In the end, an impressive 530,000 visitors from over 200 countries converged on the Messe München exhibition centre between April 15 and 21 for Bauma 2013. It broke all previous records for exhibitor numbers and exhibition space, and attracted the highest number of visitors ever. “This is very good for our industry in these turbulent times and it will certainly give it a boost,” said Johann Sailer, Chairman of the Construction Equipment and Building Material Machinery Association of VDMA and President of the Committee for the European Construction Equipment Industry (CECE). In total, 3,420 exhibitors – 1,346 from Germany and 2,074 from abroad – from 57 countries presented their latest products and innovations in construction and mining machinery at Bauma 2013 on a record exhibition space of 570,000 m².

Klaus Dittrich, Chairman & CEO of Messe München, added: “Our exhibitors were delighted with the quality of the visitors here and with the international spread represented among them. 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.” The top ten countries of origin among the visitors were: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, the Russian Federation, France, Netherlands, the UK, Sweden and Poland. Indonesia, bauma’s partner country this year, was also strongly represented, with a high-ranking political delegation and around 800 visitors.

“For Herrenknecht, bauma 2013 certainly showed itself from its best side. The trade audience here was first class and very global. We were able to communicate in a very targeted way our broad portfolio and our top innovations in tunneling and mining,” said Martin Herrenknecht, Chairman of the Board of Management at the group. Ron DeFeo, Chairman and CEO of Terex Corporation, stated: “As the largest show in our industry, Bauma represents a unique opportunity to meet with a multitude of our customers from around the world.” And finally, Johannes Weiermair, Managing Director of SBM Mineral Processing, added: “For us Bauma 2013 was a tremendous event and a great success. On the one hand because of the truly world-spanning international scope among the visitors and on the other because of the very high level of contacts.” Stefan Heissler, Member of the Liebherr-International AG Board of Directors, said: “This has been an absolutely positive trade show for us. We welcomed customers from all around the world at our booths and we signed up lots of new orders. In some product sections we exceeded our expectations by a long way.”