A launch pad for packaging and processing breakthroughs, the biennial occasion has skilled important growth and affect.
Herndon, Virginia; July 21, 2025 – PACK EXPO Las Vegas, one in every of North America’s most complete packaging and processing occasions is celebrating a milestone: 2025 marks 30 years for the reason that present’s debut. In the present day, PACK EXPO Las Vegas continues to be a world hub for business innovation and collaboration.
Present producer PMMI, The Affiliation for Packaging and Processing Applied sciences, has elevated PACK EXPO Las Vegas from a regional commerce present to a world business pressure—increasing its scale, affect, and relevance throughout worldwide markets. This 12 months, the present will span over 1 million internet sq. toes, function 2,300 exhibitors, and expects to draw 35,000 attendees from greater than 40 vertical markets.
“PACK EXPO Las Vegas has all the time been greater than a commerce present—it is the place the way forward for packaging and processing takes form,” says Jim Pittas, president and CEO, PMMI. “For 30 years, we have been proud to drive innovation, foster collaboration, and highlight the applied sciences shaping tomorrow’s provide chains. As we glance forward, we stay targeted on the forces remodeling our business: automation, AI, sustainability, and workforce growth.”
Since its launch in 1995, every present version has launched cutting-edge applied sciences, from the earliest automation options to right this moment’s advances in AI, robotics, and sustainable packaging options. PACK EXPO Las Vegas has been on the forefront of improvements over the previous 30 years, and continues to evolve just like the business it serves. For instance:
• In 2015, the present introduced a brand new give attention to pharmaceutical and medical machine manufacturing, finally rising into right this moment’s Healthcare Packaging Pavilion and highlighting the present’s diversification into specialised sectors.
• The rising demand for logistics options, pushed by the surge in e-commerce and provide chain complexities, led to the introduction of the Logistics Pavilion in 2023.
• The Processing Zone, that includes front-of-the-line options, and the Processing Innovation Stage, have been added to offer every part meals and beverage producers want to enhance manufacturing, multi function place.
• Las Vegas has change into a vacation spot the place your complete business converges, due to the addition of the Trade Speaks studying stage, the place thought leaders from the PACK EXPO Las Vegas Companion Program present precious insights and assets to their friends.
• Sustainability Central debuted in 2023 and has advanced right into a must-visit present ground vacation spot with academic classes overlaying sustainability, probably the most multifaceted challenges the packaging and processing business faces right this moment. Professional-led classes will assist attendees navigate the complexities of this subject and what it means for his or her manufacturers.
Additionally, in 2025, two new guided present ground excursions will provide attendees curated experiences. The PACK EXPO Discovery Excursions, sponsored by Formic, are perfect for first-time consumers and senior-level decision-makers in search of automation options to streamline and optimize numerous levels of packaging and processing. The PACK EXPO Sustainability Tour, sponsored by Anchor Packaging, is tailor-made for shopper packaged items (CPG) model homeowners searching for eco-conscious options.
PMMI will proudly honor the PMMI Member Corporations that have been a part of the inaugural 1995 present and proceed to exhibit right this moment by highlighting every firm with a particular PMMI legacy member exhibitor placard of their cubicles. An entire checklist of those members may be discovered right here. Their help has helped form the legacy of innovation and excellence that defines this business and the continued development of PACK EXPO Las Vegas.
Past the reveals, PACK EXPO Las Vegas gives greater than 100 free academic classes on the present ground and eight specialty pavilions overlaying healthcare, confectionery, containers and supplies, processing, logistics, schooling and workforce growth, business affiliation companions, and reusable packaging.
“Because the business accelerates towards smarter, extra sustainable operations, PACK EXPO Las Vegas stays the one place the place all of it comes collectively—expertise, perception, and neighborhood. This 12 months’s present displays the momentum we’re seeing throughout the market, with document participation and unmatched alternatives to study, join, and develop,” says Laura Thompson, vp, commerce reveals, PMMI.
The present can be a main alternative to construct relationships that drive enterprise development. From focused occasions to unforgettable experiences, the present brings individuals collectively throughout all ranges of the business. Attendees can take pleasure in a non-public Cirque du Soleil® efficiency of Mystère at PACK offers BACK™, sponsored by Rockwell Automation, supporting the PMMI Basis. Be part of the Packaging & Processing Girls’s Management Community Breakfast—backed by Gold Sponsors ProMach, Inc. and Morrison Container Dealing with Options, plus Plexpack, SMC, Smurfit Westrock, Emerson, BW Packaging, Septimatech, and PMMI Benefactor Sponsor Schneider Electrical. This inspiring breakfast is for anybody who seeks to attach with like-minded professionals and helps the development of ladies within the business. Future leaders in packaging and processing can join with their friends and different business trailblazers on the Younger Professionals Networking Reception, sponsored by Beckhoff Automation, on the Cove Bar & Arcade. Newcomers additionally profit from the First-Time Attendee Lounge, sponsored by ProMach, Inc., a devoted house providing steering and networking, guaranteeing everybody leaves with precious connections. Extra networking and particular occasions may be discovered right here.
Attendee registration for PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2025 is open at packexpolasvegas.com. Registration is $30 by means of Sept. 5, after which the worth will increase to $130.
About PMMI
PMMI, The Affiliation for Packaging and Processing Applied sciences, represents greater than 1,000 producers and suppliers of kit, parts, and supplies in addition to suppliers of associated tools and providers to the packaging and processing business. We work to advance a wide range of industries by connecting shopper items firms with manufacturing options by means of the world-class PACK EXPO portfolio of commerce reveals, main commerce media, and a variety of assets to empower our members. The PACK EXPO commerce reveals unite the world of packaging and processing to advance the industries they serve: PACK EXPO Worldwide, PACK EXPO Las Vegas, PACK EXPO East, PACK EXPO Southeast, EXPO PACK México, and EXPO PACK Guadalajara. PMMI Media Group connects producers to the most recent options, developments and improvements in packaging and processing year-round by means of manufacturers together with Packaging World, ProFood World, Healthcare Packaging, OEM, Contract Manufacturing and Packaging, and Mundo EXPO PACK. PMMI Enterprise Drivers help members in pursuing operational excellence by means of workforce growth initiatives, ship actionable enterprise intelligence on financial, market, and business developments to help members’ development methods, and actively join the availability chain all year long.
Study extra at pmmi.org and packexpo.com and pmmimediagroup.com.
