Presse Press 2009

August 2009

Seguriexpo Buenos Aires 2009 was a no-miss event for the whole sector of integral safety that hopes to continue growing.

During the three days,114 exhibiting companies coming from seven countries, Brazil, China, Spain, USA, Israel, Italy and Mexico, took part in the event.

The fair has been organized by the Argentine Chamber of Electronic Safety (CASEL) and Indexport Messe Frankfurt.

The industry businessmen face the challenge of updating their companies in order to get new markets. For this reason, their presence in Seguriexpo Buenos Aires 2009 was a great opportunity to show themselves, interact with their colleagues, get training and share ideas that promote the activity.

Within the framework of this eighth edition of Seguriexpo 2009, the 2nd Matchmaking Program of Safety Products and Services organized by Indexport Messe Frankfurt, Fundación Export.Ar and Pro Argentina took place. Six foreign buyers coming from Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador and Peru participated in the program and held useful meetings with Argentine businessmen that attended the fair. The result was highly positive.

In the fair opening ceremony, the President of Indexport Messe Frankfurt, Mr. Fernando Gorbarán, addressed the businessmen with the following message: "…your presence in this opening ceremony makes us very happy and confirms our efforts to put up what we are enjoying today. This is an industrial, commercial, and services exhibition that always tries to bring more development, more businesses to Argentina and that tries to (...) show itself with the dignity that Argentine businessmen develop in order to overcome difficult times (…)"

Eng. Eduardo Capelo, President of CASEL said: "I'm really very proud to see this fair in this situation. The businessmen response to a difficult moment, a global crisis time, worsen by Influenza A problem (…) But, thanks to the confidence and initiative of businessmen, the alignment of the whole CASEL Executive Committee and Indexport Messe Frankfurt effort, everybody brought (…) enthusiasm, creativity, inventiveness and today we have a fair we are all proud of it. We really appreciate the effort made by Export.Ar and Pro Argentina. When we see the result of Argentine exports in this field, we feel highly surprised because we are not only exporting equipment such as turnstiles (you see here), clocks, barriers but also high value added systems, systems in which the whole capacity of Argentine engineering is added (…)"

Dr. Marcelo Elizondo, Executive Director of Fundación Export.Ar stated: "You know that, as an agency for Argentina foreign commercial promotion, Fundación Export.Ar organizes many matchmaking programs in the country, by bringing foreign businessmen. The great virtue of this kind of events is that of organizing a bilateral meeting, many bilateral meetings. The international businessmen we summon from different countries such as Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile and Peru (…) tell me about good experiences (…) We all know that the first half of the year has been complex both for Argentina and the world, but fortunately the exports are recovering. In January, Argentine exports were 35% down compared with January 2008 and in June-July they are 3 or 4% down compared with the same months of the previous year (…) We will get to the end of the year with levels similar to the ones of the end of 2008. The industry will export more than 12,000 million dollars this year (…) and this event tries to help, to bring technology, knowledge, management as the ones exhibiting companies, which I'd like to congratulate, are showing to the world.

Bach. Carlos A. Bozzalla, General Coordinator of Pro Argentina, said: "I'm here on behalf of the undersecretary of Politics and Commercial Management of the Industry Department of Argentina's Production Department. We, by means of this program, jointly organize the matchmaking program with Fundación Export.Ar. These are the matchmaking programs we really like to organize because the Production Department has strived to get Argentine exports with increasingly high technological content and added value. By visiting this wonderful fair you can see the word "technology" is present in all stands (…)"

Some of the exhibiting companies expressed their opinions regarding their presence in the fair:

ALARI 3
Commercial Manager, Guillermo Valls
"We are really enjoying the exhibition in this 2009 edition. We have an interesting number of visitors at this moment. It is a good opportunity to develop new customers and mainly to consolidate the brand for the future. This will be related to the next year exhibition in which we hope to grow even more and to find a higher technological level in the interests of integrators and organizers. Everything is well done and we feel very comfortable."

AXIS
Marketing Director for South America, Mr. Marcelo Ponte
"Seguriexpo Buenos Aires is a very important fair for us because we have the opportunity to present our new products and launches. This is the fourth time we take part in the event. This year we have a very good location and we have new high definition cameras and other resources. For us this is a crucial fair. Next year, we would like to be here again, if it could be in this place better or even in a bigger one (...) it is a very important exhibition for our market. Another significant aspect (...) is that we have the chance to talk with all the people interested in knowing more about IP; we have the chance to show a bit more about our technology and products; do business (…) organize specific presentations, etc. We will be here in 2010 for sure."

BIO CARD TECNOLOGÍA
Commercial Manager, Mr. Marcelo Sosa
"As from 2005, we have had stands in Seguriexpo and we will continue taking part on it every year (…) In spite of the crisis, we have seen a very good quality stands, though there were fewer than in previous editions, but quality has really been kept as well as the effort of all exhibitors to be here. The level of participants and visitors has really been very good, both in terms of quality and quantity. This should be noted, not only in the effort made by exhibitors but also in the one made by Indexport Messe Frankfurt staff, that is in charge of organizing this event together with CASEL, the chamber that gathers all our companies. This year (…) we are very pleased with the exhibition and with the investment we made."

FIESA
Sales Manager, Mr. Leonardo Piscioli
"(…) This year we are representing a DVR factory of which we are dealers and we are showing the product quality and features. The visitors at national level are significant and we are very pleased. (...) Another point worth mentioning is stands quality and the strength of this industry to get and bring the products to all country integrators. We are very grateful and wish the fair to be a success for all exhibitors."

SONY
Presales Eng. for all the IP Safety solutions, Mr. Santiago Landa
"(…) It is the first time that we take part directly in this exhibition, thus we have great expectations and we found many integrators that are already our customers and we have made many contacts with integrators. It has been very profitable for us. We hope these contacts produce good results in the future that enable us to continue growing as a safety company."

UBICAR ARGENTINA
Manager of Monitoring Business Unit, Mr. Mariano Loboda
"In spite of the negative signs that were present due to crisis the country is undergoing, we are very pleased with the exhibition. We contacted many dealers and final customers that ask about our services. We see that the stands present in the fair are of excellent quality, this makes us very happy. We really expect this exhibition to end very well and we hope to see you in future editions."

One of the attractions of the fair and the most visited one, both by professional visitors and press media, was the demo space named Ciudad Segura. An area that simulated a city in action and the safety systems installed to be protected. This space has a small public sector, a schematized urban sector by a family house and a company or office building typical lobby. Besides, there was a multiple safety room opened to audience in such a way that visitors can see remote operation of electronic safety companies in charge of supervising and monitoring different sectors of urban grounds.

Simultaneously to the fair, the International Congress on Electronic Safety (CISE) took place.

The next edition of Intersec Buenos Aires will be carried out on September 1-3, 2010.

About Messe Frankfurt 
With 36 millions of euros in sales registered in 2008, Messe Frankfurt is the world largest organizer of professional fairs that has his own trade center.
The group counts with a global network of 29 subsidiaries, 5 head offices and 48 agencies worldwide.
Messe Frankfurt is present in more than 150 countries and the events are carrried out in more than 30 regions worldwide. In 2008, Messe Frankfurt organized a total of 104 technical fairs and 62 of them took place outside Germany, especially in other cities of Europe, America, Asia and Middle East.
The center of the company is and is still being Frankfurt, the hostess of more than 39,800 exhibitors and around 1.54 millions of visitors in 2008. 
Further information: www.messefrankfurt.com

About Indexport Messe Frankfurt
Created in 1990, Indexport is a service company focused on market access. The German company purchased corporate equity in 2003, and thus Indexport became Indexport Messe Frankfurt, the Argentinean affiliate of the world leading professional exhibition organizer. The purpose of fairs is promoting real business gatherings, which will support regional markets, boost the domestic market and in turn drive the development of the technological pole in each area.
The current event portfolio of Indexport Messe Frankfurt includes: Automechanika Argentina, BIEL Light+Building, Cosmesur Beautyworld Buenos Aires, ExpoFerretera, Hair&Beauty Buenos Aires, MetalExpo, Tecno Fidta, Seguriexpo Buenos Aires, Tecno Fidta and many congresses.
More information at www.indexport.com.ar