CMM announces major enhancements to a re-energized CMM International 2005
NEW YORK, April 9, 2004 - Organizers of CMM International announced today major new enhancements to the converting industry's leading package printing event. Ranging from new process-focused pavilions and solution centers spread throughout the show floor to special pricing packages for exhibitors, these new enhancements are designed to provide greater value to attendees and exhibitors.
According to Ian Johnston, president of CMM and CEO of parent company Paperloop, CMM has been working very closely with its network of association and trade publication partners throughout the world to create new show features that provide real value and measurable solutions to converters. "We have spent the last several weeks talking with our strategic partners, the converting industry's leading authorities, to carefully re-evaluate CMM and develop plans for making a great event even better."
Based on these meetings and discussions with many exhibitors, CMM created a new direction and theme for the event entitled "Where the World of Converting Solutions Comes Together." This new theme reflects the many process-focused areas or "worlds' of converting/package printing that will be newly featured on the show floor. The theme also conveys the large international participation of exhibitors and attendees from more than two- dozen countries.
Some of the specific new enhancements include:
The World of Label & Carton Flexo Solutions - an FTA-sponsored pavilion and solutions theater that will serve as a "one-stop-shopping" oasis where converting professionals from around the world can experience what is new and innovative in the flexo marketplace.
The World of Metallizing, Coating and Laminating Solutions - an AIMCAL-sponsored pavilion and solutions center where association members can share their latest product and technology solutions with show attendees.
"Gravure - A World of Print Quality Solutions" - a PLGA-sponsored pavilion and solutions center where attendees can learn all that's new in the gravure marketplace.
"DFE World of Digital Workflow Solutions" - A special pavilion and solutions theater focused on computer-to-plate and other DFE topics.
A Consumer Packaging Conference designed to stimulate buying channel discussions among such leading companies as Procter & Gamble, Kraft, Wrigley, and Hershey, among others.
International pavilions representing several countries including Brazil, Finland and Italy.
A bi-weekly e-newsletter, CMM Marketplace Monitor, designed to keep the converting marketplace updated on the latest industry news and developments.
A new management team that brings a fresh perspective to re-energizing the industry's leading exposition and conference.
"We believe these enhancements will attract many new buying audiences to CMM 2005 while providing added value to long-time exhibitors and attendees," Johnston predicted. "The marketplace recognizes that we are the only event focused exclusively on converters and package printers."
Johnston said that some packaging and print shows are trying unsuccessfully to add converting components to their shows under the guise that an increasing number of their attendees are converters. "In truth, the packaging and printing shows attract large numbers of packagers and commercial printers. CMM is the only event that attracts thousands of dedicated converting professionals."
About CMM International
The biennial CMM International is the only converting-exclusive event where all the various converting segments come together under one roof. CMM International - scheduled for April 18-21, 2005 at Chicago's McCormick Place South - is recognized as the leading industry event, serving the worldwide converting marketplace from digital pre-press/workflow solutions to printing processes through to finishing. CMM is also the flagship of Paperloop's converting/package printing events. For more information, contact Ronni Potosky, director of marketing, at 212.268.4160, fax: 212.268.4178.