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Crewe notes that a supporting programme
will be introduced for the first time at BAUMA
CONEXPO AFRICA. Included will be ‘country
specials’ to be held in the Forum area, which
will focus on the opportunities and challenges
presented by selected African markets, and
‘industry specials’, which will see experts and
associations from the construction and mining
industries discussing trends and technologies
within these two sectors. The Chambers of
Mines and other associations from countries
such as Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique and
Kenya will participate in the country specials
and present projects in the planning and devel-
opmental phases.
It is not uncommon for shows with some
crossover in terms of visitors and exhibitors
to run in parallel and this strategy is being
adopted for BAUMA CONEXPO AFRICA.
Says Crewe: “Co-located with the show will be
IFAT Environmental Technology Forum Africa,
which will showcase the latest environmental
technologies available to the construction and
mining industries in respect of water, sew-
age, refuse and recycling. IFAT is well-known
internationally and is one of Messe München’s
biggest events after bauma in Germany. It is
now being staged in Africa for the first time and
we’re expecting in the region of 100 exhibitors
The Barloworld Power stand
at bauma Africa 2013. The
company will participate at
this year’s show.
and 2 000 visitors. We anticipate that most of
these visitors will also visit BAUMA CONEXPO
AFRICA.”
The bauma Africa show in 2013 had a very
international flavor with the exhibitors coming
from 38 countries. Based on current bookings,
BAUMA CONEXPO AFRICA will be no differ-
ent. China will have the single biggest contingent
from overseas with nearly 130 companies hav-
ing booked space (as of early August). Other
countries with sizeable representation include
Germany, with over 50 exhibitors, Italy with 34,
the UK with 24 and Turkey with 15. A number
of countries or regions will have pavilions at the
show. These are China, North America, Finland,
Germany, Italy, France, Spain, the UK and the
Walloon Region (this last being the French-
speaking part of Belgium).
When bauma was first staged in Germany
in the 1950s it was purely a building machin-
ery (‘baumaschinen’) show but in recent years
MMI has made a huge effort to position it as
a construction and mining machinery event.
The question is, how successful has this been?
Certainly bauma Africa in 2013 managed to
attract many mining exhibitors and Crewe says
this year’s show will build upon this success.
“We have marketed very intensively to the
mining industry and we estimate that a large