bauma 2019 in Munich is going to be the biggest yet with the organisers gearing up to host 3,500 exhibitors and 600,000 visitors in 18 halls and 614,000m2 of show space. Two new halls have been opened up for the 2019 show and the exhibition’s partner country will be Canada, the seventh-largest market in the world for construction machinery. Canada’s construction sector growth is expected to grow by 3% per annum each year until 2020.
Organiser Messe Munchen has also chosen Canada because it is “one of the world’s top five producing countries for almost all mineral resources” and the show has a large aggregates and mining element. 20% of bauma exhibitors will have products on display, aimed at the mining sector, and a quarter of all the visitors come from the aggregates and mining industry.
Headline themes will be: “Digitisation, efficiency and sustainability” say the organisers, and the show will break down its organisation layout around the following clusters: “Telematics, networked construction sites and BIM; autonomous driving, electric mobility, electric drives and zero emissions; remote control, maintenance and automation; new construction materials, textile-reinforced concrete and UHPC; processing, recycling, workplace safety and user friendliness; as well as sustainable mining and the planning, decommissioning and recultivation of mines.”
The event will also take place in a global market that is still recovering from the global financial crisis of 2008. Many of the world’s market are on the up, and the overall climate feels positive. Here is the latest global sales trend map from VDMA, the German trade association for the construction equipment industry:
