11 - 15 September 2028

Trade Fair Center Messe München

World’s Leading Trade Fair for the Beverage and Liquid Food Industry

11 - 15 September 2028

Trade Fair Center Messe München

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The unique platform for innovation, networking & the future of the industry – 11-15 September 2028 in Munich.

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Review of drinktec 2025

Startup Zone

Entrepreneurial spirit met industry experience in Hall C4: in the Start-up Zone, young companies from all over the world presented their innovative solutions for the beverage and liquid food industry. Visionary technologies, bold business models and fresh perspectives – straight from the minds shaping the future. Anyone looking for inspiration found it here.

New Beverage Concepts

What will be in the bottle tomorrow? In the New Beverage Concepts Area in Hall C3, visitors to drinktec discovered and sampled the latest ideas and ingredients that are changing the world of beverages and liquid foods. From innovative sweetening concepts to natural colours and flavours to functional ingredients and clean label solutions – concentrated innovative power and fresh ideas awaited visitors here.

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Together with our customers, we drew a vision of the future at drinktec, which we are now putting into practice. drinktec forms the framework and is a central anchor point for our close customer relationships.

Raphael Weiß, Head of Digital Product Management, Krones

drinktec is a playground for new innovations, bringing together a large number of experts in one place: manufacturers, suppliers and users alike. The contacts and interactions at drinktec accelerate progress and shape new solutions for the industry.

Mattia Cenci, VP Innovation & Programme Management, Sidel

At drinktec, the global industry comes together in a compact time frame and in a highly concentrated location. This makes it very easy to understand the entire market from the perspective of both suppliers and users. At the same time, personal exchanges reveal new aspects that were not previously on the radar. Last but not least, the interpersonal contact and the tactile experience of an exhibit are not possible in a virtual space. And drinktec simply offers the platform to present a world first in an appropriate manner.

Julius Heim, Head of Sales, Kieselmann GmbH

drinktec is and remains the most important innovation stage for us. It makes our engineers' hearts beat faster and drives our sales team to peak performance. The drinktec trade show enables visitors to experience systems and solutions at first hand, feel their quality and see how precisely they work with their own eyes. Above all, however, it offers personal exchange on an equal footing. Trust, partnership and technology transfer arise precisely there – between people.

Tobias Wetzel, Geschäftsführer Sales and Service der KHS GmbH, Managing Director Sales and Service, KHS GmbH
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Keyfacts for drinktec

Show report drinktec 2025

1117

exhibitors from 68 countries

58281

visitors of which 70% international

11

exhibition halls with the entire spectrum of the beverage and liquid food industry

74000

net exhibition area

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Why attend?

drinktec is the world's leading trade fair for the beverage and liquid food industry

What drives the global beverage and liquid food industry? Exhibitors and visitors have been finding answers to this question at drinktec since 1951. 

Global business platform

As the world economic summit for the beverage and liquid food industry, drinktec brings the industry together in Munich every four years over five days. Solution providers and suppliers from all over the world meet national and global producers of beverages and liquid food. Manufacturer of raw materials and ingredients, supplier of process technology and machinery for filling and packaging of beer, soft drinks, water, fruit juice, milk and liquid dairy products, wine, sparkling wine and spirits as well as ketchup, soy sauce, cooking oil and other liquid food products are all represented.  

drinktec as an impulse generator

drinktec sees its task as advancing the global beverage and liquid food industry and creates a space for encounters, provides a stage for solutions and sets impulses for the future at the Munich Trade Fair Centre. 

Strong partner

With its technical expertise and global network, the VDMA (German Association for mechanical and plant engineering - Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau e. V.) supports drinktec as a conceptual sponsor. 

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Our partner event

BrauBeviale

One of the leading international capital goods exhibitions for the beverage industry with a focus on Europe. It brings the beverage industry together every year (except in the drinktec years) in the Exhibition Center Nuremberg and covers the entire process chain of beverage production.

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