Events Build a big tent
Name: bauma 2022 Location: Trade Fair Center Messe München, Munich, Germany Date: 26–30 October Web:
https://bauma.de/en/ Report: Preview
Top: Crowds queue within Messe München to gain access to bauma back in 2019.
Bottom: The exhibition floor at bauma, featuring a showcase from popular construction company Caterpillar.
n 1967, Messe München created a trade fair that would go on to become the world’s leading exhibition for construction machinery, vehicles and equipment, along with building material machinery and, of course, mining machinery too. The first events took place at a site at Oberwiesenfeld in Munich, Germany, explains bauma exhibition director Nicole Schmitt. However, when construction started in the area for the 1972 Olympic Games, bauma had to search for pastures new. An open-air site was developed at considerable expense in the southern part of the Theresienwiese – an open space in the Munich district of Ludwigsvorstadt-Isarvorstadt, best known for being the official home of the world-famous Oktoberfest –
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with paved roads and all the utilities that such an event could ask for. By 1969, bauma was being held on the Theresienhoehe fair grounds and on the adjacent Theresienwiese. At this point, for the first time, participants were able to exhibit in permanent halls. In 1998, bauma was one of the first trade fairs to take place at Messe München’s new venue – the venue widely known today. Over the past 55 years, bauma has grown to be an international industry meeting where organisations conduct business and shape the future of the industry. With many conferences and trade fairs affected by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, bauma 2022 was initially intended to take place in April – however, in consultation with the industry, its organisers decided to postpone the event to its current slot of 24–30 October in order to give its customers the appropriate planning security. “After two years of ‘lockdown’, we are happy to be able to hold bauma 2022 and give the industry the platform for business as well as personal meetings,” says Schmitt. “Both indeed are necessary. The intensive discussions with our customers show that everyone is looking forward to bauma – that’s what means the most to us.” With regards to what bauma’s organisers hope to achieve with this year’s event, Schmitt notes that they have laid out a number of so-called ‘key-topics’ that reflect the future topics of the industry. “These will not only be discussed on several levels, but we will all see solutions to the industry’s challenges live on the stands,” Schmitt notes. “Besides business, the international exchange [of] solutions is the most important thing that bauma offers participants.” The key topics cover a range of issues under the heading of ‘Construction methods and materials of tomorrow’; ‘The way to autonomous machines’; ‘Mining – sustainable, efficient and reliable’; ‘Digital construction site’ and ‘The way to Zero Emission’. From the organisers perspective, bauma 2022 will provide much of what the industry has come to expect from the event. “We are not foreseeing big changes for bauma 2022”, says Schmitt. “Maybe one exhibitor or the other will have new, innovative formats for presenting their products and services, but we do not know this at this point of time. It’s always a kind of ‘big secret’ the exhibitors keep to themselves.”
8 World Mining Frontiers /
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