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196.000 visitors went through the enclosure of Fira Bolonia of the 7 to 11 November

EIMA Closes his doors showing a sector of agricultural machinery strengthened

Editorial Interempresas20/11/2012

The world-wide exhibition of agricultural mechanisation (EIMA) closed his 40ª edition with exceptional numbers, according to the organisation. The visitors that happened along the five days of the exhibition reached the historical maximum of 196.000 and the number of foreign professionals assistants rose 22%. More than 100 evento took place in the context of the exhibition that has reached the status of reference in the world-wide panorama of the sector.

The 40ª edition of EIMA International came to an end with a balance that surpassed the most optimistic expectations of the organisation in the day before of the evento. The exhibition of the mechanisation in the agriculture, the gardening and the components –sponsored by Feder/Unacoma and organised by Unacoma Service– registered historical maxima in surface of exhibition hired (140.000 m² net and 270.000 gross), of public –with 196.192 visitors registered during the five days–, and of foreign professionals, a total of 32.133. Especially this last figure showed a significant growth of 22% on the number of the edition of 2010, confirming the international bias of EIMA, that has elevated to the elite of the evento feriales in the sector.

Industries expositoras pertinent of 40 countries, visitors of 140 nationalities and official delegations of 60 nations arrived to EIMA 2012 to expose and know technologies for all type of agricultural operations, from the big American ranches and Australians to the small cultured plots in Asia and in some regions of Africa.

The big promotional evento and commercial was also a moment for the communication, with a programming of more than a hundred of appointments delivered go in conferences, workshops and seminars referents to a wide fan of economic subjects, agricultural and technological. Between the main subjects treated were the referents to the agricultural politics of the European Union, the biopower, the agriculture multifuncional and the hygiene, a subject, this last, object of a special treatment by ENAMA, the National Agency of Agricultural Mechanisation. In his wide stand, ENAMA offered a big number of workshops, courses of learning, demonstrations of safe driving and also of maintenance of machinery.

Where was not possible to arrive directly to the public, EIMA International extended his presence through Internet with a web page devoted to the four skilled living rooms. Also it offered , for the first time, a channel of television in the web for the diffusion of congresses and live meetings, with more than five hours of daily programming, attracting a big number of viewers. The communication of EIMA arrived also for the first time to the social networks, giving voice for the first time, no only to the institutions and the companies expositoras, but also to the visitors. The answers found them of the hand of a special group of bloggers that composes the team of social networks of EIMA, that commissioned to spread the animated and forceful atmosphere that impregnated all the pavilions, feeding the page of Facebook, a gallery of photos, a microblog in Twitter and a channel of YouTube.

Massimo Goldoni, president of Feder/Unacoma, commented to the hour to do the final balance: “Each visitor and each company that has gone through this EIMA 2012 will have a lot of work that do when it arrive to his place of origin, because of the enormous quantity of contacts established in the fair to commercial level, to do them productive and translate them in businesses. But the experience of EIMA goes much more there of the relations of business, to turn into an emotional legacy, as well as for all we, a feeling that will carry us, beside the Fiera gave Bologna, the manufacturers and the employers and all the organisms that have something that say in agricultural mechanisation, to schedule a next exhibition that already expect impatiently”.

A thesis doctoral Spaniard rewarded by the selecto Club of Bologna

The 23ª meeting of the Club of Bologna, on 'Strategies for the development of the agricultural mechanisation', took place during the EIMA 2012. This year, the club founded in 1989 by Feder/Unacoma that gathers to the greater experts of the world in agricultural mechanisation, centred in the subjects of robotics applied in the sector and the vital cycles of machinery and agricultural equipment.

The meeting had the ceremony of delivery of the first edition of the prizes Giuseppe Pellizzi International Best, in recognition to the best theses of doctorate in agricultural mechanics published in any place of the world in the last two years. Seven theses were preseleccionadas and three were finally awarded with the prizes in this 1ª edition, between them the signed by Eva María Báguena, of the Univesidad Polytechnical of Madrid, on a 'System of tackle to determine the performance and the quality of the grape of cosechadora: development and validation'.