PMMI membership reaches record levels

Nearly 50 new members welcomed into PMMI’s Spring 2017 Class, growing PMMI membership to over 800 companies

Sean RileyPMMI Editorial Director
Apr 25th, 2017
PMMI Record Member Levels
PMMI Record Member Levels

An industry leader in packaging for more than 80 years, PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, reached a milestone of over 800 member companies last month, after the approval of 46 new member companies at its Executive Leadership Conference (March 19-21; Aventura, Florida).

“Updating our membership by-laws has positioned PMMI to properly keep pace with an ever-evolving and growing marketplace through its inclusion of more industry contributors,” said Glen Long, senior vice president, PMMI. “As the processing and packaging landscapes shift, this growth in member companies demonstrates our ability to adapt to the ways manufacturing and business structures are changing.”

PMMI’s new members are:

General Members

  • Holland Engineering LLC, New Britain, Connecticut
  • LasX Industries Inc., White Bear Lake, Minnesota
  • PKD SA De CV, Queretaro DE Arteaga, Mexico
  • Precision Finishing Systems Inc., Wheeling, Illinois
  • Right Stuff Equipment, Denver, Colorado
  • Schenck Process LLC, Kansas City, Missouri
  • Shorewood Engineering Inc., Waconia, Minnesota

Associate Members

  • Bergami USA, Roseto, Pennsylvania
  • BestPack Packaging Systems, Rancho Cucamonga, California
  • CAMA USA Inc., Buffalo Grove, Illinois
  • CSi Palletizing, Richmond, Virginia
  • EBS Ink Jet Systems USA, Inc., Libertyville, Illinois
  • Leibinger USA, East Troy, Wisconsin
  • Pester USA Inc., Allendale, New Jersey
  • Schubert North America LLC, Charlotte, North Carolina
  • Taisei Lamick USA, Elk Grove Village, Illinois
  • Totani America, Inc., De Pere, Wisconsin
  • United Barcode Systems, Escondido, California
  • Universal Robots USA, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan
  • Volkmann, Inc., Bristol, Pennsylvania
  • Volm Companies, Inc., Antigo, Wisconsin

Component Supplier Members

  • Fraba Inc., Hamilton, New Jersey
  • ITT, Inc., Orchard Park, New York
  • Patlite (USA) Corporation, Torrance, California
  • Soft Robotics, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts

Materials Supplier Members

  • C&K PROPACK, Seoul, Korea
  • Charter NEX Films, Inc., Milton, Wisconsin
  • Genpak LLC, Glens Falls, New York
  • Hindustan Adhesives Limited, New Delhi, India
  • Peel Plastic Products Ltd, Brampton, Ontario, Canada
  • PolyOne Corporation, Maryland Heights, Missouri
  • Smith Corona Labels & Ribbons, Cleveland, Ohio
  • Storopack, Cincinnati, Ohio
  • Tadbik, Fairfield, New Jersey
  • TEBPLAST PLASTIK SAN. VE TIC. A.S., Istanbul, Turkey
  • Technimark LLC, Asheboro, North Carolina

Affiliated Supplier Members

  • AC Compacting LLC, North Brunswick, New Jersey
  • Afflink, LLC, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
  • AutoCoding Systems Ltd, Cheshire, United Kingdom
  • Berran Industrial Group, Inc., Akron, Ohio
  • Cold Jet, LLC, Loveland, Ohio
  • Food Plant Engineering, LLC, Cincinnati, Ohio
  • PAK-TEC, INC., Lake Wylie, South Carolina
  • Secomea Inc., Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  • SOCAPS US Inc., Atlanta, Georgia
  • UCM Holdings, LLC, Miami, Florida

Of the 46 new member companies, there are seven general members, 14 associate members, four component supplier members, 11 materials supplier members and 10 affiliated members.

For information on PMMI membership or becoming a PMMI member visit pmmi.org or contact Heather Harvey, membership manager, PMMI at hharvey@pmmi.org or 571.612.3197.

Companies in this article
Soft Robotics
Peel Plastic Products Ltd.
CSi Palletizing
Storopack
Schubert North America
Volkmann, Inc.
LasX Industries
Totani America, Inc.
PATLITE (U.S.A.) Corporation
Universal Robots
PolyOne
PMMI
Cama North America
Bergami USA
LEIBINGER
BestPack Packaging Systems
Pak-Tec, Inc
Afflink
Technimark
Shorewood Engineering, Inc.
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