2025 IFFA exhibit Germany

3-8,5,2025 Frankfurt am main

Exhibition Introduction

Abbreviation: IFFA

Exhibition industry: meat industry

Organiser: Messe Frankfurt GmbH, Germany

Duration: Every three years

Exhibition scale: more than 100,000

The World’s Leading Trade Fair – Technology for Meat and Alternative Proteins

IFFA covers the entire market for processing, packaging and selling of meat and alternative proteins. Thus offering the global food industry a platform for innovation and networking.

The world's exhibition for the meat processing industry　　

IFFA covers the entire market for meat and alternative protein processing, packaging, and sales. Thus providing a platform for innovation and networking for the global food industry. IFFA is the world's leading trade fair for innovative innovations in meat and alternative protein processing. At its core is sustainable nutrition for a growing world population of healthy protein. New plant-based and blended products, innovative fermentation processes, and the future theme of meat analogues are transforming our entire nutritional system. This is where IFFA showcases current trends and solutions. All process steps are represented: from production, processing and packaging to innovative ingredients and nutritional trends at the point of sale.

　　Strong professionalism: In addition to the professional fields of livestock and poultry slaughtering, meat processing and packaging machinery, meat flavors and fragrances, storage and transportation of meat products, and sales of meat products, the exhibition has also paid attention to the increasing demand of enterprises in hygiene, preservation, safety testing or weighing systems in recent years. In addition to most of the professional visitors engaged in livestock and poultry slaughtering, meat processing and packaging, meat machinery design and manufacturing, hotels, hotel catering, many other food inspection and testing and import and export trade people are also gathering more and more at IFFA's exhibition site, making the exhibition truly the world's largest and more concerned meat industry exhibition.

　　Strong professionalism: IFFA is an exhibition of the meat processing industry, which began in 1949 and is held every three years, with exhibitors and visitors from nearly 100 countries and regions. The 2013 edition of Meatworking Frankfurt covers an area of 109,000 square metres and is attended by 966 exhibitors from 142 countries and more than 60,000 visitors. The proportion of international visitors from outside Germany reached an all-time high of 62 percent. The proportion of the audience with independent decision-making power is also very high, of which 57% are CEOs or senior decision-makers of enterprises, and 15% are in important positions such as department managers. 97% of viewers were satisfied or very satisfied. The fair was a great success and the trade worked well. 

Market analysis

　　Messe Frankfurt is the third largest exhibition hall in the world, consisting of 10 exhibition halls covering an area of 470,000 square meters. The indoor exhibition hall is 321,000 square meters, and the outdoor exhibition hall is 90,000 square meters. Every year, more than 50 exhibitions are held here, among which the automobile exhibition and the spring and autumn consumer goods exhibition are the largest exhibitions of its kind in the world. Frankfurt is located on the right bank of the River Main, near the confluence of the Main and Rhine rivers, on the great plain south of the Taunus mountains. The city center and the inner city are on the north bank of the river Main, and numerous bridges over the Main connect the inner city with the suburban Sachsenhausen region.

Nine times out of ten, tourists from all over the world who come to Germany enter the country through Frankfurt Airport. It is an important international financial center in Europe and the center of German business and manufacturing. Frankfurt is also an international exhibition centre and an international conference centre, where at least 50,000 conferences are held every year. It is also the center of the world's book industry, where the world's largest book fairs are held. Frankfurt is Germany's fifth-largest city, founded in 794 AD and full of diverse charm. Frankfurt is not only a symbol of Germany's financial and high-tech industries, but also home to the Euromonetary Institution, home to more than 400 banks, 770 insurance companies and countless advertising agencies. It is also home to the Deutsche Central Bank and the third-largest stock exchange in Europe. In addition to being a financial center, Frankfurt is also a cultural center in Germany. Anne Frank was born here. From the 16th century, it was designated as the place for the election of Roman emperors and coronations, and also began its status as a cultural center of Europe.

Scope of exhibits

Processing technologies for meat and alternative proteins, packaging technology, weighting systems, process automation and IT solutions, robotics and handling equipment, slaughtering and meat cutting technology, slaughtering, cutting and processing equipment and tools, natural and artificial casing processing machines, spices, ingredients, additives, shells, freezing equipment for buildings and factories, logistics and storage systems, food safety and quality control, cleaning equipment, operational hygiene and work safety, energy, media, supply and waste technology, sales, Retail and specialty stores---- products, facilities, equipment, services, 

Pavilion information

Venue: Messe Frankfurt, Messe Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, Frankfurt, Germany