With an update in a 2-month cycle, which is offered to VDMA members for download, we inform about current standardization projects of the DIN Standards Committee for Water Management (NAW).
With an update every two months, which is exclusively available for download to VDMA member companies, we provide you with up-to-date information on German exports of water and wastewater technology.
The calls for tenders for a 3rd tranche 2025 in the BMWK market development program have been published online on the website of the Federal Office of Economics and Export Control (BAFA).
On the initiative of the VDMA Forum Process Technology, several water trade fairs have once again made it into the German government's foreign trade fair program in 2025. The destinations are not just in the east and the west.
Exclusively for members, the specialist department for water and wastewater technology provides a new information service with its publication "Marketplace Water and Wastewater Technology".
For the orientation of VDMA member companies, the German Engineering Federation has created a new data sheet on foreign trade in machinery with Brazil.
In 2026 IFAT Munich is calling to Munich for a new term! Interested exhibitors can still register until April 30th, 2025.
Press release of the VDMA Process Plant and Equipment Association.
An industry expert of the Business Network Africa in Egypt identifies concrete business opportunities for German suppliers in the water industry.
An industry expert from the Africa Business Network in South Africa identifies specific business opportunities for German suppliers for a circular economy. One focus is also on projects in the water industry.
Every year, more than 600 VDMA members supply process technology components and systems to 150 countries around the world. Here you will find the current process technology trade fair lists.
Water efficiency in industry is becoming increasingly important. From drought to heavy rainfall - efficient water management is crucial for people, the environment and industry.
From May 19 to 23, 2025, the AHK Portugal is organizing a business initiation to Portugal on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection. It is part of the market development program for SMEs.
From March 31 to April 4, 2025, trAIDe GmbH is conducting a business initiation to Colombia on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection. It is part of the market development program for SMEs.
For the guidance of member companies, the VDMA Process Equipment and Machinery Association has updated a data sheet on foreign trade in machinery with Portugal.
For the orientation of VDMA member companies, the Association of Process Engineering Machinery and Equipment has created a new data sheet on foreign trade in machinery with Poland.
A new industry expert from the Africa Business Network in Côte d'Ivoire has been identifying specific business opportunities for German providers of environmental technologies since November 2024. One focus is on projects in the water sector.
The calls for tenders for the 1st tranche 2025 of the BMWK market development program have been published online on the website of the Federal Office of Economics and Export Control (BAFA).
Millions around the world are suffering from water shortages. Mechanical engineering offers innovative solutions for efficient water use and treatment.
The annual PTC Pipeline Technology Conference is Germany's leading industry networking event. The technical presentations are now freely available.
In our interview with Hans-Josef Fell, we shed light on Germany's untapped hydropower potential. According to the Energy Watch Group, the whole of eastern Germany could be supplied with renewable electricity if hydropower were optimally utilized.
In a world where the search for sustainable energy sources is becoming increasingly urgent, hydropower is making a comeback as one of the oldest and most reliable forms of energy generation.
On March 15, 2023, the Federal Cabinet adopted a National Water Strategy for Germany. This strategy and the action program lay the foundation for the sustainable management of water resources and water protection.
The International Space Station (ISS) as a pioneer.
Water crisis in Europe: How mechanical engineering and the circular economy offer a solution. Which technologies are crucial? What role does digitalization play?
The good news first: industry is using less and less water. Technologies and innovative system approaches are needed to reduce it even further and at the same time avoid waste water.
The value of water is still underestimated. This applies to water as an elixir of life and to water in the context of industry.
With an update that is exclusively available to VDMA member companies for download, we provide you with up-to-date information on exports of water and wastewater technology from Germany.
From June 10 to 14, 2024, AHK Poland is organizing a business initiation trip "Innovative technologies for water treatment and wastewater management to Poland.
From 26 to 30 June 2023, AHK Portugal will conduct a "Business initiation for German companies and providers of solutions in the water sector in connection with water scarcity" to Portugal.
From 30 May - 03 June 2022, the World's Leading Trade Fair for Water, Sewage, Waste and Raw Materials Management invites manufacturers, solution providers and visitors interested in the industry to meet face-to-face at the Munich Exhibition Centre. The innovative solutions of the suppliers are eagerly awaited.
The Indian government wants to connect around 150 million households to the water supply by 2025. To achieve this target, spending will have to be ramped up significantly.
ECWATECH will take place from September 8 - 10, 2020 - the week in which IFAT Munich was scheduled. Registration is risk-free, as the BMWi will cover possible cancellation costs. So if quarantine and other corona regulations were relaxed until September, ECWATECH - already the most important water technology trade fair in Eastern Europe - would suddenly become the only and most important international water technology trade fair of 2020! 25 German companies have already registered.
Just in time for IFAT, the product directory Process Plant and Equipment has been published.
The German manufacturers of components and systems for water, wastewater and sludge treatment were able to maintain their exports in 2016 at the high level of the previous year (minus 0.1 percent)
VDMA's Refrigeration and Heat Pump Technology Association has compiled VDMA Specification 24249:2014-05 “Influence of water on the process of CO2-refrigerant cycles and the materials used” together with the Institute for Thermal Separation Process, Heat and Material Transport working group, at Hamburg University of Technology.
Control engineering requirements for hydraulics in the planning and execution of heating, cooling, drinking water heating and ventilation systems
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