Schedule, Speakers Revealed for 2025 Plastic Product Decorating Summit
- Published: August 26, 2025
The schedule has been finalized for the 2025 Plastic Product Decorating Summit, taking place September 3-5 in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The Plastic Product Decorating Summit brings the plastics industry together to learn, listen and discuss all types of direct-to-object plastic decorating and in-mold decorating (IMD), labeling (IML) and electronics (IME) applications. The event will be keynoted by North American plastics manufacturing expert Laurie Harbour, Wipfli. Based on her decades of practical experience and manufacturing know-how, Harbour will share market trends and economic factors affecting the plastics industry, as well as the keys to successful operations.
With this year’s theme, The Economy of Decorating, technical programming and industry panel discussions will include, among others:
- Efficient Operations with Automation: Michael Sansoucy, ARBURG; Mark Patterson, FANUC America
- Advantages of Digital Inkjet: Vaughn Pollman, Innovative Digital Systems; Ken Stack Engineered Printing Solutions
- Brand Perspectives on IML and IMD: Peter Kirchoff, Church & Dwight; Josh Hanson, Serigraph
- Innovations in IML: Mike Licata, YUPO, Maurizio Carano, MCC Label; Bill Fogg, ALPLA
- Circularity with Recycled Resins: Tamsin Ettefagh, Pure Cycle
- Design Trends in Decorating: Vanessa Martins, KURZ
Conference attendees gather from all the links in the production chain – OEMs, brand owners, molders, decorators, and those providing equipment and consumables – to address product decorating needs in industries as diverse as automotive and transportation, appliance, cosmetic applications, promotional giveaways, food packaging, containers, electronics and medical.
For more information, visit www.productdecoratingevent.com.
