Two hundred thousand visitors. Two thousand two hundred exhibitors. An exhibition that spans 200,000 square metres across the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre and the outdoor areas that overflow with the kind of equipment that doesn't fit indoor...
May. 16. 2026
Every three years, Frankfurt becomes the centre of the global chemical process industry. ACHEMA — the World Exhibition and Conference for the Process Industries — fills the Frankfurt exhibition grounds with 3,800-plus exhibitors and 145,...
May. 15. 2026
Sixty-one thousand seven hundred visitors came to a basalt quarry in central Germany in 2023. They drove past beech forests and farm fields in the Hessian hills, parked in fields, and rode shuttle buses into an active industrial site where 305 compa...
May. 14. 2026
Italy is not the first country that comes to mind when people think about construction machinery markets. Germany has the engineering density, the US has the raw scale, and China now has the volume. But Italy has something those markets struggle to ...
May. 13. 2026
The Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada was founded in 1932, in the middle of a depression, by people who believed that finding new mineral deposits was important enough to organise around even when nobody had money to develop them. Tha...
May. 12. 2026
Brazil is not a market that rewards half-hearted attention. The country has the largest construction machinery fleet in Latin America by a considerable margin, a mining sector that produces more iron ore than any other nation on earth, and an infras...
May. 11. 2026
Four years is a long time in mining. Commodity prices cycle, ore grades decline, mining districts emerge and contract, technology platforms mature, and the equipment required to extract minerals economically in one cycle may be substantially differe...
May. 10. 2026
Most trade shows put machines on a polished floor under bright lighting and ask visitors to imagine what they look like working. Hillhead does something else entirely. The exhibition takes place in an active limestone quarry in Derbyshire, England, ...
May. 09. 2026
Kenya's construction industry is valued at nearly 900 billion Kenyan shillings. That number alone would justify a trade exhibition. But the more telling figure is the pace of change: infrastructure spending in Kenya has roughly tripled over the past...
May. 08. 2026
A trade fair that generates $3.34 billion in verified on-floor spending in a single edition is not a typical industry gathering. Big 5 Global 2025, held at the Dubai World Trade Centre in November, produced exactly that figure — a number that ...
May. 07. 2026
Two trade shows in the same city in the same year sounds redundant. In Nairobi in 2026 it is not. Buildexpo Kenya runs in July and targets importers, distributors, and material suppliers. Big 5 Construct Kenya runs in October and targets contractors...
May. 06. 2026
India's construction machinery market grew at a compound annual rate that most European manufacturers would find difficult to believe, and then kept growing. The country is building at a pace — highways, metros, airports, ports, affordable hou...
May. 06. 2026