About Pharma+Food

Pharma+Food

Pharma+Food is the German specialist journal for decision-makers in production, equipment and organisation of the pharma, food and cosmetics industries, published six times a year plus special issues by the Hüthig Medien GmbH in Heidelberg (Im Weiher 10, 69121 Heidelberg). In its 29th volume year in 2026 — founded around 1997 — it conveys, in application reportages, specialist contributions, interviews, product information and short reports, knowledge and industry information to all who must produce hygienically. The editor-in-chief is Jona Göbelbecker; the managing director Moritz Warth. The journal is a member of the Deutsche Fachpresse and the IVW. The annual subscription is 150 euros plus shipping (161.10 inland, 172.20 abroad); the single issue 27 euros; the online subscription 138 euros — the B2B journal's price for the investment decision-makers.

Overview

Pharma+Food is a German-language B2B specialist journal for hygiene process technology, published in Heidelberg. It appears six times a year plus special issues (the POWTECH TECHNOPHARM fair guide among them), in DIN A4 format. The short characterisation: "Pharma+Food is the specialist journal for decision-makers in production, equipment and organisation of the pharma, food and cosmetics industries." The readers: the specialist and executive staff, planners, decision-makers and providers of components, plants and services of hygiene process technology — the investment decision-makers reached directly. The production managers — the pharma, food and cosmetics plants' operations executives — read the journal for the hygiene technology's applications: the cleaning processes, the sterile designs, the validation strategies. The equipment planners — the plant engineers, the project managers — read it for the components and plants: the valves, pumps, sensors and measuring devices. The organisation's decision-makers — the quality managers, the validation officers — read it for the regulated environment's requirements: the GMP, the HACCP, the EHEDG guidelines. The providers — the component manufacturers, the plant builders, the service companies — read it for the customers' needs and advertise in it: the journal establishing the direct contact to the investment decision-makers. The programme: the application reportages — the plants in operation — the specialist contributions — the hygiene technology's knowledge — the interviews — the industry's voices — the product information and short reports — the market's news. The rubrics: the specialist reports, backgrounds and opinions; the data and figures, analyses, market overviews; the special and fair issues; the diverse specials and topic focuses. The editor-in-chief Jona Göbelbecker's motto: "Know-how is the catalyst for efficiency in the hygiene process."

History

Pharma+Food's 29th volume year in 2026 dates the founding to around 1997: the journal for the hygienic production in the pharma, food and cosmetics industries' regulated environments. The Hüthig Verlag — publishing specialist media for industry and technology at its Heidelberg headquarters since 1925 — gave the journal the century-old technical publisher's authority: the "ausgewiesene Könner, nicht selten die Besten ihres Faches" as authors, editors and redactors. The 1925 founding — the Weimar Republic's technical press — makes Hüthig one of the German specialist publishers' veterans: the century through the dictatorship, the war, the division, the reunification, the digitalisation. The modern media house — the cross-medial quality across print, online, congresses, symposia, special shows, web videos, direct marketing — is the century-old publisher's 21st-century form: the technical know-how's multimedia house. The Hüthig Medien GmbH — the modern media house serving cross-medially all communication channels: print, online, congresses, symposia, special shows, web videos, direct marketing, plus the book programme for the electrical and building technology — is the journal's corporate home. The special issues — the POWTECH TECHNOPHARM fair guide, the wall calendar — extend the six issues into the service formats, giving the advertisers the fair-year's premium inventory. The IVW and Deutsche Fachpresse memberships certify the journal's standing. The 29 years span the hygiene process technology's modernisation: the EHEDG guidelines, the CIP/SIP automation, the single-use systems, the digitalisation. The EHEDG guidelines — the European Hygienic Engineering & Design Group's standards — hygienised the equipment design: the cleanable surfaces, the drainable geometries. The CIP/SIP automation — the cleaning and sterilisation in place — automated the hygiene: the production without the disassembly. The single-use systems — the disposable bags, filters and tubing — revolutionised the pharma production: the cleaning replaced by the disposal. The digitalisation — the sensors, the data, the predictive maintenance — is the newest wave: the hygiene process measured and optimised. Through each wave the journal reported: the application reportages from the plants, the specialist contributions on the technologies.

Coverage and Content

The journal's programme is the hygienic production's technology. The application reportages: the plants in operation — the pharma, food and cosmetics factories' hygiene processes reported on site. The specialist contributions: the hygiene process technology's knowledge — the cleaning validation, the sterile design, the contamination control. The interviews: the industry's decision-makers — the plant managers, the technology providers. The product information: the components, plants and services — the valves, the pumps, the sensors, the measuring devices like the Trotec SL3000 ultrasonic leak detector ("Leck gefunden, Geld gespart" — the millimetre leak's five-figure annual costs). The leak detector's story — the inaudible ultrasound made visible, the stereo headphones and the display — is the journal's product journalism: the technology explained, the savings quantified, the decision-makers informed. The valves and pumps — the hygienic design's core components — are the recurring product beat: the new generations, the certifications, the applications. The market overviews: the data and figures, the analyses — the hygiene technology's markets measured. The fair issues: the POWTECH TECHNOPHARM and the industry's meeting points. The specials: the topic focuses — the diverse specials on the current themes. The journalism is the B2B technical press's: the application reportage, the specialist contribution, the product information — the know-how for the hygiene process.

Organization and Ownership

Pharma+Food is published by the Hüthig Medien GmbH (Im Weiher 10, 69121 Heidelberg; pharma-food.de; sabine.wegmann@huethigmedien.de, holger.wald@huethigmedien.de) — the Heidelberg technical publisher since 1925. The managing director is Moritz Warth; the editor-in-chief Jona Göbelbecker (06221-489 206); the Head of Sales Sabine Wegmann; the Chief Sales Officer for the Industry/Automotive cluster Sebastian Wörle. The commercial model is the B2B specialist journal's: the subscriptions — 150 euros plus shipping annually, 27 euros single, 138 euros online — the hygiene-technology industry's advertising via the media data, the special issues and the fair guide, the wall calendar, the online advertising, and the address rental. The Deutsche Fachpresse and IVW memberships certify the standing. Note: the publisher's seat is Heidelberg; the row's city field lists Würzburg. Detailed circulation figures are not publicly confirmed in the sources available.

Digital Presence

The journal's website is pharma-food.de — the daily updated information and the service offerings, plus the markt.pharma-food.de company directory — the providers' search, the industry's yellow pages. The e-paper — the iKiosk digital edition (101 euros annually) — carries the journal into the digital subscription. The newsletter subscriptions extend the six issues into the continuous information. The web videos and the online advertising are the cross-media channels. In the German process-industry press landscape Pharma+Food occupies the hygiene-process pole: the Heidelberg journal for the pharma, food and cosmetics production — 29 volume years, the application reportages and the market overviews, the POWTECH guide — from the Im Weiher to the hygienic plants, six times a year plus specials, in print and online. The hygiene-process specialisation — the journal for all who must produce hygienically, across the three industries — is the positioning: the pharma's GMP, the food's HACCP, the cosmetics' ISO 22716 — the regulated hygiene's common journal. The Hüthig century — the publisher since 1925 — is the authority: the technical publisher's know-how behind the journal's know-how.