May 4 to 8 were the dates at the Palais des Expositions-Pins Maritimes in Algiers for the BATIMATEC 2025 event, a reference tradeshow on the African continent for building processes and technologies. According to organizer data, this year the show had more than 900 exhibitors – more than 300 foreign – on a display area of some 40,000 square meters.
Again for this edition of BATIMATEC, CONFINDUSTRIA MARMOMACCHINE – with the support of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and in collaboration with ICE-Agency – organized an ITALIA Area at which some of the top companies in the techno-stone sector exhibited: BENETTI MACCHINE – BM – BOART & WIRE – BRETON – CASSANI CARLO – COMANDULLI – DELLAS – DONATONI MACCHINE – DWIRE – FAEDO INTERNATIONAL – FRACCAROLI & BALZAN – GIACOMINI OFFICINE MECCANICHE – ICF WELKO – MARMOMACCHINE INTERNATIONAL – NEW POLARIS LUX – PEDRINI – PROMETEC – SIMEC – TENAX.
The Italian contingent at the show was welcomed with satisfaction by the Italian ambassador to Algeria, Alberto Cutillo, who – accompanied by the Honorary President of CONFINDUSTRIA MARMOMACCHINE, Flavio Marabelli, and the Director of ICE-Agency in Algiers, Maurizio Motta – on the show’s inauguration day visited the ITALIA area and greeted the techno-stone companies’ representatives.
We remind readers that Italy is Algeria’s third-ranking trading partner globally (the first country customer and third supplier after China and France), while Algeria is Italy’s top trade partner on the African continent and identified as one of the nine priority countries by the Mattei Plan for Africa. Participation in BATIMATEC was an excellent opportunity for penetrating a dynamic and growing market always more interested in Italian know-how in the stone processing field.
On the statistical level, the North African country was once again a strategic partner for the sector: last year its imports of Italian machines, lines and equipment for extracting and processing natural stones – while somewhat less than the record amounts in 2023 – in fact surpassed 13.7 million euros, while its imports of stone materials reached 11 million (6.5 million for raw stone products), for total Italian stone industry exports worth nearly 25 million (CONFINDUSTRIA MARMOMACCHINE Studies Center data).
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