Food processing and technology sits at the intersection of well-established unit operations and evolving process engineering demands. As requirements for product safety, resource efficiency, and manufacturing flexibility intensify globally, the sector is updating its installed asset base through improved thermal and non-thermal processing methods, continuous manufacturing approaches, and advances in hygienic equipment design. Contributions are invited on process scale-up, equipment integration, operational efficiency, and the industrial deployment of novel processing technologies.

• Thermal and non-thermal processing
• Hygienic equipment design
• Continuous manufacturing
• Process scale-up
• Manufacturing flexibility
• Food safety and regulatory compliance

Lectures covering food processing and technology

The selection of materials and the corresponding processing technology are central to the performance, safety, and competitiveness of chemical, pharmaceutical and life science production processes and process engineering. Improved structural and functional materials, active ingredients, surface treatment, corrosion-resistant alloys, polymers, and ceramics each can help to overcome specific challenges to each process, especially in aggressive process environments. Submissions are welcome, focussing on materials for synthesis, characterization, forming and joining techniques and its engineering, coating processes, and the qualification of materials for new or retrofitted plants as well as repairing scenarios— with an emphasis on high performance under industrial operating conditions and transformation processes.

• Materials for high temperature
• Corrosion-resistant materials
• Surface treatment & coatings
• Polymers and ceramics in process equipment
• Material characterization and qualification
• Forming and joining techniques

Lectures covering materials and materials processing