Bauma Breaks All Records

April 23, 2013—Approximately 530,000 visitors from more than 200 countries converged on the Messe München exhibition center April 15 to 21 to attend Bauma, breaking all previous records for exhibitor numbers, exhibition space, and number of visitors.

"This is very good for our industry in these turbulent times and it will certainly give it a boost," said Johann Sailer, chairman of the Construction Equipment and Building Material Machinery Association of VDMA and president of the Committee for the European Construction Equipment Industry (CECE).

 

Klaus Dittrich, chairman and CEO of Messe München, said, “With over 200,000 visitors from outside Germany, the number of international attendees was higher than ever before. The response this year has simply been outstanding."

 

The Top Ten countries of origin among the visitors were: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, the Russian Federation, France, Netherlands, Great Britain, Sweden, and Poland. Indonesia, bauma’s partner country this year, was also strongly represented, with a high-ranking political delegation and about 800 visitors.

 

In total, 3,420 exhibitors—1,346 from Germany and 2,074 from abroad—from 57 countries presented their latest products and innovations in construction and mining machinery at Bauma 2013 on a record exhibition space of 570,000 square meters. Stefan Heissler, member of the Liebherr-International AG board of directors, said: "This has been an absolutely positive trade show for us. We welcomed customers from all around the world at our booths, and we signed up lots of new orders. In some product sections, we exceeded our expectations by a long way."

 

XCMG Vice President Yanmei Zhang reported: "XCMG solicited orders with a total value of over 10 million euros for its products which is around 120 units of machines. We had a good economic return on our investment in the show."

 

The next Bauma takes place from April 11 to 17, 2016, in Munich.