- Dates
- 26 to 28 October 2027
- Venue
- McCormick Place, Chicago
- Organisers
- Messe Frankfurt Inc. with the Food Production Solutions Association (FPSA)
- Replaces
- EATS, which itself replaced PROCESS EXPO in 2025
- Exhibitor sales
- Opening late 2026
- Focus
- Every stage of food production, from development to scale-up
Sources: Food Engineering, Dairy Processing, Messe Frankfurt press release.
The Food Production Solutions Show is a new trade show for North American food manufacturing, launched by Messe Frankfurt Inc. in partnership with the Food Production Solutions Association (FPSA). The first edition runs from 26 to 28 October 2027 at McCormick Place in Chicago. It replaces EATS, the Equipment, Automation and Technology Show for Food and Beverage, which was itself a 2025 realignment of the long-running PROCESS EXPO.
The organisers have said the show is built around a simple observation: food manufacturers rarely face one problem at a time. A new product brings regulatory questions, a capacity increase brings equipment and labour questions, and a new facility brings all of them at once. The show is designed to put product development, compliance, production and scaling under one roof, with particular attention to start-up, small and mid-sized processors.
What this means for equipment exhibitors
A broader audience is a mixed blessing. You will meet food scientists, co-packers, compliance specialists and founders alongside plant engineers. Many will be less technical than a PROCESS EXPO visitor, and many will be scaling up for the first time. Your visuals have to explain your equipment to someone who has never owned one, without boring the engineer standing next to them.
- Explain the process, not just the machine. Show what happens to the product: mixing, forming, cooking, chilling, slicing, packing.
- Make hygiene visible. Cleanability, washdown and sanitary design decide food equipment purchases. Show them deliberately.
- Show scale. Start-ups want to know what a first line looks like and how it grows. A modular layout animation answers that.
Visuals that work for food processing equipment
Process animation with product flow
Sixty to 120 seconds following the product through your equipment, with cutaways at the points that matter: the mixing chamber, the heat exchanger, the cutting head. Temperature, flow and time can be shown as colour and overlays. Our food and beverage processing page shows how we approach this.
Sanitary design and cleaning sequences
Tool-free disassembly, CIP spray coverage, drainage and open-frame construction shown in a short animated sequence. This is the content food safety managers forward to colleagues.
Scalable line layouts
A layout flythrough showing a starter configuration, then the same line expanded in two steps. For an audience of growing processors this tells the investment story in thirty seconds.
Booth loop and renders
A silent loop for the stand screen and photoreal renders of stainless equipment, which photographs poorly because of reflections. See our booth loop rules.
Plan it with Anuga FoodTec and IPPE
Many food equipment makers exhibit at IPPE in Atlanta in January, Anuga FoodTec in Cologne in February and now FPSS in Chicago in October. A model prepared for the first show of the year can carry all three, with re-cuts per audience. See our Anuga FoodTec 2027 and IPPE 2027 guides.
Timeline for the Food Production Solutions Show 2027
| Asset | Production time | Send CAD by |
|---|---|---|
| Cinematic launch film | 10 to 12 weeks | 19 July 2027 |
| Process animation (60 to 120 s) | 8 to 10 weeks | 3 August 2027 |
| Interactive 3D viewer | 6 to 8 weeks | 16 August 2027 |
| Sanitary design or feature film (20 to 45 s) | 2 to 4 weeks | 6 September 2027 |
| Pre-show renders and press images | 5 to 10 working days | 20 September 2027 |
| Booth wall prints | 5 to 10 working days, plus print | 27 September 2027 |
Budget
CAD preparation is included. If you already have a model prepared from an earlier show, further assets cost 20 to 40 per cent less. For first-time clients, our $800 pilot gives you three renders of one component or compact product in three working days.
What to send
- Equipment CAD as STEP or native files.
- Process data: product, throughput, temperatures and the sequence you want shown.
- Cleaning procedure if you want a sanitary design sequence.
We sign an NDA before any file moves. Send one CAD file for a free assessment and fixed quote within one working day.
Written by Engr. Bilal Naseem, mechanical engineer (PEC Reg. No. 47883) and founder of 3DEnginuity. Questions about your own machine? Write to bilal.naseem@3denginuity.com.
Send one CAD file for a free assessment.
We open it, tell you what is usable, and return a fixed price and delivery date within one working day. NDA first if you need it.
