Sweets & Snacks 2026

Rovema North America is excited to exhibit at Sweets & Snacks, which will take place May 19-21 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The snack and candy industry has changed faster in the last five years than in the previous twenty. Consumer demand for sustainable packaging keeps climbing. Retailers expect shelf-ready formats at lower cost. Plant teams are doing more with fewer people. And the films you ran successfully last year may not behave the same way this year.

That is why we are heading to the 2026 Sweets & Snacks Expo, May 19 to 21 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The Rovema North America team will be at Booth 6117, ready for the conversations that matter to producers and co-packers working through these exact problems.

What is the 2026 Sweets & Snacks Expo?

The Sweets & Snacks Expo is the largest trade-only event focused on the candy and snack industries. The 2026 show brings more than 1,000 exhibitors and thousands of industry professionals to Las Vegas for three days of new product showcases, educational sessions, and networking. A pre-show Supplier Showcase runs May 18 and 19 ahead of the main floor opening.

Registration is open to qualified industry professionals through the Sweets & Snacks Expo website.

For producers evaluating their packaging strategy, this is one of the few events of the year that brings buyers, brand teams, ops leaders, and equipment partners into the same room.

What packaging challenges are snack and candy producers solving in 2026?

Four pressures keep surfacing in our conversations with customers across the segment.

• Fragile and inconsistent products. Chips, crackers, baked snacks, and panned candies behave differently from one batch to the next. When product density changes mid-run, charges string out, seal contamination spikes, and reject rates climb.
• The shift to mono-material and paper films. Retailers and brand owners are pushing recyclable structures into shelf categories that previously ran on multi-layer laminates. The new films seal at different temperatures and pressures, and many existing baggers were not built to run them at speed.
• Throughput per square foot. New production capacity rarely comes with new floor space. Producers want more output from the footprint they already have.
• Labor and changeover complexity. Skilled operators are harder to find and harder to retain. The line that depends on tribal knowledge to change over cleanly is the line that loses uptime.

How does Rovema help snack and candy producers solve these problems?

Rovema designs and builds VFFS baggers, cartoning systems, and end-of-line equipment for the food and consumer goods industries, with more than 1,100 machines installed across North America and a manufacturing footprint built under one roof in Germany.

For the snack and candy segment, a few capabilities come up most often:

• The BVC Series handles pillow bags, gusseted bags, block bottom bags, and stand-up pouches in stainless steel, with Sense&Seal standard. Sense&Seal detects product in the seal area, pauses the seal motion before contact, and resumes once the path is clear. Operators stop manually clearing seal jaws, and producers stop replacing damaged ones.
• The BVR 230 Snack is built around the product behavior and bag styles common to chips, pretzels, popcorn, and similar formats.
• The SBS Twin runs two form, fill, and seal stations under a single bagger frame. La Molisana doubled their bag output with only a 19 percent increase in footprint, reaching up to 160 bags per minute. The same principle scales to high-volume snack and confectionery applications where floor space is the constraint.
• Premium Seal and Aromaperm sealing technologies extend the range of films a machine can run, including thicker barrier structures and paper-based materials, without giving up seal integrity or speed.

Every machine ships with a written Efficiency Statement, a legally binding performance guarantee that defines the minimum throughput, uptime, and quality you can expect under your product and film conditions.

What is the best way to connect with Rovema at the show?

Two options work well, depending on how specific your project is.

• Book a meeting in advance. If you have a project in mind, sending us your application details before the show lets us bring the right specialist to the conversation. Reach out through rovema-na.com to schedule a time slot during the expo.
• Walk the floor and stop by Booth 6117. Our team will be available throughout the show to talk through specific applications, film challenges, line configurations, or capital project questions.

Whether you are evaluating your first VFFS investment, planning a line replacement, or exploring how to move to recyclable films without losing throughput, we look forward to the conversation.

See you in Las Vegas.