Match & Innovate @ Anuga FoodTec 2027

• Date: February 23–26, 2027

• Venue: Anuga FoodTec, Boulevard Booth A049g, Messeplatz 1, 50679 Köln

Anuga FoodTec is the international fair for technologies across the entire value chain of the food and beverage industry. It brings together providers and users of solutions in the areas of processing, packaging, food safety, automation, digitalization, and sustainability, and creates an ideal setting for establishing international business contacts.

Match & Innovate @ Anuga FoodTec 2027 offers exhibitors and visitors alike the opportunity to schedule targeted meetings with those business partners even before the fair begins.This gives you the opportunity to hold discussions with potential customers, technology partners, investors, and research institutions from Germany and abroad.

The organisers, the NRW.Europa Team at ZENIT, provide networking tables where you can match with your meeting partners on site. If you are an exhibitor, you have the opportunity to meet at your own booth at your discretion. The access to and use of the matchmaking platform is free of charge, but you need a ticket to access the Anuga FoodTec.

On the matchmaking platform, you can:

1. create a company profile,

2. present your products and technologies,

3. define your collaboration needs,

4. search for international participants,

5. schedule meetings

... and then meet on site!

See you at Match & Innovate @ Anuga FoodTec 2027!

To quickly find your appointments and meeting partners on site, download the free b2match app.

• EEN Joint Booth: NRW.Europa offers young companies the opportunity to show their products, technologies, and solutions at the EEN Joint Booth. There, our advisors can assist you with questions regarding internationalisation, market expansion, technology transfer, innovation, and funding. Furthermore, they will help you to connect with potential business partners on site.

• Global Market Access & Innovation Hub: The hub, in collaboration with the Anuga FoodTec Family, is designed to bring together international market information, expert advice, guidance on innovation and funding opportunities, partner matching, and networking opportunities in one central location. The goal is to support companies in gaining access to international markets and to foster exchange with international experts, industry stakeholders, and potential collaboration partners.

• Pitches & Networking: The NRW.Europa booth will also serve as an open platform for pitches and networking. The platform includes:

  •    short pitches

  •    short workshops and insights

  •    networking sessions

  •    international delegation or partner meetings.

Networking opportunities: The event provides a great opportunity to meet and connect with international companies, as well as experts in the food and beverage sector. You can make valuable connections that can help you grow your career or business.

Present your organisation and your products: In the matchmaking and pitching sessions you can present your organisation to a broad audience, including investors and business partners.

Explore new products and services: The event showcases new products and services that are relevant to the food and beverage industry.

• Food Processing

• Filling and Packaging Technologies

• Automation

• Intralogistics

• Digitalization

• Sustainability

• Circular Economy

• Safety and Analytics

• Related Technologies for the Food and Beverage Industry