From February 28 to March 4 nine businesses and AFEC, they have participated as direct exhibitors in Shows I Agree (Milan). Of them, seven have done him in the modality of Participation Grouped, that is to say in a common stand and two by means of stands independent. In both modalities the corresponding subsidy of the ICEX counts on itself, Spanish Institute of foreign trade.

The relation of participating businesses is: Airzone, Refrigerators Supplies Spaniard, Cold Group, Ibermatic, Monfri, Noland, Sisteven, to Be used to&Palau and Tecnifan.

This second participation, that is consecutive to that of the edition of the year 2004, was prepared with a great anticipation with purpose to reserve the space for the stand in an adequate location, what finally was obtained.

Because the price of the space, and the fact that the organization gives the occupied by AFEC, was decided to optimize the same one for the benefit of the businesses expositoras for which itself was not arranged in this occasion of a zone of reception and common storage, on the contrary, each business had a small zone of individual storage integrated in its space assigned.

As it is custom in AFEC in the participations grouped, the allocation of spaces had been carried out for drawing in a meeting carried out in the offices of the Association a pair of months before. In that meeting decisions on the design made, transportation, etc. In the same one, the contracting of two translators was decided likewise.

The stand, whose assembly was carried out according to it predicted and without complications, resulted of the I please of the businesses, to the time that showed its functionality when by accumulation of visits was fully busy.

The placement of the machines in its place and in its corresponding pedestals, when thus was predicted, developed likewise without problems, permitting that all was completely finished and prepared the afternoon previous to lainauguración of the fair.

The Questionnaire that summarizes the number of visits received, the contacts carried out, the degree of satisfaction with this participation, the qualification of the fair in its different aspects, the appraisal of the participation grouped etc., that mandatory they should compliment the participating businesses for to be sent to the ICEX, like part of the documentation that the Association should contribute to perceive the subsidy, has not been received in AFEC in the Of the editing of this outline.

Not nevertheless so much during the celebration of the contest as to the finalización of the same one, the businesses showed their satisfaction with the quantity and quality of the visitors and in general with their participation in the fair.

For AFEC, as in other occasions, the presence in a demonstration of this type supposes the possibility to maintain encounters with professionals of other associations, with representatives of other fairs, with journalists of the sector and in general with other institutions, what impacts in diffusing the not alone international presence of the association but also, and for good measure, of the Spanish sector of the air conditioning.

The businesses, to Be used to&Palau and Airzone, that by reasons of identity or commercial they decided to participate with own stand in the Parlor, they included in their design the signs of identity, logos of AFEC and of Spain, that permitted to assimilate that individual participation to the collective one of the stand of AFEC.

Once it finalized the contest, AFEC, will present to the ICEX a complete dossier that will include among others documents: the relation of expenses, the original documentation that protects the same, the bank statements and probative documents of the payments carried out, the report of execution of the activity, the affidavit of aids, and all those other that are mandatory to receive the seen good of the audience, as prior step to the Of the aids compromised previously by the cited Institute.

Subsequently, the original of the bills will be envoys to Italy, to the Chamber of Commerce of Spain in Milan, for, utilizing their management, to request the refund of the advanced VAT, upon buying services in that country.

As final summary can be told that our presence in the fair has been settled without no incident, and that the participation of the Spanish businesses has been, in principle, fruitful to expenses logically to develop the contacts maintained. In any case, some business already has declared its interest in participating in the next edition.