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After two years online, the Tomato News Conference entitled Challenging times for the global tomato processing industry came back in person during CibusTec Forum in Parma on Wednesday 26 October 2022 in cooperation with ANICAV's Il Filo Rosso conference. More than 350 people attended the event. The slides presented are now available to all.
Program:
Impact of rising energy costs on major agrifood commodities
Filippo Roda (ARETE, Italy)
EU policies and challenges for tomato processors
Manuel Vazquez (Tomato Europe President & CONESA, Spain)
The 2022 processing season in the AMITOM countries
Alistair Blake (AMITOM President & Merko, Turkey)
Processing tomato and markets in North America
Mark de la Mater (The Morning Star Company, USA)
The 2022 processing season in China
He Peng (Xinjiang Dimension International Trading, China)
Euphoria a the mist of a recession?
Martin Stilwell (Tomato News President & HIT, Portugal) & Mike Montna (WPTC President & CTGA, USA)
Roundtable discussion with industry experts
Sponsors' presentations:
New Company and CropScope introduction- DXAS Agricultural Technology
Kengo Nakata (CEO DXAS Agricultural Technology Japan)
Paste & Juice: Processing 330 days per year
Tarek El-Kattan(General Manager of Paste & Juice Co., Egypt) Hatem El-Tawil (General Manager of Paste & Juice Agri. Co., Egypt
We thank Fiere di Parma, ANICAV and our sponsors for making the event possible.
All attendees received a free copy of the 2022 Processed Tomato Yearbook. Additional copies can be ordered at a price of 100 euros (inc. p&p) here
The transcripts of most of the presentations will be published over the next few weeks, but the slides presented by all speakers are already available below.
