MOSCOW (April 21, 2021)–After only a seven-month break, the Mining World Russia trade show has started again, without many major exhibitors. The last Mining World event was conducted in October 2020.
This year’s fair started April 20 in the same place – the Crocus Expo Center Moscow. There were no significant changes since the last event. The amount of occupied space was similar, and the number of participants was about the same (167 companies versus 176 last time).
However, the number of countries has increased significantly – to 20. There were exhibitors from Australia, USA, Canada, U.K., India, China and so on. Large machine samples, including crawler drills, have been brought by Turkish companies. Germany is presenting a national exposition at the fair (in spite of pessimistic announcements made by German top officials regarding coal mining recently). Belorussian Belaz also presented at the show.
At the same time, many key market players did not exhibit at the fair. Wirtgen, Komatsu, Cat, MTU and Scania missed the fair this time. Perhaps they decided that it’s too often to participate in the same fair every 6-7 months.
The most interesting machine presented at the fair was the KAMAZ 65808 truck. This is a largest truck made by KAMAZ. It has a 10×6 wheel formula, 400 kWt engine and 65 tons of load capacity. Even with this size, the truck is able to go on public roads and conforms to Euro-5 standards. So, KAMAZ laid a serious claim to entering the mining truck market (at least in its lower segment).
Mining World Russia is a small regional event. Still, it shows that life has started recovering from pandemic isolation to its normal way, at least in Russia. PSR
