Worldwide Food Expo '07

The breadth of educational features is just one of the special features that make this October 24-27 show unique. Packaging professionals seeking growth and opportunity in the global food and beverage industries won’t want to miss Worldwide Food Expo when it rolls into Chicago’s McCormick Place October 24-27.

Oct 4th, 2007
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This is the year’s largest food and beverage processing and packaging event in the world, with exhibits covering more than 1 million sq’ and featuring 1,000 of the world’s leading suppliers.

Worldwide Food Expo is the co-location of two events:

• International Meat, Poultry & Seafood Industry Convention and Exposition, sponsored by the American Meat Institute
• Food, Dairy & Beverage Exposition, sponsored by the International Dairy Foods Association

A single badge gets visitors into all exhibits and programming.

Special this year at Worldwide Food Expo is the breadth of educational programming. That includes three hot-topic Super Sessions for executives. There are also nearly 40 broad-ranging food and beverage sessions as well as daily plant operations short courses, which qualify for continuing education credits.

Exhibit hours are 11:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Wednesday through Friday, October 24-26, and 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Saturday, October 27.

More than 25,000 attendees from 100 countries will visit Worldwide Food Expo to learn about new technologies, trends, and ideas. Be among them by registering at www.worldwidefood.com.

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Emerson
An Appeal to Support Our Essential Services and Critical Infrastructure Workers
The COVID-19 pandemic is proving to be a tremendous global challenge that we must work together to defeat. Now, our essential and critical workers are being relied upon to provide the services we expect every day and we must do everything to support them.
Mar 27th, 2020
HR Pharmaceuticals won an FPA silver award for EcoVue by Glenroy. It is a flexible package for ultrasound gel featuring custom film requiring less energy to manufacture and transport.
Ultrasound Gel Pouch Gets Ergonomic Design, Reduces Waste
Designed to be easy to hold and evacuate more product, this multilayer spouted pouch replaces the traditional bottle while requiring less energy to manufacture and transport.
Mar 27th, 2020
Master motivator Dan Clark provided the keynote for the 2020 CPA Annual Meeting.
CPA’s 2020 Annual Meeting a Huge Success
CPA – The Association for Contract Packagers and Manufacturers shares news on its recent Annual Meeting, the PACK EXPO East Sourcing Center, and upcoming events.
Mar 27th, 2020
COVID-19’s Impact on the Canadian Market
OEM COVID-19 #5: BellatRx & Mpac Langen
UnPACKED with PMMI podcast with Canadian OEMs highlights communication early and often.
Mar 26th, 2020
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Why Women are Under-Represented in the C-Suite
If companies with more women in leadership roles have greater innovation, increased productivity, higher employee satisfaction, and higher employee retention, why are there so few in the C suite?
Mar 26th, 2020
Alison Keane, President, FPA at the 2020 CPA Annual Meeting
Fighting Back Against Anti-Plastics Legislation
At the CPA Annual Meeting, FPA President Alison Keane shares how the organization is working to help shape legislation around plastic packaging, rather than just react to it.
Mar 26th, 2020
Cornell Creates Detailed Covid 19 Website For Food Industry
Cornell Creates COVID-19 Website for Food Industry
Helps food processors determine what’s necessary to protect the public and employees, while helping to maintain safe U.S. food supply
Mar 25th, 2020
Matt Reynolds, Editor
Opinion: Packaging Industry Begins COVID-19 Response
Rapid response to crisis seen industry wide, inspiring hope and reflecting resilience in the time of a crisis.
Mar 25th, 2020
Automatic full-pallet infeed capability ahead of the empty-can depalletizer is a recent addition to the range of equipment made by Ska Fabricating. Allagash was the first to install it.
‘Quality Conscious’ Canning
This Portland, Maine, brewery decided to “dip our toes in the can market” by installing a small filler/seamer. It quickly became clear that a 300 cans/minute line was going to be required.
Mar 25th, 2020
Robbie Martin
CPGs: Build Relationships for Contract Packaging Success
Robby Martin of Bush Brothers shares those factors that go into building great relationships between Consumer Packaged Goods companies and contract packagers/contract manufacturers.
Mar 25th, 2020
Flexible Packaging for Infinite CBD Gummies
Popularity of Cannabis Formats Evolving, Packaging Follows Suit
Dried flower is giving way to creams, gels, dried teas/powders and inhalers, products that doubled in growth in two years’ time. Packaging for cannabis is expanding to meet this growth.
Mar 25th, 2020
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Opinion: COVID-19 Swings “Reusable” from Good to Bad
Mar 25th, 2020
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Global Pet Food Market Surpassed $94.6 billion in 2019
A new study from PMMI Business Intelligence, “Trends and Drivers Impacting The Pet Food Industry,” reveals North America is the top market for pet food, with an annual growth rate of 4.5% in the next five years.
Mar 24th, 2020
The coffee is packaged in clear, recyclable, round-bottom vial-like tube with a screw-on cap that offers a number of advantages over multilayer sachets.
Premium, Single-Origin Instant Coffee is Totally Tubular
Boston area-based specialty coffee roaster introduces an instant coffee product produced using a new freeze-drying process and packaged in a PP tube that provides a nine-month shelf life.
Mar 24th, 2020
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Packaging and Processing Industry COVID-19 Resources
PMMI collated resources for the industry to navigate business in uncertain times.
Mar 24th, 2020
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All Roads Lead to Delay in the Time of COVID-19
Land, sea or air – the supply chain is being hard hit by shortages, delays, rising costs and lack of workers due to the coronavirus.
Mar 24th, 2020
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Nominations open for Packaging and Processing Hall of Fame
Now's the time to nominate deserving candidates for the 2020 class of the Packaging & Processing Hall of Fame. Nominations will remain open through June 5, 2020.
Mar 24th, 2020
Jim Chrzan, VP of Content & Brand Strategy, PMMI Media Group
Musings on Sustainability
Read what Jim Chrzan, VP of Content & Brand Strategy at PMMI Media Group, and Sean Riley, PMMI’s Senior Director of Media & Industry Communications, had to say about the state of sustainability during a lively conversation at the show earlier this month.
Mar 23rd, 2020
A heatmap of the economic impact of the coronavirus on North American industries shows low exposure for food and beverage processing, and packaging, among others.
Moody’s: Food Processing, Packaging Largely Resilient in the Face of COVID-19
A heatmap of the economic impact of the coronavirus on North American industries shows low exposure for food and beverage processing, and packaging, among others.
Mar 23rd, 2020
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The COVID-19 Outbreak and Food Production
Food and beverage industry workers are deemed essential to critical infrastructure; FDA suspends some inspections.
Mar 19th, 2020
More in Home
How Morrison Container Handling Solutions and F.R. Drake Company are Navigating COVID-19
OEM Covid-19 Response #4: Morrison Container & F.R. Drake
Special UnPACKED with PMMI podcast series offers operational best practices for dealing with the pandemic.
Mar 20th, 2020
How Polypack, Inc. and Garvey Corporation are Navigating COVID-19
OEM Covid-19 Response #3: Polypack, Inc. & Garvey Corp.
Special UnPACKED with PMMI podcast series provides an evolving look at how OEMs are forging ahead after employing proper caution.
Mar 20th, 2020
Milk
Market Snapshot: Dairy
Retail-ready and flexible packaging demand is growing, and pouches and bags are expected to grow in milk packaging use.
Mar 20th, 2020
A notable feature on the CCA440+ plastic carrier handle applicator is the overhead carrier queue. It lets an operator load up multiple stacks of carriers in one go and then turn to other tasks as the carriers are methodically conveyed into the feed station.
Revolution Brewing is All In On Cans
Though glass bottles were once a part of the mix at this well-known Chicago craft brewer, recently it’s been all about aluminum cans in multiple sizes.
Mar 20th, 2020
How Pearson Packaging Systems is Navigating COVID-19
OEM Covid-19 Response #2: Pearson Packaging Systems
Special UnPACKED with PMMI podcast series reveals how packaging offers certainty during uncertain times.
Mar 19th, 2020
At Fathead’s, cans exit a 24-head filler and are conveyed through an inspection system that checks for proper fill levels.
Craft Brewing—Quick Hits 2020
The steadily growing popularity of aluminum cans in the craft brewing segment has some brewers mothballing their glass bottling lines altogether.
Mar 19th, 2020
In-Line Packaging Systems
Mar 19th, 2020
CFT Group
Mar 19th, 2020
Tripack
Mar 19th, 2020
Sm Graphic Anderson
OEM Covid-19 Response #1: ProMach, Inc.
Special UnPACKED with PMMI podcast series offers candid insight from a global OEM supplier on surviving in a world that changes from day to day.
Mar 19th, 2020
Matt Reynolds, Editor, Packaging World
PACK EXPO East: From the Floor
Did you miss PACK EXPO East? See what Packaging World Editor Matt Reynolds had to say in the “PACK EXPO Rewind Show Floor Findings” podcast with PMMI’s Sean Riley.
Mar 19th, 2020
Brambles
Mar 18th, 2020