drinktec 2025: Global meeting place for the beverage and liquid food industry

drinktec 2025 will bring together experts from the beverage and liquid food industry in Munich from 15 to 19 September 2025! drinktec aims to be the premiere platform for world firsts, where exhibitors from all over the world present the entire value chain with their innovative solutions for beverage and liquid food production. With the key topics of ‘Circularity & Resource Management’ and ‘Data2Value’, drinktec focuses intensively on the sustainable development of the industry. According to statistical data from the VDMA – based on Euromonitor data – visitors and exhibitors can expect global market growth worldwide.

Continuous growth and a strong future-oriented focus in the beverage and liquid food industry: With this claim, drinktec 2025 will once again be the top event in the beverage and liquid food industry scheduled from 15 to 19 September 2025 in Munich. Around eleven months before the event, the trade fair team is already working flat out for the optimal presentation of all stakeholders in the value chain as well as for a strong supporting programme to provide an comprehensive view of all aspects that are relevant to the industry now and in the future. ‘For this event, once again we have the complete programme for beverage and liquid food manufacturers,’ says Markus Kosak, Executive Director drinktec Cluster. ‘This is one of our most important unique selling points in the entire industry. Anyone who produces beverages or liquid foods cannot avoid drinktec. ’This is also reflected in the high approval ratings drinktec received for the previous events in the visitor survey: Consistently, more than 94% of visitors state that they come to the trade fair to find out about innovations and gain inspiration for their own processes.

The fact that the trade fair appearance is meeting with a positive market development in many regions of the world is illustrated by the data published by the Food Processing and Packaging Machinery Association of the VDMA e.V. at the start of drink technology India on 23 October 2024 in Mumbai. According to these figures, global sales of soft drinks will increase by 18% to 920 billion litres by 2028. The association is based on this data from the British market research institute Euromonitor International. Global sales of alcoholic beverages will grow by around 9% to just under 276 billion litres in 2028.

Impulses for future development

Once again, drinktec is positioning key topics for the year 2025. ‘It is important to us that our trade fair concept always provides answers to the questions that have the highest priority in the industry. And we also see it as the task of drinktec to provide incentive that goes far beyond current events, ’emphasises Kosak. In cooperation with the German Engineering Federation (VDMA), the trade fair team is consistently developing the content of drinktec to highlight not only the next step in product offerings and production scenarios, but also the step after that. ‘drinktec has long positioned itself as a driver of innovation in the industry and we want to live up to this claim again in 2025.’ Beatrix Fraese, Deputy Managing Director of the Food Processing and Packaging Machinery Association of the VDMA e.V., continues: ‘We can of course see which topics are on the industry's agenda and it is precisely these areas that we are focussing on at the trade fair’.

With ‘Circularity & Resource Management’, drinktec 2025 is once again delving deep into the topic of efficient resource utilisation - and this explicitly includes every step in the value chain. ‘Anyone who only thinks about packaging when it comes to this topic is clearly missing the point,’ emphasises Fraese. The industry's potential ranges from the use of raw materials from biological sources to circular solutions in all process steps in the beverage and liquid food industry and also includes the reuse of residual materials from the manufacturing process or other sources.

The team has announced a similar claim with the second key topic ‘Data2Value’, which will shed light on the future of data utilisation throughout the industry. ‘All data sources must be brought together here and offer useful perspectives for the beverage context. This also includes the use of tools that are bundled under the keyword ‘AI’ and can be used to solve a variety of tasks in the value chain of the beverage and liquid food industry in a coherent and efficient manner. ’drinktec will demonstrate in various formats and for different subject areas that this is not just something that can be utilised by large manufacturers worldwide, but is also suitable as a problem-solving approach for medium-sized companies.