Modern Mining August 2015

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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

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

The Barloworld Power stand at bauma Africa 2013. The company will participate at this year’s show.

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