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Stories from Pack Expo International 2024

At the largest Pack Expo event ever held, Packaging Dive connected with manufacturers, brands and trade groups for insight on the latest industry trends.

Published Nov. 8, 2024 • Updated Nov. 11, 2024
By Packaging Dive Staff
Hundreds of people in a convention center
More than 48,000 attendees filled Chicago's McCormick Place for Pack Expo International from Nov. 3-6, 2024. Event producer PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, said this was the largest Pack Expo event ever held. Katie Pyzyk/Packaging Dive

Pack Expo International proved to be massive, with host PMMI reporting it was the largest Pack Expo event ever held.

A total of 77,500 people — 48,000 attendees and 29,500 exhibitor personnel — packed the halls at Chicago’s McCormick Place from Nov. 3-6. Some themes that emerged at educational sessions, on the exhibition floors and during networking discussions included labor shortage challenges, automation, sustainability and upcoming extended producer responsibility regulations.

Packaging Dive connected with manufacturers, brands and trade groups for insight on the latest industry trends.

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  • Close-up shot of a food container with film that says recyclable.
    Image attribution tooltip
    K Neville via Getty Images
    Image attribution tooltip
    Deep Dive

    Hush-hush: Is greenwashing pushback prompting pivot to ‘greenhushing’?

    Companies must focus on data to back their sustainability claims instead of resorting to silence, or exaggerations, said sources from groups such as the U.S. Plastics Pact, Glass Packaging Institute and McCormick & Co.

    By Katie Pyzyk • Oct. 3, 2024
  • Stacks of cardboard boxes in a logistics center
    Image attribution tooltip
    Rost-9D via Getty Images
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    Is the fiber packaging M&A surge done? Probably not.

    M&A activity is expected to influence companies’ commercial approaches for the next five to 10 years, according to conference speakers from Wells Fargo, Bloomberg and Hudson Windsor.

    By Katie Pyzyk • Oct. 28, 2024
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