PACK EXPO East returns to Philadelphia (Mar. 21 to 23) looking to build off of its largest show ever in 2020.

Learn standards development organizations, their roles, geographical reach and inner workings.

PMMI's Free Introduction to Standards and Awareness Course

Three lessons cover the fundamentals and importance of standards, including their purpose and the development processes that contribute to their publication.

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Five Reasons to Exhibit at PACK EXPO East 2022 in Philadelphia

Find out how to prepare your booth and promote your presence for PACK EXPO East and learn why you should exhibit.

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Meet PMMI’s Emerging Leaders On the Rise

OEM Magazine spoke with each On the Rise Award winner to learn about the challenges they have faced and overcome.

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unPACKed Podcast: A 1st Look At PACK EXPO 2022

Listen to editors from PMMI Media Group lay out the top trends and innovations attendees can expect to see at PACK EXPO East 2022.

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unPACKed Podcast: Emphasis on Ease of Operation at PACK EXPO Las Vegas

PMMI Media Group Editors explore tools OEMs showcased at PACK EXPO Las Vegas and Healthcare Packaging EXPO specifically to attack workforce issues.

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unPACKed Podcast: Revisit Cobots, Cannabis and More from PACK EXPO Las Vegas

PMMI Media Group Editors discuss the trends and innovations that drove PACK EXPO Las Vegas and Healthcare Packaging EXPO.

Registration is Now Open for PACK EXPO East 2022

Registration Opens for PACK EXPO East 2022

Now in its fifth edition, March's three-day event comes on the heels of a successful PACK EXPO Las Vegas & Healthcare Packaging EXPO, the largest packaging and processing trade show in North America in 2021.

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unPACKed Podcast: Wicked Good Insight on The New World of Work

Listen as OEM Editor in Chief Stephanie Neil interviews Wicked Good Cupcakes co-founder Tracey Noonan on her PPWLN keynote, including how wanting to spend more time with her daughter led to a completely new career path.