ProPak Shenzhen – Shenzhen Food Processing & Packaging Exhibition 2026Shenzhen Food Processing and Packaging Expo: Dates & Visitor Guide

What is ProPak Shenzhen – Shenzhen Food Processing & Packaging Exhibition?

ProPak Shenzhen is the Greater Bay Area offshoot of ProPak China, the Shanghai processing and packaging show that Sinoexpo Informa Markets has run for three decades. The Shenzhen show started in 2024, and the 2026 edition is its third. It is one of the shows inside Connexion ShenZhen, Informa's October cluster at Shenzhen World, where it runs alongside HOTELEX Shenzhen (hotels and catering) and the HNC nutrition and health-food show. The organiser gives about 180,000 m², some 2,000 exhibitors and 120,000 expected buyers for the whole cluster. ProPak is the part aimed at factories.

The floor covers the path from raw ingredient to shipping carton. Processing equipment includes machines for drinks, fruit and vegetables, bakery, meat, noodles, soy products, condiments, confectionery and central kitchens. General machinery covers washing, sterilising, drying, cold storage, pumps and valves. Then come liquid and solid filling and packing machines, end-of-line equipment such as cartoning, overwrapping, labelling and coding, and robots, vision and smart warehousing. Packaging materials range from films, pouches and trays to glass, metal and moulded pulp. For 2026 the organiser names Fengchuang (die-cutting), Guanyi (aseptic filling for milk and juice), Sitaiyu (overwrapping), Chaoqiang (metal and X-ray foreign-body detection) and several hundred other mostly Chinese companies. The 2025 list included Youngsun, APS Intelligent Packaging, Alpha-Pack and BORUNTE robots.

Most visitors come from Guangdong's food, drink, dairy, condiment, health-food and ready-meal makers, along with contract packers and e-commerce and logistics firms. The organiser also lists home-appliance and 3C electronics companies among its buyers, which reflects how much of Shenzhen's packaging demand comes from non-food goods. The October date is chosen to fall in food companies' budget season and close to the autumn Canton Fair. Connexion offers overseas buyers a package that combines the two trips.

The forums are practical and in Chinese. The 2026 list covers dairy branding and packaging, food safety and green processing, functional-food packaging, AI and robotics for food plants (run with the Guangdong food and packaging machinery association), low-carbon compliance, and cost cutting in food manufacturing.

For a food brand or packaging buyer in South China, ProPak Shenzhen is a convenient place to see Chinese-made packing lines, many of them built by Guangdong companies, before planning factory visits.