WestPack 2007 rustles up packaging

The main packaging event in Anaheim's Convention Center, Feb. 13 to 15, offers packaging machinery, containers, materials, a medical conference and a new contract-packaging/oursourcing pavilion.

-- Packaging Digest, 1/1/2007

WestPack 2007 will welcome more than 350 suppliers of packaging equipment, materials and services representing industries such as food/beverage, medical/pharmaceutical, personal care/cosmetics, electronics/IT, consumer goods, printing and industrial products at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA.

Four special-focus pavilions include Pharmaceutical and Nutraceutical Packaging, Cosmetic and Personal Care Packaging, Material Handling and Logistics and a new Contract Packaging and Outsourcing Services pavilion. The show co-locates with five other events: Automation Technology Expo West, PLASTEC West, Pacific Design & Manufacturing, MD&M West and Electronics West. A medical device packaging conference provides an updated training track offered at the co-located MD&M West Conference. The cost before Jan. 13, for a one-day session is $595 and $695 after Jan. 13. To register for the conference, go to the WestPack show homepage, find the MD&M West website and click on the "conferences" info channel, or call 310/996-9413.

WestPack is organized by Canon Communications. The show hours on Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 13 and 14, 2007, are from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Hall E opens at 9:30 a.m. and at 10 to 4 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 15 (again, Hall E opens at 9:30 a.m.). Show registration opens at 8 a.m. the first two days and at 9 a.m. on Thursday. For a complete listing of exhibitors and to register for WestPack, visit www.westpackshow.com.

The exhibitors listed below have a marketing message in this issue:

• All Packaging Machinery Corp.—5535
• Bell-Mark Corp.—5401
• Diagraph Corp., an ITW co.—4501
• Leibinger—5601
• Multivac—5301
• NJM/CLI Packaging Systems—5001
• Norden Packaging Corp.—5333
• Pearson Packaging Systems—4975
• Placon Corp.—454
• Pliant Corp.—874
• Quadrel Labeling Systems—5557
• Quick Label Systems—5425
• Rose Plastic USA—2244
• Tri-Tronics Co.—4321