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Industry Professionals Note Keys to Vertical Startup Success

Packaging and processing end users and original equipment manufacturers join together to note the factors that make vertical startups successful.

Industry professionals note three keys to startup success, focusing on a collaboration-based mindset.
Industry professionals note three keys to startup success, focusing on a collaboration-based mindset.
PMMI Business Intellgience: 2025 Peformance Optimization: Insights for Packaging Line Readiness

A vertical startup, defined as the process of transitioning from equipment installation to full production quickly and efficiently, is important for packaging and processing companies to achieve in new operations. While 2025 startup perceptions vary from previous years, industry professionals remain set on making them a realistic, repeatable process, and present synergistic strategies to do so.

That’s according to PMMI Business Intelligence’s “Performance Optimization: Insights for Packaging Line Readiness,” a report that brings together key issues, industry insights, and recommendations from roundtable discussions and panels featured at the 2025 Top to Top Summit from February 23–25. The summit serves as a platform for OEMs and CPGs to exchange perspectives, address shared challenges, and collaborate on practical solutions.

Most participants were from the food industry (61%), with other sectors, such as pharmaceutical, representing 7% of participation.

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