From the 8th to the 13th of May 2010 takes place at the Franfurt Messe in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, the IFFA: The Leading International Trade Fair for Meat Processing, Packaging and Selling.

1. IFFA : THE LEADING INTERNATIONAL TRADE FAIR FOR MEAT PROCESSING,
PACKAGING AND SELLING IN FRANKFURT AM MAIN IN GERMANY.
From the 8th to the 13th of May 2010 takes place at the Franfurt Messe in
Frankfurt am Main, Germany, the IFFA: The Leading International Trade Fair for
Meat Processing, Packaging and Selling.
The countries present at the Frankfurt’s Leading International Trade Fair
for Meat Processing, Packaging and Selling: IFFA, are:
Argentina, Australia, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Denmark,
Finland, France, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Canada,
Liechtenstein, Mexico, New Zealand, Netherland, Norway, Austria, Philippines,
Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Suisse, Republic of Serbia, Singapore,
Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, Hungary, USA, United
Kingdom.
The classes of products are:
Slaughtering techniques. Dismembering and processing techniques. Machines and
equipments for the processing of natural and artificial casings.
Facilities, accessories and tools for slaughter and processing. Roasting,
baking and frying equipments. Cooking and smoking equipments.
Refrigeration techniques. Automation and manipulation techniques. Packaging
techniques. Transportation and storage systems.
Weighing Techniques. Food security and food quality management. Process
control, process management techniques and process automation.
EDP and IT solutions. Cleaning equipment, hygiene in firms and security at
work.
Energy sparing, maintenance of water, compressed air and gas facilities.
Services.
Spices, additives for the making of meat and sausage products. Sales :
everything evolving around meat and sausage.
35 enterprises represent France. I have met some of them:
CAProtéines/CAPdiana from Pleucadeuc, food ingredient specialist. Biovitec
from Ville-sur-Jarnioux, food ferment, ingredient and additives specialist.
MecaPlastic from Pouzauges, packaging machine manufacturer. Viskase S.A.S.
from Paris, Fibrous casings, Nojax cellulose casings, Visflex and Vismax
plastic casings manufacturer.
Other enterprises from all over the world attend the fair, among them:
Gut Owstin from Owstin in Germany, a firm manufacturing ostrich meat and
products. Guillermo Romero Alvarez from Sevilla in Spain is a quality ham
producer.

2. Landfleischerei Henry Koch from Calden in Germany is a quality ham and sausage
producer… Dohr Natural Casings from Hamburg in Germany is a casing
manufacturer.
Wild Nature GmbH & Co. KG from Rudolstadt in Germany manufactures exotic meat
such as ostrich, bison, water buffalo, gnu, antelope meat, (…).
Landhof Standl from Haarbach in Germany and the products from the country:
sausages, ham, (…).
Obere Metzgerei Franz Winterhalter from Elzach in Germany, a ham and sausage
specialist.
MTJ – Formtechnologie GmbH with Josef Franz Märkl from Rachelsbach in Germany
manufactures pans to shape ham, sausages, (…).
Aves Nobles Y Derivados, S.L. from Saragossa in Spain, a tapas, croquette,
cherizo specialist, (…).
For ingredients, condiments, accompanying products were to be found among
others:
Friedrich Gewürze GmbH from Constance in Germany, Dr Oetker Food-Service in
Germany, AVO-WERKE from Belm in Germany, Indasia Gewürzwerk GmbH from
Georgsmarienhütte in Germany.
La Chinita from Plasencia in Spain: a red chili specialist, F.I.A. Food
Ingredients Anthes GmbH from Teising in Germany.
Delikatessen & Geschenke from Nümbrecht-Breunfeld in Germany, Schulze & Co. KG
from Nuremberg in Germany, World Pac International AG from Schaanwald in
Liechtenstein, a producer of innovative casings.
At this Trade Fair for Meat Processing, Packaging and Selling, IFFA, were
also bakery, cheese and milk firms to be seen, among them:
Schedel Der ökologische Backspezialist GmbH from Ebensfeld-Unterneuses in
Germany. Agrarmarkt Austria GesmbH from Vienna in Austria for milk and cheese
products.
Frankfurt’s 2010 Leading International Trade Fair for Meat Processing,
Packaging and Selling: IFFA is a success. Vivid illustration of Mankind’s
everlasting interest in meat and everything evolving around meat.
Reporter Teddy Crispin (http://teddycrispin.over-blog.com/) would like to
thank the individuals who were instrumental in providing him with useful
information for the preparation of this article and review of Frankfurt’s
2010 Leading International Trade Fair for Meat Processing, Packaging and
Selling: IFFA.
©2010 Teddy Crispin: A report from Teddy Crispin : fair reviewer, events
reviewer, product reviewer, independent writer, (…).
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