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Finally, a real trade show with real people!  We visited PPMA at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) in Birmingham, UK on Sep 29th, 2021 and were pleasantly surprised by the many visitors.  Next to the bag checking people, there were now also a few people checking our vaccination status. This was expected and had been communicated by the show organisers. PPMA (Processing & Packaging Machinery) primarily targets the food sector with plenty of companies providing bulk food and pallet packaging machinery.  Note that STIQ's focus is on mobile robots and retail tech so plenty of the food packaging machinery is not covered here. Visit...

Virtual events have taken over since the pandemic hit and it has become difficult to write a review of these events as there are so many of them.  In addition, some recent events do not allow media (us) to take part in some of the (perhaps more interesting) presentations or table talks - And this was the case at DELIVER as well...  1,000 However, luckily we were allowed into the virtual meeting zone to mingle with the many different delegates, and there were a lot of delegates to mingle with, nearly 1,000 to be more precise. Whilst we cannot review the presentations...