All Exhibitions Articles

Inaugural Bauma Africa to be held in Johannesburg in September 2013.

Former Cramo chief executive officer Gunnar Glifberg will be one of the two new inductees into the American Rental Association’s Rental Hall of Fame.

View Murray Pollok's podcast report from the BICES exhibition, held in Beijing in October.

New UK construction exhibition Plantworx has received strong support from the industry ahead of its 2013 debut with 30% of total exhibition space already sold.

The Rental Show 2010 has been rated one of the top 100 North American trade shows for the year by Trade Show Executive Gold 100. The exhibition, which took place 7-10 February 2010 at the Orange County Convention Centre in Orlando, US, attracted more than 600 exhibiting companies.

Ramirent has signed a sponsorship agreement for the 2012 European Athletics Championships being held in Finland next summer. As part of the agreement it will be the exclusive equipment rental partner for the event.

The BICES exhibition held in Beijing, China on 18-21 October gave yet more evidence of the speed at which Chinese manufacturers can develop and launch new products. Murray Pollok and Chris Sleight report from the Jiu Hua International Exhibition Center.

The IRE exhibition and ERA convention in Amsterdam was a meeting place for debating rental, seeing new equipment and networking. Murray Pollok and Helen Wright report on the three day event.

Equipment buyers from all over Asia, the Middle East and Latin America were in Shanghai in late November for the bauma China exhibition. Murray Pollok was there and reports on an exciting show.

Ritchie Bros Auctioneers has applied to establish a wholly-owned Chinese subsidiary and hopes to be granted a licence to hold auctions in the country, with the aim of holding its first Chinese auction in the second half of 2012.

Terex China president Ken Lousberg thinks the Chinese access and rental markets are close to taking off.

The UK’s Executive Hire Show (EHS) has sold out its main exhibition hall and is now adding a further exhibition space in an upper level of the Ricoh Arena venue in Coventry.

Ex-CTE UK salesman Jonathan Wiseman has joined SUP Elefant UK Ltd as business development director and will spearhead the Italian manufacturer CMC’s sales efforts in the UK and Ireland.

Power Towers Nederland, the new Netherlands sales company for the UK mini-platform manufacturer, has notched up its first significant sales since its formation several months ago, with both Loxam Nederland and Riwal placing orders.

Chinese manufacturer Sinoboom -making its first appearance at APEX - is using the show to attract dealers and is in talks with one Netherlands company to become its Benelux representative.

Italian rental and distributors association Assodimi and its rental arm Assonolo are returning to the SAIE exhibition in Bologna this year to recreate the 'Nololand' area dedicated to rental.

It has been 10 years since the American Rental Association hosted its annual Rental Show in New Orleans, but Feb. 5-8 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, the show returns with more education sessions, new evening events and innovative products and equipment, according to organizers.

In seeking to ensure its 16m working height 160ATJ articulated boom is in line with the Stage IIIB engine emissions regulations, Manitou has taken the opportunity to rethink some of other attributes of the machine which bring additional productivity, economy and ease of use.

The programme for this year's Europlatform access rental conference is nearly complete and features a very strong line-up.

A fun-run and walk to raise money for a local Maastricht charity is being organised by Access International and APEX on the final morning of the exhibition.