Advancing everyone just a little further.
By sharing our time and creating deep connections, we seek to value to both our local community and the contract manufacturing industry as a whole.
Community Partnerships
Glenwood Academy
Sponsor: Charles Weinberg
Mission: Glenwood Academy nurtures and educates good children from challenging situations by inspiring excellence, building character and strengthening community.
Bigger Table
Sponsor: Chuck Woods
Mission: Drive inclusive economic growth in Chicagoland by bringing together the region’s food & beverage industry to explore, create, and leverage collaborative opportunities.
Foundation for Strategic Sourcing (F4SS)
Sponsor: Chuck Woods/Mike Reiliy
Mission: The mission of the Foundation for Supply Chain Solutions is to establish a forum whereby CPG/FMCG customers, external manufacturers, and secondary packagers can share best practices towards the creation of Industry Standards aimed at improving efficiency, quality, sustainability and reducing overall supply chain costs.
Chicagoland Food Network
Sponsor: Chuck Woods
Mission: Chicagoland Food & Beverage Network (www.chicagolandfood.org) is the region’s food and beverage cluster organization. We are charged with driving inclusive economic growth in the Chicagoland area by bringing together the local food & beverage industry to collaborate on opportunities in workforce development, food safety, innovation & technology, and business services.
Contract Packaging Association
Sponsor: Charles Weinberg/Chuck Woods
Mission: The Contract Packaging Association is the national, nonprofit trade organization for the Contract Packaging industry. Formed in 1992 for contract packaging firms and those businesses related to them, CPA promotes the growth and welfare of member firms through its industry exposure and programs.
Nulogy
Sponsor: David Freed
Mission: Nulogy is the leading provider of software specifically designed for the unique needs of the contract manufacturing and packaging shop floor. MSIE has worked with Nulogy for 10 years and operates its software at every site it operates. MSI has recently partnered with Nulogy to continue to build tools for MSIE’s growing suite of capabilities to ensure our customer collaboration can be the most digitally enabled in the industry.