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Article: Exhibitors court budget-minded show-goers.
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- Plastics News
- Article date:
- December 8, 2008
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Byline: Dan Hockensmith
Despite a slight drop in attendance, the packaging industry executives gathered at Pack Expo 2008 were, in the words of one exhibitor, "aggressively window shopping,'' amid fears the U.S. would enter 2009 in a full-blown recession.
"[Companies are] always looking for efficiency anything they can get to increase productivity and value,'' said James Anderson, chairman of the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute. Alexandria, Va.-based PMMI sponsored the biennial show, which drew about 44,000 attendees, roughly 3 percent less than in 2006. About 2,000 packaging companies bought space at the event, according to PMMI. The show ...