For years, female executives have come away from women-only leadership programs empowered to do—and ask for—more, valuing the opportunity to examine their strengths and shortcomings in the psychological safety of their peers and to use the experience as a springboard for personal development.

But organizations…

In 2018, women who were full-time wage and salary workers had median usual weekly earnings that were 81% of the earnings of male full-time wage and salary workers, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. So here we are in 2020, and women in corporate America still face a gender wage gap, making 79 cents for every…

Educational opportunities at PACK EXPO East (March 3-5; Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia) will address the workforce crisis by showcasing potential careers, hosting an entry-level career fair and offering classroom training to upskill current workers, according to show producer PMMI, The Association for…

Professionals from leading consumer product goods companies, retailers, suppliers and other organizations aligned to the packaging and processing industry will select award winners for the Packaging & Processing Hall of Fame, Class of 2020. This award, instituted in 1971, is the top honor a packaging or processing…

Five students received $4,000 scholarships from the 2019 Fall PMMI Scholarship in Memorial of Claude S. Breeden, Glenn Davis and Art Schaefer, according to PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies.

Qualifying for the scholarship requires students of two-year programs at a PMMI Partner…

The PMMI Foundation, in cooperation with the Garvey Corporation, has selected Purdue University Northwest as the recipient of this year’s $5,000 Mark C. Garvey Scholarship. PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, supports packaging education at U.S. colleges, universities and technical schools…

PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies’ membership reached new heights at its Annual Meeting (Nov. 4-6; Cincinnati), welcoming 41 new members and bringing active membership to 927.

“Our members are at the heart of everything we do. We continue to expand our resources to keep pace with…

The explosion of e-commerce in the last decade has caused consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies to rethink day-to-day processes across their entire enterprise, according to the Omnichannel Retail - Operating Harmoniously in an Integrated Digitally Enabled Supply Chain white paper from PMMI, The Association for…

With the demand for packaging machinery growing an average of nearly five percent over the past five years and imports supplying nearly 85 percent of packaging machinery demand, the Mexican market remains a viable export target and exhibiting at EXPO PACK México 2020 (June 2-5, 2020, Expo Santa Fe México) is a critical…

PACK gives BACK™, sponsored by Rockwell Automation, raised over $30,000 at this year’s PACK EXPO Las Vegas and Healthcare Packaging EXPO (Sept. 23-25, 2019, Las Vegas Convention Center) owned and produced by PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies.

Each year, PACK EXPO hosts its…