Anuga FoodTec (official subtitle: "International Supplier Fair for the Food and Beverage Industry") is a

trade fair A trade show, also known as trade fair, trade exhibition, or trade exposition, is an exhibition organized so that companies in a specific Industry (economics), industry can showcase and demonstrate their latest Product (business), products and se ...

for the food and beverage industry. It covers aspects of food production including process

technology Technology is the application of Conceptual model, conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals, especially in a reproducible way. The word ''technology'' can also mean the products resulting from such efforts, including both tangible too ...

, filling and

packaging Packaging is the science, art and technology of enclosing or protecting products for distribution, storage, sale, and use. Packaging also refers to the process of designing, evaluating, and producing packages. Packaging can be described as a coo ...

technology, packaging materials, ingredients,

food safety Food safety (or food hygiene) is used as a scientific method/discipline describing handling, food processing, preparation, and food storage, storage of food in ways that prevent foodborne illness. The occurrence of two or more cases of a simi ...

, and food production. It is structured into eight product segments:

food processing Food processing is the transformation of agricultural products into food, or of one form of food into other forms. Food processing takes many forms, from grinding grain into raw flour, home cooking, and complex industrial methods used in the mak ...

, food packaging,

safety Safety is the state of being protected from harm or other danger. Safety can also refer to the control of recognized hazards in order to achieve an acceptable level of risk. Meanings The word 'safety' entered the English language in the 1 ...

and analytics, digitalization, automation, intralogistics, environment and energy, science and pioneering. The fair takes place every three years in

Cologne Cologne ( ; ; ) is the largest city of the States of Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city pr ...

. The event is organized by Koelnmesse, and is sponsored by the Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft e.v. ( German Agricultural Society).

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 organizer of Pack Expo and Expo Pack). In April 2016, Koelnmesse entered into a cooperation with Fiere di Parma to jointly organize the Cibus Tec food technology trade fair in

Parma Parma (; ) is a city in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna known for its architecture, Giuseppe Verdi, music, art, prosciutto (ham), Parmesan, cheese and surrounding countryside. With a population of 198,986 inhabitants as of 2025, ...

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. 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. Over 54 percent of visitors came from abroad." In 2018, 1,657 exhibitors and over 50,000 visitors (from 152 countries) came to the fair. In 2021, the trade show had to be postponed to April 2022 due to the

COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ...

. It took place with 1,034 exhibitors and around 25,000 visitors. In March 2024 1,307 companies exhibited and around 40,000 trade visitors from 133 countries came to Cologne. Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Co-President of the Club of Rome kicked off Anuga FoodTec with her keynote speech, “Opportunities on the Road to Climate Neutrality“. ‘Responsibility’ was the top theme of the trade fair. The trade fair addressed also the theme of the processing of alternative proteins and the necessary know-how along the entire process chain. In this course, Anuga FoodTec and the German Association for Alternative Protein Sources (BALPro e.V.) extended their cooperation in March 20224. Among the visitors were

Anheuser-Busch Inbev Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV, known as AB InBev, is an American-Belgian Multinational corporation, multinational Drink industry, drink and brewing company, brewing company based in Leuven, Belgium. It is the largest brewer in the world, and in 20 ...

Arla Foods Arla Foods is a Danish-Swedish multinational co-operative based in Viby, Denmark. It is the fifth biggest dairy company in the world and the largest producer of dairy products in Scandinavia and United Kingdom. Arla Foods was formed as the re ...

, Asahi, Conagra Brands, Danone, DMK Deutsches Milchkontor, Dr. Oetker, FrieslandCampina,

General Mills General Mills, Inc. is an American multinational corporation, multinational manufacturer and marketer of branded ultra-processed consumer foods sold through retail stores. Founded on the banks of the Mississippi River at Saint Anthony Falls in ...

Kraft Heinz The Kraft Heinz Company (KHC), commonly known as Kraft Heinz (), is an American multinational food company formed by the merger of Kraft Foods Group, Inc. and the H.J. Heinz Company co-headquartered in Chicago and Pittsburgh. Kraft Heinz is t ...

, Lactalis, McCain, Meiji, Mengniu, Mondelez, Müller (company),

Nestlé Nestlé S.A. ( ) is a Swiss multinational food and drink processing conglomerate corporation headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland. It has been the largest publicly held food company in the world, measured by revenue and other metrics, since 20 ...

, Nomad, Plukon Food Group, Saputo, Schreiber Foods, Sprehe Group,

Unilever Unilever PLC () is a British multinational consumer packaged goods company headquartered in London, England. It was founded on 2 September 1929 following the merger of Dutch margarine producer Margarine Unie with British soap maker Lever B ...

and Yili.Anuga Foodtec welcomes around 40,000 industry visitors in 2024
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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 and control equipment * Laboratory technology, analytics, biotechnology and quality equipment * Operation materials and environmental technology * Refrigeration and air-conditioning technology * Conveying, transport and storage facilities, logistics and intralogistics * Ingredients and auxiliary materials * Components, assemblies, surface technology and accessories * Service firms, organizations and publishers * Packaging materials, packaging and packaging aids

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