PACK EXPO International 2026 at a Glance
PACK EXPO International returns to Chicago from October 18–21, 2026, bringing together the packaging and processing community for four days of machinery, materials, automation, production technology and business conversations.
Event Dates
October 18–21, 2026
Location
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Core Market
Packaging & Processing Technology
Business Audience
Manufacturers, Suppliers & Decision-Makers
What Is PACK EXPO International 2026?
PACK EXPO International is a major meeting point for companies involved in packaging, processing, production, automation and manufacturing. The 2026 event takes place in Chicago and gives manufacturers an opportunity to explore equipment, materials and technologies used across modern production environments.
The event is relevant to businesses looking for solutions across the complete packaging and processing workflow. That can include filling and sealing equipment, robotics, labeling, coding, inspection systems, flexible packaging, material handling, warehouse technology, food processing, bottling, sustainability solutions and production-line automation.
For B2B marketers and sales teams, this creates a useful concentration of professionals who work close to equipment purchasing, plant modernization, packaging development, engineering, sourcing, operations and production.
TrueProspects helps organizations build a more focused prospecting audience around these markets. Instead of approaching every company in the packaging industry with the same message, your campaign can be segmented by industry, job function, seniority, geography, company size and solution category.
Who Attends PACK EXPO International?
The PACK EXPO market reaches far beyond packaging engineers. Companies participate because packaging and processing touch production, operations, engineering, sourcing, quality, logistics, product development and capital equipment planning.
Manufacturing & Plant Operations
Plant leaders and production teams evaluating ways to improve throughput, reduce downtime, automate processes and expand manufacturing capacity.
Engineering Professionals
Packaging, manufacturing, process, controls and automation engineers researching machinery, components and production technologies.
Packaging Teams
Professionals responsible for package development, materials, formats, line performance, labeling and packaging innovation.
Procurement & Sourcing
Buyers and sourcing leaders comparing vendors, equipment, materials and services for current and future production requirements.
Quality & Product Teams
Quality, R&D and product-development professionals working on safety, consistency, compliance and new product introductions.
Supply Chain & Logistics
Teams responsible for warehousing, palletizing, material movement, fulfillment and efficient movement of finished goods.
Looking for PACK EXPO 2026 attendee contacts?
TrueProspects can build an independently researched B2B audience based on the industries, companies, departments, job titles and geographic markets relevant to your campaign. The database is not an official PMMI attendee registration file.
PACK EXPO International 2026 Attendees Database
If your objective is to sell into manufacturing, packaging, processing or automation teams, a broad industry database can create unnecessary noise. A more useful approach is to define the type of PACK EXPO-related decision-maker your sales team actually wants to reach.
TrueProspects can prepare a custom PACK EXPO International 2026 prospect database using independently researched business information and targeting criteria supplied by your team.
Campaigns can be narrowed to manufacturing companies, packaging operations, food and beverage producers, pharmaceutical companies, consumer brands, industrial manufacturers and other relevant organizations.
You can also focus on specific functions such as engineering, plant operations, procurement, packaging, automation, supply chain or executive leadership.
Build Your Audience Around:
Job Function Engineering, packaging, procurement, operations, quality, supply chain and more.
Seniority C-level, VP, Head, Director, Manager and specialist roles where relevant.
Industry Select the manufacturing and production markets that match your offer.
Geography Build national, regional, state-level or broader international campaigns.
Company Profile Filter using company size, business type and other available firmographic criteria.
PACK EXPO International 2026 Exhibitors List & Company Contacts
Exhibitor targeting is useful when your product or service is designed for packaging machinery companies, equipment suppliers, technology vendors and other businesses selling into the manufacturing market.
Reach Companies Selling Packaging & Processing Solutions
A PACK EXPO exhibitor campaign is different from an attendee campaign. Instead of focusing primarily on manufacturing buyers, you may be targeting companies that manufacture machinery, supply packaging materials, integrate automation systems or provide specialized industrial services.
TrueProspects can help organize exhibitor-related company intelligence and identify relevant professionals within those organizations. This can be useful for partnerships, channel development, supplier relationships, competitive research, recruitment, marketing services and B2B sales.
Depending on your requirement, an exhibitor database can focus on company-level records or include relevant decision-makers at those companies.
Select “Exhibitors” in the enquiry form and tell us whether you need company records, decision-maker contacts, specific product categories or a combination of these filters.
Get Exhibitor Counts & Pricing →Industries Represented Across the PACK EXPO Market
Packaging and processing technology is used across dozens of manufacturing environments. Your contact database can be narrowed to the vertical markets that matter most to your campaign.
Processors, packaged foods, prepared foods and production facilities.
Bottling, filling, beverage processing and packaging operations.
Pharma manufacturing, packaging, inspection and processing teams.
Manufacturers requiring protective, sterile and specialized packaging.
Brands managing large-scale consumer product production and packaging.
Beauty, cosmetics, skin care and personal-care production companies.
Supplements, wellness products and nutrition manufacturing operations.
Chemical processors requiring filling, handling and packaging systems.
Cleaning products and other packaged household consumer goods.
Pet food producers, treat manufacturers and related consumer brands.
Industrial products requiring automated packaging and handling systems.
Organizations focused on shipping, fulfillment and warehouse efficiency.
PACK EXPO Decision-Makers & Job Titles You Can Target
Job-title targeting helps your outreach reach the people most likely to influence equipment, technology, packaging and production decisions.
Executive Management
- Chief Executive Officer
- President
- Chief Operating Officer
- VP Operations
- VP Manufacturing
- General Manager
Engineering & Automation
- VP Engineering
- Engineering Director
- Packaging Engineer
- Manufacturing Engineer
- Process Engineer
- Automation Engineer
Plant & Production
- Plant Manager
- Operations Director
- Production Director
- Production Manager
- Manufacturing Manager
- Facility Manager
Packaging Professionals
- Packaging Director
- Packaging Manager
- Packaging Development Manager
- Packaging Engineer
- Packaging Specialist
- Package Development Engineer
Procurement & Supply Chain
- Chief Procurement Officer
- Procurement Director
- Purchasing Manager
- Strategic Sourcing Director
- Supply Chain Director
- Sourcing Manager
Quality & Innovation
- Quality Director
- Quality Manager
- R&D Director
- Product Development Director
- Innovation Manager
- Continuous Improvement Manager
Packaging & Processing Technology Segments
PACK EXPO covers a broad equipment and technology ecosystem. Campaigns can be structured around the solution category your company sells or the technology your prospects are likely to purchase.
Data Fields Available in Your PACK EXPO 2026 Contact Database
A useful B2B contact file should give your team enough information to understand who the prospect is, where they work and why they fit your campaign.
Available fields can vary by record and by the targeting criteria selected. Tell us which fields are essential when requesting your count or sample.
Build a Custom PACK EXPO International Prospect List
You do not have to purchase a broad, one-size-fits-all audience. Define the market you actually need and we can use those requirements when evaluating available contacts.
Choose Audience Type
Focus on attendee-related prospects, exhibitor companies, exhibitors plus contacts, or a custom packaging-industry segment.
Select Industries
Narrow the audience to food, beverage, pharma, CPG, cosmetics, industrial manufacturing or other markets.
Choose Job Functions
Target packaging, engineering, operations, procurement, production, automation, quality or executive leadership.
Set Geography
Request USA-wide coverage or narrow your campaign to specific states, regions or other available markets.
Refine Company Profile
Where available, use employee size, revenue, business type or other company characteristics to improve relevance.
Request Count & Sample
Share the targeting criteria first so the proposed database reflects the audience your sales team intends to reach.
How TrueProspects Approaches B2B Data Research & Verification
Data quality matters more than simply delivering a large spreadsheet. The goal is to build a dataset that is relevant to the targeting criteria supplied by the client and usable for legitimate B2B prospecting.
Target Definition
We start with the requested industry, geography, departments, seniority and other audience criteria.
Business Research
Relevant organizations and professionals are evaluated using available business, corporate and professional information sources.
Role Relevance Review
Job functions and titles are reviewed against the intended targeting criteria so obvious mismatches can be reduced.
Contact Validation
Available business contact fields can be checked for formatting, consistency and usability before final preparation.
Deduplication
Duplicate records and obvious overlaps can be removed to improve the practical value of the delivered file.
Delivery Review
The final output is structured around the agreed audience and available data fields before delivery.
TrueProspects is an independent B2B data provider. We are not PACK EXPO, PMMI or the official event registration provider. Any dataset supplied by TrueProspects should be understood as independently researched business information rather than an organizer-provided attendee registration file.
Use PACK EXPO Market Intelligence Before, During & After the Event
Trade-show prospecting works best when outreach is planned around a clear sales objective rather than sending the same message to every contact.
Build Awareness Before October
Introduce your company while prospects are researching suppliers, planning meetings and reviewing technology options.
- Account prioritization
- Meeting requests
- Product introductions
- Pre-show email outreach
- Sales-call preparation
Prioritize the Right Accounts
Use segmented company and contact intelligence to help sales teams spend more time on organizations that fit your ideal customer profile.
- Named-account targeting
- Sales territory coordination
- Priority account lists
- Partner identification
- Follow-up scheduling
Turn Interest Into Pipeline
Continue conversations after the event with relevant, personalized follow-up based on industry, role and business need.
- Post-event nurturing
- Account-based campaigns
- Sales follow-up
- Content distribution
- Pipeline development
Who Can Use a PACK EXPO 2026 B2B Prospect Database?
The audience is relevant to more than companies that manufacture packaging machines. Many B2B suppliers sell into the same manufacturing, engineering and operations teams.
Reach manufacturers evaluating new packaging equipment and production lines.
Target operations and engineering teams working on factory automation.
Connect with packaging, sourcing and product-development professionals.
Reach manufacturers exploring production, maintenance, analytics or plant software.
Target companies focused on product quality, safety and production consistency.
Reach organizations with material handling, warehouse and fulfillment requirements.
Identify companies planning expansions, upgrades and manufacturing projects.
Approach employers hiring packaging, manufacturing and engineering talent.
Create highly segmented packaging and industrial-market campaigns for clients.
PACK EXPO 2026 Lead Generation Strategy
Buying a contact file is not a strategy by itself. Better results usually come from choosing a precise audience and matching the message to the reason that audience would care.
Start With the Problem Your Product Solves
A company selling palletizing equipment should not approach the market the same way as a labeling software provider. Define the operational problem first. Is your product intended to improve throughput, reduce manual work, support quality control, lower material usage, improve traceability or simplify warehouse operations?
Once the problem is clear, selecting the right departments becomes easier. Automation solutions may fit engineering and operations leaders. Packaging materials may be more relevant to packaging development and procurement. Plant software may require a combination of operations, engineering and technology stakeholders.
Separate Technical Influencers From Commercial Buyers
Large manufacturing purchases often involve more than one person. An engineer may evaluate technical fit while a plant leader considers operational impact and procurement manages commercial negotiations. Reaching only one title can therefore leave part of the buying group untouched.
Consider creating separate contact segments for engineering, operations, packaging and procurement rather than merging everyone into a single campaign. The message can then be adjusted to the priorities of each group.
Prioritize Accounts Before Increasing Volume
A smaller list of companies that closely match your ideal customer profile can be more practical than a very large file with little segmentation. Geography, company size, manufacturing vertical and technology need can all help define priority accounts.
Sales teams can then dedicate more effort to personalized outreach for high-priority companies while using broader nurture campaigns for the remainder of the market.
Make Outreach Relevant to PACK EXPO Season
The weeks leading into October provide a natural reason to start a conversation. Instead of sending a generic sales message, explain why the prospect may want to evaluate your solution as part of current packaging, processing or manufacturing initiatives.
After the event, change the message. Prospects may now be comparing solutions, reviewing projects internally or planning budgets. Follow-up should acknowledge that stage rather than repeating the same pre-event introduction.
Measure the Campaign by Audience Segment
Track results separately for different job functions, industries and company profiles. If packaging directors respond differently from plant managers, that information can improve future targeting. The goal is not simply to send more emails; it is to identify which audience produces meaningful conversations.
TRUEPROSPECTS
Why Work With TrueProspects?
TrueProspects helps B2B sales and marketing teams define, research and organize business audiences around specific industries, job functions and campaign requirements.
For PACK EXPO-focused campaigns, the objective is simple: help you move from a broad packaging market to a more practical group of companies and professionals that match your offer.
Request PACK EXPO International 2026 Database Counts & Pricing
Database size depends on the audience you request. Attendees, exhibitors, job-title filters, industry selection, geography and other criteria can all change the available count.
Send your requirement first and our team can review the requested audience before discussing the available database, fields and pricing.
PACK EXPO International 2026 FAQs
Answers to common questions about the event and TrueProspects' PACK EXPO-related B2B audience services.
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