they were also to include a stipulation of Fair Trade Practices, so that one employer was required to join some code group.”[2] Thirty five packaging machinery businessmen met in Buffalo, New York, in 1933, to decide whether to form an association that would act as the advocate for the packaging machinery industry to the Department of Labor.
Packaging machine designs of that period were the result of individual requirements from the company to the inventor-entrepreneur.
[7] PMMI U has partnered with 28 institutions in the United States and Canada that offer packaging and processing curriculum.
PMMI U has also partnered with the Mid Atlantic Mechantronic Advisory Council and several packaging and technical schools to develop a series of Certificate Programs focused on Mechatronics.
[8] In response to the National Product Liability Act of 1977,[9] PMMI Product Safety Committee and the American National Standards Institute created ANSI B155.1-1973 – Safety Requirements for the Construction, Care, and Use of Packaging and Packaging-Related Converting Machinery for use in future litigation.