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20/10/2006
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Proma 2006, bringing the environmental market to trade specialists
The PROMA biennial international environment fair is the oldest event of its kind. This year's fair, scheduled for October 3rd-6th at the Bilbao Exhibition Centre, will feature 343 firms on 159 stands.
Exhibitors will offer a broad representation of the international market for environmental products and services. PROMA 2006 brings together firms from 17 sectors. The biggest numbers come from the fields of solid waste treatment, recovery, recycling and valorisation, treatment of contaminated soil sector, water production, distribution and channelling, waste water treatment, techniques for analysis, measurement, regulation and control, laboratories, urban and industrial cleaning, energy production and renewable energy sources . PROMA '06 is a markedly international event. There are over 30 direct foreign exhibitors, including several firms from Germany, Portugal and Chile. France, Italy, the UK, Hungary, the US, Colombia and Argentina will also be represented, albeit by smaller numbers of firms. The presence of German firms is particularly significant: Germany's environment sector is very large, and as in previous years numerous German firms will be attending Proma. A new feature this year is the effort made by APEMETA, the leading Portuguese environment association, to arrange a significant group presence including not just public institutions but also numerous firms. TRADE ACTIVITIES On the occasion of PROMA '06 the University of the Basque Country and the Bilbao Exhibition Centre have organised the 10th Environmental Engineering Congress. Like its predecessors, this event will provide scientists and technicians with a forum at which to share results and progress in research, development, engineering and management in the fields of science, engineering and technology applied to environmental protection. The 10th Congress covers new needs arising from the implementation of modern policies and strategies for integrated environmental management. Its activities are organised in monographic sessions with lectures, round tables, papers and posters spread over three working days, on the topics of Environmental Policy and Planning, Environmental Solutions Compatible with Sustainable Development and Maintenance, Operation and Control of Environmental Monitoring and Surveillance Facilities. The monographic sessions arranged by the Congress's scientific committee include New Landfill Technologies, Use of Waste for Energy and Bio-methanisation, Re-use of Urban & Industrial Waste, Gas Emissions from Contaminated Soil, Urban & Agricultural Re-use of Waste Water, Membrane Technologies in Water Treatment, Integrated Water Management & the Framework Directive, “Natural & Man-made Emissions of GHG's and Atmospheric Pollution and Climate Change: Scales, Interaction & Feedback. INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL BUSINESS FORUM Coinciding with PROMA 2006, the 1st International Environment Business Forum is to be organised by ACLIMA (the Basque Environment Cluster) and the Bilbao Exhibition Centre with the collaboration of SPRI. This forum seeks to provide a platform for diversifying business relations with strategic geographical areas for the environment sector. Firms can contact key agents in target markets, and the transfer between administrations of knowledge on environment policies and environmental management will be facilitated. Countries with emerging environment markets include those of Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, New Zealand, the Middle East, China, Africa and India. All these countries are in the early stages of developing their environment markets, and are currently importers of environmental technologies and services . But the areas with the greatest potential are the new EU Member States and Asia, including China and India, followed by Poland, the Czech Republic, Brazil and Chile. CORPORATE TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER MEETINGS Fro this year's PROMA a forum has been established to bring together European firms, technology centres and research centres from the supply and demand sides of technology so as to promote innovation through technological co-operation and the exploitation of the results of R&D work . This scheme of corporate technology transfer meetings is intended to encourage those attending the event to learn more about the possibilities of the environment sector on an international level. It is aimed at top management and technicians at organisations involved in science, technology and innovation, executives, managers of industrial firms, heads of technology and manufacturing at industrial companies and services companies associated with industry. The papers presented will reveal the current state of the art in waste valorisation, current and prospective European legislation, emerging technology, the situation of research in Europe and waste valorisation under the 7th Framework Programme. 2nd IBERIAN RECYCLING CONVENTION Under the framework of PROMA '06, the Institute for the Sustainability of Resources (ISR) is to organise the 2nd Iberian Recycling Convention in an to respond to the concerns raised by the new measures in the European Strategy and to provide a forum to showcase Iberian achievements in the field of recycling. The programme comprises more than twenty topics concerned with the general framework for recycling, including the European outlook, strategies, recycling of industrial and commercial packaging, pharmaceutical and phytosanitary waste, demolition waste, end-of-life vehicles, batteries & energy cells, waste oils, IT consumables and domestic waste. The Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP) is to organise a Seminar on Non Conventional Waste Water Treatment Techniques on October 5th. This seminar will be opened by Jaime Palop, General Director for Water at the Spanish Ministry of the Environment and by Esther Larrañaga, Basque Government Minister for Land Use and the Environment. EVE (Ente Vasco de la Energía) has arranged seminars on sustainable transport under the title Bioethanol, A Clean Option, at which a number of specialists will discuss topics including Europe's Move Towards Bio-fuels and the Involvement of the Basque Country in its Objectives, and Technologies for the Use of Bioethanol. EVE has also organised the 2nd Finance Project Conference, which will bring together members of Ener Agen (Association of Spanish Energy Management Agencies) to encourage the co-ordination of resources and the establishment of aid between different agencies Finally, the R&D&i space at fairs of FITEC (The Catalonian Foundation for Research and Innovation) is to present a framework for the transfer of technology and for links between universities and businesses as a backdrop for a practical meeting of researchers, creators of new technologies and entrepreneurs attending PROMA '06 The various events to be staged at PROMA 2006 are grouped into two main forums: Science & Technology and Business. Progress and innovations are expected in the papers presented at the 10th Environmental Engineering Congress, at the 2nd Iberian Recycling Convention and the 5th Technology Transfer Meetings. To reinforce trade relations, an International Business Forum is to be held at which exhibitors can contact official delegations from 20 countries that are potential purchasers. This forum seeks to provide a platform for diversifying business relations with strategic geographical areas for the environment sector. Firms can contact key agents in target markets, and the transfer between administrations of knowledge on environment policies and environmental management will be facilitated. Countries with emerging environment markets include those of Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, New Zealand, the Middle East, China, Africa and India. All these countries are in the early stages of developing their environment markets, and are currently importers of environmental technologies and services . But the areas with the greatest potential are the new EU Member States and Asia, including China and India, followed by Poland, the Czech Republic, Brazil and Chile. The papers presented will reveal the current state of the art in waste valorisation, current and prospective European legislation, emerging technology, the situation of research in Europe and waste valorisation under the 7th Framework Programme.
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