The Food Processing Machinery and Packaging Machinery association of the VDMA (German Engineering Federation) has hired a marketing and communications manager to coincide with the launch of an online customer catalogue at Interpack 2014.
The demand for bakery and confectionery food processing machinery is to increase over the next few years as employment and incomes rise in developing countries, according to Freedonia.
Worldwide demand for food processing machinery is projected to rise
4.6 per cent annually up until 2006, to $21 billion (€22bn),
according to a study conducted by US industrial market research
group Freedonia.