PACK EXPO Special Coverage

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PACK EXPO logo

Date:

October 18 – 21, 2026

Location:

McCormick Place,
2301 S Martin Luther King Dr
Chicago, Illinois 60616

Website:

www.packexpointernational.com/

Whether your next frontier is building a line or automating it, scaling up e-commerce, sustainability, or refining your supply chain, you'll find cutting-edge ways to improve every aspect of production at PACK EXPO. Come to see, hear, touch and discuss the solutions and innovations shaping the future of packaging and processing.

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