Austria-based Doka, with its new motto ‘Setting the Pace in Formwork Technology’, will be launching its newly-developed wall formwork system – Framax Xlife at the bauma 2004 in Munich.

THE world’s leading construction equipment show bauma  2004 – has just got bigger. This time around, organiser Messe Munchen International has earmarked 500,000 sq m of indoor and outdoor exhibition space for the event which takes place between 29 March and 4 April at the New Munich Trade Fair Centre in Germany.

Leading construction equipment manufacturer Putzmeister, which has provided its equipment to several large-sized projects in the region, will showcase the latest in truck-mounted concrete pumps and placing booms, stationary concrete pumps and concrete wet spray systems at this month’s bauma construction equipment exhibition in Germany.

Leading equipment manufacturer Orenstein and Koppel (O&K) is launching the L 25.6 – the first member of a new generation of large wheel loaders – at this month’s bauma. This new unit in the 2.5 cu m class has been given a new six-cylinder CNH (Case and New Holland) engine.

Switzerland-based manufacturer of testing instruments – Proceq – claims that its concrete test hammers ‘Original Schmidt’ have been found effective in the non-destructive measurement of the concrete/mortar compressive strength and the control of the uniform concrete quality (in-situ concrete and prefabricated structures) as well as for dete