Expobiomasa 2019 exceeds forecasts and receives visits from 16,540 professionals

With an influx of 16,540 professional visitors, above the figure for the previous edition, Expobiomasa 2019 has clearly exceeded the organization's forecasts, which had calculated more moderate data due to the reduction in the number of days of the fair, from four to three, in relation to that of 2017.

Although at the end of the fair the estimate of the volume of business generated was still unknown, the first data point to a figure significantly higher than that of 2017, which was above 17 million euros.

Expobiomasa 2019 has brought together 540 exhibiting companies from 30 countries, which have shown the latest technological developments in the sector, in a total of 28,000 square meters of the Valladolid fairgrounds, which makes this fair the most important sector event in the south. of Europe.

The best of the twelve fairs held
Javier Díaz, president of the Spanish Association for Energy Valorization of Biomass (Avebiom), the organizing entity of Expobiomasa, assured that both he personally and the entire organizing team “we are very satisfied with the development and the results of Expobiomasa 2019, which has undoubtedly been the best of the twelve editions held so far, due to the quality of the offer that the exhibiting companies have brought, due to the number of professionals we have received and due to the volume of business generated, which exceeds more than the figure from the previous edition.”

According to the president of Avebiom, “the sector faces this season with optimism, with relatively high sales expectations.”

And this is due, he added, to two fundamental factors. “First, the fact that the biomass alternative has permeated society as a solution to domestic and industrial heating needs, with a clean, renewable fuel that takes advantage of a local raw material that cannot be relocated and offers a cheaper price. and stable. And secondly, due to the volatility of fossil fuel prices, which have skyrocketed again in recent weeks.”

B2B Meetings
The guest country and protagonist of Expobiomasa 2019 has been Finland, at whose stand around 400 bilateral business meetings have been held between the 26 companies present at the fair, the most leading in the country, and more than 70 companies and professionals from Spain.

In addition to the II Spanish-Finnish Biomass Seminar—in which the president of Bioenergy Europe, Hannes Tuohiniitty, participated—this edition has hosted conferences such as the International Domestic Pellet Market, biomass in Chile, as well as four more of a technical nature. on boilers, stoves and chimneys; the manufacturing and production of biofuels; industrial and district heating boilers; and the technological keys for the use of heat with agrobiomass in small power.