On 31 May, we visited the IPACK-IMA trade fair in Italy with the aim of finding new promising manufacturers specialising in innovative technologies and solutions for the meat and non-food processing and packaging industry. IPACK-IMA is one of the 5 synergistic trade fairs of The Innovation Alliance, specialising in food and non-food processing and packaging. It takes place every three years and in 2018 chose the slogan "Technological innovation and internationality" as its motto, which makes it possible to understand the main goal of the event - new strategic partnerships and specific development and promotion plans.

More than half of the exhibitors demonstrated technological innovations in the agricultural industry: 35% of the exhibitors were from the flour and confectionery industry. Among these and other exhibitors, we met our partners in technological equipment