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Interview with Santiago Quiroga, Director of Veteco

The fair Veteco is an excellent opportunity to take the pulse to this industry

Esther Güell and Laia Banús
Drafting Interempresas29/04/2008

April 29, 2008

Santiago Quiroga, Director of Veteco, Salon international de la Ventana, and the glass enclosure, graduated from Icade and has done important work in a number of halls of technical Tecnova, Expocad and Matelec, among others. Today, as well as Simo, take the direction of Broadcast, professional equipment exhibition of Radio and television; International furniture fair of Madrid and Manutec, Salon of the maintenance and storage

Santiago Quiroga, Director of Veteco.

What's new this year offers Veteco?

With more than half thousand direct exhibitors, of very high level of innovation, it is very difficult if not impossible to make a selection even indicative, as being the only monographic fair in Spain and Europe, the signatures of the sector take advantage every two years the pageant as a platform for the launch of new products. This means that all of them have made a special effort to bring up Madrid its latest proposals and inputs to the market.

Yes I can assure you is that Veteco will show, once again, the best innovative profile and the considerable effort in r & d in a very competitive industry, which is in fact positioned as the second in Europe. In short, that Veteco 08 will satisfy the best expectations of the Group of professionals that is directed call for proposals.

"Veteco is a fully consolidated as fair both for the Spanish industry of the window and the glass-enclosed, to the European enclosure"

What they are looking for visitors in this type of rooms?

Professionals looking for the news to be present at the fair and which will later be in the market, strengthen commercial ties with the companies, know the status of the sector through the programme of conferences and main in shortthe fair is an excellent opportunity to take the pulse to this industry.

What sectors is directed especially the fair?

If there is something that distinguishes Veteco is the broad representativeness of this industry, through a comprehensive zoning. Entrepreneurship shows its effort in r & d, with the most innovative Windows of all kinds, ceilings and skylights, enclosures, light facades, glass, machinery, fittings and accessories, automations, coatings, blinds and awnings, doors, silicones and etc, thus offering a true x-ray of this economic segment. All sectors are conveniently represented at the fair, although Windows, facades, doors, blinds and awnings, have a special role.

As for its importance in our country, everyone has a high degree of penetration, of course, but as noted in the previous question, Windows, facades, doors, blinds and awnings have a greater significance.

VETECO 2008 increases its ability to exhibition Edition after Edition and even this year will occupy two pavilions. Do you think that this growth is due?

VETECO 2008 is the most important competition in the sector in Europe and has become a reference for professionals in the sector. For this reason, increasingly more companies want to be present at our trade fair. To meet these demands has had to expand the space allocated to the Hall, incorporating the two new pavilions of the Feria de Madrid, 12 and 14.

How will the implementation of the new CTE handle this edition of Veteco 2008?

The CTE will be present throughout all of the fair, it is one of the most outstanding aspects that affect the industry represented in the Hall. In fact, planned a Conference, carried out by the employer Asefave, on the 'CE marking and the CTE in light facades and Windows'.

"With the cooling of the construction sector, the market is moving towards new ways such as the rehabilitation of housing and greater quality control"

It is relevant to the highest international participation among the exhibitors. From which countries come mainly from foreign exhibitors?

Each edition is reinforced the international dimension of the fair, the growing participation of foreign companies. This year, Veteco has foreign exhibitors from 18 countries, above all - in that order - Italians, Portuguese and Germans. This data is very relevant, as that has evidenced the importance our fair at the international level and that the work and effort made during these years by professionals of the Ifema achieving the set objectives.

&quote;Practitioners seek in Veteco know the innovations that will later be in the market...

"Practitioners seek in Veteco know the innovations that will later be in the market, strengthen commercial ties with the companies and learn about the situation of the sector through the programme of meetings and conferences".

It also provides for greater number of foreigners among the visitors?

In response to the increasingly better data of international involvement and the evolution of visiting professionals from around the world in the latest announcements, we are optimistic in relation to a greater influx of foreign visitors in this edition.

How is the Spanish sector in the sector with large international companies?

Multinational companies in our Spanish industry are manufacturers of important components for the elaboration, by part of the Spanish companies, Windows, doors and facades light. These multinationals supply our market systems of aluminium, PVC, fittings, silicone, glass, engine, etc.

In his view, so how is it affecting the crisis in the construction sector of doors and Windows?

With the cooling of the construction sector, the market is moving towards new ways such as the rehabilitation of housing and greater quality control. Remains optimistic, in Spain it is still much to do in this area compared to the rest of Europe, where rehabilitation is of 37 percent compared to 20% of Spain. This situation favors Veteco 2008, which represents an excellent commercial platform and it's one of the first fairs of Windows.