Tile of Spain Participates in the fair The Big 5 in Dubai

The companies associated to Ascer that integrate in the Official Pavilion are: Azulev, Ceramic Aparici, Gayafores, Gres of Aragon and Emac. The fair The Big 5 is the most important contest of the sector of the construction and edificación of the Gulf Pérsico, and attracts to a very wide public and miscellaneous, from architects and interioristas until distributors, engineers, constructors and presses.

The Spanish participation in The Big 5 has like main objective reinforce the presence of the ceramic industry Spaniard in Arab Emirates Joined, as well as improve the image country in the countries of Orient Next, since this group of countries is a market with a big potential of growth for our products. The companies participants also have the support of the Valencian Institute of External Trade, IVEX.

Spain is the first European country exporter of ceramics to all the zone of Middle East and Next. Arab emirates occupies in the actuality the place eleventh in the ranking of destinations of export of Tile of Spain. The sectorial export to EAU in the first semester of the 2012 surpassed the 20 million euros, what supposes an increase of 13,4% with regard to the same period of the previous year. On the other hand, the value of the sales in the geographic area of Orient Next supposed of January to June of 2012 an increase of more than 41 million euros. In 2012, 21,9% of the Spanish exports of tile allocated to this geographic area, registering a value of 235,1 million euros. In the same period of the year 2011, spoke of 20,3% of the total exports with destination Orient Next whose value rose to 193,9 million euros.