The floors of Pack Expo Las Vegas were bustling on opening day and the four showroom floors were packed with exhibitors as PMMI hosted its largest Las Vegas show to date.
Almost everyone who attended Pack Expo seemed to have an issue with their operations or a situation that needed straightening out. At least, this was the message from the exhibitors at the nation’s largest packaging trade show held recently in Chicago.
Everybody heard the anecdotal stories about the huge increase in demand for packaging equipment during the pandemic, but PMMI recently released a survey that documented how sales grew 40% between 2019 and 2022, noted Jorge Izquierdo, vice president, market development, PMMI, the association for packaging and processing technologies, during the recent Pack Expo held in Chicago.