bauma CONEXPO INDIA 2026 ran from 15 to 18 September 2026 at India Expo Centre, Greater Noida, and the show has now closed. Entry was free for industry professionals who registered, and the organisers put the show at 1,100+ exhibitors and 75,000+ visitors before the doors opened. For anyone buying, running or supplying construction machines in India, it is the one event where most of the market can be seen and questioned in a few days. Four makers used it to launch machines, and none of them published an India price: JCB India, SANY India, InfraServe Global and Scania. The show runs every two years, which puts the next edition in 2028.

Most buying decisions in construction equipment happen one dealer at a time. You visit a showroom, hear one brand’s version of the story, then drive to the next one a week later. By the time you have three quotes, the first one has expired.

A trade fair changes that. For four days, the brands, their dealers, the lenders, the tyre and engine makers and the parts suppliers are all under one roof, a short walk from each other. That is the real reason to go.

bauma CONEXPO INDIA 2026 at a glance

Detail bauma CONEXPO INDIA 2026
Dates 15 to 18 September 2026 (concluded)
Venue India Expo Centre, Greater Noida (Delhi NCR)
Timings 10 am to 6 pm (15 to 17 Sep); 10 am to 5 pm (18 Sep)
Entry Free, industry professionals only, registration required, no visitors under 18
Badge Valid all four days, one entry per day
Exhibitors 1,100+ (organiser pre-show estimate)
Area 1.45 million sq ft
Expected visitors 75,000+ from 100+ countries (organiser pre-show estimate)
Country pavilions Germany, China, Taiwan, Italy
State partner Government of Bihar
Edition 8th, held every two years

The show is organised by Messe München, which runs bauma in Munich, and the Association of Equipment Manufacturers, which runs CONEXPO-CON/AGG in Las Vegas. The Indian Construction Equipment Manufacturers’ Association and the Builders’ Association of India are partners. Timings and entry rules are from the official bauma CONEXPO INDIA website; the 2026 exhibitor and visitor figures are the organisers’ own estimates, released on 11 September. Those are forecasts made before the doors opened rather than audited attendance, and we have not published a final count for the 2026 edition.

Why attending bauma CONEXPO INDIA matters

The last edition, in December 2024, drew 984 exhibitors and 51,118 visitors from 83 countries across 135,000 square metres. For the 2026 edition the organisers said the space was sold out and the exhibitor list had grown past 1,100. Buyer delegations from more than 15 states and Union Territories travelled in, from Bihar and Jharkhand to Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Gujarat and Jammu and Kashmir.

What that means in practice depends on who you are.

If you are buying a machine

You can stand next to two excavators of the same class from different brands and look at the things a brochure hides: how easy the service points are to reach, how the cabin feels, how the attachments lock on. The same goes for backhoe loaders, wheel loaders, motor graders and cranes.

You can also ask the questions that decide the real cost of owning a machine. Where is the nearest service point to your district? How long do common spares take to arrive? What does the warranty cover after the first year? Ask every brand the same list and the answers become easy to compare.

If you are a contractor or fleet owner

Ravindra Tyagi, National President of the Builders’ Association of India, put it simply in the organisers’ release: “For contractors, equipment is a project-critical asset.” The show is where you see what is changing in that asset: telematics that track fuel and working hours, electric and hybrid machines, and the attachments that let one machine do three jobs.

It is also a good place to talk finance. Brand teams can tell you which lenders they work with and what their current schemes look like, and hearing several in one day is faster than calling each one. The equipment finance section explains what lenders look at before you sit down with them.

If you are a supplier, vendor or dealer

The fair covers far more than finished machines. The organisers group it into construction machinery, building material machines, mining machines, construction vehicles, and components and services: engines, transmissions, hydraulics, tyres, wear parts and safety systems. Component makers, fabricators and service companies meet the brands’ purchase teams here, and dealers meet customers from states they do not usually reach.

New launches, new brands and new faces

An Indian equipment show is where brands time their launches. At EXCON 2025 in Bengaluru, JCB India unveiled a 52-tonne excavator, SANY India showed its biggest line-up yet, Volvo CE brought sustainability-led machines, Mahindra launched a mini compactor and TIL revealed three made-in-India material-handling machines.

Greater Noida delivered the same, and the launches are set out below. The exhibitor list published by the organisers included JCB India, Tata Hitachi, SANY India, Volvo Construction Equipment, Caterpillar India, Larsen and Toubro, Liebherr India, LiuGong India, Escorts Kubota, Action Construction Equipment, XCMG, Zoomlion, Schwing Stetter, Putzmeister, Tadano, Terex, Wirtgen, Ammann and many more. Engine, tyre and steel makers such as Cummins India, BKT, CEAT, JK Tyre and Jindal Steel were there too.

Shows also bring in new brands. The country pavilions from Germany, China, Taiwan and Italy bring manufacturers that many Indian buyers have not seen before, and a show is where they look for dealers and customers here.

Alongside the halls, there are technical sessions by the Indian Demolition Association, the Indian Concrete Institute (Delhi Chapter) and the Fluid Power Society of India, and Demtech India runs at the same venue.

We publish confirmed launches from the show in our construction equipment news as the brands announce them, and the 2026 edition’s launches are linked in the table above.

What the brands actually launched at bauma CONEXPO INDIA 2026

Four makers used the Greater Noida halls to put new machines in front of Indian buyers, and we covered each of them from the floor. One fact runs through all four: none disclosed an India price for anything they launched. A show is where you find the machine and start the conversation, not where you get a quote.

Maker What was launched India price disclosed
JCB India 10 new machines off a 21-machine stand, including re-engineered 3DX, 3DX Plus and 3DX Super backhoe loaders on a JCB 430 engine No
SANY India 13 new products out of 31 machines shown, with battery-electric models in eight separate classes No
InfraServe Global 5 machines, four of them for keeping roads alive rather than building them No
Scania G 560 Super 10×4 mining tipper, running customer demonstrations rather than taking orders No

All counts above are company-stated. The pattern worth reading is where the electric machines turned up: SANY’s battery-electric line spanned eight classes, while the other three launched diesel. For a buyer that matters less as a purchase decision today than as a signal about which classes will have an electric option by the next edition.

Why the DesiMachines team walks every equipment show

We visit the major equipment exhibitions in India, from EXCON in Bengaluru to bauma CONEXPO INDIA in Greater Noida. We go for a simple reason: a machine catalogue is only as good as the last time someone checked it.

At a show, we do four things.

We learn what is new. We note every new model, variant and engine change, so new machines reach the catalogue with the right specifications once the brand publishes them.

We meet the brand teams. Product managers and regional sales heads are easier to find at a stall than on a phone line. We check specifications, confirm which models are still in production, and ask where support is available.

We meet the wider trade. Dealers, financiers, insurers, parts suppliers and service vendors all shape what a buyer actually pays and how long a machine keeps earning. Their view is what keeps the comparison pages and cost calculators true to how machines are bought and run, not just how they are brochured.

We meet the people we write for. Contractors, operators and first-time buyers walk the halls too. Their questions at a stall are the same ones they search for later, and they tell us what the guides should answer next.

How to get the most out of bauma CONEXPO INDIA 2026

The halls are large and four days go fast. The 2026 edition is over, so read this as the checklist for the next one in 2028 — it holds for any Indian equipment show. A little planning turns a long walk into a useful one.

Register online before you travel. Registration is free either way, but pre-registering saves time at the gate. Remember the badge allows one entry per day, so plan your day before you leave the hall.

Make a shortlist. Pick the machine type and the three or four brands you want to compare. If you are not sure which machine suits your work, our machine finder narrows it down in a few questions.

Carry your numbers. Write down the kind of job, the hours the machine will work each month, your budget and the down payment you can manage. Sales teams give far better answers when they know these.

Ask for everything in writing. If a brand mentions a show price or offer, ask for the terms on paper, with the model, what is included and how long it is valid. Then compare it with your local dealer’s quote after the show. Nobody should sign on the stall floor.

Ask about after-sales, not just the machine. Service coverage in your area, spares lead time, operator training and warranty terms matter more over five years than the difference in list price.

Think about your current machine too. A new purchase often means selling the old one. If you plan to sell your current machine, you can list it on DesiMachines before or after the show.

Who gains most from visiting bauma CONEXPO INDIA 2026?

bauma CONEXPO INDIA 2026 put most of India’s construction equipment trade in one place for four days: the brands, their newest machines, the financiers and the suppliers behind them. For a buyer it is the fastest way to compare; for a contractor it shows where the machines are heading; for a supplier it is the room where the customers are.

We walked the halls through 18 September. Now that the show has closed, you can still check specifications and the latest price range on any model in the excavator and backhoe loader catalogues, or compare two machines side by side.

Show dates, timings, entry rules and exhibitor figures are as published by the organisers before the event. The 2026 edition closed on 18 September 2026, and the exhibitor and visitor counts above are pre-show organiser estimates rather than audited attendance. Confirm the next edition’s dates and entry rules with the official bauma CONEXPO INDIA website before you travel, and confirm the current price and variant of any machine with the dealer or OEM before you buy.