BrauBeviale 2018
BrauBeviale will open the exhibition halls in Nuremberg from 13 to 15 November 2018. The exhibition team for the world’s biggest capital goods fair for the beverage industry this year made use of the scheduled break from the event’s three-year cycle to fine-tune the concept, ask around in the market and track down the hot topics affecting the industry so that they can be addressed in the next three-year programme. A comprehensive supporting programme aims to provide impetus for addressing all the challenges that the beverage sector is currently facing.
The Export Forum German Beverages with high-calibre speakers and networking opportunities at the forum will help manufacturers to make decisions about exporting their products. The European MicroBrew Symposium hosted by the Berlin-based research and teaching institute for brewing (Versuchs- und Lehranstalt für Brauerei, VLB) is intended for international craft brewers and brewpub operators. Another hot topic among brewers worldwide is heirloom brewer’s barley. This will be the focus of the Heirloom & Terroir Barley and Malt Symposium hosted by RMI Analytics. The BrauBeviale Forum will once again take place on all three days of the exhibition. The proven blend of talks, presentations, panel discussions and award ceremonies invites visitors to become informed about raw materials, technologies, entrepreneurship and marketing. The diversity of beverage specialities can be experienced in the Craft Drinks Area. With a total of around 7,500 participants over the three days of the last event, it represents a logical development of the Craft Beer Corner from the last trade fair cycle. The European Beer Star, which has been part of BrauBeviale since it was “born” in 2004, will also be awarded again at the event. In 65 categories, breweries from all over the world can submit their beers for inclusion in one of the most important beer competitions worldwide.
Various themed pavilions will present themselves as the focal point for certain issues tailored to specific groups of visitors, as the Artisan and Craft Beer Equipment and brau@home for micro-breweries and hobby brewers, or the “Sustainable Water Management in the Beverage Industry” pavilion – an issue that affects all drinks manufacturers and is becoming increasingly important at a time when raw material resources are becoming scarcer.
At the Special Show Innovative Beverage Packaging interesting examples of packaging innovations will be provided by the winners of the World Packaging Awards that will be presented from the World Packaging Organisation. The reasons why these products won their awards will be explained clearly to visitors. PET continues to be a topical and important issue. The quality association Wertstoffkette PET-Getränkeverpackungen e. V. will cover various approaches and present ideas and solutions for PET recycling.
