Packaging Resource Center: Show Coverage - Pack Expo International
This year’s event flags green exhibitors.
At this year’s Pack Expo International trade show, happening November 9–13 at Chicago’s McCormick Place, attendees will find an array of sustainability-oriented innovations offered by the show’s more than 2000 exhibitors. To make green suppliers easier to find, the trade show will place a “Pack Expo Green” icon next to each green supplier company listing on the show’s Web site, as well as in its compact Pocket Guide Directory available on-site.
Green options offered by exhibitors will range from bioplastics (polylactic acid films and the like), as well as other sustainable packaging materials; energy-efficient machinery; and lean-production solutions.
These topics will also be addressed at Pack Expo’s conferences. A sustainability track will be featured as part of each day’s program schedule. Topics will include source reduction, minimization of greenhouse gas emissions and waste, recycling and the use of recycled content, and lightweighting.
Each of the conference’s keynote sessions will also address sustainability, beginning with a special address by Amy Zettlemoyer-Lazar, packaging director of Sam’s Club and comanager of the Wal-Mart Sustainability Value Network. Her presentation is titled, “Keeping Score: How Wal-Mart and Its Suppliers Continue to Advance Packaging Change, Innovation, and Sustainability.” Zettlemoyer-Lazar will provide the audience with an update on the progress of Wal-Mart’s Sustainability Scorecard, as well as an update of changes to come. Additionally, Wal-Mart will staff a Wal-Mart Sustainability Scorecard information center throughout the show.
Pack Expo pavilions include the Containers and Materials Pavilion, the Showcase of Packaging Innovations, the RFID Pavilion, the Brand Protection Center, and the Contract Packaging Pavilion. For more information on exhibitors in these pavilions and on the show in general, visit www.packexpo.com.
Exhibitor Products
Track and Trace
A supplier’s IMprints Track & Trace Solution comprises hardware and software designed to help protect against counterfeiting and diversion, and to help brands meet government regulations regarding tracking and tracing.
Videojet Technologies Inc.
Wood Dale, IL
www.videojet.com
Label Printer-Applicator
A firm’s Model 5300 twin-tamp label printer-applicator combines thermal label printing with a specially configured pressure-sensitive label applicator to handle the printing and two-label, adjacent-panel application of case labels in-line.
Weber Marking Systems Inc.
Arlington Heights, IL
www.webermarking.com
Exhibitor List
Partial List of Exhibitors
Current as of July 15, 2008.
Advertisers are listed in bold
- Advanced Poly-Packaging Inc.
- Alcan Packaging
- All Packaging Machinery Corp.
- All-Fill Inc.
- American Packaging & Label
- AmeriPak
- Ampacet Corp.
- AMS Filling Systems Inc.
- Berry Plastics Corp.
- Bottle Tech Inc.
- Capmatic Ltd.
- Card Pak Inc.
- CCL Label
- Cleartec Packaging
- Display Pack
- Do-It Corp.
- Equity Packaging Inc.
- Flex Products Inc.
- Fort Dearborn Co.
- Gilbreth
- Hanover Packaging
- Imex Packaging
- In-Mold Decorating Association
- Independent Can Co.
- Inline Filling Systems Inc.
- Ipack-Ima S.p.A.
- James Alexander Corp.
- Klöckner Pentaplast of America Inc.
- Label-Aire Inc.
- MegaPlast S.A.
- Montebello Packaging Inc.
- Multivac Inc.
- Overnight Labels Inc.
- Polyair
- Polypack Inc.
- Polytainers Inc.
- Prime Tag & Label
- Printpack Inc.
- Prosys Innovative Packaging Equipment
- Quadrel Labeling Systems
- Rexam
- Silgan
- SleeveCo Inc.
- Sleever International
- Transparent Container Company, Inc.
- UFP Technologies Inc.
- Videojet Technologies Inc.
- VisiPak
- Weber Marking Systems Inc.
- Western Plastics