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Canon Communications and IPC to Collaborate on Midwest's Largest Electronics Manufacturing Trade Show
Los Angeles, January 12, 2010—Canon Communications LLC and IPC – Association Connecting Electronics Industries® have reached an agreement to jointly produce an electronics manufacturing conference and exhibition this year. Slated to be the largest event of its kind in the Midwest, Electronics Midwest will take place September 28–30, 2010, adjacent to O’Hare airport at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, Rosemont, IL.
The new event combines IPC’s Midwest Conference & Exhibition, previously held in Schaumburg, and Canon’s Electronics Midwest show, and is co-located with four other Canon manufacturing shows–Medical Design & Manufacturing (MD&M) Midwest, Design & Manufacturing Midwest, Assembly Technology Expo, and PLASTEC Midwest. All of these co-located events will attract 1,500 exhibitors and 30,000 attendees. As part of Electronics Midwest, a technical conference, professional development courses, and standards development meetings will be produced by IPC to run concurrently with the exhibition.
Charles McCurdy, CEO, Canon Communications, believes the new collaboration is a winner for both organizations and their audiences. “I believe Electronics Midwest will serve the electronics manufacturing industry well. Our two organizations bring their respective strengths — IPC as the premier global electronics trade association and Canon as the world’s leading producer of advanced manufacturing trade events — to develop an unparalleled Midwest event for the electronics manufacturing industry.
A key priority for IPC was to continue its trade show objective, “to create a fair, focused and cost-effective event.” As a result, the collaboration agreement includes special exhibit pricing offered to IPC member companies.
“We’re extremely pleased to be a part of Electronics Midwest,” said IPC President Dennis McGuirk. “Although we’re very distinct organizations, driven by different goals and with unique priorities, I am confident this new event will bring the synergies of the two organization’s together to produce a strong Midwestern event for the conference attendees, exhibitors, and technical committee members.”
For more information on Electronics Midwest, contact Tony Hilvers, IPC vice president of industry programs, at TonyHilvers@ipc.org or +1 847-597-2837, or Joshua Dome, Canon’s sales director, at Joshua.Dome@cancom.com or +1 310-996-9427.
Canon Communications
Canon Communications LLC, a portfolio company of Apprise Media LLC, is the leading publisher, trade show producer, and digital media company for the world's $3 trillion advanced, technology-based manufacturing industry, including medical device, specialty packaging, materials processing, automated assembly, electronics, quality control, and plastics processing.
The company produces tradeshows and conferences for U.S., European, and Asian markets, including: Medical Design & Manufacturing (MD&M), MEDTEC, MediPart, and BIOMEDevice; PharmaMed Marketing & Media, Drug Development Summit, and Pharmapack; WestPack, EastPack, SouthPack, and MidPak; Atlantic Design & Manufacturing, Pacific Design & Manufacturing, Design & Manufacturing South, and Green Manufacturing Expo (GMX); Quality Expo and Quality Expo Detroit; Powder & Bulk Solids, PTX (Process Technology Expo), ChemProcess, PharmaProcess, and ProcessPack; Assembly New England, Assembly Technology Expo, and Automation Technology Expo (ATX); National Manufacturing Week, Advanced Manufacturing Exposition (AM Expo), and OEM New England; PLASTEC; NEPCON, Electronics Assembly Show (EAS), Electronics West, INTERPART, and SURFACTS; IPOT, MTEC, Practical Vacuum, and Machine Building, Drives & Automation.
Canon’s powerful assets include a qualified database of 200,000 advanced manufacturing professionals and 5,700 active exhibitors. Together they are the engine which drives Canon’s annual 170,000 net meters of exhibition space around the world.
The company’s expanding array of magazine titles includes MD&DI (Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry), Medical Product Manufacturing News, Medical Electronics Manufacturing, European Medical Device Manufacturer, Medical Device Technology (UK), China Medical Device Manufacturer, IVD Technology, MX, Pharmaceutical & Medical Packaging News, Nutritional Outlook, Cosmetic/Personal Care Packaging, Injection Molding Magazine, Modern Plastics Worldwide, Powder/Bulk Solids and Appliance. Digital media include the medical device design and engineering portal, Medical Device Link; the online magazine, Advanced Design & Manufacturing (AD&M); and 50 branded e-newsletters and e-publications.
Further information about the company’s business-to-business publications, trade shows, and digital media, is available at www.cancom.com.