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About The Show

PROCESS EXPO Value Statement

To deliver the most valuable tradeshow experience to food industry suppliers and processors at the lowest possible cost.

FPSA is constantly making the appropriate and necessary changes to PROCESS EXPO to stay focused on our value statement. We talk with our customers (exhibitors and attendees) about how to make the show better for them. We are guided daily by the suppliers who are the members of our association. Dialog with customers in the broad food industry and with our members prompted the most recent changes to the show.

Both suppliers and processors felt the cost of exhibiting or attending tradeshows had become cost prohibitive. To address this concern, both groups asked for the same things:

Biennial schedule – better matches the pace of technology changes that impact the food industry
Fall timeframe – fits into current business and global tradeshow cycles
Food focus – broad-based to include all key vertical markets
Centralized location – lowers travel costs

These were the drivers from which the new PROCESS EXPO evolved. It is a new format, but it is still guided by our original value statement: To deliver the most valuable tradeshow experience to food industry suppliers and processors at the lowest possible cost.

Show history

The Food Processing Suppliers Association and its predecessor associations have been offering tradeshows to the food industry for over a hundred years. These supplier owned and managed tradeshows had a variety of names and were offered in numerous venues. But they were guided by the same principles that characterize the new PROCESS EXPO.

In the early years, our tradeshow was one of many serving vertical markets in the food industry in every region and state throughout our country. But with the expansion of air travel, the development of the interstate highway system, consolidations in the food and beverage industry, and commensurate consolidations in the supplier segments, tradeshows experienced similar transformations.

The Dairy Show became the Food and Dairy Expo. The Canners Show became the International Exposition for Food Processors. Finally, the last two became PROCESS EXPO, owned and managed by the suppliers who make up the Food Processing Suppliers Association. There have been many changes, but our value statement has remained the same:

To deliver the most valuable tradeshow experience to food industry suppliers and processors at the lowest possible cost.