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PMMI Member Family Scholarship

$75,000 in PMMI Member Family Scholarships Awarded

Fifteen students receive $5,000 scholarships through the PMMI Foundation.

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Mitigating the Risk of the Lawyer Effect

Prevent deals from falling apart due to lower-level stakeholders who maintain the dominant and outspoken role in the meeting with a salesperson.

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Lock the Back Door to Keep Cyber Criminals Out

From building a cybersecurity strategy to using technology that blocks bad actors from sneaking in through a remote access connection, OEMs have new ways to protect themselves and their customers.

Preparing for Necessary Return of In-Person Events

With its PACK Ready health and safety program, PACK EXPO Las Vegas and Healthcare Packaging EXPO will reunite the packaging and processing community.

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AmSkills Takes a Hands-on Approach to Manufacturing Training

The Florida-based non-profit organization focuses on people first when conducting workforce training. As a result, it is successfully filling jobs and changing lives.

Adtance adds a new twist to remote service with Fieldstreaming, which can connect multiple cameras—from smartphones to drones—providing a holistic view of machines and the plant floor.

Reinventing Remote Maintenance

Adtance adds a new twist to remote service with Fieldstreaming, which can connect multiple cameras—from smartphones to drones—providing a holistic view of machines and the plant floor.

Emerging Leader Wes Garrett is growing market share as the account manager for authorized system integrator sales at FANUC.

Wes Garrett Excels in Building Relationships with System Integrators

Emerging Leader Wes Garrett is growing market share as the account manager for authorized system integrator sales at FANUC.

unPACKED with Packaging World Podcast: 10 Billion Reasons to Embrace Reusable Packaging

Listen to the unPACKed with Packaging World podcast as Anne Marie Mohan outlines emerging frameworks to make implementing reusable packaging easier for OEMs, CPGs and consumers.

Amazing Packaging Race

Emerson Returns as Amazing Packaging Race Sponsor

The Amazing Packaging Race brings together students and exhibitors at PACK EXPO Las Vegas, with student teams completing tasks assigned by exhibitors across the show's four exhibition halls.

Packaging & Processing Women’s Leadership Network (PPWLN)

PPWLN Welcomes New Executive Council

PMMI’s Packaging & Processing Women’s Leadership Network Welcomes New Executive Council Members

Presented in Spanish and produced by PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, the two-day event features a wide-ranging online directory of 100+ top suppliers, as well as two educational tracks: Mundo de Expertos, presented in conjunction with Mundo PMMI and exhibitor-hosted Innovation Stage sessions.

Enlace EXPO PACK Starts Tomorrow

Latin America’s only comprehensive online packaging and processing event debuts.

David Newcorn Named Executive Vice President of PMMI Media Group

PMMI Media Group’s Senior VP, Digital & Data is tapped for a new leadership role at the Chicago based B2B company.

unPACKed podcast: Market Disruption as a Competitive Advantage

unPACKed podcast: Market Disruption as a Competitive Advantage

Listen to the unPACKed with PMMI podcast as Tom Morrison outlines a classic good news/bad news evaluation for the next five to ten years.

IoPP Announces Winners of the 2021 Packaging Education Scholarship Fund

Each year, the Institute of Packaging Professionals (IoPP) awards over $10,000 in scholarships to students studying packaging or a related field.

5 Ways Manufacturers Can Improve Cybersecurity

As cybercrimes and cyber-attacks are on the rise, cybersecurity and IT professionals share on this Take Five video how packaging and processing machine builders can protect their people, processes, assets, and reputation from cybercriminals.

PACK EXPO Las Vegas and Healthcare Packaging EXPO. Packaging. Processing. One Powerful Show.

unPACKed podcast: PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2021 - It’s on!

Listen to the unPACKed with PMMI podcast as Laura Thompson breaks down the significant competitive advantages that attendees and exhibitors will obtain from the show.

OEMs should keep cybersecurity top of mind in their business, carefully monitor their own products in the market to ensure their ongoing security, and strictly regulate the devices they use for external work.

OEMs Play Larger Role in Manufacturing Industry Cybersecurity

Since OEMs also serve manufacturing clients who are themselves vulnerable to cyberattack, there are a few extra considerations to be aware of with regard to cybersecurity.

Consumers are telling brands with their wallets that they want the brands to have a stance, to say something, to have an opinion, and to vocalize that opinion in a way that lets them know where they stand.

unPACKED with Packaging World Podcast: Did 2020 Change Packaging Forever?

Listen to the unPACKed with Packaging World podcast for Matt Reynold's take on the seismic shifts in packaging caused by COVID-19 and societal call for social responsibility.

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Pandemic Gives Boost to Smaller Meat Processing Plants

Though COVID-19 certainly caused its share of issues as meat processors raced to figure out how to keep their workers safe, one of the biggest challenges the smaller organizations have faced is how to keep up with the rising demand.

Attracting and retaining a quality workforce in manufacturing is a systemic key business challenge.

Attract and Retain a Quality Workforce, Insights with Gardner Carrick at PMMI’s ELC

NAM and MI programs and research bring information into labor outreach efforts and retention of a diverse, quality workforce.

To get better cybersecurity results, companies have started creating dedicated departments or teams within the IT department that are responsible for cybersecurity.

Personnel Training: A Critical Third Step in Cybersecurity

The best cybersecurity plan is only as good as the individuals tasked with carrying it out.

Leading Food Companies to Receive Sustainability Excellence in Manufacturing Awards at PACK EXPO Las Vegas

ProFood World is set to honor Conagra Brands, Smithfield Foods, B&G Foods, Liffey Meats, and Graphic Packaging International for outstanding sustainability achievements.