Probably no event was as decisive for recent world history as the fall of the Iron Curtain on 9 November 25 years ago. This not only ended the Cold War – the eastward enlargement of the European Union brought peace, democracy and economic development. Nürnberg, which was previously located at the eastern edge of Western Europe, moved into the centre of the new united Europe. BrauBeviale also profited from this and repositioned itself within a few years: from a trade fair for the predominantly German brewing industry to this year’s most important capital goods exhibition in the world for the beverage industry. It takes place with some 1,300 exhibitors and about 33,000 trade visitors in the Exhibition Centre Nuremberg from 11–13 November