The quiet hunt for non-compliant construction equipment at Bauma

Neil Gerrard Senior Editor, Construction Briefing

10 April 2025

Visitors queue up ahead of the doors opening at the Bauma 2025 exhibition in Munich, Germany Visitors queue up ahead of the doors opening at the Bauma 2025 exhibition in Munich, Germany (Image: Neil Gerrard)

They aren’t making a song and a dance about it, but a group of experts representing German and European construction equipment manufacturers have been conducting a quiet search for non-compliant construction equipment at the Bauma exhibition in Munich, Germany.

Riccardo Viaggi, secretary general of the Committee for European Construction Equipment (CECE), said that his organisation has been co-operating with a task force led by the German mechanical and plant engineers’ association, the VDMA.

Already, the taskforce has found some items of equipment that, while entirely legal to display at…

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