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44 September 2019 Tablets & Capsules Pack Expo Las Vegas—a trade show focused on the latest advances in packaging equipment, materials, and containers—will take place Sep- tember 23 to 25 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The show is co-located with Healthcare Packag- ing Expo, and organizers expect more than 30,000 attendees and 2,000 suppliers from the pharmaceu- tical, medical device, and food and beverage industries. New to the show This year's show debuts new attractions, including a robotics zone, an interactive learning program called The Forum, and a package printing pavilion. The robotics zone showcases the latest robotic technology and fea- tures interactive demonstrations such as Siemens' demo of its vision- based artificial intelligence unit for automating flexible packaging. Visi- tors can select objects to pack from an unsorted pile and watch as the robot detects and transfers the objects to a container. T h e F o r u m h o s t s 4 5 - m i n u t e hands-on activities, small group dis- cussions, and question-and-answer sessions. These short seminars explore a range of topics, including understanding and calculating over- all equipment effectiveness, packag- ing design for enhanced consumer experience, standardizing factory acceptance test procedures, and best practices for education and workforce development. The Package Printing Pavilion focuses on the advantages of digital printing for folding cartons, flexibles, and corrugated packaging. Demon- strations at the pavilion highlight cost-effective solutions for smart, short-run, on-demand, cost-effective, variable-data, and personalized pack- aging as well as labeling, coding, and marking technologies. Education Additional educational sessions will be available at the Innovation Stage where suppliers will present 30-minute seminars during the 3-day conference and expo. No registration is required for these free educational opportunities on the show floor. Topics include packaging automa- tion, recyclable packaging, sealing and thermoforming, branding, sus- tainable packaging, compostable hot melt adhesives, sanitary designs for process systems, package line optimi- zation, and regulations. T&C Pack Expo Las Vegas a preview Packaging show to debut robotics packaging zone Partial Exhibitors List The following companies and organizations are among those exhibiting at Pack Expo Las Vegas. For a complete, updated list, visit www.packexpolasvegas.com. Company Booth AZO US-7614 Bilcare Research N-430 Bosch Packaging Technology C-2800 Capmatic C-1528 Colorcon US-8446 Coperion K-Tron US-7422 Countec N-321 Deitz LS-5802 Dow LS-6584, 6585 Eriez LS-5901 Fette Compacting America N-215D Flexible Packaging Association C-1341 Frewett USA US-7879 Harro Hofliger N-215C Hosokawa Yoko America LS-6572 IMA North America C-3200 Kaps-All Packaging Systems C-2634 Kason US-7779