- More than 58,000 visitors explore innovations and trends at drinktec 2025
- drinktec reaffirms its position as the world’s leading trade fair for the beverage and liquid food industry
- Delegations from all major international players gather fresh insights
58,281 Visitors from 164 countries gathered inspiration for future product concepts, business strategies, and technical solutions. With 70 per cent of attendees coming from international markets, drinktec 2025 once again lived up to its reputation as the industry’s premier global platform. Approximately 30 per cent of visitors came from Germany, around 40 per cent from the rest of Europe, and the remaining 30 per cent from other regions worldwide.
Decision-makers from the world’s top 20 beverage corporations were once again in attendance, bringing large delegations to explore the future of beverage and liquid food production. At the same time, countless small and medium-sized enterprises from around the globe also used drinktec as a key platform for investment decisions. The event thus represents the full spectrum of industry players.
Presence of international exhibitors
A total of 1,117 exhibitors from 68 countries showcased solutions covering the entire value chain of beverage and liquid food production across a net exhibition area of 74,000 m². This year, particular focus was placed on modernisation projects, process optimisation, digitalisation, and strategies for developing new beverage concepts based on novel ingredients, formulations, and production methods. For many exhibitors, drinktec once again provided the stage to present their latest product innovations. Visitors could use the Innovation Guide to locate innovation hotspots within the exhibition halls; the guide will also be available online at drinktec.com from early October.
Highly visited networking hub Liquidrome
New to the portfolio was the Liquidrome, an interactive networking and discussion area. Through its diverse offerings, drinktec introduced a new dialogue format featuring expert presentations, panel discussions, and keynote speeches on the industry’s future topics, offering visitors fresh inspiration.
“The level of interest in the industry’s future topics has never been higher. The Liquidrome, with its programme of presentations and panel discussions, proved to be the perfect platform for expert exchange. It was extremely well attended and undoubtedly a highlight of this year’s event,” emphasised Richard Clemens, Managing Director of the VDMA Food Processing and Packaging Machinery Association, the event’s conceptual partner.
The Liquidrome area was complemented by a Health Bar, offering tastings of health-focused product innovations, which attracted great interest among visitors. The expanded Startup Area with 20 national and international startups once again highlighted drinktec as a fertile ground for innovative product and solution approaches.
“This year’s drinktec has once again impressively demonstrated that Munich provides the perfect platform for the global beverage and liquid food industry. The exhibitor and visitor numbers underscore the importance of high-level exchanges and deep insights into technology and innovation. With its innovations and live demonstrations, drinktec has as always won over a great many visitors,”
summarised Markus Kosak, Executive Director of drinktec.
“We look forward to the next drinktec from 11 to 15 September 2028!”
Testimonials from drinktec 2025
For five days, our exhibitors engaged intensively with their international customers. There was particularly strong interest in intelligent circular systems as well as digital and AI-based technologies. Everyone is highly satisfied with the results. drinktec 2025 has once again proven itself as the world’s leading trade fair for the beverage and liquid food industry.
Richard Clemens, Managing Director, VDMA Food Processing and Packaging Machinery Association
drinktec 2025 has once again shown itself to be the platform where the industry discusses its key priorities: efficiency gains, digitalisation, and sustainable solutions. We took the opportunity to present our approaches to a wide professional audience. The high level of international participation and the presence of key decision-makers made the fair a highly valuable forum for us.
Dr Reimar Gutte, Senior Vice President BU EMEA Liquid & Powder Technologies, GEA
For us, drinktec 2025 was a highly successful trade fair. The international profile of visitors was once again confirmed – we welcomed numerous players from Central Europe, overseas, and the southern hemisphere. Despite some uncertainty related to ongoing tariff discussions, we were able to conclude several deals directly at the fair, which makes us particularly pleased.
Bastian Heuft, Managing Director, Heuft Systemtechnik GmbH
drinktec is simply the hotspot of the beverage and liquid food industry. The outstanding quality of visitors in 2025 confirmed this once again. We welcomed a highly international audience and look back on an extremely successful event. Visitors were especially focused on our sustainable products across various packaging formats and coating technologies. We were able to present our solutions and services in great detail to numerous industry professionals.
Florian Lerche, Head of Corporate Communications, KHS Group
For Krones, drinktec is more than just a trade fair – it marks a milestone on the path towards connected, sustainable, and efficient production of the future. We look back on five exciting days with excellent customer discussions, fascinating presentations at the Krones Forum, and a great deal of visitor interest. Topics ranged from advanced process technologies and energy-efficient filling and packaging solutions to fully automated intralogistics concepts.
Christoph Klenk, CEO, Krones AG
This year, we chose drinktec as the platform to launch our innovation. We aligned our activities specifically with this event. For us, drinktec offers the ideal stage to combine emotion with technology, ensuring that our machines and solutions remain memorable. This year once again, numerous delegations and a remarkable number of visitors came to our stand.
Marcello Ferrozzi, VP Corporate Communications, Portfolio, Innovation & Marketing, Sidel S.p.A.
drinktec 2025 was a very active and interesting trade fair. Our focused visitors who were really looking for solutions, started preliminary discussions on a number of projects and have drawn a thoroughly positive summary of this drinktec. Also, our customers are making a clear commitment to drinktec.
The Team from SIPA S.p.A.
Susanne Blüml, PR Managerin drinktec
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