At the beginning of April, Designplast attended the Alimentaria fair in Barcelona. It is an international event of reference for all professionals in the food industry.

This fair is a meeting point for the most important markets in the sector, they meet at Alimentaria to tighten ties and create bridges of direct connection.

Just over 3.000 exhibiting companies from 52 countries took part. Of the 100.000 visitors, 23% were international, from 149 countries, with an estimated impact of 180 million euros.

Alimentaria promotes its unique and differentiating values, such as internationalization, innovation, gastronomy, and sector specialization. The fair offers an attractive offer in line with the key markets of the food industry and consumer trends.

We had the opportunity to learn about new trends in the food industry, be it new machinery, new packaging, new products, different designs, visiting customers, and meeting people in the food industry. All of this helped us to analyze the food sector and to be able to adapt to offer new products, designs, and opportunities for companies.

More than 300 innovations were presented, 30 leading chefs with 36 Michelin stars took part and were able to visit the recreation of a hotel with the latest technologies.

The Innoval Awards, convened by Alimentaria, highlight the efforts made by manufacturing companies in the design, development, and launch of innovative products in the national market between April 2018 and April 2022. The awards are divided into; the Retail Award, Horeca Award, Impulse Award, International Award, and four trend awards.

This is the second year that Designplast attends the fair Alimentaria, where he took the opportunity to visit companies exhibiting in the sector, learn about new trends in packaging, products, and the machinery used, we were able to talk to these exhibiting companies, from which it has drawn good feelings, with new contacts, agreed on meetings, and possible future collaborations.