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IFAT Munich Solution Tours: Your Innovation in the Spotlight

By joining the IFAT Munich Solution Tours, you bring your innovation directly to where attention matters most: your target audience.

With more than 3,200 exhibitors and 142,000 visitors from 170 countries, IFAT Munich is a platform of global significance—but also a place where visibility becomes a challenge. Because attention is limited.

IFAT Solution Tours put your innovation in the spotlight—in front of an audience that not only recognizes its potential, but actively seeks it out.

An exhibitor informs a group of visitors about modern drive concepts for municipal machines and vehicles during an IFAT Munich solution tour
As part of the IFAT Munich solution tour, a group of trade fair visitors will be guided to selected exhibitors at IFAT who will be presenting their solutions for environmental issues

The offer at a glance

At IFAT Munich Solution Tours, an experienced industry expert serves as a tour guide and leads an international group of visitors to four to five exhibitors whose solutions perfectly match the theme of the tour. The tour language is English.

Our services in detail:

  • Each tour begins with a technically sound keynote speech by our tour guide on the respective tour theme.
  • As an exhibitor, you will have 10 minutes at your booth to present your solution and talk to the tour participants.
  • We ensure that visitors have a thematic interest by requiring them to register free of charge. After the tour, we will send you the contact details of your tour participants.
  • We bring you into contact with your potential customers efficiently and personally.

Visitor information on the IFAT Munich Solution Tours

Are you looking for information on how to participate in one of our Solution Tours as a visitor? Then check out our visitor page.

Exciting people use the Solution Tours, including new target groups. That's why we're here. I would love to do it again next time.
A male exhibitor and a male visitor at IFAT Munich talking about a product
Hermann Sewerin GmbH
  • participating exhibitor in 2024

Your benefits at a glance

  • Targeted visibility – you present your solution to an audience with genuine interest.
  • Two groups per topic – giving you double the visibility.
  • Promotion in the official tour program – visible in the app, website, mailings, and visitor planning.
  • Expert classification by the guides – your product is not just shown, but embedded.
  • Participant contacts for your follow-up – for efficient lead generation.

Key Facts IFAT Munich Solution Tours (IFAT Munich 2024)

658

registered visitors

34

visitors per tour (on average)

55

of tour visitors in management or C-level positions

49

of tour visitors from 61 countries

How the tours get to your stand

Do you have a product or service you would like to present as part of one of the tours? We look forward to your participation.

Please send us the following information by email:
• brief description of your solution (max. 3–5 sentences)
• Assignment to one of the tours
• Contact details

Official registration takes place via the exhibitor shop.

Click through: Impressions from our Solution Tours

Participants of the IFAT Munich Solution Tour walk across the IFAT Munich exhibition grounds on their way to an exhibitor
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IFAT solution tour: Sustainability management using the example of the municipal vehicle sector
A male exhibitor explains his solution to one of the challenges facing the environmental industry to a group of participants on the IFAT Munich Solution Tour
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IFAT solution tour: Sustainability management using the example of the municipal vehicle sector
Visitors on the Solution Tour “Technology development in drinking water analysis” at the IFAT Munich exhibition grounds
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Hall B4.139/338, Visitors at the Solution Tour "Technology Development in Water Analysis
Visitors on the DWA's “Digitalization in the German water industry” solution tour are shown on a cell phone display
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Visitors on the DWA's "Digitization in the German Water Industry" Solution Tour
Visitors on the DWA's “Digitalization in the German water industry” solution tour listen to an exhibitor
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Visitors on the DWA's "Digitization in the German Water Industry" Solution Tour
A group of visitors on the DWA's “Digitalization in the German water industry” solution tour listen to a presentation
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Visitors on the DWA's "Digitization in the German Water Industry" Solution Tour
Participants of the IFAT Munich Solution Tour walk across the IFAT Munich exhibition grounds on their way to an exhibitor
A male exhibitor explains his solution to one of the challenges facing the environmental industry to a group of participants on the IFAT Munich Solution Tour
Visitors on the Solution Tour “Technology development in drinking water analysis” at the IFAT Munich exhibition grounds
Visitors on the DWA's “Digitalization in the German water industry” solution tour are shown on a cell phone display
Visitors on the DWA's “Digitalization in the German water industry” solution tour listen to an exhibitor
A group of visitors on the DWA's “Digitalization in the German water industry” solution tour listen to a presentation

The Solution Tours at IFAT Munich 2026

Solution Tours for Water Management

  • Digitalization in Drinking Water Supply
  • Analysis and Drinking Water Treatment Methods
  • Maintaining Infrastructure & Climate Adaption
  • Digitalization in the Wastewater Sector
  • Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive

More information about the contents of the Solution Tours

Solution Tours for Waste Management and Municipal Vehicles

  • Digitalization in Waste Management
  • New Approaches to Plastic Waste Recycling
  • Drive Systems of Tomorrow

More information about the contents of the Solution Tours

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Top experts from wastewater to circularity: Meet our tour guides

  • Head of the Water Supply Systems Unit at DVGW e. V.
  • Civil engineer specializing in structural analysis, urban water management, and hydraulic engineering
  • Areas of expertise: Drinking water infrastructure, corrosion and corrosion protection, national and international regulation and standardization

  • Head of the Water Supply Systems Unit at DVGW e. V.
  • Civil engineer specializing in structural analysis, urban water management, and hydraulic engineering
  • Areas of expertise: Drinking water infrastructure, corrosion and corrosion protection, national and international regulation and standardization

  • Until 2021, Deputy Managing Director and Head of the Environmental Technology Department at bifa Umweltinstitut GmbH
  • Focus on plastics recycling and process analysis
  • Many years of research in the field of recycling management
  • Focus: Plastic recycling, mechanical processing, ecological process assessment, strategy consulting for industry and public authorities
  • Combines scientific depth and application perspective – especially where technology meets regulatory and economic requirements

  • Managing Director of VAK, the Association of the Work Equipment and Municipal Vehicle Industry
  • Focus on energy-efficient and resource-saving work equipment and municipal vehicles
  • Active participation in specialist and standards committees for the progressive, industry-specific definition of standards and regulations

The Solution Tours at IFAT Munich 2026 in detail

Find out more about the content of each Solution Tour here. Please note: All tours are conducted in English.

Tour: Digitalization in Drinking Water Supply

  • AI systems for network control, digital twins, building information modeling
  • Cybersecurity for critical infrastructures
  • Cloud-based monitoring and process control

Tour Guide: Peter Frenz

Tour: Analysis and Drinking Water Treatment Methods

  • Sensors, analytics and monitoring to detect PFAS, pesticides and trace substances
  • Process for water treatment and reuse
  • Control technology and quality assurance during operation

Tour Guide: Peter Frenz

Tour: Maintaining Infrastructure & Climate Adaption

  • Leakage detection and determination of water losses (Infrastructure Leakage Index ILI)
  • Refurbishment and repair methods, and condition assessment (life cycle)
  • Innovative inspection procedures
  • Network documentation

Tour Guide: Peter Frenz

Tour: Digitalization in the Wastewater Sector

  • Building information modeling for wastewater treatment plants and network planning
  • Cloud-based data analysis for control & resource efficiency
  • Early warning systems for overload, backwater & heavy rain

Tour Guide: Dr. Friedrich Hetzel

Tour: Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive

  • Process for removing micropollutants (4th purification stage)
  • Measures to reduce emissions & optimize energy
  • Monitoring solutions to comply with new limit values

Tour Guide: Dr. Friedrich Hetzel

Tour: Digitalization in Waste Management

  • AI-supported systems for sorting, contaminant detection, or process optimization
  • IoT and sensor technology for system monitoring, separation quality analysis, and route planning
  • Platforms & data management for cross-process coordination
  • Digital tools for training, forecasts, or citizen participation

Tour Guide: Dr. Siegfried Kreibe

Tour: New Approaches to Plastic Waste Recycling

  • AI-supported image processing & sensor technology for sorting and contaminant analysis
  • Machine-to-machine communication for improved production and processing of recyclates
  • Digital platforms for process management along the recycling chain
  • Tools for recycling-friendly design
  • Mechanical & chemical processing technology

Tour Guide: Dr. Siegfried Kreibe

Tour: Drive Systems of Tomorrow

  • Alternative drives in practice
  • Autonomous and semi-automated systems
  • System integration & cooperation

Tour Guide: Anna Breimer

How the tours get to your stand

Do you have a product or service you would like to present as part of one of the tours? We look forward to your participation.

Please send us the following information by email:
• brief description of your solution (max. 3–5 sentences)
• Assignment to one of the tours
• Contact details

Official registration takes place via the exhibitor shop.

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