With a net area of over 21,000 m², the biggest range of products since the premiere in Nürnberg is lined up for visitors at the International Trade Fair for Mechanical Processing Technologies and Instrumentation from 11–13 October. “We are very pleased to present the exhibition duo POWTECH / TechnoPharm 2011 in larger form than ever before. We see the growth in space of almost eight per cent at POWTECH and five per cent at TechnoPharm as clear confirmation of our concept,” says Claudia Hauser-Vollrath, Exhibition Manager of the two technology exhibitions,
Over 1,000 exhibitors present products and services from the segments of mechanical processing technologies, instrumentation and life science process technologies in the six halls of POWTECH and TechnoPharm. The exhibitions are supplemented with a particularly extensive supporting programme: from explosion protection and hygienic design to Cleanroom Village / CleanRoomCongress and sustainable packaging solutions.
The very broad technological spectrum of POWTECH is also reflected in the large number of innovations shown at the exhibition and the presentations in Nürnberg. One innovation focus is on the optimizations of the basic mechanical processing technologies from size reduction and mixing to drying. Also presented at POWTECH 2011 are new wet milling processes for producing superfine particles down to the nano range.
Innovative drying processes – like microwave freeze drying – open up highly innovative possibilities especially for the pharmaceutical and food industries. The recovery of solvents, optimized heating and cooling and thus considerably improved process control are intended to increase the efficiency of plants and so cut costs. A new granulation process that enables a substantially higher product output with distinctly lower energy input has the same aim.
POWTECH 2011 therefore proves once again that mechanical processes have always been designed for extremely economical use of energy and are therefore one of the efficiency drivers in process technology. This is demonstrated in an exemplary way by a new cleanable high-performance filter element designed for minimized energy consumption for the separating and cleaning process. The optimized linking of individual mechanical processes, weighing, dosing and conveying systems, pipelines and fittings, particle analysis and packaging of powders and bulk solids also makes a considerable contribution to energy-efficient processes. POWTECH 2011 shows turnkey solutions in which the fine combination of individual process steps permits new record performance levels not only in terms of product quality, but also from the aspect of sparing resources.
