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Records fall at PACK EXPO Las Vegas & Healthcare Packaging EXPO 2019

The year’s biggest packaging show in the world does not disappoint

Records fall at PACK EXPO Las Vegas & Healthcare Packaging EXPO 2019
Records fall at PACK EXPO Las Vegas & Healthcare Packaging EXPO 2019

PACK EXPO Las Vegas and Healthcare Packaging EXPO hit an unprecedented trifecta this year, breaking records for number of exhibitors, total exhibit space and total attendees, according to show owner and producer PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies. By the show’s close on Wednesday, Sept. 25, preliminary numbers reveal that more than 2,000 exhibitors covering nearly 900,000 net square feet of the Las Vegas Convention Center convened with over 31,000 attendees; an eight percent increase from the 2017 show.

“With the incredible role it now plays for the packaging industry, PACK EXPO Las Vegas and Healthcare Packaging EXPO was the international packaging event of 2019," says Jim Pittas, president and CEO of PMMI. “The sheer size and scope of PACK EXPO Las Vegas and Healthcare Packaging EXPO indicates that as our industry continues to prosper it turns to PMMI shows for the solutions and tools to improve business.”

Stefan Brown is an R&D Scientist for The Clorox Company who came to PACK EXPO Las Vegas and Healthcare Packaging EXPO because he knew there would be an opportunity to see solutions for his business, even if they were initially created for other vertical markets.

“I attended PACK EXPO Las Vegas to find new child-proof packaging technologies, particularly closures, for household chemicals products,” says Brown. “There’s a lot of innovation in that space stemming from the CBD market. Since this show covers so many industries, we’re able to see different innovations from other markets, like CBD, and determine how we can apply them to our own products.”

Contract packager Joe Woods also touts the vast expanse of solutions available at this year's event and finding all of the options at one show was ideal for his role as the director of procurement at Pharma Packaging Solutions.

“I've been to a lot of different trade shows, but PACK EXPO Las Vegas and Healthcare Packaging EXPO is phenomenal—both well done and well organized. Coming here you can find everything under one roof,” Woods says. “We’ve purchased everything from bags to machines and more, and we'll leave having spent millions of dollars on solutions to enhance our business.”

Long-time exhibitor Marchesini Group USA sees Healthcare Packaging EXPO keeping pace with the overall growth of the PACK EXPO Las Vegas event.

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