EXPO PACK Mexico booth space sales 15% ahead of 2013
Mexican manufacturers are the second-largest importers of U.S. packaging and processing machinery, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Quarterly Import/Export Statistics for Sept. 2013. The report notes changes of 15.79% (increasing to $48 million) for processing equipment and 10.43% for packaging machinery (increasing to $115 million) since the same period in 2012.
“By the end of the third quarter 2013, Mexico was second only to Canada in imports of U.S. packaging and processing machinery,” says Enrique Guzman, director of the Latin America office of PMMI (pmmi.org), The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, the owner and producer of EXPO PACK México 2014 (Centro Banamex, Mexico City; June 17–20).