Following consultation with sponsors, the Exhibition Advisory Board and registered exhibitors, organiser NürnbergMesse says it has decided to move back its POWTECH 2022, the international trade fair for powder and bulk solids processing and analytics, by four weeks. It will now be held at the Exhibition Centre Nuremberg, 27-29 September 2022, in parallel with FACHPACK, the European trade fair for packaging, technology and processing.
The change means the organiser can offer the bulk solids sector an exhibition date outside the summer holidays, “which is particularly convenient for our customers from southern Germany and the Mediterranean region,” said Heike Slotta, executive director exhibitions, NürnbergMesse. She added that it had been “extremely important” to make this decision in conjunction with the customers – “with the sector for the sector, you might say. The result of the survey was clear: The majority opted to hold it on 27-29 September 2022. By holding FACHPACK in September last year, we showed that we were able to run highly successful trade fairs even in the middle of a pandemic,” she added.
The organiser hopes holding POWTECH 2022 in parallel with FACHPACK will highlight the entire value chain from product manufacture through to packaging. Running POWTECH and FACHPACK in tandem should also create additional synergies in the areas of processing and packaging, as both events address users in the food and feed, chemical, pharmaceutical, plastics processing and mechanical engineering sectors.
In terms of visitors, both fairs are strongly focused on the industrial and consumer goods sectors and both events have a European emphasis. After Germany, the main countries of origin for the visitors are Austria, Switzerland and Italy.
Organisers say that, in 2023, POWTECH will continue its schedule at the Exhibition Centre Nuremberg from 26 to 28 September. FACHPACK traditionally takes a break once every three years and therefore will not be held in 2023. It will resume its normal schedule on 24-26 September 2024.