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New show for South Africa

A new construction and mining equipment exhibition is being planned for South Africa, which will be held in September 2013. The event is being set up by Messe München and will be called bauma Africa and is said to attracting interest in the sector. The South African Construction and Mining Equipment Suppliers' Association (CONMESA) has said that it welcomes the first bauma Africa, the International Trade Fair for Construction Machinery, Building Material Machines, Mining Machines and Construction Vehicles.
April 24, 2012 Read time: 3 mins
A new construction and mining equipment exhibition is being planned for South Africa, which will be held in September 2013. The event is being set up by 3995 Messe München and will be called 688 Bauma Africa and is said to attracting interest in the sector.

The South African Construction and Mining Equipment Suppliers' Association (CONMESA) has said that it welcomes the first bauma Africa, the International Trade Fair for Construction Machinery, Building Material Machines, Mining Machines and Construction Vehicles.

A range of other national and international associations and organisations are also supporting the new event. CONMESA was founded in 1992 and it currently has 20 members who represent the most important local and international companies in the construction and mining industry in South Africa. Marc Carter, president of CONMESA said, "The Construction and Mining Equipment Suppliers' Association fully supports the initiative of Messe München International in establishing bauma Africa as an international trade show which purely focuses on the construction equipment, construction materials machinery and mining machinery sector.”

Also among the international supporters of bauma Africa are the 1100 Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM), the Asociación Española de Fabricantes Exportadores de Maquinaria para Construcción (5214 ANMOPYC), the 2735 China Construction Machinery Association (CCMA), the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade - Machinery Sub-Council (CCPIT-MSC), the 3418 Construction Equipment Association (CEA), the Japan Construction Equipment Manufacturers Association (CEMA), the China Construction Machinery Co (CNCMC), the Costruttori Macchine Movimento Terra (5213 COMAMOTER), the 1183 Japan Construction Mechanization Association (JCMA), the 1186 Korea Construction Equipment Manufacturers Association (KOCEMA), the Unione Costruttori MacchineEdili, Stradali, Minerarie ed Affini (5210 UCoMESA) and the Unione Nazionale Aziende Construction Equipment & Attachments (2539 Unacea).

In addition, the German Engineering Federation, the 1331 VDMA (Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau), is making an application to the Ministry of Economic Affairs for it to back an official German pavilion at bauma Africa. Commenting on the involvement of the association, Johann Sailer, president of the VDMA Construction Machinery and Building Materials Machinery Association and President of the Committee for the European Construction Equipment (3399 CECE) said, "The German industry very much welcomes the initiative of Messe München in establishing a new sector platform in sub-Saharan Africa. As a trade association within the VDMA we have been a partner of Messe München for almost 40 years, supporting bauma. We want the brand and the concept of bauma to become as well established in Johannesburg as it already is in other locations around the world."

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