Show 05 of 07 · What it becomes
The Packaged Drinking Water and Bottling Machinery Show
A bottling plant is a water plant with a filler on the end of it.
A dedicated show inside EAW Global Aqua Expo 2027, with its own hall, its own conference track and its own buyer campaign. Hyderabad, January 2027. New Delhi, May 2027.
Packaged drinking water is a water business. It buys RO, UV, ozone and mineral dosing before it buys a filling machine, and it buys both from the same capital budget in the same quarter.
This show exists because everywhere else in India those two decisions sit at two different exhibitions, which is an accident of how shows were organised rather than how plants actually buy.
Category and buyer counts are specific to EAW BOTTLING. The visitor figure is the 2026 platform total across all halls, from the final registration database. Per-show visitor figures begin with the 2027 editions, when each show has its own badge stream.
Three things that decide this floor
A packaged water line project today requires a visit to a water show and a separate visit to a machinery show. Here it is one visit
Telangana and Andhra carry a dense concentration of packaged drinking water and water based beverage plants
Packaged water and beverage line technology is not on the Indian floor plan of any competing water exhibition
EAW BOTTLING in one paragraph
Your customer buys water treatment and a filling line from the same budget in the same quarter. Every other Indian exhibition makes them attend two shows to do it. Here they walk one aisle, and you are standing in it.
The exhibitor profile
These are the categories a visitor ticks when they say what they are sourcing. Matching runs code to code, so you are not relying on somebody typing the same words you did.
- BOT-01
Complete packaged drinking water bottling lines - BOT-02
Integrated water treatment skids for bottling plants - BOT-03
Rinsing, filling, capping and labelling machinery - BOT-04
Blow moulding, PET preforms and closures for water bottles - BOT-05
CIP and SIP systems for water and beverage plants - BOT-06
Ozonation, UV and mineral dosing for packaged water - BOT-07
Alkaline, flavoured and functional water processing - BOT-08
Bottle washing and returnable water container lines - BOT-09
Coding, marking, inspection and bottling line automation - BOT-10
Conveying, cartoning and palletising for bottled water - BOT-11
Caps, closures, cap making and cap feeding systems - BOT-12
Shrink wrapping and end of line packaging for water - BOT-13
BIS and ISI compliance, laboratory and water testing equipment - BOT-14
20 litre jar lines, pouch, can and tetra filling
The visitor profile
Invitation campaigns run per show. Nobody on this list receives a generic water exhibition email.
Buyers invited to this show
- Packaged drinking water plant owners
- Packaged water and water based beverage production heads
- Bulk water suppliers and 20 litre jar operators
- Quality assurance and water quality managers
- Bottling and production engineers
- Contract bottlers and co-packers
- Regional and franchise water brand owners
- Procurement and plant expansion teams
- Bottling machinery dealers and channel partners
- BIS and ISI licence applicants and compliance managers
- Dairy, juice and beverage processing plant heads
- Retail and private label water brand teams
What a stand here includes
- Space in the one show your buyer actually attends
- Free cross listing in every other show where your categories appear
- The full gate on one shared visitor badge
- Matchmaking against declared sourcing lists, not guesswork
- Hosted buyer list published 60 days before the show, by company and function
- Post show lead report within 10 working days, ready for your CRM
- Both cities on one contract if you take Hyderabad and Delhi together
A packaging exhibition sells you the filler.
Nobody there sells you the water.
India already has a large packaging exhibition. Filling and bottling machinery is one line on its floor plan, alongside flexible packaging, cartons, commercial printing, converting and warehouse logistics. Its buyer is an FMCG packaging procurement manager.
A packaged drinking water plant is not that buyer. Before anything is filled, that plant has to buy a treatment train, prove the water against IS 14543, hold a BIS licence, and keep an ozonation and disinfection regime that a food packaging supplier has never had to think about. Then it buys the filler, the cap, the label and the shrink wrap.
EAW BOTTLING is the only floor in India where the whole line stands together, from the borewell to the sealed bottle, in front of the person who signs for all of it.
- Filling machinery, among twelve other packaging categories
- Buyer is FMCG and brand packaging procurement
- No water treatment, no BIS or IS 14543 conversation
- You compete for attention with printing and logistics
- Treatment, filling, capping, labelling and compliance on one floor
- Buyer is the plant owner and the production head
- Six other water shows on the same badge, one aisle away
- Every visitor in the hall is there about water
Which edition this show belongs in
Both cities run this show. They do not run it at the same weight. Book the one your buyer walks, or take both on one contract.
Hyderabad Lead
The Telangana and Andhra packaged water and beverage belt.
29 to 31 January 2027 · HITEX Exhibition Centre
North India, policy and utilities · 20–22 May 2027New Delhi Support
National brands, northern plants and the export bottling market.
20 to 22 May 2027 · Bharat Mandapam, Pragati Maidan
Scope, procurement and the conference track
| Not in this show | Packaging with no water application. Flexible food packaging, carton and corrugation, commercial printing and converting, and warehouse logistics all belong at a packaging exhibition, not here. What sits here is the complete line a packaged water plant actually buys: the treatment train, the filler, the closure, the label and the BIS paperwork. |
|---|---|
| Live procurement | New packaged water line installations, capacity expansion in the southern beverage belt, BIS and FSSAI driven plant upgrades, bottling line automation retrofits and returnable container conversions. |
| Conference track | Packaged Drinking Water Forum. BIS and FSSAI compliance for packaged drinking water, line economics, water treatment specification for bottling, and plant expansion. |
| Across both cities | Hyderabad, January 2027. Lead. The Telangana and Andhra packaged water and beverage belt. Delhi, May 2027. Support. National brands, northern plants and the export bottling market. |
Reserve space in EAW BOTTLING
Tell us your categories and we will send the floor plan, the rate card and the two city package for Hyderabad and Delhi together.