IFAT 2008, the 15th International Trade Fair for Water, Sewage, Refuse and Recycling, will be held May 5 to 9, 2008, at the New Munich Trade Fair Centre in Munich, Germany.
The international trade fair for the environmental sector will revolve around environmental solutions. It will be oriented to the future of environmental technology, focusing on comprehensive solution approaches.
Event organizers are striving to make IFAT 2008 more international than ever, and to discover new potential in growing markets. This year’s event will have more international exhibitors, more acquisition activities in growing markets and more international cooperation with trade associations and organizations than ever before.
IFAT is designed to be innovative, focusing on new product groups; comprehensive, covering the water, sewage, refuse and recycling sectors in their entirety; international, with visitors and exhibitors from around the world; and informative, with a related events program that creates synergy.
Attendees can profit from the global diversity of environmental-technology tasks at IFAT. While demand for high-tech solutions and machinery is high, there is also a growing need for customized technologies and island solutions. Customized technologies are considered the key to success both in threshold and industrialized nations.
New topics this year such as coastal protection/flood control and waste-to-energy concepts take changing climate conditions and the growing lack of resources into account.
A record number of companies participated in IFAT 2005. There were 2,222 exhibitors from 36 countries, 29% from countries other than Germany. A total of 109,000 people from 166 countries attended that year’s event.
The main themes of the related-events program in 2008 include technical and scientific topics that pertain to water, sewage and refuse; sustainability; climate change; solid waste as a source of energy and biogas; disaster management; and region and country specials.
Admission tickets can be purchased in advance at IFAT 2008’s website: http://www.ifat.de. More information on the opportunities available at the event, as well as suggestions for travel arrangements, can also be found at the website.
Source: IFAT 2008
