drinktec 2025 to Unlock Future of Beverages, Liquid Food
Preparations for drinktec 2025 are entering their final and most intensive phase. With strong registration figures, the world’s leading trade fair for the beverage and liquid food industry is once again demonstrating its impressive standing.
Held since 1951, Munich will once again serve as the global summit for raw materials, technology, and machinery related to the production and marketing of beverages and liquid foods. From 15 to 19 September 2025, over 1,000 exhibitors from more than 50 countries will converge at Trade Fair Center Messe München to showcase the latest trends in beverage and liquid food production. Spanning over 73,000 sq m, exhibitors will present solutions and expertise covering the entire value chain, addressing all industry challenges.
Rolf M. Keller, Managing Director of YONTEX GmbH & Co. KG – the event organiser – underlines the importance of drinktec within the global beverage and liquid food market: “drinktec remains closely aligned with market needs, and this year’s edition is no exception. The strong response to drinktec 2025 is a testament to this strategic alignment.” With the 2025 edition, the industry affirms the breadth of technologies and solutions available internationally for beverage and liquid food production.
The familiar distribution of one-third domestic and two-third international exhibitors will again be maintained this year. Markus Kosak, Executive Director drinktec Cluster at YONTEX GmbH & Co. KG, says, “The international exhibitor base is at the core of drinktec’s identity and underscores its strength. For visitors, this means that drinktec is uniquely positioned as the go-to platform for discovering future-oriented solutions tailored to the beverage and liquid food sectors worldwide.”
Liquidrome: Foundation for Future Dialogue
Looking ahead, the supporting programme has undergone a conceptual redesign. “Our new format Liquidrome will serve as a forum for knowledge exchange, exhibitor presentations, and interaction with academia and research. With Liquidrome, we are laying the foundation for the dialogue of the future.”
The interactive space will broaden information access for visitors and offer insights into novel product concepts, the use of innovative technologies, and emerging market strategies. In close coordination with VDMA’s Food Processing and Packaging Machinery Association – drinktec’s conceptual sponsor – the content will be structured around three central themes.
Circularity & Resource Management: Under this theme, topics such as water reuse and wastewater treatment will be addressed. Presentations will explore how global requirements for water conservation can be implemented from various perspectives. Additional focal points include energy recovery, the use of by-products from production processes, and more efficient packaging material usage. The implementation of the EU’s Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) will also be reflected in the lecture programme.
Data2Value: Under this guiding theme, drinktec 2025 will focus on process transparency and the integration of machine learning and AI-based applications. Topics include flavour prediction models and predictive maintenance. These approaches also apply to cleaning process design: AI combined with machine learning enables the detection of contamination levels in containers and triggers self-adjusting cleaning cycles accordingly.
Lifestyle & Health: This key topic provides inspiration on flavour solutions for low- or no-alcohol beers, alcohol-free wines, and fermented beverages – empowering manufacturers to tap into this growing segment with optimised recipes. With 46% of consumers identifying physical and mental health as top priority, functional drinks enriched with minerals, vitamins, amino acids, fibre, or probiotics are expected to gain market share. The addition of plant-based proteins, some derived from brewing by-products, will also become increasingly important.
Startup Zone
This special area, within Liquidrome, has seen a particularly strong response this year. An exciting range of German startups will be promoted with ‘Innovation made in Germany’, a joint stand sponsored by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection (BMWK). Additionally, numerous international startups will also be participating.
The startups will demonstrate their potential for innovation, particularly in IT solutions for the industry. Maintenance management systems, cloud technologies, and other digital solutions are a key focus. Young companies are also concentrating on energy and heat supply for beverage production and the development of innovative additives.
The Health Bar, integrated within Liquidrome, will showcase concepts for health-promoting drinks, a segment consistently gaining market share, with forecasts predicting global annual growth rates of over 8% through 2028. The New Beverage Concept (NBC), another special area will also present ideas for novel ingredients and flavour variations – even beyond the health-oriented sphere.
Positive Global Outlook
In recent months, the exhibition team, in cooperation with VDMA, conducted an extensive international outreach programme. Roadshows were conducted in around 20 countries that facilitated high-level industry engagement. “The global response has been overwhelmingly positive. With the support of local associations, we gained valuable insights into the strategic and economic priorities of our target markets. This exchange is absolutely vital to ensuring drinktec remains perfectly aligned,” adds Kosak.
Opening hours: (15-18 September 2025) 9 am – 6 pm, (19 September 2025) 9 am – 5 pm.
