The Paxton Products team recently traveled to Chicago, Illinois to exhibit at the 2024 Pack Expo International tradeshow. Pack Expo International occurs every two years and brings together over 45,000 attendees and 2,600 exhibiting companies to discover and share packaging and processing solutions for 40+ vertical markets. It is the largest, most comprehensive packaging and processing tradeshow in the hemisphere and is even the largest in the world in 2024. Pack Expo International is a great opportunity to experience equipment in motion, idea-share across vertical industries, problem-solve in real time, and network and learn at an incredible intersection of innovation. This year's show brought together 48,000 attendees and 29,500 exhibiting personnel, reaching 77,500 in total attendance.
Event Highlights
The Paxton Products team launched its brand new products, the Control Panel, and displayed it for the first time at the show. Paxton's new Control Panel offers manufacturers a simplified solution to manage Paxton's Centrifugal Blowers in a turnkey manner. With features like a Variable Frequency Drive (VFD), emergency stop, and washdown compliance, the new Paxton Control Panel is the ideal solution for simplifying the control of your Paxton Products blower system while upholding safety standards and ensuring the highest of quality during operation.
In addition to this, the Paxton Products team also co-exhibited with its sister company, Pillar Technologies, to display a wider range of solutions for the packaging and processing industry. Pillar Technologies has served the packaging and processing industry for over 50 years and is recognized globally as a worldwide leader in the manufacturing of high quality induction sealing systems. During the show, Pillar showcased its C-Series Hand-Held Induction Sealer, its flagship induction sealer, the iFoiler, as well as its iFoiler+ Induction Sealer, that made its tradeshow debut at this year's show.
Paxton Products Drying & Blow-Off Solutions
Paxton Products is an industry leader in the manufacturing of high efficiency drying and blow-off solutions for the packaging and processing industry. Whether you're drying, cleaning, conveying, or blowing-off, food processors and packagers heavily rely on Paxton's PX-Series Centrifugal Blowers and Air Delivery Devices to improve their packaging and processing lines. Some of the products that the Paxton Products team had on display at the event include:
- Ionizing Rinsing Systems: available for both bottle and can rinsing, Paxton's Ionizing Rinsing Systems are designed to dissipate the static charges that cause dirt and debris to adhere to surfaces, and then blast the contaminants away using ultra-efficient, blower-driven air. When eliminating compressed air systems, Paxton's Ionizing Rinsing Systems can help reduce energy usage by as much as 80%!
- CapDryer: Paxton's CapDryer is an all-in-one drying manifold box designed to effectively dry the neck and lid of bottles ranging from 8 oz - 3 liters in order to improve the quality of date coding, labeling, tamper branding, and vision system results.
- Air Knives: available in both aluminum and 304 stainless steel, Paxton's Air Knives and Knife Drying Systems are designed to provide maximum efficiency for high velocity drying and blow-off applications. Featuring a continuous, uninterrupted air slot design, Paxton's Air Knives provide uniform air coverage over targeted areas to deliver full, high quality air drying coverage.
- Spyder Manifold: the Spyder Manifold combines six inline nozzles with 'spider-like' arms that can flex to any position for reaching under and around products to target hard-to-reach areas needing extra drying attention. It's the ideal solution for drying the tops, sides, and under the rim of cans, bottles, jars, and other containers.
- PX-Series Centrifugal Air Blowers: not only do Paxton's PX-Series Centrifugal blowers come with an industry-best 3-Year Warranty, but with its unique design, Paxton's blowers achieve blower efficiencies as high as 80% to generate 33% more air flow than a standard centrifugal blower.
- NEW! Control Panel: the new Paxton Control Panel offers manufacturers a simplified solution to control Paxton blowers in a turnkey manner. With easy installation and simplified scale-up, users can control Paxton blowers with this new Control Panel. Featuring a VFD, emergency stop, washdown compliance, and more, the Control Panel offers centralized control, quality assurance, safety controls, and monitoring of running conditions to help improve the drying process.
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The Paxton Products team loved getting the chance to talk with everyone at Pack Expo International about what Paxton Products has to offer. Paxton's team of Application Engineers and Sales Specialists are working hard to follow up with all of the queries and requests we received at the event. If you requested to receive any information from our team, you should be hearing from a Paxton representative very soon. If you have any additional questions or requests from the show, feel free to contact us at sales@paxtonproducts.com or click here to contact us today!
Watch the 2024 Pack Expo International Highlight Video