Emo World Tour: Portugal relies on German special solutions
Together with Gonçalo Lobo Xavier, management consultant at the Portuguese industrial association AIMMAP, the EMO team reported on the status and opportunities of bilateral trade in machine tools between Portugal and Germany.
The German machine tool manufacturers are firmly anchored in Portugal and enjoy a good reputation when it comes to special solutions, knows Christoph Miller, VDW's head of fairs department. Reason enough for the EMO World Tour to pay a visit to Porto. In the country's second largest city, the team of VDW and Deutsche Messe AG again met journalists and machine tool enthusiasts.
For Portuguese producers of production technology, the focus is more on international markets. Last year, they produced machines worth 98 million euros. About 42 percent of these were exported. The most important customers are Spain, Angola, Germany, Colombia and France. At the EMO Hannover 2017, Portuguese exhibitors can meet customers from all these markets.
Christoph Miller has just been encouraging the numerous medium-sized and smaller users of machine tools from Portugal to get informed at the trade fair in September.