CPA has strong presence at Packaging Summit Expo and Conference
In its third year, the Packaging Summit Expo and Conference has developed into the premier venue for packagers to connect with contract packaging and services providers while participating in educational conference sessions with leading packaging professionals. CPA's presence at the Packaging Summit this year (May 15-17 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois) was a powerful one - from representing the opening ribbon cutting ceremony (truly a global event with World Packaging Organisation leaders present) to heading up one of the conference's most popular roundtables - "Driving Innovation...with Contract Packaging Resources" - with more than 200 attending the session on May 17.
The roundtable analyzed and examined the following contract packaging "hot buttons":
- the role contract packaging plays in new package initiatives
- recruiting the contract packager onto the multi-disciplinary team
- communication to cut development time and costs
Roundtable participants included:
- Moderator: Terry Bedell, President, TAB Associates
- Todd Jones, External Manufacturing Manager, Miller Brewing Co.
- John Mazelin, Business Development Director, Packaging Unlimited
- Mark Hancock, Manager of Packaging Procurement & Graphics, Brach's Confections, Inc.
- Todd Rogers, External Manufacturing Manager, North America, Alberto Culver
- George Hill, Research Principal, The Scotts Company
Other contract packaging sessions at the Packaging Summit tackled such matters as packaging innovation, sustainability, growing partnerships, sourcing in the Far East, and more. Representatives from Miller Brewing, the Scotts Company, Alberto Culver, and others were at the forefront of all the contract packaging sessions.
The Packaging Summit Expo and Conference for 2008 is scheduled for May 13-15 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, IL.
