The 2022 edition of the Rimini Fair has attracted more visitors and exhibitors than the last two editions.
“Italian Exhibition Group’s (IEG) Ecomondo and Key Energy closed their doors this Friday at the Rimini exhibition centre with a total attendance of +41 percent compared to 2021 (and +15 on the record edition of 2019).
The 2022 edition was also marked by the doubling of foreign attendance (from 90 countries) thanks to the internationalisation policy launched by IEG in recent years, which attracts new and numerous global visitors to Rimini in the name of excellence, both qualitative and numerical,” the organisers said in a statement.
Ecomondo, an event dedicated to the circular economy, was held from 8 to 11 November at the Rimini Fair, a city located on the Adriatic coast of the Italian region of Emilia Romagna.
Held jointly, the 25th Ecomondo and the 15th Key Energy show of the Italian Exhibition Group (IEG) enabled visitors and exhibitors to make almost 550 million contacts.
According to the organisers, these two events represent a real “system,” a community, which owes its uniqueness to the virtuous interweaving of the exhibition side of the business, institutional relations at the highest level, from the European Commission via the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security, to the Foundation for Sustainable Development and the supply chain consortia, and to a very rich conference calendar.
The two fairs allowed 80 international associations active in the green economy to conclude collaboration agreements, and to commit to promoting “blue growth” in the Mediterranean area with examples of international cooperation projects for the protection of the marine ecosystem and the fight against climate change.
In total, there were 1400 exhibiting brands in 130,000 square metres. The supply chains attracted 600 foreign buyers.
“In the beginning, Ecomondo had 3,000 square metres of exhibition space. After 25 years, this number has increased 40-fold, to 130,000. These figures give an idea of the opportunities to be seized both for the future and for the technologies that allow us to envisage a different kind of energy production,” said the Italian Minister for the Environment and Energy Security, Gilberto Pichetto Fratin in his closing speech.
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