Anuga FoodTec - international, innovative, successful

Innovation and sustainability, collaboration and progress: these keywords shared a stage at Anuga FoodTec 2024. The leading international trade fair for the food and beverage industries once again confirmed its central role as the most important supplier trade fair from 19 to 22 March. As the global meeting point of the industry, it provided a unique platform for the presentation and discussion of the latest innovations and solutions.

'Responsibility' was the top theme of the trade fair and its extensive trade programme, which provided answers and questions from the fields of energy efficiency and resource conservation. New technologies and concepts that are advancing a sustainable management of natural resources along the entire value creation chain were presented.

Anuga FoodTec 2024 provided the ideal framework for presenting trends with an impressive expansion of the exhibition space by 46 percent and the participation of around 1.307 companies from around the world. The trade fair drew a total of 40,000 trade visitors from more than 133 countries, which underlines the growing global importance of technical innovations in the food and beverage industries.

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Anuga FoodTec Magazin Highlights

Technologies for a sustainable future

Many Core Processes Rethought

25.03.2024 //

Anuga FoodTec 2024 showcased solutions for the value chain that promote the sustainable use of natural resources in the food industry.

New Food Economy

"Technologies are not an end in themselves. They have to be developed."

25.03.2024 //

The food industry is facing major challenges. Disruptive innovations could help. However, this requires broad social acceptance.

Resilience

How Fit Are Our Food Chain Systems?

24.01.2024 //

Due to the current challenges, there is great pressure to act across all sectors to strengthen the resilience of food production.

Opening keynote by the Club of Rome

Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Co-President of The Club of Rome, opened Anuga FoodTec with an impressive lecture that emphasised the pressing needs of sustainable developments.

Her keynote, which was closely oriented to the top theme of "Responsibility", concentrated on the indispensable importance of environmentally-friendly production processes and on the related challenges and chances. She also underlined the relevance of innovative technologies and strategies for the sustainable development of the industry. 

With her address, Dixson-Declève provided a decisive impulse for the further course of the entire trade fair.

That was the event program of Anuga FoodTec

The extensive event and trade programme of Anuga FoodTec 2024 conveyed important impulses for a dialogue across industries and the future of food and beverage production. The main theme of "Responsibility" thereby played an important role. Creative and modern event formats also offered a variety of possibilities to contribute actively and to profit from comprehensive expert knowledge - interaction and international networking were the priorities.

Event program

Guiding theme: Responsibility

Responsibility

The trend theme of Anuga FoodTec put the spotlight on what the supplier industry to the food and beverage industry was already doing and what it could do in the future to assume its share of responsibility for a sustainable and safe world.

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