Luanda – At least four hundred exhibitors are due to take part from 11 to 15 May in the municipality of Viana, in Luanda, in the first edition of trade fair of products manufactured and produced in the country.
The event will take place in an area of 25,000 square meters, with three pavilions, under the slogan, “Developing and boosting national production.
This information was released Thursday at a press conference by the Calas Angola CEO, Carlos Calas, the organizer of the event.
He said that 300 people would be directly employed and over 200 indirectly.
On his turn, the Viana Industrial Hub (PIV) CEO, Miguel Luís, noted that the aim of the trade fair was to promote the potential of Portuguese industry.
It will also serve to encourage the consumption of products made in the country, as well as the creation of mechanisms and forms of support for producing companies through policies that facilitate and allow the continuity of the production process.
He also said that at this moment in the PIV 262 industries are operating out of the 503 registered, of which produce civil construction materials, food stuff, a fertilizer factory with a production capacity of 250.000 tons per year.
He appealed, meanwhile, to the population to visit the fair to keep in touch with the products manufactured in the national territory.
The event is an initiative of the Viana Industrial Hub (PIV), in partnership with INAPEM and the organization, Calas Angola, with the support of the Ministries of Economy and Planning, Industry and Trade, and PRODESI, amongst others.
Source: Angola Press News Agency