Post Show Report Agroprodmash 2024
Agroprodmash 2024 is a key event for the food industry that addresses the issues of selecting ingredients and recipes, getting acquainted with new technologies, modernising production facilities, and selecting equipment, spare parts and components. This year’s showcase offered an abundance of competitive Russian and foreign developments for all sectors of the food processing industry.
Compared to last year, the exhibition showed growth in all indicators. The floor space increased by 16%. The number of visitors was an absolute record.
The key trends of this year were digitalisation, automation, food safety, and cost optimisation.
Dates: 7–11 October 2024
Venue: EXPOCENTRE Fairgrounds, Moscow, Russia
Organised by EXPOCENTRE AO
Supported by the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade
Under auspices of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Exhibition space: 64,000+ total sq. m.
Attendance: 27,140 unique visitors (+4% to 2023) from 59 countries; including 25,154 industry professionals from 1,064 Russian cities and towns
Exhibitors: 930 companies (+8% to 2023); 640 of them are Russian (+8% to 2023); 290 are foreign (+8% to 2023)
Countries: 21 (Russia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, China, Czechia, France, Germany, India, Iran, Italy, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, Poland, Serbia, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Turkiye, the USA, Uzbekistan)
Russian regional pavilions and group stands: 12 (Kurgan, Nizhny Novgorod, Omsk, Penza, Samara, Saratov, Tula, Tver, Voronezh and Yaroslavl Oblasts, Krasnodar and Stavropol Krais)
Types of products on display: 25 product sectors covering food and beverage equipment, packaging and filling, refrigeration, storage, measuring and control, weighing equipment, ingredients, automation, AI, IoT and robotics solutions, food safety, sanitation and hygiene, components, recipes and technologies, R&D, solutions for construction and reconstruction of food industry facilities, recycling and disposal of waste
General sponsor: Packaging Systems
Innovation partner: Soyuzsnab
Marina Afonina, Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation:
“In recent years, the agriculture industry has been one of the drivers of the national economy. Food and food processing industries play a significant role in this. From year to year, we observe not only growth in the production of the main groups of food products, but also a significant expansion of their assortment. Of course, such results would not be possible without the dynamic development of technologies, as well as the participation of the state in these processes. The existing support measures expand opportunities for our producers and give impetus to the whole sector. Agroprodmash is one of the key business events in the industry. It allows all market participants to learn about the latest achievements in various spheres related to the food processing industry, find new partners and exchange experience.”
Alexey Nemeryuk, Minister of the Moscow City Government, Head at the Moscow City Department of Trade and Services:
“Over the years, Agroprodmash has established itself as an effective business platform for discussing the development prospects of the technologies aimed to improve the equipment used in the food processing industry, as well as for the exchange of best practices and the development of constructive solutions in key areas in this field. For many years, this event has been strengthening business ties and opening new opportunities for cooperation. It allows food processing professionals to learn about the latest technologies from leading Russian and foreign manufacturers, and advanced equipment for the entire chain from production of raw materials and ingredients to production of finished products, their packaging, delivery and storage.”
Show highlights
Agroprodmash 2024 offered all equipment and ingredients demanded by the market. It presented technologies for modern food production, as well as for catering enterprises. The demonstration of equipment in operation, both domestic and foreign, generated special interest.
There were a lot of negotiations, and a lot of contracts were signed for the supply of Russian products both domestically and abroad.
Among foreign participants, Chinese manufacturers were the most active this year: 145 companies from China took part in the exhibition. Turkey (28 companies), Italy (26 companies) and Belarus (20 companies) also had a strong presence.
APM Ingredients demonstrated products of more than 350 brands from Austria, Belarus, China, Denmark, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Poland, Russia, and Uzbekistan. Russian companies presented the latest developments in the field of ingredients and additives for the food industry. All companies that are important for the Russian market took part in APM Ingredients. As usual, this sector reflects the most up-to-date trends in the food industry and presents a large number of new products and innovative developments for the meat, dairy, confectionery, bakery, and beverage industries.
The APM Meat Tech, APM PoultryTech and APM Casing sectors brought together 134 companies from 11 countries. They demonstrated equipment of the world's leading brands, including those from Belarus, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands. The developments of domestic manufacturers were of considerable interest to the industry representatives.
APM Packaging welcomed more than 160 exhibitors from 8 countries. They demonstrated more than 200 Russian and foreign brands for packaging of various types of products, group packaging, ready-made packaging, and artificial vision and automation. The growth compared to last year both in terms of area and the number of exhibitors exceeded 15%. The growth was achieved due to the appearance of new major exhibitors, including representatives of well-known foreign brands that continue to provide equipment service, new partners of major Russian manufacturers and distributors, including those from China and Turkiye, independent large enterprisers from China and CIS countries, as well as Russian companies that presented a large variety of equipment and packaging solutions.
APM Bakery, APM SweetTech and APM GrainTech welcomed 135 companies from Belarus, China, Italy, Russia, and Turkiye. They presented almost the whole range of equipment for baking, confectionery and grain processing. For the first time, a confectionery equipment manufacturer from Iran took part in the exhibition.
APM DairyTech, APM Bottling and APM DrinkMash brought together 128 exhibitors from Austria, China, Italy, Poland, Russia, Spain, and Turkiye.
APM Automation Solutions, APM FruitMash, APM Complect, APM Food Hygiene and APM Weighing & Measuring Equipment increased the exhibition area and number of participants.
APM Refrigeration renewed by 50%. The sector welcomed 40 exhibitors from China, India, and Russia. Unlike previous years, when companies from Moscow and the Moscow region, engaged in the design and servicing of refrigeration plants, were predominantly exhibiting, this year for the first time companies from 10 regions of Russia manufacturing equipment took part in the show.
Conference programme
This year’s conference programme focused on the most relevant issues of the industry:
- equipment and components: results and prospects of development of the Russian food machinery industry,
- raw materials and ingredients: what to use and where to buy,
- analyses and forecasts by industry sectors.
You can find the full list of events here.
The 30th anniversary edition of the International Exhibition for Equipment, Technologies, Raw Materials and Ingredients for the Food Processing Industry – Agroprodmash 2025 – will take place from 29 September through 2 October 2025.
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Press Service, EXPOCENTRE AO