Preparations Under Way for Bauma 2010
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January 30, 2009 – Preparations are progressing for the next bauma in 2010, the 29th International Trade Fair for Construction Machinery, Building Material Machines, Mining Machines, Construction Vehicles and Construction Equipment. The deadline for exhibitor registration is March 31, 2009, and applications are coming in from all over the world. "Already there has been a very good response from companies wanting to exhibit, and we seem to be at about the same level with registrations as we were for the record event in 2007," said Georg Moller, exhibition director.
About 540,000 square meters of exhibition space, indoor and outdoor, are available for bauma at Messe München’s exhibition center. At the last event this space was completely booked up, with 3,002 exhibitors from 49 countries. Over half a million visitors attended bauma 2007. With its global coverage of the market, bauma, which takes place April 19-25, 2010, at the New Munich Trade Fair Centre, will again be a barometer of activity and trends in the building sector worldwide.
Despite the current economic forecasts, in particular as regards the weakness in the building sector in the industrialized countries, business in the sector is expected to grow by 1.5 percent in the current year. Above all in the emerging economies of
In addition most European countries have now decided upon economic packages to stabilize business and the labor market, and a sizeable proportion of these measures concentrate on the building sector. It can be expected that these government measures, launched or in planning, will give a boost not only to the overall economy, but also to the building sector in 2009 and 2010. If the measures have the effect the governments intend, then there are good prospects that building production in
