Azernews.Az

By Sara Rajabova

The most successful international trade fair in Turkey for food processing and packaging technologies, Foteg Istanbul, hosted a record number of exhibitors and visitors in 2013.

Following the opening speeches of Bekir Çakıcı, General Manager of HKF Trade Fairs, Kasım Piral, Director of Istanbul Food and Agriculture, Sedat Kuru, President of Istanbul Branch of UCTEA Chamber of Food Engineers, the opening ribbon was cut with the participation of Mahmoud Sanoussi, President of Sudan Chamber of Commerce. Later, they visited participating companies' stands.

This year 759 companies from 50 countries are exhibiting. 197 of the companies are from Turkey and 562 from overseas. Exhibitors came together at a cocktail party organized on the opening night.

During the event, a briefing was held by the organizer, HKF Trade Fairs, on the first day of Foteg Istanbul 2013, which had a rich activity schedule.

At the briefing, titled 'New Legislation in Food Safety and Expectations', new food legislation was discussed by spokesmen Can Demir, the Chairman of the Board of Food Safety and Hygiene Academy, and Sedat Kuru of UCTEA Chamber of Food Engineers. Exhibitors Teknik Arıtma and Cemsan conducted seminars on the third day of the event. Fab Pakizhker from General Electric presented the seminar organized by Teknik Arıtma with the title of 'Water Treatment Units' Application in Food Industry'. Again on the third day Cemsan conducted a seminar. The 'Necessity of Saw Blades' seminar was presented by the sales manager of German Freund Co. Johann Voth.

B2B application and foreign buyers

This year B2B service was launched at Foteg Istanbul. Thanks to this new application exhibitors and visitors of FOTEG were able to arrange on-line one-to-one business meetings.

Also, a great number of foreign buyer groups visited Foteg Istanbul 2013. A buyer group of over 200 from Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Sudan, Tunisia, Uzbekistan, and a buyer group of around 150 from Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Jordan, UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar reached various business deals.

Foreign press members such as AzerNews from Azerbaijan, Al Ahram and El Bashayer from Egypt, Uzbekistan News & Economical Review from Uzbekistan, KSA & Gulf Media representing Saudi Arabia and Iraq, Total.kz from Kazakhstan, Al Shamal from Lebanon, and Fokus Magazine from Macedonia closely followed the event.
A professional team of Foteg Istanbul bringing the leading brands under the same roof that are operating in the field of food processing and packaging technologies has already started preparations for the next event.