Cibus Tec – the event organised by Fiere di Parma and Koelnmesse dedicated to the food and beverage technologies sector – announces a new project: “Cibus Tec Forum”, the first edition of which will be staged in Parma (Italy) on October 25 and 26, 2022. The trade fair Cibus Tec will instead be held on October 24-27, 2023. A postponement by 12 months made necessary by a disharmonious fair calendar which, amongst other events, has already seen Koelnmesse’s sister trade fair schedule “Anuga FoodTec” on April 26 till 29, 2022, an official statement reads.
Anuga FoodTec will accordingly be the first major international post-Covid-19 food technology trade fair. An event which will also see the support of partner exhibition Cibus Tec, ensuring the solutions of the “tech” firms in its community are showcased whilst fostering attendance of Italian and international visitors alike. The Koelnmesse event in Cologne will allow the very latest, most refined home-grown Italian technologies to receive high visibility, whilst affording all the business opportunities which the international visitors of Anuga FoodTec guarantee. In 2016 Fiere di Parma and Koelnmesse agreed in a partnership, thanks to which both fairs and organisations have pooled their communities and networks of relations, numbering somewhere in the region of 11 thousand businesses.
“Our main objective has always been to give exhibitors in the sectors involved in our exhibition everything they need, as concrete business opportunities in a harmonized food technology trade fair calendar. Hence our decision to postpone Cibus Tec by twelve months. It is now conveniently programmed to take place in 2023, and we will be resuming our usual three-yearly agenda from 2025 onwards,” according to Antonio Cellie and Thomas Rosolia, respectively CEO and chairman of Koeln Parma Exhibitions.
In 2022, Cibus Tec will be showcasing its expertise and business-generating capacities, offering various sectors of the food industry an opportunity for discussion at national level: Koeln Parma Exhibitions – the joint venture resulting from the partnership between Cologne and Parma’s trade fair organisations – has in fact decided to hold Cibus Tec Forum in Parma on 25 and 26 October 2022. The two-day event will see meetings, talks and analysis, confirming the pivotal nature of topics such as food safety, innovative materials and the circular economy, digitalization, supply chains and sustainability.