For the fifth year in a row, exports of German food processing and packaging machinery increased; in 2014, it grew to almost $8.7 billion, up 3 percent over the 2013 numbers, according to the VDMA Food Processing and Packaging Machinery Association.
“The increasing mechanization of food production in emerging nations, in particular, has clearly boosted demand over the past few years,” says Richard Clemens, director of the VDMA Food Processing and Packaging Machinery Association, about the prospects for 2015.