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Convention and Visitors Authority and the Southern Nevada Health District to make sure exhibitors, vendors and attendees were provided with heightened cleaning services and hand sanitizers to help reduce the spread of germs and enable show participation to stay healthy onsite at the show.


“We have been pleased with the success of the overall show and attendance in our booth,” said Ingo Schiller, President and CEO of Tadano America Corporation. “Te management team at CONEXPO-CON/AGG has been monitoring the situation and they made a very difficult decision to close the show a day early. We appreciate their leadership and we look forward to CONEXPO-CON/ AGG 2023.”


Key metrics reflect overall quality of CONEXPO-CON/ AGG and IFPE 2020 attendees:


• U.S. buyer attendance increased 8 percent from the 2017 show, and total buyer attendance improved by almost 5 percent.


• Overall contractor and producer attendance grew by 14 percent.


• 6-in-7 attendees serve in a decision-making role.


• Total registered attendance reached over 130,000 for the week.


• Attendees purchased a record-breaking 75,622 tickets for education sessions at the show, a 46-percent increase from the 2017 show.


At the same time, the technological change revolutionizing these industries was pervasive across the shows’ record 2.7 million-plus net square feet of exhibits featuring 2300-plus exhibitors from the leading U.S. and global manufacturers, from multinational giants to small firms with specialized products.


Other highlights included:


• Partnership with women in construction groups to highlight the growing role women play in the industry, including the unveiling of the world’s largest 3-D printed statute of a human to honor the growing role women play in the construction industry. (pictured at right)


• Workforce solutions area in the Festival Lot that showcased industry recruitment best practices.


• Te Tech Experience returned for a second year and focused on modern mobility, sustainability and smart cities.


Te first-ever Fluid Power Hour for the co-located IFPE show., which featured an opportunity for engineers to network with their peers on the show floor.


CM Labs offered compelling hands-on demonstrations of its training simulators in the Festival Hall.


CM LABS RELEASES NEW TOOL


TO BRIDGE THE SKILLS GAP At their booth in the Festival Hall, CM Labs Simulations unveiled the Vortex Edge Max, a new training tool that gives even more organisations access to solutions for bridging the skills gap.


Te latest simulator in CM Labs’ Edge series of


award-winning training products, the Vortex Edge Max is an entry-level tool that develops transferable operator skills. Te affordability of the Vortex Edge Max expands professional-grade simulation to contractors and training organisations that did not previously have access to these capabilities. Te Vortex Edge Max replicates the motion and feel


of real construction equipment, and comes embedded with CM Labs’ Smart Training TechnologyTM. Smart Training Technology results in solutions that deliver the most transferable operator skills anywhere, outside the real equipment. “Te construction industry is working to resolve a


skills gap, but not every organisation always has the time, manpower, or equipment available,” says Drew Carruthers, CM Labs’ Director of Product Strategy. “Research shows that the shortage is intensifying. Tat’s why we wanted to put a tool for bridging the gap into the hands of more people.”


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