Machines in the spotlight

The annual Processing and Packaging Machinery Association show took place at its usual home in a pocket of the Birmingham NEC last week. The 2005 version featured over 350 exhibitors from manufacturers across a variety of sectors, from blister wrapping machines to RFID product identification technology. Representing suppliers into the fresh produce industry, exhibitors from a number of companies had some of the most impressive stands there and by all accounts, had a particularly successful show too. Emma Twyning reports.