Dive summary:

• Bauma 2013 was clearly a big deal for the European construction industry, and it's being hailed as a sign of better days ahead.
• The show that ran from April 15 through 21 in Munich, Germany, drew more than a half-million visitors from 200 countries to look at manufacturers' offerings of construction and mining machinery.
• The attendance was a record, and so were the 200,000 visitors from outside Germany.

From the article:

"This is very good for our industry in these turbulent times and it will certainly give it a boost," said Johann Sailer, chairman of the Construction Equipment and Building Material Machinery Association....