Internationalization will be one of the focuses of Bta. Barcelona Food Technologies 2015. The show will bring together professionals from around the globe, paying particular attention to countries from southern Europe, the Maghreb and Latin America, as well as Russia, India, China and Angola. This will be carried out by AMEC (the Spanish Multi-Sector Business Association), which will organize inverse trade missions on site.
The organization has also doubled its investment to assemble machinery buyers, distributors and importers at the show, representatives of the main international companies from the food industry that will hold business meetings with exhibitors at the event.
Therefore, Bta. Bta. Barcelona Food Technologies 2015 will become a centre for international networking, where “negotiations and commercial exchange between countries will be promoted, favoring a powerful campaign of international promotion and a program of guest buyers from the main host markets in the Spanish industry for the manufacturing and processing of food and drink,” according to its director, Víctor Pascual.
The food machinery and technology exports industry employs some 8,000 people in Spain, with an estimated turnover of over EUR1.2bn, according to data from the National Statistics Institute in Spain.
Bta. will exhibit a wide range of industry products and will be divided into three shows: Tecnocárnica, Tecnoalimentaria and Ingretecno. These will provide a service to the meat and meat products industry and the food industry in general, in addition to the intermediate food products industry, respectively.
As an innovation, the trade fair will offer the incorporation of new profiles for the bakery products, cakes and pastries, dairy products, preserves and commercial equipment industries. For the third edition running, it will be jointly held with Hispack, the International Packaging Exhibition, bringing together more than 1,100 companies from thirty countries.