CPP Expo Show Planner 2007

The fledgling Converting & Package Printing Expo moves into its third year bigger and with more to offer industry attendees. Organized by H.A. Bruno LLC (www.cppexpo.com), CPP Expo 2007 returns to Las Vegas Oct. 15-17, co-located at the Las Vegas Convention Ctr. with Pack Expo Las Vegas 2007.

Along with the more than 100 CPP Expo-specific exhibitors displaying printing presses/processes, components, inspection systems, web controls, slitter/rewinders, finishing equipment, substrates, materials, inks, coatings, RFID and packaging-design solutions, about 100 more converting and package-printing suppliers will be located throughout the Pack Expo Las Vegas sections of the combined shows.

Once again, a special pavilion sponsored by the Ft. Mill, SC-based Assn. of Industrial Metallizers, Coaters & Laminators (www.aimcal.org) will be a highlight of CPP Expo. As of presstime, that group included Adhesives Research, Celpast Metallized Products, Extrusion Dies, Filmquest, M&J Polyex, PBI-Dansensor America, Rayven, Royal Adhesives, Terphane, Inc., Unifoil Corp., Vacumet Corp., VAST Films, Ltd., and Worthen Industries.

The third running of CPP Expo benefits from association participation beyond AIMCAL and previous sponsors such as the Assn. of Independent Corrugated Converters, the Converting Equipment Manufacturers Assn., the Flexible Packaging Assn. and the Packaging & Label Gravure Assn.-Global. At the 2007 show, the Gravure Assn. of America will have its member companies featured in Pack Expo's Showcase of Packaging Innovations, and ACIMGA (Italian Manufacturers' Association for the Graphic, Converting and Paper Industry) will work with show management on an Italian pavilion for the 2008 event.

More than 900 industry professionals attended the 40+ sessions at the co-located expositions' conference program in 2005. This year, 20 converting-specific sessions are planned for CPP Expo. (See box on p. 46 for pricing.)

Monday, Oct. 15:

Emerging Flexographic Plate Technologies by Paul Lancelle, vice president of technical development for Green Bay Engraving; Plate Mounting Solutions that Produce Quick ROI by Jan Willem Boers, managing director of Polymount Intl. BV; If the Horse You Are Riding is Dead… by Jim Coddington of BHS Printing Machinery; Evaluating and Selecting an MIS/ERP System for Packaging by Glyn Slack, business development director of Radius Solutions; Selecting the Correct Coater for Atmospheric Coatings by Lee A. Ostness, product manager, coating and drying systems for Davis-Standard LLC; How to Automate and Secure the Printing Workflow Process by Ralph Tesson, vice president of sales and marketing for Global Vision; Predictive Maintenance: A New Tool for the Converting Industry by Lee Feeney, chief executive officer, and Joan Round, director of Sigmala Ltd., and David Brown, Institute of Industrial Research, University of Portsmouth; and A New Level of Productivitiy with High Vacuum R2R Coaters for Packaging Film by Andreas Weis, director of web business unit for Applied Materials.

Tuesday, Oct. 16:

Upgrading and Modernizing Your Coating Equipment Part 1: A Cost-Effective Alternative to a New Coating Line by John A. Pasquale III, senior vice president of New Era Converting Machinery, Inc.; Upgrading and Modernizing Your Coating Equipment Part 2: Modernizing Your Existing Drying Systems by Dan Bemi, regional sales manager for MEGTEC Systems; Upgrading and Modernizing Your Coating Equipment Part 3: Drives and Controls Modernization by Michael Murphy, vice president of sales and marketing for Circonix Technologies; Upgrading and Modernizing Your Coating Equipment Part 4: Online Gauging for Coating Processes by Ted Schnackertz, strategic accounts specialist for NDC Infrared Engineering; Maximizing Converter Profits—Recent Advances in Surface Treatment Technology by Rory A. Wolf, vice president of business development for Enercon Industries; Web Coating—The UV Solution by Erich Midlik, vice president of sales for Prime UV Systems; Adhesion Promotion Using Flame-Plasma Surface Treatment by Joe Digiacomo of Flynn Burner Corp.; and Expanding Packaging Applications Using Electron-Beam Technology by Richard Sanders, sales and marketing for Energy Sciences, Inc.

Wednesday, Oct. 17:

Focus for Profits in Converting & Package Printing by Mike Burns, global business director-polyethylene for Resin Technology, Inc.; New Coating Technology for Improved Ink Release and Reduced Plugging by Steven Wilkinson of ARC Intl.; The Printer and the Human Factor: Pumping Solutions for Flexo & Gravure Printers by Bill Matson, sales manager for Powerwise Ink Pumps; and Increase Profits by Aligning Your Assets by Richard Henry, vice president of Advanced Maintenance Solutions, Inc.