“A little smaller is ProPak Vietnam, but it certainly has a dynamism and growth potential, in line with the country’s importance to global food production. It’s a fast-growing market due to the high volume of European, Japanese and South Korean investments in Vietnamese food manufacturing. This is also reflected in the strong international flavor of the expo. Fourth, we had ProPak Philippines, the smallest of the events and geographically the most remote and localized, partly due to the multitude of islands. All ProPak tradeshows have the same set-ups but are vastly different from each other.”
Tom also visited Taiwan to attend Foodtech Taipei, which is, according to him “an exceptional tradeshow in that it is both a domestic expo and directly oppositional to ProPak Shanghai for various reasons”.
Therefore, he describes Taiwan as a quite self-contained advanced market. Just like the FHA Singapore, Malaysia & Indonesia expos, Foodtech Taipei is a tradeshow where food producers and food machinery producers exhibit jointly, leading to interesting interactions.
