2023 Agenda
Wednesday, April 12, 2023
5:00 pm
7:30 pm
Registration Open
Oneida Gate Lobby
5:30 pm
7:30 pm
Welcome Reception
Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame
Meet the editorial staff and mingle with industry peers!
Thursday, April 13, 2023
6:00 am
8:30 am
Exhibitor Set-Up
Atrium, 4th Floor Lobby and Legends Room
7:00 am
3:30 pm
Show Floor Beverages
Atrium, 4th Floor Lobby and Legends Room
7:00 am
8:30 am
Exhibitor Breakfast
Atrium, 4th Floor
8:00 am
3:30 pm
Registration Open
Oneida Gate Lobby
Attendees will not have access to show floor before 9:00 am
9:00 am
3:30 pm
EXPO IS OPEN
Atrium, 4th Floor Lobby and Legends Room
9:30 am
9:50 am
VENDOR EDUCATION SESSION
Re-imagining Leadership: How to Retain the Employees You Have
10:00 am
10:20 am
VENDOR EDUCATION SESSION
Digital Transformation: Using MapleSim modeling and simulation to transform your R2R development process
Discover how designers of R2R systems are turning to simulation and modeling techniques to transform their machine development and improve the performance and quality of the web line operations. In this presentation, the Maplesoft team will show how virtual models of the production systems can be created in MapleSim and used as part of digital transformation initiatives to speed up the design and development of web handling equipment. Covering a series of use-cases across web handling, laminating and converting, we will share how MapleSim simulations can be used to identify zones with slippage, troubleshoot production web issues, explore control strategies, and improve web tension management.
10:30 am
10:50 am
VENDOR EDUCATION SESSION
Integrated solutions for recycle-ready high barrier packaging
Overcoming the technical complexities of developing and manufacturing sustainable high barrier flexible packaging that is recycle-ready is a major challenge, even more so since the market looks for new solutions with the right barrier performances to replace the multi-material non-recyclable packaging.
With oneBARRIER, BOBST has undertaken a design and testing project that is creating industrially viable recycle-ready mono-material ultra-high and high barrier duplex and triplex substrates for packaging designers as alternatives to non-recyclable metallized polyester film. Developed with leading industry partners, the family of BOBST oneBARRIER sustainable solutions to date includes PrimeCycle, comprising EVOH and topcoat-free transparent AlOx-based or opaque AluBond-based full PE mono-substrates, and FibreCycle, a mono-material high-barrier paper-based structure coated with functional layers that can be recycled in the existing paper stream.
11:00 am
11:20 am
VENDOR EDUCATION SESSION
Keep your presses running profitably with 3M™ Flexographic Mounting Tapes
11:30 am
11:50 am
VENDOR EDUCATION SESSION
UV Curing Offsets Rising Energy Costs
Corporate net zero pledges, disproportionate investments in renewable power generation at the expense of hydrocarbon and nuclear power generation, and growing electricity demand that outpaces planned increases in supply are stressing an already strained electrical grid. Over the next decade, the resulting impact on manufacturers will be steadily rising electricity costs and more frequent rolling blackouts. Conventional UV curing and especially UV LED curing offers manufacturers a way to offset rising energy costs.
12:00 pm
2:00 pm
Networking Luncheon
North Balcony
1:00 pm
1:20 pm
VENDOR EDUCATION SESSION
Drive and Controls Upgrades
Upgrading your aging machinery can be the biggest bang for your buck in driving productivity, reliability, and profitability. Come learn about MWES’s 3-step decision making process, some design considerations, and some non-obvious benefits of controls upgrades.
2:00 pm
2:20 pm
VENDOR EDUCATION SESSION
Delta ModTech; Reliable Modularity
From tight tolerance die cutting to unique pouching requirements, Our machines are engineered for your toughest challenge. But beyond the transaction, Delta ModTech is able to coordinate ideas, expertise, and resources to usher in new, innovative solutions for your projects quickly and successfully. Learn how Delta ModTech's modular design can give you the results you want while maintaining reliability, tight tolerances, and providing the latest technology.
2:30 pm
3:30 pm
Happy Hour
Atrium, 4th Floor
3:30 pm
5:00 pm
Exhibitor Teardown and Load-Out