The EIMA International agricultural mechanization review is preparing for the experience of a 2012 record edition. The great biennial of mechanization for agriculture, gardening, greenskeeping and components will take over 117,000 m² under cover in pavilions and another 20,000 m² outdoors for trials of machinery and equipment for the bioenergy production line compared to a total of 105,000 m² allocated for the 2010 review. Overall, the exhibition set up on 137,000 m² will be the world’s largest in the sector to mark the highest achievement in the history of the event. Explained this morning at a press conference held in the Bologna center, was that the expansion of the exhibition area was required in part because of the return to the EIMA International fold of the gardening and greenskeeping sector with the specialized EIMA Green Salon to flank three other theme salons, EIMA Components for a focus on components, EIMA Energy for a look at biomass energy production and EIMA M.i.A on multifunctional agriculture.
The upcoming edition is drawing 1,700 exhibiting industries from 40 nations, organized in the 14 sectors of specialization characteristic of the review, and on the side of attendance, expectations are for numbers well over the 166,400 visitors who arrived for the 2010 exhibition, a figure which included 26,000 from 140 nations. EIMA International is coming along at a time spoken of by FederUnacoma President Massimo Goldoni as especially dynamic and interesting, a time witnessing substantial growth in demand in the Asian giants as well as in Turkey, Russia and Brazil and recovery in the traditional Western European and United States markets. At the end of 2011, India reported sales of tractors of greater than 30 HP up to 470,000 units for a 20% increase over the previous year’s sales, sales in China reached 350,000 units for a 9% increase, U.S. sales rose to 168,000 units for a 2% rise, the increase for Western Europe came to 13% at 162,000 units, 37,000 units for Russia for a surge of 76%, and 60,500 for Turkey for a gain of 68%. Increases in recent years in Brazil were followed by a natural decline of 7% due to the extremely high number of tractors registered, 52,300 units.
According to the findings of surveys conducted by Agrievolution, the international forum of manufacturers associations in the world’s leading countries, the current year should continue on the positive side. In the first quarter tractor sales rose 1% in the United States over the same period in 2011 to 33,700 on national territory, in Russia the gain was 50% to 6,300 units in the first two months of the year and Germany reported sales for the first quarter at 8,300 units for a 14% increase in sales following the substantial 26% growth in 2011 with 36,000 tractors sold. Goldoni confirmed that recovery on these international markets favors exports by Italian industries and noted the highly position balance sheet for 2011 for tractor exports, up 14%, as well as for other types of machinery. He said the current year is promising and cited National Statistics Institute data showing increases for the first four months coming to 18.4% in value to € 534 million for tractor exports and 8.3% for other types of machinery, valued at € 963 million. The domestic market, on the other hand, is still plagued by recession and hopes are that the arrival of EIMA International might mark the reversal of this trend. Figures elaborated by FederUnacoma on the basis of registration applications in the first half of the year reported by the Ministry for Transport disclose domestic market declines for tractor sales, down 21.9%, for combine harvesters, off 7.5%, for tractors with loading platforms, falling 23.7%, and trailers, declining 15.2%.
Bologna, July 18, 2012
Source: Press Office FederUnacoma/Eima International
