Firms like Dow, Amazon, Clorox, Nestle, Dr. Bronner’s, WestRock, and Conagra will share greatest practices on the new Sustainability Central exhibit
Herndon, Va.; June 25, 2024 — This 12 months’s largest packaging and processing present, PACK EXPO Worldwide 2024 (Nov. 3-6, McCormick Place, Chicago), will highlight sustainability with new and expanded present assets to assist manufacturers reduce vitality consumption, reduce waste, and cut back total carbon footprint.
Making its PACK EXPO Worldwide debut, Sustainability Central will discover packaging sustainability and what it means to manufacturers. This present flooring vacation spot will embrace professional audio system and a have a look at actionable, sustainable options in manufacturing, supplies, restoration, logistics, analytics, and design. With over 20 academic classes at Sustainability Central, attendees can achieve crucial insights on varied very important subjects from consultants at Amazon, Conagra, Clorox, Dow, Nestle, the Client Manufacturers Affiliation, Conagra, and different main business gamers.
Moreover, Sustainability Central will function shows from Virginia Tech, the College of Florida, Clemson College, PMMI Enterprise Intelligence, and AMERIPEN amongst others, sharing their newest planet-friendly improvements, analysis, and greatest practices.
For attendees seeking to see sustainability-enhancing options in motion, present producer PMMI, The Affiliation for Packaging and Processing Applied sciences, is increasing assets to assist the anticipated 45,000 attendees effectively navigate the present’s 2,500 suppliers stretched over 1.3 million web sq. toes of exhibition area.
• For superior on-line planning, attendees can use the Sustainability Options Finder, a professionally vetted and searchable instrument, to find exhibitors with environmentally pleasant merchandise and equipment. The instrument goes dwell in late July, and a kiosk may even be positioned in Sustainability Central. • On-site, attendees can search for the PACK EXPO Inexperienced icon to determine sustainable supplies and equipment suppliers and academic classes centered on sustainability. A whole listing of present PACK EXPO Inexperienced exhibitors could be discovered within the on-line exhibitor listing.
“We have deliberately partnered with corporations, exhibitors, and distributors to combine sustainability into each element of PACK EXPO Worldwide, together with academic programming, present options, and the way we do enterprise as the most important packaging and processing occasion this 12 months,” says Laura Thompson, PMMI’s vp of Commerce Exhibits.
Along with the brand new and expanded schooling and present navigation assets, attendees can count on the return of acquainted options and initiatives to help their eco-conscious efforts:
• Sustainability centered academic classes additionally will happen on the Innovation Stage, Processing Innovation Stage, and Trade Speaks. • The Reusable Packaging Pavilion will function Reusable Packaging Affiliation member corporations demonstrating sustainable packaging options to assist cut back waste, reduce prices, and achieve provide chain effectivity. Attendees can discover reusable transport packaging services and see progressive reuse options. • Sponsored by WestRock, The Showcase of Packaging Improvements®, positioned throughout the Containers and Supplies Pavilion, will show award-winning packaging from all over the world.
Moreover, PMMI is working with Dow, the Official Sustainability Associate and the Official Sponsor of Present Flooring Recycling at PACK EXPO Worldwide, to reduce the environmental impression of the occasion to divert as a lot waste as attainable from landfills. PMMI can be proud to host PACK EXPO Worldwide 2024 at McCormick Place, which has been acknowledged by unbiased third-party organizations comparable to LEED, APEX, Inexperienced Seal, and the U.S. Environmental Safety Company for its progressive methods to scale back its carbon footprint.
Be taught extra about PACK EXPO Worldwide’s Sustainability Dedication right here. Register for the present at packexpointernational.com.