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Mollerussa Autotrac fair opens with 20% more exhibitors

13/04/2010

April 13, 2010

Autotrac fair, dedicated to agricultural and industrial machinery, automobiles and trucks, all occasion, will this year feature a total participation of 44 exhibitors, figure which represents an increase of 20% over the last year (37), due both to the increase in exhibitors of machinery and to the automotive industry. By sectors, 16 exhibitors correspond to the sector car (the year 2009 were 14), 26-agricultural machinery and industrial (last year were 20) and two to the services sector.

The increase in exhibitors has also meant an increase in the net area covered, which is located this year at 23,300 square meters, of which 20,000 are in the outdoor complex, located in the posterior to the fair pavilions, and where agricultural and industrial machinery, and 3,300 square meters where you will find the car is exposed to the three exhibition pavilions. The contest, which this year reaches its 22nd Edition, will be held from Friday 16 April and until Sunday 18th day in a schedule of 10 in the morning to 8 pm, with free admission. With regard to the origin of the exhibitors 14% are of Mollerussa, 19% of other towns in the comarca of Pla d'Urgell, 62% of the rest of the demarcation of Lleida and 5% of Barcelona.

Friday day 16 to six in the evening there will be the official opening by the director of the territorial services of agriculture, food and Rural Action of the Generalitat of Catalonia in Lleida, Joan Gòdia. As it is usual, during the three days of the fair will be the service of a mobile unit of the technical vehicle inspection (ITV) located behind the exhibition halls.

As a novelty of this edition the pageant will be the realization of different drawings among the visitors, in addition to the traditional draw for a prize of 3,000 euros between the buyers of a car in the framework of the fair. In total is then 200 euros distributed four petrol vouchers, as well as eight lots with different gifts such as books or bottles of cava, an initiative with which the fair body wants to offer a more attractive to the visitor of the event.