Chicago's McCormick Place will host an unprecedented expo
combination with Graph Expo 15 running September 13 through 16, 2015 in the
South Hall with the co-located CPP Expo show, and Process Expo running
September 15 through 18 in the North and East Halls. With trending industry
issues and innovations related to food packaging design, migration, and
expiration, the concurrent events will offer a first-of-its-kind opportunity
for printers, packagers, processors, and converters to intermingle and explore
the global scope of these vital facets of the graphic communications and packaging/processing
industries. During the two-day overlap, attendees at either event will have
all-access admission to the exhibit halls for all events.
"Industry convergence has been a hot topic and driving
force for many years," said Graphic Arts Show Company (GASC) President
Ralph Nappi. " Graph Expo and the co-located CPP Expo are geared to the
graphic communications and packaging industry segments while Process Expo and
the co-located International Dairy Show and InterBev Process shows are targeted
at processing and packaging innovations in the food, dairy, and beverage
industries. For the first time, processing, packaging, printing, and converting
will all converge in one location."
Billed as "The Global Food Equipment and Technology
Show," Process Expo is owned and organized by the Food Processing
Suppliers Association (FPSA), a global trade association serving suppliers in
the food and beverage industries. Show co-location partners include InterBev
Process, a capital goods trade show event covering the entire beverage industry
value creation chain, and the International Dairy Show, owned and organized by
the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA), which features packing,
processing, technology, ingredients and distribution solutions for the global dairy.
" Process Expo, together with our show partners, is the
Western Hemisphere's leading food and beverage technology event,"
according to David Seckman, President and CEO of the Food Processing Suppliers
Association. "With over 1,000 exhibiting companies included in the joint Process
Expo, InterBev Process, and International Dairy Show, attendees will see the
latest innovations for the ever-changing food, dairy, and beverage
industries."
"We are delighted to come together with Graph Expo and
our show partners to offer unique all-access admission this fall," said
Neil Moran, IDFA senior vice president, finance, administration and trade show.
"We are looking forward to an exciting 2015 event, packed with innovation
and this is just one more opportunity for our exhibitors to showcase their
products and solutions to an even larger audience."
Graph Expo is operated by GASC and is recognized as the most
innovative and comprehensive exhibition in the Americas of digital, offset,
inkjet, flexo, gravure and hybrid technologies, products, and services for the
commercial, transactional, converting and package printing, publishing,
mailing, in-plant, photo imaging, marketing and industrial printing industries.
The co-located CPP Expo serves the converting and packaging materials industry
segment.
