Anuga FoodTec

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Anuga FoodTec (official subtitle: "International Supplier Fair for the Food and Beverage Industry") is a trade fair for the food and beverage industry. It covers aspects of food production like process technology, filling and packaging technology, packaging materials, ingredients and food safety, food production etc., It is structured into eight product segments: food processing, food packaging, safety and analytics, digitalisation, automation, intralogistics, environment and energy, science and pioneering.

The fair takes place every three years in Cologne. The event is organised by Koelnmesse, and the Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft e.V. (German Agricultural Society) is the conceptual sponsor. (DLG).

Postponement of 2021 Anuga FoodTec

In 2021, the trade show had to be postponed to April 2022 due to COVID-19 pandemic.

At the unscheduled special edition in 2022, the physical trade show will be complemented by the digital extension Anuga FoodTec@home.

The 2022 Anuga FoodTec is planned to take place from April 26 to 29, 2022.

History[]

Originating from the former Anuga-Technica and DLG-FoodTec, Anuga FoodTec has been providing an overview of food production technologies since 1996. Since 2011, Koelnmesse has maintained a strategic partnership for Anuga FoodTec with the "Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute" (PMMI), USA (the organiser of Pack Expo and Expo Pack). In April 2016, Koelnmesse entered into a cooperation with Fiere di Parma to jointly organise the Cibus Tec food technology in Parma in the future.

In 2012, it had 42,986 visitors (from 126 countries) and 1,289 exhibitors (from 41 countries) , and was conducted on a gross area of 127,000 m².^{[citation needed]} In 2012, exhibitors increased by over 10 % and visitors increased over 27 %. In 2015, it had 1,479 exhibitors (from 49 countries) - an increase of 15 percent, a gross area of 129,700 m² and 45,604 visitors (from 139 countries) - an increase of 6 percent.^{[citation needed]} The proportion of international visitors was over 54 per cent.^{[citation needed]}

In 2018, 1,657 exhibitors and over 50,000 visitors (from 152 countries) came to the fair.^{[citation needed]}

Services[]

The Anuga FoodTec provides an overview of the technologies of the manufacturing and packaging process in the production of food and drink. It is arranged in separate segments like:

• Process technology
• Filling and packaging technology
• Automation, software, control equipment
• Laboratory technology, analytics, biotechnology and quality equipment
• Operation materials, environmental technology
• Refrigeration and air-conditioning technology
• Conveying, transport and storage facilities, logistics, intra logistics
• Ingredients and auxiliary materials
• Components, assemblies, surface technology, accessories
• Service firms, organisations, publishers
• Packaging materials, packaging, packaging aids

References[]

Further reading[]

• [1]
• Shaun Weston reports from Anuga FoodTec 2012 in Cologne, Germany.
• Anuga FoodTec at bestinpackaging
• Anuga FoodTec at Dairyfoods
• Anuga FoodTec at Lebensmittel Technik
• [2]
• [3]

External links[]

• Anuga FoodTec
• German Agricultural Society - DLG
• Koelnmesse