Greater than 50 media representatives accrued in Mexico Town on Might 19 for an unique preview of EXPO PACK México 2026 (June 2–5, 2026; Expo Santa Fe, Mexico Town), the place trade leaders highlighted the applied sciences, marketplace forces, and funding traits reshaping packaging and processing operations throughout Latin The usa.
The click convention featured a prominent panel of trade leaders, together with Celia Navarrete, Director of EXPO PACK; Erick Suárez, President of AMEE (Asociación Mexicana de Envase y Embalaje); Pedro Hugo Alcalá, Basic Director of AMEXXICOR (Asociación Mexicana de Cartón Corrugado); Juan Pablo Gómez Sepúlveda, Director of Product Construction and IT at GS1 México; and Laura Bonilla, Former President of CANAINCA.
Arranged and produced through PMMI, The Affiliation for Packaging and Processing Applied sciences, EXPO PACK México is the area’s premier packaging and processing exhibition, bringing in combination world providers and patrons from greater than 40 vertical markets. The pre-show press convention explored how producers are responding to rising calls for for potency, group of workers answers, automation, and sustainable manufacturing.
“Producers throughout Mexico and Latin The usa are below expanding force to beef up productiveness, deal with group of workers shortages, and stay aggressive in a unexpectedly evolving marketplace,” says Celia Navarrete, EXPO PACK director. “EXPO PACK México 2026 will give corporations the chance to look automation, robotics, AI, and built-in answers in operation and fasten immediately with providers that may lend a hand modernize their operations. The extent of innovation and world participation already showed for 2026 displays the ongoing expansion and momentum of the area’s production sector.”
The development comes at a pivotal time for the trade. Consistent with PMMI’s Developments and Alternatives within the Packaging Equipment Marketplace in Mexico 2026–2027 record, funding in packaging and processing equipment continues to upward push regardless of financial uncertainty and wary spending conduct.
In 2025:
● 71% of businesses higher funding in packaging and processing equipment
● 32% higher spending through 5%–20%
● 22% higher expenditures through 20%–40%
● 17% expanded investments through greater than 40%
Firms are prioritizing investments to extend capability, exchange out of date equipment, accommodate new product codecs and SKUs, and put in force automation and digitalization tasks — highlighting the trade’s focal point on potency, flexibility, and long-term competitiveness.
Producers additionally proceed to navigate demanding situations associated with group of workers availability, ROI issues, provide chain constraints, and the tempo of automation adoption. Consequently, many corporations are taking a phased option to modernization. These days, 67% of businesses prioritize semi-automated answers, whilst 13% are involved in totally computerized operations. On the similar time, adoption of complex applied sciences continues to develop, in particular in AI-driven gadget imaginative and prescient, predictive upkeep, business and collaborative robotics, and automatic guided automobiles.
Sustainability stays any other key house of focal point, particularly tasks focused on operational potency, waste aid, and useful resource optimization.
EXPO PACK México 2026 will show off the applied sciences serving to producers deal with those evolving wishes. Greater than 700 exhibitors spanning 20,000+ internet sq. meters of showcase house will provide equipment, automation, robotics, virtual applied sciences, AI packages, and built-in techniques overlaying all of the manufacturing lifecycle.
The world match will function nation pavilions from main production areas all over the world and is anticipated to draw greater than 20,000 attendees from industries together with meals, beverage, pharmaceutical, non-public care, family merchandise, car, and different client packaged items sectors.
Attendees at EXPO PACK México 2026 additionally get pleasure from the lively collaboration of 14 strategic companions representing main organizations within the packaging and processing trade.
• CANAINCA — Cámara Nacional de los angeles Industria de Conservas Alimenticias
• ANPDAPAC — Asociación Nacional de Productores y Distribuidores de Agua Purificada y Bebidas Carbonatadas
• CANIFARMA — Cámara Nacional de los angeles Industria Farmacéutica
• CANAGRAF — Cámara Nacional de los angeles Industria de Artes Gráficas
• CANAFEM — Cámara Nacional de Fabricantes de Envases Metálicos
• IFT — Institute of Meals Technologists
• CANACINTRA Puebla — Cámara Nacional de los angeles Industria de Transformación, Delegación Puebla
• CANACINTRA León — Cámara Nacional de los angeles Industria de Transformación, Delegación León
• AMEE — Asociación Mexicana de Envase y Embalaje
• CIG — Cámara de Industria de Guatemala
• CRECEX — Cámara de Comercio External de Costa Rica
• AMEXICCOR — Asociación Mexicana de Envases y Embalajes Corrugados
• CONAFAB — Consejo Nacional de Fabricantes de Alimentos Balanceados y de los angeles Nutrición Animal
• GS1 — GS1 México
As one of the vital influential industry platforms for the packaging and processing trade in Latin The usa, EXPO PACK México continues to attach producers with the applied sciences, experience, and world providers using the way forward for manufacturing and packaging and processing innovation.
For more info and to check in for EXPO PACK México 2026, consult with expopackmexico.com.mx
