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Manufacturing from a total systems approach

While the recession seems to be easing, brand owners will continue to seek ways to reduce manufacturing costs, streamline production, and achieve operational excellence to ensure solid business performance.

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As part of this effort, consumer packaged goods companies (CPGs), including private-label manufacturers, are focusing on a total systems approach where processing and packaging elements are intertwined rather than treated as stand-alone processes.

This Fall, at Pack Expo International 2010 (Oct. 31-Nov. 3; McCormick Place, Chicago, IL), brand owners can gain greater insight into the interdependence of processing and packaging to enhance operational efficiencies, speed new product commercialization, and grow brand sales. Occupying 1.1 million net square feet, Pack Expo will bring together 1,900 exhibitors and 44,000 attendees from across the globe in the single largest packaging and processing event of the year.

We sat down with Charles D. Yuska, president and CEO of PMMI, which sponsors and produces Pack Expo, to learn more about the important changes taking place in processing and packaging operations and how trade shows like Pack Expo International 2010 can help manufacturers find the solutions they need to meet today’s and tomorrow’s challenges.

Q: As 2010 approaches, there’s optimism about the economy. What does this mean for processing and packaging?
A: The issues facing processing and packaging operations aren’t tied to a recession or economic recovery. Food safety will always be a priority, and trends such as sustainability, health and wellness, and convenience options continue to be top of mind for consumers, even if they’ve cut back on overall spending.

Innovation isn’t tied to the economy either, and a show like Pack Expo continues to be an effective and efficient way to address pressing challenges. We saw this first-hand at last fall’s Pack Expo in Las Vegas, which drew the second-largest audience of processing and packaging professionals in the show’s history. Attendees came with projects in hand, ready to do business.

We expect this positive trend will continue at Pack Expo 2010. As companies find their fiscal footing, they’ll be looking for ways of improving efficiencies by investing in innovative technologies, introducing new products, reducing waste, improving sustainability, and expanding facilities. These will be keys to staying ahead of the competition.

In other words, companies will be looking to conduct business better, smarter, and faster in 2010. And Pack Expo can help. By addressing in a single location the entire production supply chain, from processing to package design and packaging, the show will be a cost- and time-saving resource to brand owners from around the world.

Q: Another major industry trend is a “total systems” approach to the market, which end users and suppliers both support. How does this affect PMMI and Pack Expo?
A: There are always market forces working to shape both PMMI and Pack Expo, as both need to mirror the industry they serve in order to truly be effective.

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