The construction equipment show Bauma has recorded its highest ever attendance, with 530,000 visitors attending the seven-day exhibition, held every three years in Munich.
Klaus Dittrich, chairman & CEO of organiser Messe München, said that the proportion of international visitors to the show was higher than ever.
“Good business has been done here. 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.”
Reports from exhibitors on sales closed at the show were generally positive, with high volumes of sales for a number of companies.
The stand for Caterpillar and its German dealer Zeppelin was “almost overrun with visitors from the first day on,” said Michael Heidemann, chairman of Zeppelin Baumaschinen,
“We have sold more machines at bauma 2013 than ever before and have set a new record.”
Chinese manufacturer XCMG also had an excellent show said its Vice President, Yanmei Zhang.
“XCMG solicited orders with a total value of over 10 million Euros ($13m) for its products which is around 120 units of machines. We had a good economic return on our investment in the show.”
There were over 3,400 exhibitors at the show, which had an outside exhibition area of 390,000m². The top five exhibitor countries were Germany (1,366 exhibitors), Italy (481 exhibitors), China (323 exhibitors), USA (132 exhibitors), and Turkey (124 exhibitors).
“This is very good for our industry in these turbulent times and it will certainly give it a boost,” said Johann Sailer, president of the Committee for the European Construction Equipment Industry (CECE).
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