埃森国际管道、暖气、空调和可再生能源展览会（SHK ESSEN）是国际性的管道水暖、暖气、空调、加热、可再生能源贸易交易展览会，该展从1966年开始，两年一届，在埃森国际展览中心举行。该展重视可再生能源的发展与循环应用、可持续发展的创新等，如热电联产，饮用水处理，废水再利用等，是有针对性的贸易展览会，该展为期四天，参展企业在这短暂的四天里展示出最新产品、创新以及服务等。
由于现在能源成本的逐步提高，高效利用能源是技术的关键，特别是洗浴公共卫生服务场所的能源利用技术，采暖设施的可再生能源，如太阳光能、热泵技术等都是展览的重要部分，此外，高效的加热技术，石油及天然气的冷凝技术也是展会的亮点。
作为德国暖通空调行业最受欢迎的国际贸易展览会，SHK ESSEN每两年为参展商提供卓越的联系潜力，共有来自18个国家的560家参展商和来自16个国家的超过48,000名观众。 在蓬勃发展的经济区域 - 在欧洲最受欢迎的建筑区域的心脏地带，靠近比、荷、卢地区 - SHK ESSEN已经成为卫生、供暖、空调和可再生能源的行业平台 。 自1966年以来，它一直把商人、零售商、专业规划师和建筑师与行业的决策者联系起来，涵盖所有行业的创新产品。
展品范围(Show Products):
管道/污水处理工程；供暖工程；空调，制冷技术，通风；系统的替代和可再生能源；水暖技术，加热技术，太阳光能利用技术，热泵技术，石油及天然气的冷凝技术；测量，测试和控制设备/楼宇自动化服务；泵/管道，管道，水暖用品；防火，隔音，隔热，防腐蚀保护；车间及客户服务设备；办公设备/电子数据处理/服务。
展会报告(Show Reports):
SHK ESSEN returns to its spring date: From March 19 to 22, 2024, the trade fair for sanitation, heating, air conditioning and digital building management will be the first meeting place of the year for all SHK professionals. Last time, it took place in September for the first time due to the Corona pandemic and attracted 406 exhibitors and around 23,500 visitors despite the unusual date. There is a change in the opening hours: In coordination with the partners and the advisory board, the upcoming fair opens from Tuesday to Thursday from 9 am to 5 pm. On Friday, the fair will be open from 9 am to 3 pm. This was decided by the advisory board of SHK ESSEN, which recently met under the chairmanship of Andreas Lücke, Senior Expert at the Federal Association of the German Heating Industry (BDH).
"With the new opening hours, we are responding to the visiting behavior of SHK professionals in the halls and the increasing efficiency efforts of our exhibitors. Irrespective of this, our exhibitors have the opportunity to use the end of the trade fair day for specific events or for in-depth networking," explains Oliver P. Kuhrt, Managing Director of Messe Essen. As the first presence trade fair in 2024, SHK ESSEN is the platform where the industry presents its innovations from the fields of sanitary objects, heating technology, ventilation and air-conditioning technology as well as digital building management. Exhibitors will reach representatives from the trade, the specialized trade as well as planners and architects with purchasing competence.
Industry values personal exchange
Exhibitors and visitors alike gave the last SHK ESSEN good marks across the board. 91 percent of the exhibiting companies reached their target groups at the trade fair, and 80 percent were already planning to participate again in 2024 during the last event. 91 percent of the visitors were satisfied with the presence of the market leaders at SHK ESSEN. Also 91 percent plan to visit the industry platform again, 69 percent had purchasing and procurement expertise. Or as Björn Wolff, COO and Board Member for Sales and Marketing at Hottgenroth Software AG, puts it: "You can tell that the industry has been waiting for the personal exchange."
Industry with positive conclusion of SHK ESSEN 2022
SHK ESSEN has celebrated a successful restart after the pandemic-related break in 2020: From 6 to 9 September 2022, 406 exhibitors from 15 countries presented their range of products and services for sanitation, heating, air conditioning and digital building management. Despite full order books and an unusual trade fair date, around 24,000 visitors took the opportunity to finally experience and compare new products on site again. The focus of the trade fair was on energy-efficient heating systems, indoor hygiene and smart sanitation trends. In addition to the impressive appearances of many brand manufacturers from the sanitary and heating industry, numerous new exhibitors set important impulses for the future in building technology in several expert forums.
"The industry has impressively demonstrated its innovative strength in Essen. At the same time, SHK ESSEN has underpinned its status as one of the leading trade fairs for personal exchange between the trade and the industry. We are delighted about the great response from exhibitors and visitors, which cannot be taken for granted in these challenging times", explains Oliver P. Kuhrt, CEO of Messe Essen. Hans-Peter Sproten, General Manager of the SHK NRW trade association, which is the ideational sponsor of the trade fair, has a similar view: "Industry solutions for the energy turnaround as well as energy and water-saving technologies from the sanitary sector - these topics were primarily the focus of the trade fair visitors. The fact that the handicraft companies – despite the currently high workload – informed themselves here on site shows that SHK ESSEN is indispensable for the development of the companies. On top of that, we succeeded for the first time in getting more than 2,000 pupils excited about the future profession of a plumbing and heating installer by visiting the AZUBI Lounge and the rally across the exhibition site – that is a great success for the sector in North Rhine-Westphalia."
More than two thirds of the visitors were decision-makers
The largest group of visitors was made up of craftsmen, followed by technical planners and experts, wholesalers and architects as well as representatives of manufacturers. 69 percent were decision-makers with purchasing competence. The visitors were mainly interested in heating technology, sanitary installations, air-conditioning and ventilation technology as well as sanitary objects. The conclusion of the trade visitors was positive: 91 percent recommend a visit to SHK ESSEN and 92 percent plan to visit the trade fair again in 2024.
The Federal Association of the German Heating Industry (BDH) also concludes positively at the end of the fair: "SHK ESSEN was an enormous success and was very positively received by the exhibitors. The joy of seeing each other again was clearly noticeable in all halls. In the heating sector, the topics of climate protection and security of supply dominated above all. Interest in technical solutions such as heat pumps, hybrid systems, digital solutions and the current political framework conditions and funding opportunities was correspondingly high. The lecture forum was also better attended than I have ever experienced", explains Andreas Lücke, Senior Expert at the BDH and Chairman of the Advisory Board of SHK ESSEN. In addition, the two new expert forums for heating with photovoltaics and hydrogen in Hall 2 proved to be real crowd-pullers, where there was always a lot of activity.
6th German Indoor Hygiene Forum and Drinking Water Meeting Place
In Halls 5 and 6, the focus was on barrier-free bathrooms, smart water applications and products made of natural materials, in addition to sanitary installations and objects and water technology. In addition, the 6th German Indoor Hygiene Forum organised by the SHK NRW trade association and the Drinking Water Meeting Point organised by the Federal Association of Companies in the Gas and Water Trade - figawa – were two specialist forums where visitors could find out about air hygiene, drinking water hygiene and pollutants. Volker Meyer, General Manager of figawa, explains: "After a four-year break, SHK ESSEN has once again impressively shown that it is the meeting place for the SHK sector. The current hot topics, such as the implementation of the energy turnaround and the handling of the scarce resource of drinking water, were the focus. Our member companies presented their innovative solutions and products for these challenges."
Successful premier: start-ups at SHK ESSEN
Whether digitalisation, smart home or energy management systems – the constantly changing SHK industry offers a wealth of opportunities for inventive entrepreneurs to get off to a successful start with a new idea. That is why SHK ESSEN offered start-ups their own stage for the first time this year. A cloud-based software for the skilled crafts and trades, with which projects can be handled holistically from the initial contact to the receipt of payment, is just one example of the innovative products of the around 20 young companies, which presented themselves under the motto "Startups@SHK ESSEN" in Hall 2. The partner of the Startup Area was the VDZ – Wirtschaftsvereinigung Gebäude und Energie (German Trade Association for Buildings and Energy).
Save the date: SHK ESSEN 2024 opens from 19 to 22 March 2024
After this year's SHK ESSEN was held once in September due to the effects of the Corona pandemic, it will return to its usual time in 2024 and open from 19 to 22 March. Interested exhibitors can find the registration documents online at www.shkessen.de. The industry can already look forward to another highlight this year with GET Nord: the trade fair for electrical, sanitary, heating and air-conditioning in the north opens from 17 to 19 November 2022 at the Hamburg Messe und Congress site.
