EXHIBITION PREVIEW FEATURE
and place solutions on the market on stand C50. Six different pick and place systems will demonstrate the various ways to handle a variety of unpackaged and packaged FMCG goods. As well as Pacepacker’s own equipment, robot technology from FANUC and Festo will also be on show.
SPEAKERS Several high profile seminar speakers have already been announced, including former cabinet minister, politician and journalist Michael Portillo (pictured on page 13), who will provide this year’s opening address and discuss the resurgence of British manufacturing and its role in rebalancing the economy. Following on from this, Portillo will take to the show’s floor to speak with exhibitors and further discuss the points covered in his address. Also announced for the opening day of the exhibition, Christine Tacon, the government’s first appointed supermarket ombudsman, is set to steal the spotlight with a combative talk on the UK’s leading supermarkets. The seminar session, which begins at 11.00am, will not only shine a light on Tacon’s work with the UK’s largest supermarkets, but demonstrate her aim to work with associations like the PPMA to help encourage feedback from suppliers, whether it’s personal, anonymous or through a trade association. Further details on this presentation can be seen on page 13. Further speakers for the 2014 PPMA seminar programme include Craig
Mochrie from Morrison Bowmore and Martin Dallas from Essentra Packaging, who join the line-up on the first day to deliver exclusive presentations on real time management information systems and creative packaging technologies. On the second day, Ian Barnett from Coca-Cola Enterprises and Kevin Vyse from Marks & Spencer will talk about sustainability and consumer packaging. Finally, attendees visiting the show on the last day can join Peter
Hooper from Wykes Farms who will explain how to optimise automation investments in the food and drink industry, while Mark Elderkin from The Good Whey Company, will speak about the role packaging plays in supporting brand proposition. Richard Little, chairman for the PPMA Group, added, “For over 25 years
the PPMA Show has brought together buyers and sellers at one of the most visually dynamic exhibitions of the very latest processing and packaging innovations. My company, Jenton International, has exhibited and substantially benefited from every PPMA Show since its inception in 1988, so I’m talking from experience when I say it’s a great forum in which to meet the industry, see both existing and new customers, develop relationships and carry out business. I very much look forward to welcoming visitors to the PPMA Show 2014.” More detailed information on some of The PPMA Show’s key exhibitors
can be found on page 18, while previews for the other shows (The Machine Building Show and Sensors & Instrumentation ), can be found on pages 18 and 20 respectively.
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