Global Pouch Forum celebrates both a packaging marvel and its 25th showing.

Pouches have transformed the packaging industry, and continue to do so. Next month at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare in Rosemont, IL, people from all over will gather to celebrate this transformative wonder at Global Pouch Forum, June 7th-9th.

Celebrating its 25th anniversary, Global Pouch Forum is the longest-running flexible packaging event, and remains the event to get the most up-to-date information from experts and to network with leaders and innovators who develop, supply, buy or recommend flexible materials including pouches, films and machinery.

Makers of consumer product goods being featured throughout the speaking agenda. Sessions will include presentations about the resurgence in private labels, the state of the flexible packaging industry, supporting the circular economy, preventing food waste, and much more.

“In addition to hearing from contract service providers and packaging consultants, attendees will have the opportunity to hear from executives of top consumer brands, such as GoodBelly, Dream Pops, Materne, Diamondback Acres, TREX and more,” says Glen Gudino, group publisher of BNP Media’s Packaging Group. “We’re also going to be putting on a retrospective of the pouch, taking a look at the early years to today. We’ll show how pouches have transformed packaging already, and this is the place to see what’s next.”

A Brief History of Pouch Packaging

In 1997, a group of industry experts gathered for the first Global Pouch Forum event. They had the insight to understand that pouch packaging would not only dominate but disrupt every sector from baby food to motor oil. Twenty-five years later, Global Pouch Forum remains the longest-running flexible event. To celebrate, we have put together a (brief) timeline of the pouch packaging that resonated with consumers and changed our lives.

Global Pouch Forum is happening June 7-9, 2022 in Rosemont, Ill.

A limited number of slots are available for an exclusive tour of the Waste Connections Elk Grove Transfer Station materials recovery facility (MRF) in Elk Grove Village, Ill. The slots are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Sponsors for this year’s event include Platinum Sponsor Dow, Gold Sponsors Amcor, Berry, Charter Next Generation, Menshen and Sonoco, Silver Sponsors AlliedFlex, Elplast, Hoffer, HP, Idemitsu Unitech, Preco and Westlake, and Bronze Sponsor Fresh-Lock.

Registration for the 25th Global Pouch Forum can be done at GlobalPouchForum.com.