Barcelona, capital of the chemistry

Barcelona will convert between the 14 and on 18 November in the world-wide capital of the chemistry applied with the simultaneous celebration of Expoquimia, Eurosurfas and Equiplast, events feriales that concentrate the whole of the commercial offer, technical and scientific of three industries that have revealed fundamental for the development of the welfare of the current society. The enclosure of Big Via of Fira of Barcelona receives the three living rooms coinciding with the International Year of the Chemistry, instituido by the Organisation/Organization of the United Nations (UN) to spread the profits of an industry that has invented, for example, the penicillin.

The General Assembly of the UN declared 2011 International Year of the Chemistry for conmemorar the centenary of the Nobel prize of Chemistry conceded in 1911 to Marie Curie by his works around the radioactivity, that allowed him discover the radius and the polonium and his effects on the human health. Like event ferial of reference, Expoquimia will be the headquarters of the acts of closure of this appointment, that has the collaboration of the Business Federation of the Spanish Chemical Industry (Feique), the Forum of Chemistry and Society and other institutions of our country.

The three living rooms, that from 2005 celebrate in the enclosure of Big Via of Fira of Barcelona, constitute one of the greater commercial shop windows of the chemical industry to national and international level with the presence of the companies leaders of the chemical sector and the greater scientific event of the sector when presenting a complete program of congresses, seminars, days and conferences that do of Barcelona the world-wide centre/center of the transfer of the chemical knowledge.