The Buzz & Brass at CONEXPO

North America's Biggest Construction Trade Show Attracts the Top Minds in the Iron Industry

By Keith Gribbins

Caterpillar yellows, Ditch Witch oranges, Takeuchi grays and nearly all the colors of the construction world painted the showroom floor at this year’s ultimate equipment exhibition. For five days at the Las Vegas Convention Center (March 11-15), a planetoid of construction and aggregate machinery formed at North America’s biggest equipment trade show, CONEXPO-CON/AGG.

Expansive indoor halls, sun-drenched outdoor lots and small conferences rooms sardined with attendees, dealers and press attracted more than 144,600 industry professionals from around the world. CONEXPO covered more than 2.28 million net sq ft of exhibit space, taken by 2,182 exhibitors (21 percent bigger than the last show held in 2005), attracting the iron giants of construction and aggregate equipment, their OEM systems and a wealth of industry services, trade associations and publishing companies. More

Take Me Out to the Equipment Yard

Become a Student of the Game with our Spring Showcase.

By Keith Gibbins and Greg Thompson

Stick a fork in winter; it’s done! Pitchers (manufacturers) and catchers (equipment buyers) report! It’s time for Spring Training. Compact Equipment dispatched its agents far and wide to nearly every equipment show imaginable to scout the best new equipment in time for the run up to Opening Day of Construction Season. From The Rental Show and The Work Truck Show to World of Concrete and CONEXPO-CON/AGG, we were there with our eyes wide open and our listening ears on. Manufacturers of all kinds have a ready lineup of innovative new machines to scratch your equipment-needing itch. So grab your lineup card and load up your beer hat (with cold pop of course). It’s a great day for a ballgame. Let’s play two! More