AGENDA

• From Legacy to Agility: How heritage dairy brands are evolving into fast-moving innovators
• Health, Wellness C Trust: Meeting rising consumer demand for functional, clean-label, and gut friendly products
• Data-Driven NPD: Leveraging real-time insights to design products consumers don’t even know they need yet
• Purpose Meets Profit: Balancing sustainability goals with business growth in a challenging regulatory landscape
  

• Aseptic Excellence: Maximize product freshness and nutrients without refrigeration using cutting-edge barrier technology
• Consumer Connection: Stand out on crowded shelves with unique designs and multiple sizes
• Sustainable Solutions: Reduce your carbon footprint with high-speed, low-waste filling systems and circular materials

• Shift from traditional liquid milk to A2, organic and higher-protein products
• Rapid growth of Lactose‐free Market
• Functional Dairy and Impact of GLP1 
  

A panel of the industry’s most sought-after solution providers set the scene with 60 second introductions offering insights into their cutting-edge products and services. Visit the booths in the exhibition hall for more details and services.

• From calories to protein: how the consumer mindset has shifted—today’s shoppers actively “count protein, ” not carbs or calories.
• New targets, new expectations: many active consumers aim for 100–120g/day, linking protein to satiety, strength, recovery, healthy aging, and weight management.
• GLP-1 effect: rising demand for nutrient-dense, higher-protein foods as GLP-1 users prioritize quality nutrition.
• The competitive question: consumers want protein—so the opportunity is winning where they get it and which proteins they trust, with dairy positioned as a go-to choice.

• Sustainable PET Transformation: Accelerate cost-efficient production through customized, sustainable packaging, optimizing performance while reducing environmental impact.
• Food Safety Leadership: Drive production growth with industry-leading aseptic expertise and uncompromising food safety standards. End-to-End Partnership:
• Secure long-term performance with complete lines, enhancing processing, PET packaging, and ensuring product integrity while reducing energy, water, and chemical consumption.

• New demand drivers: Back-to-cooking momentum, GLP‐1 reshaping household eating habits, and evolving US dietary guidelines.
• AI changes the cart: Shift in consumers shopping with increasing use of AI- generated lists
• Adopting and leading this major transformation in the food market
  

• Health & nutrition shifts: Enrichment/fortification and GLP‐1-driven format and portion changes.
• From formulation to launch: Faster, smarter NPD across sport nutrition, infant formula, yogurts, beverages, and cheese.
• Premiumisation through performance: Elevating taste, texture, and benefits to win higher-value consumers.
  

• Consumer priorities: Insights from 11K+ U.S. consumers on their top health and wellness concerns, current solutions, and unmet needs.
• Dairy opportunity spaces: The health and wellness conditions where dairy is best positioned to deliver meaningful consumer benefits.
• Innovation in action: Examples of dairy products and concepts addressing priority consumer wellness needs. 
  

• Replacing multiple processing steps in one compact unit, enabling fast changeovers, reducing energy/water use ~50%
• Producing clean-label, more stable products, extending shelf life up to 2×
• Eliminating acid whey/permeate byproducts, avoiding waste streams in high-protein dairy productio
  

• Seeking convenient dairy products delivering targeted health benefits (mobility, beauty from within, overall wellbeing)
• Leveraging clinically supported, low-dose ingredients (Collavant ^® n2, Dermial^®) to translate science into consumer-relevant benefits
• Combining scientific substantiation with application know-how to enable incorporation of branded ingredients into innovative dairy formats

• Using potato-based starches and proteins to create perfect creaminess and "melt" in dairy alternatives
• Replacing modified starches and additives with natural, functional ingredients for a shorter, friendlier label.
• Fortifying high-protein formulations without compromising on taste or stable shelf-life.

Senior representative, Avebe

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