Julie Ackerman, Senior Director of PR and Communications at PMMI — the association for packaging and process technologies — spent some time at the Life Science Connect/Food Online radio booth at PACK EXPO 2014. Here, Ackerman discusses the record attendance at this year’s PACK EXPO, a 20 percent increase over the next highest year’s attendance. She also discusses this year’s Pharma EXPO — 2014 is the first year the stand-alone event combined with PACK EXPO.