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BAUMA PREVIEW 2013 Munich Hosts World's Largest Equipment Exhibition Mining equipment and mineral processing technology will be one of the bright spots for the 2013 bauma trade fair By Steve Fiscor, Editor-in-Chief An international trade fair for construction equipment and mining machinery, bauma takes place every three years in Munich. This year the event will be held April 15-21, 2013. What sets this exposition apart from others is its sheer size, 3,256 exhibitors occupied 555,000 m2 of space in 2010. To put that into perspective, MINExpo 2012 was less than 80,000 m2 and CONEXPO 2011 was less than 220,000 m2. Attendance for bauma 2013 is expected to easily eclipse 500,000 people. Tunneling has always been an important aspect of the bauma, but tunneling and mining are two different disciplines. Over time, the mining portion of the exposition has grown steadily from a bolt-on segment to a prominent position. In 2007, the mining sector was given its own hall (C2). The number of mining-related companies participating in bauma has grown to 700. And, the mining sector is one of only a few areas showing growth because of the downturn in construction markets in Europe. Exporting equipment to emerging markets, in both construction and mining, has become a central focus for many equipment suppliers and service providers. While the Mining Hall will be an important meeting place for many, several vendors are so large that their exhibits simply include mining as one vertical market among the many that they serve. Liebherr has been and will continue to be the central focus for bauma. Not wanting to give away the big surprise, Liebherr does plan to have one large mining truck and one mining class hydraulic excavator on hand. For a lot of delegates, those two pieces of equipment will serve as the landmark for the outdoor portion of the event. Meet Innovation— Discover Diversity The Liebherr Group is the largest bauma exhibitor (14,000 m2) and the company will showcase many new and existingpieces of equipment and existing equipment. Construction on Liebherr's open-air stand began during November 2012 and during late January it was starting to take shape. The open-air site includes eight tower cranes, two mobile construction cranes, 10 mobile cranes, four crawler cranes, three duty-cycle crawler cranes, a large rotary drilling rig, three wheeled excavators, seven crawler excavators, eight wheel loaders, three crawler tractors and loaders, a pipelayer and a telescopic handler, six exhibits from the concrete technology program, two material handlers as well as an articulated truck, a mining-class haul truck and a mining-class excavator. To demonstrate its pass matching capabilities with haul trucks, Liebherr will present the face shovel version of its 350-ton R 9400 mining excavator. With a 22-m3 bucket as standard equipment, Liebherr believes it is the ideal machine for loading a mining truck fleet in the 136 metric ton (mt) class. The kinematics of the production-tailored attachment combined with a mining-optimized bucket shape ensure the highest crowd and breakout forces. Even under tough conditions, Liebherr believes the R 9400's high digging force will improve bucket penetration and offer high bucket fill factors. Designed for hard-digging applications, the R 9400's heavy duty three-piece fatigue-resistant undercarriage provides efficient superstructure weight distribution and reduces ground bearing pressure enabling the necessary stability and reliability. There are currently more than 30 R 9400 hydraulic mining excavators operating in four countries. The latest R 9400, recently commissioned for a gold mine in Ghana, is the first model in face shovel configuration. Modular Lifts Liebherr's mining equipment is the focal point of the bauma outdoor area. 50 E&MJ; • MARCH 2013 While they are arguably more well known for lifts on construction sites, Alimak Hek's mast climbing equipment can also serve as elevators for raises underground. The company will showcase its SE-H range at bauma 2103. When the company talks www.e-mj.com