Packaging and processing professionals gathered in Chicago earlier this month for PACK EXPO International and Pharma EXPO 2014, the largest packaging and processing trade show in North America. With preliminary figures topping 48,600 attendees, show owner and producer PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, Reston, VA, anticipates recording a 6.5 percent attendance jump over 2012.
The four-day event, Nov. 2-5, covered more than 1.2 million net square feet of exhibit space in McCormick Place with 2,352 exhibiting companies, an increase of more than 19 percent for exhibiting companies from PACK EXPO International 2012.