How can we achieve the climate goals? – ISH 2023 presents products and technologies

Throughout the five days of ISH 2023, everything revolves around innovations that contribute to achieving climate-protection goals and ensuring a responsible and efficient use of available resources. 2,025 exhibitors from 54 countries present their market-ready solutions for a sustainable future in two main sections, ISH Energy and ISH Water. They are showing the latest developments for the heating, cooling, air-conditioning, ventilation and intelligent home and building automation markets, as well as sustainable, modern bathroom design and innovative installation technology. After Germany, the largest exhibitor contingents come from Italy, Turkey, China, Spain, Poland, the Netherlands, Austria, France, Belgium and Sweden.

ISH opening ceremony with Klara Geywitz

This year, the world’s leading platform for sanitation, heating and air-conditioning begins with Federal Minister for Housing, Urban Development and Building Klara Geywitz. “We promote the construction of climate-friendly new buildings and invest billions in new, affordable dwellings for bus drivers, police officers and young trainees. In this way, we change how we build and how we heat so that homes remain affordable through low ancillary housing costs”, explains says Minister Geywitz. Together with Hesse’s Minister for Economic Affairs, Energy, Transport and Housing, Tarek Al-Wazir, and Frankfurt’s City Deputy Mayor, Department of Economy, Legal Affairs and Reforms, Stephanie Wüst, she opens ISH 2023 at 10.00 hrs on Monday, 13 March. The opening ceremony takes place in the Energy Hotspot in the West Foyer of Hall 12.0 and is being streamed live on the ISH website at www.ish.messefrankfurt.com.

“In Europe alone, the building sector accounts for around 40 percent of total energy consumption in the building sector, which reflects not only its great importance for achieving climate goals but also the socio-political relevance of related issues. They are the focus of ISH and mean the world’s leading trade fair is the foremost meeting place for discovering innovative solutions and setting course for a sustainable future”, says Wolfgang Marzin, President and Chief Executive Officer of Messe Frankfurt. The ISH claim, ‘Solutions for a sustainable future’, reflects this and makes sustainability the leading theme for both ISH Water and ISH Energy.

In the heating market, the focus is on technologies that contribute to greater efficiency and renewable energies. Accordingly, exhibitors in the ISH Energy section show, for example, heat-pump technologies, pellet-heating systems, energy management and storage solutions, as well as intelligent automation systems, and demonstrate the use of hydrogen and combined heat and power generation. Also a component part of ISH, the subject of air makes an important contribution to the superordinate goals of CO₂ reduction and energy savings. Thus, leading companies present state-of-the-art ventilation technology – from home-ventilation systems to ventilation plant for non-residential buildings. The focus of ISH Water is on the economical use of water as a resource, clean drinking-water supply and sustainable bathrooms that are useable in the long term. The exhibitors of the world’s biggest showroom for modern bathroom concepts and sustainable sanitary solutions present design-oriented and barrier-free bathroom fixtures and furnishings, high-grade installation systems, safe water-treatment plants and software solutions, as well as tools and fastening materials meeting the latest requirements on drinking-water hygiene and materiality.