FoodExpo Qazaqstan 2026 in Almaty to host 635 companies from 35 countries
Belarus, Germany, Malaysia, Pakistan, Poland and South Korea will organise national stands. The joint Asian Halal Group exhibition will feature companies from Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia. US producers will showcase meat, poultry and eggs with support from the USA Poultry & Egg Export Council (USAPEEC) and the USMEAT Export Federation. Other participating countries include Austria, Azerbaijan, Iran, the Netherlands, the United Arab Emirates, Slovakia, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Ukraine and France. Companies from the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and Central Asia will also be represented at the exhibition.
The Asian section of the exhibition will expand, with companies from Vietnam, India, China, Japan, Sri Lanka and other countries in the region presenting their products and technologies. More than 100 Chinese companies alone will participate. Exhibitors' offerings will include food products, ingredients, production equipment and packaging. Halal products from Indonesian, Malaysian and Singaporean suppliers will form a separate segment. The European section will feature companies from Germany, Italy, Switzerland and Poland, among others. Polish food and beverage producers will exhibit at a national stand supported by Poland's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the National Support Centre for Agriculture (KOWR); other Polish companies will present ingredients, packaging and equipment.
Russian regional export support centres will organise joint stands. These will feature companies from Bashkortostan and Tatarstan, Udmurtia and Chuvashia, as well as Krasnodar Territory and St Petersburg. The Belgorod, Ivanovo and Kaliningrad regions; Kirov, Nizhny Novgorod and Novosibirsk regions; Omsk, Orenburg and Penza regions; and Smolensk and Chelyabinsk regions will also present their companies. A separate exhibition entitled "Made in Kuban" is also planned.
Pavilion No. 11 will be dedicated to technology suppliers serving food manufacturers and agricultural raw material processors. It will showcase dairy and meat processing equipment, filling lines, and machinery for bakery and confectionery production. Ingredients and packaging solutions will also be on display. Participants will include manufacturers and suppliers from Kazakhstan, China, Russia, Poland, Czechia, Switzerland, Italy and Germany. Visitors will be able to explore equipment for existing plants and new production facilities, including meat and milk processing solutions.
Kazakhstan has planned 10 dairy processing projects for 2026, with total investment of 35.1 billion tenge. In the meat processing sector, 14 projects worth 32.8 billion tenge are planned. The article links the expansion of production capacity to growing demand among businesses for technological equipment, automation and improved operational efficiency.
The business programme will also feature the two-day Food Business Forum Qazaqstan 2026, organised jointly with analytics company INFOLine. It will bring together company executives, food manufacturers, representatives of fast-moving consumer goods retailers, and specialists in marketing, commercial strategy, digitalisation and business process management. Discussions on market conditions, cooperation between manufacturers and retail chains, and the commercial prospects of new products are scheduled for November 11. The programme will also address changing consumer demand. The second day, November 12, will be held under the title AI & Digital Food Day: participants will examine the practical use of artificial intelligence, automation and information technology in the food industry and retail, including their application in operational processes.
The exhibition is organised by Kazakhstan-based Iteca and its international partner ICA Events. In addition to technology Pavilion No. 11, exhibitors will occupy Pavilions No. 7, No. 8, No. 9 and No. 10 at the Atakent complex. Admission will be free. Visitors can obtain a badge on the official FoodExpo Qazaqstan website using the promotional code WFKELDAL26.
