IFAT Munich. Innovations with global impact. Keeping water in smart circulation.
IFAT Munich showcases solutions for future-ready water management across the entire water cycle. This includes plant technology, efficient water networks, services and energy solutions as well as water reuse. Technologies meet the real-world needs of municipalities and industry – supporting secure, efficient and resilient water supply and management.
Water management, ready for new challenges.
From treatment and water networks to wastewater management and reuse, IFAT Munich brings together solutions for municipal and industrial water management. The focus is on technologies and services that use water more efficiently, reduce losses, close loops, and make infrastructure more resilient to water scarcity and extreme weather. As an exhibitor, you show how water security and resource efficiency can work together in practice.
The key facts of IFAT Munich 2026.
What sets IFAT Munich apart. And makes it unique.
- Strong focus on solutions for water management
- All industry-relevant trade associations Local trade associations
- Global marketplace of solution-oriented innovation drivers
- Unique stage for state-of-the-art solutions
- Largest networking platform thanks to the presence of all market participants
- Decision-makers and potential customers willing to invest
- Comprehensive industry update in theory and practice
- Live demonstrations under realistic conditions
Our focus: innovation. Our goal: the future.
The world’s leading trade fair IFAT Munich brings municipalities, cities, industry, and science together with the providers turning technological challenges into practical solutions. As an exhibitor, you position your company where resilient infrastructure, efficient resource use, and new value creation through circularity are taking shape – and meet the decision-makers and partners driving this transformation.
More market. More internationality. More presence.
Around 142,000 trade fair participants from 160 countries and regions - including all key players. Plus 8.1 million social media impressions with a reach of 6.7 million and a media reach of 793.7 million through PR. For your company, this means more market presence and visibility on an international level: "Visibility with global impact".
More than trade fair participants: potential business partners.
Whether industry or municipality. Science or politics. Regional or international. Established player or newcomer. Startup or investor. IFAT Munich brings you together with all market participants. This makes the world's leading trade fair ideal for constructive discussions, successful networking and for tapping into new target groups within the global environmental industry. For: "Business with global impact".
What IFAT Munich Exhibitors Are Saying
- 94% of exhibitors rate IFAT Munich as good to excellent
- 95% of exhibitors rate the quality of visitors as good to excellent
- 94% of exhibitors appreciate the internationality of the visitors
- 96% of exhibitors plan to take part in IFAT Munich again
- 98% of exhibitors would recommend IFAT Munich to business partners and colleagues
- 94% of exhibitors were able to successfully present their innovations and new products
(Source: IFAT Munich 2026 exhibitor survey, Gelszus Messe-Marktforschung)
Offering orientation to others. And find it for yourself.
Knowledge transfer in theory and practice. The IFAT Munich event program includes 461 substantive lectures, panels and presentations as well as 82 demonstrations as part of our live demonstrations on five topics and three contests as well as 20 solution tours on 12 topics. Many formats offer you additional opportunities to present yourself in a topic- or target group-specific context.
Whether on guided tours directly to your stand, in the spotlight areas on topics such as plastics and battery recycling, in our demo parks for large machines and systems or as part of the cross-industry presentations on the Orange Stage: this is all about your state-of-the-art solutions. And "Know-how with global impact".
From practice for practice:
You can experience first-hand the top performance that man and machine are capable of during our live demonstrations on the outdoor area. Here, your innovative environmental technology is put to use under realistic conditions - amazement included. Organized by our partners, each demonstration is a crowd-puller in its own right. These include:
- BDSV - Steel and metal recycling in the era of green steel
- rbv - Pipeline Challenge
- DWA - Water Skills - the professional competitions
- VAK - Truck in Action
- VDBUM - Sewer construction without emissions
- VDMA: Practical days: Biomass and crushing zone
One location. Many advantages.
As an exhibitor at IFAT Munich, you benefit on the one hand from the location advantages of the business metropolis of Munich with optimum accessibility from all destinations; on the other hand from the added value of one of the largest and most modern trade fair locations in the world. In addition to its advantageous infrastructure, prestigious halls and outdoor areas and a wide range of on-site services, this also includes direct contact with the project team. What can we do for you?
Homebase: Munich. Radius of action: worldwide.
World market leader in the truest sense of the word. The IFAT network is active around the globe and offers innovations, resources and solutions that are specifically tailored to the challenges of the various markets. The leading trade fairs in China, India, Brazil, South Africa, Singapore, Saudi Arabia and Turkey together form a global network for decision-makers in the environmental technology industry.
Become part of the solution.
As an exhibitor at the world's leading trade fair IFAT Munich 2028.