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POWTECH from 30 September to 2 October 2014 in Nürnberg is a must event for anyone wanting to find out how to really handle powder and bulk solids. At the World-Leading Trade Fair for Processing, Analysis and Handling of Powder and Bulk Solids, over 700 exhibitors from more than 25 countries show cutting-edge technology for mixers, mills & co. The large international involvement and the many new products make the trade fair the undisputed number one bulk solids event for process engineers from many industries all over the world. A visit to the parallel TechnoPharm, the Trade Fair for Life Science Process Technologies, is also worthwhile, especially for engineers from pharmacy and the food industry.

Every third exhibitor at the trade fair is an international firm. The POWTECH exhibitors travel from a total of more than 25 countries and from four continents. Over 200 other exhibitors at the parallel TechnoPharm supplement the range of products with the latest process technologies for production in a sterile environment.

An industry between CO2 footprint and automation

We constantly hear that the powder and bulk solids industry is not characterized by particularly large innovation changes. But the exhibitors at POWTECH present many new products every one and a half years. More than a third of the exhibitors in 2013 said they presented an innovation. Over 100 new products have also already been announced for autumn 2014. Nürnberg shows that processing technology is not available off the peg. Every powder and every bulk solid imposes different challenges on the technology.

Nevertheless, some general trends can be recognized. Popular topics at the moment are energy efficiency, CO2 footprint and system retrofitting. Analysis and automation are also penetrating increasingly deeper into processing technology processes. Today hardly any system can manage without recipe management, batch control and transparent tracking and tracing. It is therefore not surprising that the world-leading providers of field instrumentation or process control systems too have presented their products at POWTECH for years.