The event boasts 30,000 attendees, including 5,000 international visitors from more than 125 coutnries, combined with 2,000-plus exhibiting companies spanning 800,000 sq. ft.
And this year, they even have machines talking to themselves. It’s dubbed Industry 4.0. As Wikipedia explains, “Industry 4.0 is the current trend of automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies. It includes cyber-physical systems, the Internet of things and cloud computing.”
In 1992, Peter Tanis officially started Tanis Food Tec after having spent a decade working as a sales manager for Mondomix. By doing so he became a second-generation entrepreneur in continuous food processing.
Thermal management is crucial to processing, storing and delivering several types of snacks and baked goods. The latest systems cover a wide range of functions, including chilling dough, cooling product after exiting the oven, and refrigerating or freezing finished product. Specialized cold storage facilities also are part of the mix.
PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, owner and producer of the PACK EXPO tradeshows, and the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) are partnering to bring the PMMI–PACK EXPO Possibilities in Packaging Pavilion to FMI Connect 2014, to be held June 10-13 at McCormick Place in Chicago.