Introducing PACK EXPO East![]()
February 16 - 18, 2015
Philadelphia, PA
Pennsylvania Convention Center
PACK EXPO East brings top-tier processing and packaging suppliers together in a location that is convenient for attendees from the Northeast and easily accessible by air from other regions.
The smaller scale of PACK EXPO East means you’ll have plenty of time to engage with individual suppliers and your professional peers, both on the show floor and at the Opening Reception.
PACK EXPO East delivers:
- A focus on advanced processing and packaging solutions
- Leading OEMs for the processing and packaging industries
- Quality solutions, specialized to your industry
- Processing and packaging ideas from other industries
At PACK EXPO East, you can:
- ENGAGE with new technologies and engineers from top-tier suppliers
- ENERGIZE your creative thinking process by talking shop with professional peers
- EXPERIENCE processing and packaging innovations in action on the show floor
A Unique Opportunity to Discover Breakthrough Solutions
PACK EXPO East offers technologies for every vertical market, giving you the chance to see how engineers in other industries have solved processing and packaging challenges and apply those ideas to your own operations.
Meet with top-tier suppliers of solutions for:
| Baking & Snack | General & Other Industries |
| Beverage | Grain, Mill, Cereal |
| Branding | Meat, Poultry, Seafood |
| Confectionery | Personal Care |
| Dairy | Pharmaceutical & Medical Devices |
| Food | Prepared Foods |
| Fruit & Vegetables | Processing |
Schedule at a GlanceMonday, February 16 10:00 am – 4:00 pm 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tuesday, February 17 10:00 am – 4:00 pm Wednesday, February 18 10:00 am – 4:00 pm |
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PACK EXPO EAST NEWS
- ADAMA Launches New Cereal Fungicide Avastel® For Superior Disease Control And Long-Lasting Protection
- Researchers Uncover Natural Variation In Wild Emmer Wheat For Broad-Spectrum Disease Resistance
- How Spicy Does Mustard Get Depending On The Soil?
- Optimal Spacing Of Grafted ‘Primo Red’ High Tunnel Tomato
- Soil Fungal Community Across A 52-Year Chronosequence Of Soil Recultivation After Open-Mining In Inden (Germany)
- Team Of Global Experts To Develop Beneficial Nematode-Based Biocontrol Solution To Fall Armyworm
- Neogen® Forms Genomics Relationship With Performance Food Group
- IRRI, PhilRice Launch Drone Protocols To Boost Rice Farming In The Philippines
- Plant Sensors Could Act As An Early Warning System For Farmers
- Cargill And Nestlé Purina Partner On Regenerative Agriculture Adoption To Reduce The Carbon Footprint Of Purina Dry Pet Food Products
- Scientific Innovation Transforms Cangzhou's Saline-Alkali Fields Into Fertile Land
- ADAMA Launches New Cereal Fungicide Maganic® For Reliable Ear Disease Control And Higher Quality Grain
- Nano-Yield™ And COMPO EXPERT® Mexico Sign Strategic Collaboration
- IRRI And Taiwan ICDF Tackle The Climate And Food Crises By Fostering Rice Straw Circular Economies In SEA
- Biofortified Rice To Combat Deficiencies
- Early Weed Control Vital To Crop And Land Management Success
- GroGuru® Launches World's First Fully Integrated Wireless Underground System Soil Sensor Probe For Continuous Root Zone Monitoring Of Annual Field Crops
- Cryogenic Processors Prepares To Open Premier Freeze Drying And Packaging Facility In Paducah, Kentucky
- Farmers Edge And Gevo Enter Collaboration On Climate-Smart Farm-To-Flight Project
- Breeding More Resilient Soybeans May Come Down To Test Site Selection
- ADB, CGIAR Join Forces To Boost And Scale Agricultural Innovations In Asia
- Pea Plants That Flower For Longer
- AGCO Launches PTx, A Precision Ag Portfolio To Accelerate Technology Transformation
- Researchers Investigate Impacts If Glyphosate Were Banned
- Empowering Excellence: Total Quality Management Training For Superior Crop Breeding Services
- ADAMA Launches New Cereal Fungicide Forapro® For Supercharged Disease Control And Higher Yields
- Corn Reduces Arsenic Toxicity In Soil
- Study Shows The Crop Benefits Of Enhanced Rock Weathering
- Researchers Discover Key Gene For Toxic Alkaloid In Barley
- Researchers Reveal Impact Of Brassinosteroid And Sugar Signal On Wheat Grain Size Regulation
- Complete Sugarcane Genome Sequence Opens Up New Era In Breeding
- ROSS V Cone Blenders Ideal For Gentle And Effective Mixing
- AgroFresh Acquires Pace International LLC, Expanding Post-Harvest Solutions Portfolio
- Cox Enterprises Launches Cox Farms, One Of The Largest Greenhouse Growers In North America
- Powering Drones To Full Capacity For Spring Farming In Xuzhou, Jiangsu
- Genetic Ancestor Could Solve The Problems Affecting The World’s Bananas
- Better Phosphorus Use Can Ensure Its Stocks Last More Than 500 Years And Boost Global Food Production - New Evidence Shows
- Machine-Learning Model Demonstrates Effect Of Public Breeding On Rice Yields In Climate Change
- Food Production Using Controlled Environment Agriculture And Agrivoltaics Systems Could Become The New Normal
- Novel System To Assess The Impacts Of Relative Humidity On Water Loss During Storage Of Blueberries
- CABI Contributes To US $37M FARM Programme Aimed At Reducing Pesticides And Plastics In Agriculture
- Origin Agritech Announces Breakthrough In High-Yield Corn Production Through Gene Editing
- Across Oceans And Millennia: Decoding The Origin And History Of The Bottle Gourd
- Advice On Weed Control In Winter Crops For The 2024 Season
- Cacao Plants' Defense Against Toxic Cadmium Unveiled
- Novel Method To Measure Root Depth May Lead To More Resilient Crops
- AWS And FieldAlytics By Ever.Ag: A New Frontier In AI-Enhanced Crop Management And Sustainability
- UMD Researchers Develop Genomic Method Of Monitoring For Pesticide Resistance
- Unique Interplay Between Plant Knowledge And Robotization For Innovations In Precision Fruit Cultivation
- Cracking The Pear Genome: How Students Helped Unlock A New Tool For The Pear Industry
- CABI Visit To Malaysia And Singapore Served To Strengthen Partnerships For Enhanced Food Security In Region
- Paraguay Issues Full Approval Of Oxitec's Friendly™ Fall Armyworm To Help Combat Growing Threat Of Pest Pressure On Crops, Food Security
- Rockefeller Foundation Calls For Boosting Underutilized Crops To Strengthen Africa’s Food And Nutrition Security
- Study Finds Maize Roots Adapt To Different Tillage Practices
- Lavie Bio And Ceres Global Ag Corp. Collaborate To Include Yalos™ Bio-Inoculant, In Regenerative Agriculture Initiatives In North America
- New Guide Tackling The Challenge Of Blueberry Rust
- High-Tunnel Organic Ginger: Response To Propagation Material, Fertilizer, And Prepropagation Rhizome
- FMC Corporation Expands Biologicals Crop Protection Platform In Canada
- New, Natural Weed Control Effective Against Most Challenging Herbicide Resistant Weeds
- Leading A New Chapter In International Cooperation On Wild Rice
- Cold Plasma Could Be Hot Stuff For Grain Growers, Say Researchers
- Muscaris Grapes: Molecular Secret Of Lychee Note Revealed
- Unifrutti Group Acquires Bomarea And AvoAmerica Peru To Further Strengthen Its Global Multi-Fruit Platform
- The Scent Of Resistance
- Source.ag Unveils Source Irrigation Control
- University Of Kentucky Study Finds 11 Bushel Higher Corn Yield With Pivot Bio Microbial Nitrogen
- NewLeaf Symbiotics Introduces New EPA-Registered Biocontrol Treatment To Repel Corn Rootworm At The Root
- Study Explains How A Fungus Can Control The Corn Leafhopper, An Extremely Harmful Pest
- Lucent Bio Expands To The US, EU And LATAM: Meeting Rising Sustainable Agri-Food System Demands With Climate-Smart Crop Input Solutions
- NEC And Sumitomo Corporation Sign Strategic Partnership Agreement To Expand Global Sales Of The CropScope Agricultural ICT Platform
- An Evolutionary Mystery 125 Million Years In The Making
- GreenVenus™ And Plant Research (NZ) LTD Partner To Develop Climate-Resilient Field Pea Varieties And Deliver Clean Protein Solutions For Human And Pet Food Markets
- Ross Announces Rebuilt Double Planetary Mixers For High Viscosity Applications
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging Shows How Infection Progresses In Strawberry Crown
- Pioneer Introduces New High-Yield, High-Performing Z-Series Soybeans
- Scientists Discover Why Ripe Fruit Is More Susceptible To Necrotrophic Pathogens Than Unripe Fruit
- Cyber-Physical Heating System May Protect Apple Blossoms In Orchards
- BIO-CAPSULE TECHNOLOGY™ ‘...Could Make Liquid Seed Treatment Obsolete.’
- Origin Agritech Announces Breakthrough In Corn Hybrid Development With Wild Corn Gene Integration
- CSIRO Breakthrough To Boost Disease Resistance In Crops
- Increasing Soil Salinity: New Discovery May Help Make Crops More Resilient
- Soil Increasingly Salty: New Discovery Can Help Make Crops More Resilient
- Targeting Seed Microbes To Improve Seed Resilience
- Twin City Foods, Inc. And Smith Frozen Foods, Inc. Announce Strategic Merger
- Ladybug Scents Offer A More Ecologically Friendly Way To Protect Crops
- US Gardeners Rush To Snap Up Purple Tomatoes Pioneered In Norfolk
- Endress+Hauser Is Developing Strongly
- Hydrothermal Model Predicts Russian Thistle Seedling Emergence
- AgPlenus Announces Licensing & Collaboration Agreement With Bayer To Develop A New Sustainable Weed Control Solution
- Syngenta And Lavie Bio Announce Partnership To Discover And Develop Novel Bio-Insecticide
- Intelinair Expands Digital Platform Connectivity For Farmers With CNH Integration
- Altering The Circadian Clock Adapts Barley To Short Growing Seasons
- Integral Farms Produce Inc. Enhances Tomato Production With Sollum's Dynamic Led Lighting
- Ag-tech Start-Up WeedOUT Raises USD8.1M To Fight Weed Resistance
- Potassium Depletion In Soil Threatens Global Crop Yields
- American Packaging Corporation Announces Another ‘Design For Recycle’ Package
- Researchers Present New Approach To Identify Key Regulatory Factors In Wheat Spike Development
- MIT Researchers Remotely Map Crops, Field By Field
- Using Written Records – And Tweets – As A Roadmap For Plant Disease Spread
- Scientists Identify Genetic Mechanism Responsible For Plant Leaf Diversity
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
PACK EXPO East offers free educational opportunities that enrich your knowledge of the latest industry advances and your exploration of the show floor.
Innovation Stage – Free 30-Minute Seminars
Conveniently located on the show floor, Innovation Stage is the site of educational talks on breakthrough technologies and techniques, presented by the industry’s leading companies.
Packaging Design Studio, Presented by Rutgers University’s Packaging Engineering Program
Rutgers is bringing the future of packaging to PACK EXPO East. See and interact with innovative packaging prototypes, automated loading and unloading systems and an automated, custom-order snack mix production machine—all designed by students of Rutgers University’s elite Packaging Engineering Program.
ISPE’s Conference Program: Manufacturing Solutions
The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE), a recognized leader in pharmaceutical information, brings a three-day program of technical sessions presenting best practices in manufacturing operations, new technologies and tools for regulating compliance, and advances in pharmacentric packaging. Attendees will gain a better understanding of packaging issues related to the prevention of drug shortages.
Topics include:
- Medical Device Assembly
- Filling Line Start-Up
- High Speed Packaging Line Inspection
- Improving Packaging Line Efficiency to Drug Safety
- Anti-Counterfeiting
The Education Pavilion
A convenient source of information on industry-related training, certificate and degree programs, the Education Pavilion is staffed by representatives from colleges and universities as well as PMMI, The Association for Processing and Packaging Technologies.
- eLearning – Convenient online courses cover the basics of plant operations
- Certified Trainer Program – This empowering “train-the-trainer” program is a valuable investment to make in someone on your staff.
- Mechatronics Certificate Test – Recognized by the U.S. Department of Labor, this series of assessments helps you advance your skills or those of your team.
- Risk Assessment – This two-day workshop covers all the basics and addresses important issues that PMMI members ask about most.
- PACK Pro Jobs – PMMI’s resource for processing and packaging careers is a great place to find or post job openings.
In-Booth Education – The Straight Scoop from Engineers
Many exhibitors offer in-depth demonstrations about their products, allowing you to make better buying decisions and better leverage the benefits of the technologies you own. These sessions are a major benefit of seeing vendors in person—you can’t get insight like this from salespeople over the phone!