CECE Congress 2018 - a great success!
The magnificent city of Rome welcomed this year’s edition of the CECE Congress, a biennial gathering of the construction equipment industry in Europe, hosting a variety of European and global business leaders, leading exhibition organisers, stakeholders and journalists.
Almost 200 delegates attended the numerous presentations and panel discussions to engage with policy makers and economic researchers on the future and challenges of the industry, its road to digital transformation and the forthcoming European parliament elections, to be held in May 2019.
The topics tackled during several sessions of the Congress confirmed the widespread optimism about the future of the industry and the positive approach towards the challenges coming from the global political environment, the technology drivers impacting construction and the regulatory developments from the EU level.
With digitalisation being the main subject concerning industry transformation, CECE President Enrico Prandini, underlined the importance of digitising the construction equipment sector and highlighted the benefits of data on productivity, safety and sustainability. In addition, a team of experts presented for the first time the results of an 8-month CECE project into the digital transformation of the construction industry.
The Congress offered also the opportunity to endorse the CECE Manifesto for the European Parliament elections, calling on all candidates and future MEPs to support a majority coalition mandate to the European Commission only if industry is shortlisted as a top priority of its political programme.
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