Ferroforma-Bricoforma 2011, native and international equal parts

Ferroforma-Bricoforma Lounge will feature this time 51 per cent foreign ownership, according to organizers. Thus, the sample of products and services from Germany, Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, United States, Finland, France, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Sweden and Taiwan, among other markets, certifies "the external projection of the pageant and its value as a platform of support for internationalization".

By geographical area, Spain focus 49% of the offer, while European countries they will be 31%, America 5% and Asia and rest of the world 15%.

By sectors

Manual and electric tool (28%), labour protection and industrial supplies (23%), top levels of the fair with more participation. Followed by locksmith and fittings (14%), hardware and home (13%), fixings and supplies for the construction (10%), decoration, equipment, lighting, and Garden (10%) and services (3%).

Ferroforma

• Locksmith
• Tools
• Machines
• Construction supplies
• Industrial supplies
• Labour protection
• Commercial equipment

• Hardware and home
• Decoration
• Electricity and lighting
• Bathroom, plumbing and air conditioning
• Wood and forest management
• Garden
• Services
  

With regard to follow-up, Ferroforma-Bricoforma combine different formats in their days for ferreteros and users of tools and other hardware products. Lectures, round tables, analysis of case studies of successful businesses in hardware and demostraciones-concurso to workshops for repair of vehicles and installation professionals will include.

Ten of the best business hardware and industrial supplies from the country will explain their success stories, exposing those thanks models which are dodging the crisis with solvency and even gaining market share. In addition, a day will be devoted to logistics, identified for some time as an area of critical improvement within the sector, with an increasingly decisive influence on the cost savings.

For its part, the cross-sectoral communication and new information technologies also have an own section because of its importance to avoid inefficiencies, boost the market and achieve very significant savings at a time in which the value chain is becoming increasingly complex and atomized.

There will also be practical demonstrations and even contests in which will be convened to repairers of automobiles, as well as installers of electrical equipment, telecommunications, air conditioning, heating and plumbing, and industrial maintenance companies. It will show the latest trends in hand tools and electrical cutting, abrasive, adhesives, and material protection and welding, among other products.

Since the end of February accredited visitors have the possibility to arrange appointments directly with those exhibitors of interest through a new application that has been incorporated to the website of the contest.

He spent in 2009

15.172 participants approached the Ferroforma Hall, at the fairgrounds Bilbao Exhibition Center. Foreign professionals in the Hall were 1.237 and exhibiting foreign companies a 65 per cent, 19 per cent of which participated for the first time. Ferroforma then closes its most international fair, with 776 companies from 27 countries.

The main areas of the sample were those of industrial supply, construction and employment protection (24%) and hand tools (23%). Followed them hardware and home (16%), locksmith and fittings (11%), decoration, lighting, equipment and Garden (10%), fixation (7%), machinery for wood and electroportátil (7%) and services (2%).

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