Starting 2016: “Pharma.Manufacturing.Excellence.” gets central location at POWTECH

• TechnoPharm integrated into POWTECH from 2016
• APV and VDI-GVC support POWTECH 2016 as honorary sponsors

From 30 September the POWTECH and TechnoPharm trade fairs attract process engineers to Nürnberg once again from all over the world. The date of the next event is already fixed: POWTECH, the World-Leading Trade Fair for Processing, Analysis and Handling of Powder and Bulk Solids, and PARTEC, the International Congress on Particle Technology, will take place in the Exhibition Centre Nuremberg from 19–21 April 2016. With effect from 2016, TechnoPharm, which was previously held in parallel, will receive a central position at the heart of POWTECH activity as a focus on “Pharma.Manufacturing.Excellence”. This focus will continue to reflect the entire pharmaceutical process chain and show everything required for the manufacture of solid, semi-solid and liquid drugs. The Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Pharmazeutische Verfahrenstechnik (APV – International Association for Pharmaceutical Technology) and the VDI-Gesellschaft Verfahrenstechnik und Chemieingenieurwesen (VDI-GVC – Association of German Engineers – Association of Process and Chemical Engineering) will support POWTECH 2016 as honorary sponsors.

“We have intensively tackled the future-orientated organization of TechnoPharm,” says Willy Viethen, Director Exhibitions for POWTECH and TechnoPharm at NürnbergMesse. “We see the integration as the natural and logical consequence of developments over the past years. With this decision, we are meeting a longstanding desire of the exhibitors and visitors to integrate the pharmaceutical segment into POWTECH and appreciably increase the awareness among visitors. New halls will be available for POWTECH with effect from 2016. We will use this as an opportunity to establish the pharmaceutical segment at the heart of POWTECH and adapt the structure of the exhibition.”

Clear aim in mind: 1,000 POWTECH exhibitors

The aim of integration is already clear in Viethen’s mind: “The trade fair duo has always had almost 1,000 exhibitors. We are now continuing to work on reaching and topping the 1,000 mark.” For this purpose the lists of products and exhibitors as well as the hall allocation have been revised. In the pharmaceutical segment the entire production process has been included. Besides the manufacture of solid drugs, which has always been part of the POWTECH product spectrum, the manufacture of semi-solid and liquid drugs has now been integrated into the product list of the trade fair.

VDI-GVC and APV as honorary sponsors of POWTECH 2016

“We welcome the new exhibition concept and will continue our support as honorary sponsor,” says Prof. Jörg Breitkreutz, President of APV. “The pharmaceutical industry remains one of the two most important groups of visitors at POWTECH. I am convinced that the focus on “Pharma.Manufacturing.Excellence.”, the extended list of exhibitors and the valuable knowledge transfer at the forum at the heart of the exhibition will enable us to establish a top-quality and attractive platform on which the pharmaceutical industry can update on all trends in the manufacture of solid and liquid drugs in a more concentrated and easier way than previously the case.”

“Exhibitors and visitors profit from the integration,” says Dr. Ljuba Woppowa, General Manager of VDI-GVC. “Nowhere else in the world can process engineers obtain such a breadth and depth of information on handling and processing powder and bulk solids in one place. The focus on pharma adds a totally new dimension to the 360-degree view that visitors get in Nürnberg.”

Pharma.Manufacturing.Excellence: what exhibitors and visitors can expect

The heart of the focus on “Pharma.Manufacturing.Excellence” is a high-quality forum – similar to a congress – in hall 4. The forum in cooperation with APV will offer a supporting programme that will bring renowned experts to Nürnberg from all over the world to meet the pharmaceutical industry’s need to discuss trends and new developments. Starting in 2016, exhibitors with solutions for GMP-compliant production will receive centrally located stand spaces at the heart of POWTECH activity. This offers the advantage that visitors must no longer find their way around two events as previously, but only one trade fair. Exhibitors can communicate their products relevant to pharmaceuticals to the broad international audience more easily. In addition, exhibitors who previously only presented their solutions to the pharmaceutical, food and cosmetics industry at TechnoPharm will also have the opportunity to approach other sectors from 2016 onwards.

About POWTECH

POWTECH, the World-Leading Trade Fair for Processing, Analysis and Handling of Powder and Bulk Solids, registered its best result ever in 2013. Nowhere else can process engineers find such a comprehensive overview of technologies for mixing, size reduction, screening, dosing, weighing, conveying and analysing powders, granules and bulk solids – for virtually all industries, including chemicals, pharmaceuticals, food and feed, and processing mineral source materials.