EVENT PREVIEW
– 25% even gave the Forum a top rating of “excellent”. Still, this much is certain: the mining sector is facing some diffi cult times. According to the German Engineering Federation (VDMA), the conceptual sponsor of bauma, the industry is currently moving back towards the level of 2009. Honestly speaking, that is not very promising. T e most important questions are: When will prices for raw materials increase again? When will this long
dry spell be over? And when will there be an upturn? Unfortunately, right now, prices on raw material markets continue to fall. Oversupply in the ore sector is leading to price pressures last seen in 2009. T ere is also an oversupply of coal, and according to some mining companies, it is expected to continue in 2015. Producers are trying to compensate for declining revenues by increasing production, which also fosters price
THE BOSS OF BAUMA W
hen asked to take a brief look back at the last bauma,
in 2013, Stefan Rummel, MD of Messe München instantly has the facts to hand. “In 2013, an impressive 535,065 visitors from over 200 countries attended bauma,” he begins. “With over 200,000 visitors from outside Germany, the number of international participants was higher than ever before. In total, 3,421 exhibitors from 57 countries presented their latest products and innovations in construction and mining machinery on a record exhibition space of
575,000m2
. With those numbers,
the last edition of bauma broke all previous records for exhibitor numbers, exhibition space and number of visitors.” And when asked to look
forward to the 2016 edition of the show, Rummel is equally enthusiastic. “Apart from a high exhibitor and visitor participation, I expect that bauma 2016 will again be an unforgettable event. This show is the most important trade fair worldwide for the construction machinery industry. Moreover, the atmosphere is unique: bauma is huge, it is
overwhelming, enormously busy and international – it is simply the biggest show on earth and always a successful business. And that’s exactly what I expect the next bauma to be.” ●
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