Brazil. The 21st edition of Febrava opened this Tuesday, September 10 and runs until next Friday at the Expo de São Paulo. The opening ceremony brought together representatives from ABRAVA, Sindratar and Reed Exhibitions Alcantara Machado, the organizer of the event, as well as the 30 food, hospital, transportation, accommodation, automotive, distribution, civil and mechanical engineering sectors that support the fair.
According to Paulo Octavio Pereira de Almeida, vice president of Reed, this edition of Febrava is the largest in history. "We are also working to make it the best at the end of the four days, after all, we gathered the most complete combination of innovations in the HVAC-R sector in Latin America." In his speech, the executive stated that the projections for this year's fair is that, in the International Business Round, R $ 50 million (about US $ 12 million) will move.
Nelson Baptista, president of the Organizing Committee of the fair, agrees that the current edition is the most expressive. "It also has the greatest content in history," he said. "Without a doubt, this shows the confidence of entrepreneurs in the country's economy." On the other hand, the president of Sindratar (Union of Refrigeration, Heating and Air Treatment Industries in the State of São Paulo), Carlos Eduardo Marchesi Trombini, highlighted the claw of the businessman when betting in Brazil and recalled that Febrava is an important instrument to support the sector "We can not get out of the economic crisis in which we find ourselves from night to night the morning. We have to work to make this happen and the fair makes it possible to find solutions to common problems."
For his part, the executive president of ABRAVA, Paulo Basile, recalled that the sector employs around 300,000 people and moves more than R$ 32 billion per year (about US$ 7,800 million). "We are the economic thermometer. The sector has a relevant socio-economic impact in the country and Febrava is of enormous importance to stimulate technological development and allow the debate of the problems facing the sector."
