Pool-net will be attending Midest 2019

Pool-net Pool-net will be attending Midest 2019

04.03.2019Editor: Steffen Donath

The participation of Pool-net is part of their project Highspot which is meant to promote international markets.

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France is the second largest customer of Portuguese goods, accounting for 12.5% of Portuguese exports in 2017. Regarding the mold industry, France ranks 3rd in the export ranking, accounting for 12% of the molds exported in 2017.

Given the importance of the French market for Engineering & Tooling from Portugal, Pool-Net: Portuguese Tooling & Plastics Network is organizing a participation in the fair Midest – the Global Show for all Industrial Subcontracting Know-how. Midest will take place from 5th to 8th march in Lyon. This fair counts about 1.100 exhibitors, 30.000 m2 of exhibition, expecting more than 22000 visitors.

The participation of Pool-Net: Portuguese Tooling & Plastics Network has the main objective of promoting the Engineering & Tooling from Portugal brand and the skills of the Portuguese industry of molds, special tools and plastics, namely the know-how, quality, technology and innovation, social sustainability, networking and reliability.

This participation is part of the project Highspot, promoted by Pool-Net, which aims to promote at the international markets the collective brand "Enginnering & Tooling from Portugal", contributing to the reinforcement of the positioning of the Portuguese companies of the Engineering & Tooling cluster in supply & strategic markets. The Highspot project is funded by Portugal 2020, under the Operational Competitiveness and Internationalization Program, in the amount of 411,116 € from Feder (European Regional Development Fund).

Portugal is the world's eighth-largest mould making country and currently exports over 85 percent of production to 86 countries. In 2017, tooling exports reached a value of 675 million euros. Exports as well as employment has doubled in the last ten years. Europe is the main export zone, although exports to North America and Mexico have grown.

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