Primary publication: BauPortal August 2010

Summary: As a follow up to this year’s bauma 2010, the world’s largest construction machinery trade fair, technical reports are again being published throughout the year to give an overview of the technical development and the exhibits on show relating to key topics in the BauPortal. Due to the volume of information and the number of exhibits there is no claim to completeness.
In the run-up to the expected upturn in the construction industry over the coming years, the construction machinery trade fair, bauma 2010, attracted much interest, both among exhibitors and visitors. The exhibitors were in good spirit in spite of a drop in the total number of visitors to 415,000. This was 15% below the number that attended the previous bauma in 2007, and was due to travel restrictions caused by the Eyjafjallajökull volcanic ash cloud. The enlargement of the exhibition area to 555,000 m2, underscored the positive outlook. There was a particularly high turnout of exhibitors from China, Turkey and India – India being the partner country of this year’s bauma, boosting the number of exhibiting companies to 3,150.