The Lehendakari, who opened the 31st edition of the Machine Tool Biennial in Bilbao this afternoon, emphasized that the Basque Country is among the three largest European manufacturers of machine tools and is the ninth in the world.
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the lehendakari Inigo Urkullu went to Bilbao Exhibition Center this morning to inaugurate the Machine Tool Biennale, where he noted that this edition arrives strengthens for the experience of the pandemic and “with more motivation and energy”.
He also emphasized that the Basque Country is “a country with capacity and potential, a country with a competitive manufacturing industry and with the ambition to be present in the global market”.
Urkullu chaired the official opening ceremony of the 31st Machine Tool Biennial, which opened its doors this morning after four years without being detained. In his appearance he recalled that the Machine Tool “is part of the DNA of the Basque industry
In this sense, he pointed out that the Basque Country is one of the three largest European manufacturers of machine tools and that it is the ninth in the world. “We export over 90% of our production and the industry as a whole employs more than 16,000 highly qualified people,” he added.
The 31st BIEMH -International Machine-Tool Biennale- brings together 1,436 exhibiting companies from 28 countries from today to June 17 and will showcase more than 34,000 machines, products, services and novelties to the thousands of visitors who will come from all over the world, after four years without to hold the stock market. The previous edition had 42,000 visitors and the organizers hope to exceed that figure this edition.
According to Urkullu, in this Biennale “we will see the tangible, that is, high precision machines, surprising in size and performance, attractive in design. We will also understand the intangible: the digital service and the solutions that Basque companies can provide to customers around the world.
He also indicated that in this new edition we “will once again feel what the Machine Tool sector in our country stands for. A business fabric that, in addition to producing, importing and exporting, also has a prepared, trained and competitive human team”.
The Lehendakari stressed that, after the break due to the pandemic, the Biennale come back with different lessons learned: First, that “health and the economy are two sides of the same coin that we must protect”, and second, “that it is time to seal trust in our ecosystem and collectively tackle the global challenges we face”.
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