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4

TOBACCO BUSINESS INTERNATIONAL

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2015

T

MG is a fortunate beneficiary of industry support for

TPC (Tobacco Plus Convenience Expo) and VEI (Va-

por Expo International), our industry trade shows

held each year in Las Vegas and Chicago, respectively. Exit

interviews from exhibitors and attendees underscore each

show’s unique commercial benefits. Consistent with our

goal to serve the tobacco industry with a broad product

platform, we are pleased to announce Tobacco Machinery

Expo (TME).

TME will debut March 15-17, 2016 at the Las Vegas Con-

vention Center. It will open just prior to TPC 2016 in an ad-

jacent exhibit space. Although it will operate independently

of TPC 2016 with its own venue, entrance, promotion, reg-

istration and website, co-registration for the two shows will

be complementary. That is, if you register for attendance at

TPC, your badge credentials will allow access to TME and

vice versa. TPC 2016 will continue its format as a two-day

show: Wednesday, March 16 and Thursday, March 17. We

have added an additional day to TME to enable TPC exhibi-

tors, a potential natural equipment TME customer base, to

attend the TME show.

Research suggests two primary machinery markets: the

traditional tobacco market and the emerging vapor behe-

moth. Traditional tobacco manufacturers possess keen in-

terest in state-of-the-art manufacturing employing today’s

technology—computerization, robotics and statistical qual-

ity control that assures increased yields without diluting

high product quality standards. Traditional tobacco market-

ers seek to tune their manufacturing operations to obtain

quality at the highest possible gross margins.

The vapor market comprised of electronic cigarettes,

disposable and refillable vapor devices, and “juices” rep-

resent a huge new machinery market potential. Today it’s

largely driven by manual assembly lines of semiskilled

workers. The market is ripe for automation, which is just

beginning to emerge within the Chinese manufacturing

community and is increasingly evident on the U.S.’s West

Coast, as offshore owners seek access to an educated la-

bor force and the legal sureties of operating within the U.S.,

today’s largest market in the world for vapor devices.

TME’s goal is to bring together today’s state-of-the-art

machinery suppliers and a combination of traditional to-

bacco and vapor market customers and prospects within

the professional environment of a business-to-business

exchange.

This letter is intended to give you an early heads-up on

TME. Stay tuned! Meanwhile, we invite you to view tobac-

comachineryexpo.com

.

Best to you and good selling,

TMG International Presents

the Tobacco Machinery Expo…

PUBLISHER’S LETTER

BY ed o’connor