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innovation potential.
What technologies and innovations will define, change
and revolutionize the global mining industry in the future?
Find out at bauma 2016. You can expect:
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700 exhibitors with mining products
now at:
Halls B2, C2 and C3 and the bauma Forum
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all focus on mining
605,000 m2 of total exhibition space with
plenty of other products and components
for mining
31st Edition of the World’s Leading Trade Fair for Construction
Machinery, Building Material Machines, Mining Machines,
Construction Vehicles and Construction Equipment
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for 11 percent, followed by China with eight
percent, the US with seven percent and
Russia with approximately five percent.
In the medium term, the sector is
cautiously optimistic about the future,
with increase in customer enquiries being
reported - an indication that customers
are again starting to look at buying new
equipment. Also some companies are
successfully opening up new areas of
business, for example in hard-rock mining.
The VDMA Mining Association expects
that demand for the metallic but also mineral
raw materials extracted in hard-rock mining
will increase substantially as a result of a
global expansion in alternative methods of
energy production.
Another reason for this cautious
optimism, says Schulte Strathaus, is in the
need for raw material producers to reduce
costs: “In order to achieve profits in the
current low-price environment, they have
to increase the efficiency of their machinery
and plant, and thereby reduce their costs.”
A global trend towards increasing
safety also benefits the sector, he reports.
Many countries, like China and Turkey, are
busy making their coal mines safer. And
April 11–17, Munich
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construction site.
Mining machinery in bauma.
as regards to the technology required for
this, the German mining industry - at least
in underground mining - Germany is the
global leader.
The sector seems therefore to be
regaining optimism in time for bauma in
Munich, and that is also being backed up by
the registrations coming in from exhibitors
in this area. Mareile Kästner, Exhibition
Director of bauma, explains: “The current
difficult situation in the sector is not being
reflected in the registration figures for
exhibitors at bauma. The interest from
mining companies and manufacturers of
mining products in exhibiting at bauma is
still very high.” A list of all the exhibitors
registered so far for the mining section is
available online at http://exhibitors.bauma.
de/en/exhibitors-products/mining (correct
to December 2015). Q
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