amec alimentec
amec aefemac
amec afespan

At the forefront of food technology

At amec alimentec we group and represent the most innovative the most innovative industries in technology, ingredients and services for the food industry.. We help them to open new international markets, we impact on their competitiveness with the services of amec and the activities we organize, we generate spaces for collaboration and knowledge transfer, we support them in the to successfully face major challenges, and we work to influence and give them visibility on the Spanish and European scene.

What we do for you

We are a reference in internationalization

We assist our members in the internationalization, consolidation and opening of new markets. We identify opportunities, countries of interest, major trade fairs, and bring companies closer to sales.

We represent you

Reference entity of the sector and interlocutor with the administration and the press. We are in the main world fairs, we care about the visibility of the sector and we influence.

We encourage networking and collaboration

Collaboration always brings benefits. We provide our sectoral and cross-sectoral members with spaces for interaction so that they can share synergies and identify concrete opportunities for collaboration.

Sustainability as the focus of our work

We inform and raise awareness of SDGs and new industry trends. Competitiveness is also measured by responsibility.

We boost our activities in the talent field

Talent is competitiveness, and our goal is to help identify profiles, improve the attractiveness of companies, promote the sector in the field of Vocational Training and ESO, create a Talent Working Group and lobby the administration.

We identify opportunities and bring you closer to the sale.

We promote customer meetings, bring our members closer to sales and create opportunities.

Expand your potential in the International Promotion Platform

Discover here the International Promotion Platform Spanish Food Technologies & Ingredients, the virtual showcase of the Spanish food industry.

Participate in this project of amec, in which we bring together each of the industrial sectors of our community and put it in value, with the aim of impacting and attracting the interest of client companies abroad.

We are members of the associations aefemac and afespan.

amec alimentec includes the associations of amec aefemac y amec afespan, associations representing the meat industry and the bakery and pastry sector, respectively.

amec aefemac is the Spanish association of manufacturers and marketers of machinery for the meat industry and related industries.

amec afespan is the Spanish association of manufacturers of machinery, ovens and equipment for bakery, pastry and similar products.

Trends in our sector

Consumer needs are changing and are linked to preferences, habits and product quality. The market demands innovative solutions and products, which necessarily require new production processes and technology.


In response to demand, the industry sets itself innovation-driving challenges such as the development of equipment and solutions related to food safety, hygienic design, production efficiency and profitability, sustainability, energy savings, optimization of production processes and digitalization.

  • Meat snacks
  • New flavors and aromas
  • Convenience food ( take-away products)
  • Vegetable and cultured meat
  • Gluten-free products
  • Healthy industrial products
  • Increased automation
  • Nanotechnology
  • Ultrasound
  • Microencapsulation
  • Robotics
  • High Pressure Processing Technologies
  • Machine vision
  • Food safety
  • Equipment versatility
  • Sustainability and energy efficiency
  • Hygienic design
  • Process traceability

Our
members

The community is made up of innovative companies that offer the most advanced technology.

We are part of
amec

To be part of amec allows us to be integrated into the main ecosystem of internationalized industrial companies in Spain. From amec we work to make this a competitive and internationalized community , promoting its anticipation, adaptability, collaboration, glocalization and sustainability.

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Which companies are leading

amec alimentec?

Find out which companies are leading the group. To do so, we invite you to visit the‘corporate structure‘ section of our entity, where you will confirm that we are a completely self-governed entity by member companies.

Director of amec alimentec

Carmina Castellà has been at the helm for 2 years of amec alimentecShe has made the entity a reference at national level and a recognized interlocutor at European level.

She is an experienced executive in the management of Sector Associations. She is knowledgeable about trends, international reference fairs,technicalmagazines and the entities of the food sector at Spanish and international level.

We are members of and collaborate with:

We are members of the Organizing Committee of the two main fairs of the sector in Spain.

We are members of the Board of Directors of what is the sector’s main platform.

We are members of its Organizing Committee.

We collaborated in the design and development of part of the International Promotion Plan for the two fairs.

We collaborate closely with the most important universities and technological centers in the sector.

We hold the presidency of the Technical Committee for Standardization CTN 317 MACHINERY FOR THE AGRI-FOOD INDUSTRY.

We collaborate with the main national and international technical magazines of the sector.

We collaborate with foreign trade entities.

We collaborate with these associations and many others.

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