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The Bilbao''s Machine-Tool Exhibition - BIEMH, will reach next year its 26th edition with a firm objective: to provide businesses with a solid support to encourage development and an effective tool with international scope.

Likewise, companies and professionals taking part in the trade fair, which will be held from 31 May to 5 June at Bilbao Exhibition Centre, will profit from a highly professional atmosphere perfectly adapted to their commercial needs in which business deals optimisation is encouraged.

Undoubtedly, this will be a key strategic line in next BIEMH edition in 2010 that Bilbao Exhibition Centre recently launched in Milan during EMO celebration, the reference machine-tool fair worldwide.

In the corresponding press conference, representatives of both organising entities - Mr. Jose Miguel Corres, Managing Director of Bilbao Exhibition Centre, and Mr. Koldo Arandia, President of the Spanish Association of Machine-Tool Manufacturers - officially presented the event in front of an international audience made up of professionals from business, associations and specialised media.

Furthermore, the current situation of the Spanish machine-tool sector was also dealt with in the act, in which data collected by AFM were provided.

Bilbao Exhibition Centre actively collaborates with this organisation as evidenced by their joint attendance to the fair held in Italy, together with many other Basque companies. considered. Some other extra available advantages concern to preferential reservations on certain registration periods, easy payment terms and special packs for stand decoration.

Significance of the appointment

The BIEMH has other values gathered with time that endorse its position as a must in Europe. Its extensive exhibiting path, starting in 1961, its increasing evolution and its consolidated international scope have placed BIEMH in a prominent position. The European Cooperation Committee for Machine Tool Industries - CECIMO''s acknowledgement is a clear proof of that.

Thanks to this preferential position, reference countries in machine-tool issues (Italy, Germany, Switzerland…), new/emerging markets with wide potential (Taiwan, China, Czech Republic, India, Russia…) and leading brands annually take part in the BIEMH exhibition.

The sector-based support provided by associations such as AWEX, GAIA, AER, ASCAD, AEFTOP, Chamber of Commerce of Taiwan, etc. and led by AFM, together with AMT, is crucial to assemble this high-tech international window showcasing innovation and development in all machine-tool related sub-sectors.

The 2008 edition was a good example of this ability to summon: the event was attended by 50,712 trade visitors and recorded a significant increase in foreign visitors (10.4%) representing 66 countries, which reinforced its international renown. It was the response of professional visitors to an event with the widest exhibiting offer ever known: a total of 1,761 exhibiting firms, 57% of them from abroad, distributed in 788 stands.

Moreover, at the beginning of next year the exhibition sales team will travel to Asian and Latin American countries for specific promotion campaigns.

Strategic target countries mainly include India, China, USA, Mexico, Brazil, Russia, Turkey, Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Algeria, Libya and United Arab Emirates, apart from European ones. Furthermore, other countries may also be tackled.