The Ringier Technology Innovation Awards for industrial manufacturing were inaugurated by Ringier Trade Media in 2006. The Awards is now rewarded to a select group of innovators each year in China's food & beverage industry. The purpose of the Awards is to encourage, acknowledge and reward those individuals and companies who have developed a new idea, a new methodology, a new product or a new technology for manufacturing production efficiency, cost effectiveness, user convenience, which results in energy saving and more responsible clean manufacturing in the food & beverage industry. 2014 Ringier Technology Innovation – Food & Beverage Industry is officially supported by the trade show, FiA Hi Ni China 2014 which is organized by UBM Live and the Awards ceremony will be held at FiA Hi Ni China 2014. This provides winners with great brand exposure at the trade show.