No doubt many of you reading this have already booked flights to Barcelona at the start of October. CPhI Worldwide and its co-located events are due to make their Barcelona debut at Conference Centre 1, Fira de Barcelona Gran Via, on 4 to 6 October, 2016.

CPhI’s main focus is on pharmaceutical ingredients, but over the years the event has also expanded to include ICSE (outsourcing and contract services), P-MEC (pharma machinery, technology and equipment), InnoPack (packaging and drug delivery) and FDF (finished dosage formulation – new for 2016). The location of CPhI Worldwide usually varies between Germany, Spain and France, but separate CPhI events have also been set up by the organizers in other countries including China, India, Turkey, Japan, Korea, North America, Russia and South East Asia. In 2015, CPhI Worldwide took place in Madrid, drawing over 36,000 attendees. As well as the main exhibition and trade show, a Pre-Connect Congress will take place on October 3, covering topics such as contract services, drug design and delivery, pharma ingredients, biologics and biosimilars, finished dosages and generics and pharma packaging.