At the international processing and packaging event scheduled at Fiera Milano, Milan’s exhibition centre, from May 27 to 30, 2025, manufacturers of top-end technologies will meet with end users to explore the trends revolving around the world of liquid food and beverages.
We are talking about a variegated universe of products that includes soft drinks, milk produced for direct consumption, soft drinks, mineral waters, beers, wines and spirits, functional and energy drinks, juices, baby drinks and infant food, as well as soups, oils, dressings, and sauces.
To give you a snapshot of the world of packaging machinery for the liquid food and beverage sector, the global market is worth EUR14.9bn and records an average annual growth rate of +2.9%. For the 2023-2027 period, focusing on the best performing countries, the US is in the lead – with a market value of EUR4.6bn – followed by China at EUR2.2bn, and Germany – which is worth EUR1.15bn alone-, and then Japan with business amounting to EUR1.10bn. Coming in fifth, the turnover for Italy is also significant, totalling EUR0.6bn. The markets offering the highest growth potential are Singapore (+12.9%), Hungary (+9.4%), Bulgaria (+9.1).
Moving on to processing and preparation machinery, this segment is forecast to reach EUR23bn worldwide by the end of 2024, with an average estimated growth rate of +5.5%. The leading markets include Germany, Italy, and the USA, followed by France, Switzerland, and Spain (source: Ucima/Mecs).
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