The 2018 event builds on the success of CTT 2017

For the first time under a new name, bauma CTT RUSSIA, the 19th International Trade Fair for Construction Equipment and Technologies attracted more than 22,000 visitors to Crocus Expo IEC in Moscow, Russia.
The event featured 586 exhibitors, an increase of 4% from the previous incarnation of the show. Exhibitors came from 26 countries, including Russia, China, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Finland, Spain, Korea, Belarus and Belgium.

This year's bauma CTT RUSSIA again featured four country pavilions from China, Finland, Germany and Italy.

The exhibition attracted 22,681 participants (up 10% from 2017), most from Russia, but also large contingents from Belarus, Kazakhstan and other CIS countries.

Stefan Rummel, managing director of Messe München, says: "The efforts we have undertaken to further increase the attractiveness of the trade show resulted in an increase, not only in the number of professional visitors, but in their quality, too."

This year's edition included a number of innovations which helped boost numbers and enhance the experience. Shortening the duration of the trade fair from five to four days led to a greater concentration of visitors from the trade, which was much appreciated by the exhibitors.

Also for the first time, a demonstration area was set up in the open-air section where exhibitors such as AST (dealer for John Deere), Manitou, and RusBusinessauto (dealer for SDLG) demonstrated their products. Roman Tolmachev, brand manager at Wacker Neuson, says: "We greatly appreciated the idea of demonstrating the equipment live. We were able to highlight particular advantages of our machines; this is simply not possible in a static presentation on a regular stand."

bauma CTT RUSSIA 2018 again received official support from various national authorities and professional unions. These included the State Duma Committee for Economic Policies, Industry, Innovative Development and Entrepreneurship; the Ministry of Construction, Housing and Utilities; the Russian Union of Builders; Moscow's Department of Urban Development Policy; the Committee for Entrepreneurship in Construction and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation.

The next edition will take place at Crocus Expo IEC, Moscow on June 4-7, 2019.