bauma (trade fair)

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bauma

Branch Construction and mining
Place of issue Exhibition Munich
First exhibition 1949 in Würzburg
Website www.bauma.de
Last exhibition
date April 8, 2019 to
April 14, 2019
Visitors 620,000
Exhibitors 3,700
Exhibition space 614,000 m²
Next exhibition
date Apr. 4, 2022 to
Apr. 10, 2022

The bauma (proper spelling, abbreviation for equipment , common suffix World Trade Fair for Construction Machinery, Building Material Machines, Mining Machines, Construction Vehicles and Equipment ) is the world's most important trade fair for the construction machinery and mining equipment industry and geographically largest fair in the world. It takes place every three years on the exhibition grounds in Munich and lasts seven days. In 2022, bauma is expected to take place from April 4th to 10th. The organizer is Messe München .

history

The beginnings of bauma go back to 1949. The publisher Karl Rudolf Schulte initiated the 1st Franconian Building Exhibition in Würzburg this year . After the trade fair was successful, he organized the spring show for construction machinery in 1954 as part of the prototype show at the Theresienhöhe in Munich . 58 exhibitors presented their products on a total gross area of ​​20,000 m² and attracted around 8,000 visitors. Two years later the exhibition area had already doubled and the trade fair name still used today was introduced. In the early days only German manufacturers were represented at the fair. The first 13 exhibitors from abroad did not take part in bauma until 1958.

The available space quickly became too small due to the prevailing building boom in the post-war period and so the trade fair's first move was due. In 1962 bauma opened its doors on the former airport site in Oberwiesenfeld. Almost 100,000 m² more space than at the first edition was now available to the 450 exhibitors. But the days of the new exhibition location were already numbered: Munich had been awarded the contract for the 1972 Olympic Games, and so the Olympic Park was created at this point. In 1967, bauma, which took place annually at the time, went back to Theresienwiese, where it stayed for decades.

In 1967 Messe München acquired the rights to the event and as a result, the Association of German Mechanical and Plant Engineering has been the technical and non-material sponsor of the trade fair, which now takes place every two years. Although successful right from the start, bauma is now experiencing an incomparable upswing: The award of the Olympic Games to Munich makes the city the largest construction site in Europe and brings the construction industry an unprecedented level of orders. During this time it also increasingly became a performance exhibition.

The economic slowdown in the construction sector that occurred shortly afterwards also had consequences for bauma. Numerous exhibitors stayed away from the event, so the 1975 fair was suspended. However, due to the economic revival that occurred a little later, bauma was able to continue in 1977. Since then, the three-year cycle that has been in force until the present has existed. In 1998 bauma moved from Theresienhöhe to Munich Riem to the new exhibition center.

In 2002 bauma became an export hit with its first ever bauma CHINA in Shanghai. Bauma CHINA is now the largest capital goods fair in Asia and the second largest construction machinery fair in the world. There is now an entire network of bauma trade fairs. These also include bauma CONEXPO INDIA, bauma CONEXPO AFRICA, bauma CTT RUSSIA and M&T EXPO.

Key figures

In terms of area, bauma is both the largest trade fair in the industry and the largest trade fair in the world.

Key figures
year Exhibitors (countries) Visitors (countries) Exhibition space
2019 3,700 (63) 620,000 (200) 614,000 m²
2016 3,425 583.736 605,000 m²
2013 3,421 535.065 575,000 m²
2010 3,256 430.170 555,000 m²

Exhibitors

Both German and international suppliers of machines and vehicles for the construction and mining industry will present themselves on the exhibition space. The fair essentially consists of four areas. The area “Everything about the construction site” includes construction vehicles, construction machinery, construction tools, hoists, as well as formwork and scaffolding. In the “Mining, Raw Material Extraction and Processing” exhibition segment, there are machines for raw material extraction and mining as well as processing technology. The area of ​​"building material production" includes machines and systems for the manufacture and processing of concrete, asphalt, clay or similar building materials. Drive technology, testing, measuring, regulation and control technology as well as other accessories including services are shown in the “Suppliers and Services” segment.

Web links

Commons : bauma  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Yearbook Construction Equipment 2005. Podszun Verlag 2004, ISBN 3-86133-365-1 , page 5.
  2. ↑ Stand construction: The 6 largest trade fairs worldwide . Accessed: March 13, 2019
  3. ↑ a b Ulf Böge: Jahrbuch Baumaschinen 2020. Podszun-Verlag, 2019, ISBN 978-3-86133-934-2 , page 31 ff.
  4. ^ Yearbook Construction Machines 2005. Podszun Verlag 2004, ISBN 3-86133-365-1 , pages 10 to 11.
  5. ↑ Construction network: The spring show for construction machinery, article from March 1, 2019 . Accessed: March 13, 2019
  6. ↑ Construction network: The spring show for construction machinery, article from March 1, 2019 . Accessed: March 13, 2019
  7. ^ Messe München history . Accessed: March 13, 2019
  8. ^ Messe München history . Accessed: March 13, 2019
  9. ↑ bauma NETWORK . Accessed: March 13, 2019
  10. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Bauma - Fair of Superlatives, article from April 7, 2016 , accessed: March 13, 2019
  11. ↑ Stand construction: The 6 largest trade fairs worldwide . Accessed: March 13, 2019
  12. ^ Munich: Record number of visitors at Bauma. Bayerischer Rundfunk, April 14, 2019, accessed on April 19, 2019.
  13. ↑ AUMA: bauma . Accessed: March 13, 2019
  14. ↑ Exhibition areas at bauma . Accessed: March 13, 2019

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 16 ″  N , 11 ° 42 ′ 2 ″  E