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Summary of the Expointer 2003
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EXPOINTER -
International Animals’ Exhibition
Initial general information:
The
27th edition of the Expointer will take place from August 28 to September 5 at
the Assis Brasil Exhibition Park in Esteio.
According to expectations of the Rio Grande do Sul State Government, it will be
the greatest of all editions in business volume, and the best one in terms of
organization and infrastructure. Ever since 1972, when it took on an
international scope, the Expointer has consolidated itself as one of the most
important Latin American events in the farming and implements industry. The
exhibition park measures 141 hectares, and it is expected to receive more than
600,000 visitors during the nine days of the event.
The Assis Brasil Exhibition Park, in Esteio, is a genuine tourism center.
It is located along the BR-116 highway, next to a metropolitan train station,
close to the Salgado Filho Airport and other connections. It is only 25
kilometers away from Porto Alegre, capital of the state of Rio Grande do Sul.
The park is located at the center of the metropolitan area of Porto Alegre, in
the path to the Sinos Valley and to the Mountains (where one can find the
industrial towns of Caxias do Sul and Bento Gonçalves and the famous tourist
destinations of Gramado and Canela).
It
can accommodate more than 6,000 livestock, including cattle, horses, sheep,
swine, goats, poultry, rabbits and birds, which are always some of the event´s
main attractions. Also, it has plenty of room for farming machines and
implements, technical innovations, and all kinds of products and services
related to the country life.
The Fair is the most authentic window for the production capacity,
technology, culture and life in Rio Grande do Sul. During the event, there are
exhibitions, deals, artistic, technical and academic performances, as well as
tournaments, contests, races and rodeos, a lot of talking and information
exchange.
Some pictures of the fair:
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Pictures of 4th September 2004:
- general views of the fair: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24
- agricultural machines and implements: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Pictures of 5th September 2004:
- general views of the fair: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15,
16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25
- agricultural machines and implements: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15,
16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24
- livestock: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
- family agriculture: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
- a path that leads to integration: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
The Fair in Numbers:
During the nine days
of the event, over 720,000 people visited the Park, exceeding the 620,000
recorded in the previous year. Sales of agricultural machines and implements
reached R$ 218 million, a bit more than the R$ 216 million recorded in the
previous exhibition. The Moderfrota program helped reach this figure. Sales of
livestock reached R$ 3 million, with 1,512 animals sold. This figure did not
exceed the R$ 3.1 million recorded in 2003. The drop was allegedly caused by
farmers' lack of money due to this year's severe drought, which damaged crops
such as soy and corn, as well as by the low price of bovines. This scenario
will likely change after new slaughterhouses are opened in the state and the
meat produced in Rio Grande do Sul reaches new markets.
Also check out:
Expointer official web site,
designed by the Rio Grande do Sul State Government
other
videos shot at Expointer 2003, produced by
EA/UFRGS
of
EATw: here.
Next,
we present some information on previous editions of the Expointer, starting in
1999.
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EXPOINTER -
International Animals’ Exhibition
Initial general information:
The 26th edition of the biggest agricultural fair in Rio Grande do Sul and one of the biggest ones in Latin America will take place from 30th August to 7th September 2003, in the Assis Brasil Exhibition Park, in Esteio-RS, where it has been taking place since 1970. With an excellent infrastructure, the Park measures 141 hectares, and used to be a beautiful typical Gaúcho farm. It is located close to the State’s main motorway – the BR 116 – between the capital of RS (Porto Alegre) and the “capital” of Brazil’s Shoe Industry (Novo Hamburgo), just 15km from Porto Alegre, 8km from Salgado Filho International Airport, 5km from Canoas, 5km from Sapucaia do Sul, 15km from São Leopoldo, 25km from Novo Hamburgo, and approximately 100km from the towns of Gramado and Canela, in the Serra Gaúcha. The fair has had participants from all over the world in the last 31 years, and it will feature participants from 12 countries in South America, North America and Europe in this edition. It is the most important agribusiness event in Rio Grande do Sul, whose 45% of GDP is made up of the agriculture industry. In the current year, the Fair will receive more than 6.2 thousand livestock (cattle, horses, swine, goats, sheep, ostriches and many others, including small animals).There are 45.3 thousand square metres of covered pavilions and 70 thousand square metres for exhibition and sale of livestock, machines, implements, inputs, hand-crafted products, colonial products and other several products and services, as well as awards, lectures, concerts, presentations, sport, and leisure. Nineteen artistic presentations have been confirmed. Also, there will be important debates to demonstrate and discuss innovations, technical assistance and services, by means of lectures, forums and seminars.
For more information, visit the Expointer’s web site: www.expointer.rs.gov.br.
In addition, see this interesting collection of information and pictures from the Fair in 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002, available on the Terragaúcha web site.
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EXPOINTER -
International Animals’ Exhibition
August
24th,
2002 (1st day of the
Fair)
The International Livestock Exhibition (Expointer)
takes place at Assis Brasil State Exhibition Park, in Esteio, Rio Grande do Sul,
from 24 August to 1 September. It is the biggest event of its kind in Latin
America. Over 300 thousand people are expected during the 8-day event, in which
farmers, businesses, universities and other institutions exhibit their best in
terms of livestock raising, equipment, commodities, technology, knowledge and
services related to the agricultural sector. The trade fair makes up a unique
opportunity to put together small and big farmers, businessmen, students,
teachers, and country-life supporters in general, to exchange information,
acquire quality livestock, new solutions and know-how, or just to enjoy a good
time at the park, where people can be experience a typical country life and
environment.
Pictures from the first day of the event:
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In order to see other information regarding Expointer
2002, visit the event’s official site clicking here.
August 31st,
2002 (8th day of the Fair)
Images:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35
September 2nd, 2002
(9th and last day of the Fair)
Images:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35
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EXPOINTER -
International Animals’ Exhibition
August
16th, 2001 (1st day of the Fair)
Expointer
2001 has opened at Assis Brasil Exhibition Park, in the
city of Esteio-RS, 15km far from the capital of Rio
Grande do Sul, Porto
Alegre.
Expointer
is the biggest agro-industrial fair in Latin America and the 5th in
the world. This year, more than 500,000 visitors are being expected for this big
festival in the south of Brazil. The
fair allows exhibiting the best of the agribusiness: animals (5,307),
agriculture inputs and agribusiness in general.
It
is also an opportunity of exchanging technical and managing information; of
organizing entities, for university students’ contact with the practical world,
for the meeting of artists with their public; and for the public, mainly the
children, of watching the animal’s world.
See some initial images of this great and traditional event of the country’s south: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32
=> Other information on Esteio-RS: see on the site NUTEP/UFRGS and on Guia-Tche
=> Further information about Expointer-2001: see on the official site of the State Governmen
August 28th, 2001 (4th day of the Fair)
Expointer
is the major agribusiness event in the South of Brazil; on these days the best
animals, equipments, techniques and several solutions are presented. It allows
producers, purchasers and suppliers to check, compare and discuss the “state
of the art” for the agribusiness sector.
Thus, many companies transform their spaces in the park into true
“General Headquarters"), where they congregate, exchange information and
define strategies.
Due to the fast technological development of equipments, agriculture and industrial implements, significant changes are taking place. New companies are emerging in this scenario, new deals are being made and new important "players" are appearing, with well-known trademarks, but coming from municipalities and places generally unknown by most of the public. The following documentary about some companies, which produce equipments for agriculture and for cattle raising. The ones that are located in RS s\also show some data about the municipalities where their facilities are situated.
See
images and data of some companies:
1) IMASA
- Indústria de Máquinas Agrícolas Fuchs SA:
located in Ijuí-RS, where it was founded by Arthur Fuchs in 1922; he began
working as a funnel-maker, and produced several domestic appliances. From 1956
on, it focused on the production of agricultural implements, trying to meet
their growing demand in the south of Brazil. Nowadays, it produces sowing
machines, leveling grates, mud-wall machines and under-soiling plows. From the
70’s on, it has also started to produce metallic covers for the civil
construction. It operates all over Brazil and exports for other countries in
South America, Europe and Africa.
Other
information on the company
Other
information on the municipality where the company is located
2) Fockink
group: with headquarters in Panambi-RS. It began to operate
in 1947, when was founded by Alfredo Arnaldo Fockink, as a small rewinding and
electrical motors repair. Nowadays, the group owns five companies: Fockink
Participações Ltda, Fockink Indústrias Elétricas Ltda, Fockink Instalações
Elétricas Ltda, AF Transportes Rodoviários Ltda e Agropecuária Fockink Ltda,
which operate within the national market, and in several countries in South and
Central America, Africa, and more recently in Europe and the United States.
In the
agribusiness segment, Fockink develops high technologies for central pivot
irrigation systems, mechanical milk drawers and animal identification systems.
Fockink products represent advanced technology, modern manufacturing processes
and meet rigorous quality standards.
Images
of some items:
1,
2,
3,
4
Other
information on the company
Other
information about the municipality where the company is located.
3) John
Deere, Horizontina-RS unit:
the presence of the factory in Brazil was originated from the association of
John Deere International, in 1979, with the factory of agricultural machinery
named SLC
(Schneider, Logemann Ltd), that outstood in the
sowing
machine production (it was a pioneer, launching the sowing machine in 1965). In
2001, this association ended.
John
Deere was founded in 1837, in Grand Detour, Illinois, United States. Nowadays,
it is the major world manufacturing of agriculture equipments, invoicing, in its
whole, US$ 13.4 billion; it is present in all the continents and employs more
than 44 thousand workers.
John
Deere unit in Horizontina invoices around R$ 547 million, and is among the 30
biggest companies of Rio Grande do Sul, according to VPG ranking (Size
Measurement, according to data of Amanhã magazine from July, 2001). More than
80% of the Added Value of the municipality originates from this factory.
Other
information on the company
Other
information on the municipality where the company is located
4) Yanmar
do Brasil SA: its factory is located in Indaiatuba-SP (around 15
minutes from Campinas). The company has a Japanese origin. It manufactures
mainly tractors (among them we can highlight the 1045 x 4 model), micro-tractors
and diesel tractors.
Other
information on the company
5) New
Holland Latino Americana: In
1975, it inaugurated its factory (de sowing machines) in Brazil, in the city of
Curitiba-PR. In 1991, Fiat acquired this Ford’s trademark; and with the fusion
with Fiatgeotech, it started moving towards the 1st position within
the agricultural machinery market in Brazil. In 1992, a new tractor factory was
inaugurated in Paraná. In 1999, New Holland was incorporated by CNH Global,
which comprises all Fiat’s companies and trademarks for the machinery and
building sectors. Today, CNH Global is a world leader in the production of
tractors and sowing machines, with an invoicing of U$ 10 billion. In Brazil its
revenues ranged to R$ 1,5 billion in 2000, and New Holland Latino Americana was
responsible for 51% of this result. New Holland trademark is present in more
than 150 countries and its leader in more than 50 of them. In Brazil, the
factory in Curitiba employs more than 900 workers, in a 91,000 square meter area.
In the sowing machine segment, New Holland participates in 43% of the total
sales in Brazil; in the tractor section it represents 26.8%.
Other
information on the company
6) Case
Brasil: it is another division of CNH Global holding, that
comprises all Fiat’s companies and trademarks in the agricultural and building
sectors. It owns units in Piracicaba-SP and Sorocaba-SP; but it is foreseeing to
concentrate its facilities next to New Holland, in Curitiba-PR, because the two
companies belong to CNH Global, which belongs to Fiat.
Image
of an item (sowing machine):
1
Other
information on the company
7) AGCO do Brasil
Com. e Ind. Ltd: its
headquarters are located in Canoas-RS; it possesses the well-known Massey
Ferguson trademark for tractors e sowing machines.
Other
information on the municipality where the company is located
See
other images (at night) of the Fair that for some days operates as a true city:
2)
Auction of a pollet-hereford animal (visit the sites: Hereford and
Bradford): 1
3) Wood
Arts, made with a power driven saw from
Stihl do Brasil:
1
4)
Elege milk house:
1
5)
Uruguay’s stand:
1 (other countries present at the fair:
Great Britain, Germany, Lebanon, Peru, Argentina)
6)
Neighborhoods of the restaurant of the Associação de Criadores de Cavalos
Crioulos)
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7) Gaúcho,
participant of the competition "tiro ao laço": 1
August 30th,
2001 (6th day of
Fair)
Yesterday,
(August 29th, 2001) Gerdau Group awarded the winners of the 19th
edition of the contest “The Best of the Land”. At all,
54 products have competed in the categories
"highlight" e "news". The ceremony took place at
Sapucaia do Sul unit, a neighbor municipality of Esteio, where Expointer is
taking place.
In
the “highlight” category, the following companies were awarded:
- Menta Mit Máquinas
Agrícolas, from Cajuru-SP, with the equipment Colhimenta 3000;
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Montana Indústria de Máquinas, from São José
dos Pinhais-PR, with Parruda, a self-propelling sprayer;
- Dryeration
Indústria Comércio e Projetos, from Porto Alegre-RS, with the seed dryer
“Dryexcel” ;
In the
"news" category, the award was for:
- Boelter
Agro Industrial, from Gravataí-RS, with Boelter turbo sowing machine;
- Indústria
Mecânica Knapik, from Porto União-SC, with Knapic planting machine;
- Perozin
Indústria Metalúrgica, from Concórdia-SC, with Embrapa Perozin Grainmeter;
A
special award for Computerized Systems of Application was also given to:
- Planejar
Processamento de Dados, from Canoas-RS, for SIRB, Integrated System for
Bovine Tracking.
Headline
for Gerdau Group in the USA’s press
Today,
August 30th, 2001,
Grupo Gerdau that has promoted the contest “The Best of The Land”
has been largely
commented in the "New York Times", one of the major newspapers in the
world. With the headline "From Brazil, an emergent steel giant”, the
paper presents the trajectory of the group that has recently completed 100 years,
and that has always maintained its headquarters in the most southern Brazilian
State.
Gerdau
employs 12,000 workers worldwide, operates in six countries (Brazil, Uruguay,
Argentina, Chile, Canada and the United States), and is the 25th
largest steel milling in the world.
The
group history in Brazil started around 1857, when a group of Pomeranian colonies
(located in the north
of the Germany and Poland) , among them Joahnnes
Gerdau, has founded "Colônia
Santo Ângelo", that nowadays comprises the municipalities of
Agudo and Paraíso do Sul, and some parts of
Cachoeira do Sul and Dona Francisca, located at the mid-west region of
the State.
From 1901, when a nail factory was created in the capital, Porto Alegre, the group has jumped to an outstanding world position, but it has maintained its headquarters in Porto Alegre, a city that mixes provincial e cosmopolitan features.
See the
complete matter, published today, in English, in the "New
York Times".
August 31st,
2001 (7th day of the Fair)
During this day, there have been visited other agricultural machinery and equipment manufacturers’ stands, originated from RS municipalities and from other Brazilian states:
1) Stara
Stil: it is located in Não-Me-Toque, RS; it manufactures
planting machines, leveling machines, sub-soiling, sowing machines, PADs,
suppliers, trailers and other equipment. Its history started with Wilhelmus, the
oldest son of Johannes B.
Stapelbroek, a Dutch, who came to know the Dutch colony named Hollambra, in São
Paulo, in 1949. He came and amazed, convinced all his family to come to Brazil.
Four
years later, the family migrated to Não-Me-Toque, in the state of Rio Grande do
Sul, where they opened an ironwork. Soon
after, they associated with another company in order to import machinery from
Europe. After, it has entered into a joint venture with Amazone Werke (German);
and finally, made a partnership with Sfil, from Ibirubá (RS), that had a known
trademark for agriculture inputs.
Other
information on the company
Other
information on the municipality where the company is located
2) Masal: it
has units in Santo Antônio da Patrulha-RS and Cachoeira do Sul-RS.
Other
information on the municipality where the company is located
3) Agrale:
it is located in Caxias do Sul, RS; it belongs to
Francisco Stedile Group, that comprises Agrale, Lavrale, Frutale, Germani
Alimentos and Fazenda Três Rios.
The
history of the company started in 1962, when it installed a unit in Sapucaia do
Sul-RS. After it transferred to Caxias do Sul that nowadays is one of the most
important metal-mechanic poles in the country. Its better-known product is the
4100 tractor. However, it produces several other lines of products, as trucks
and chassis, motors, motorcycles and others. Recently, it entered in an
important partnership with the bus manufacturer Marcopolo and International, a
truck manufacturer.
Image
of an item (4100 tractor):
1
Other
information on the company
Other
information on the municipality where the company is located
4) Nogueira:
Other
information on the company
5) Semeato: the company has
units in Passo
Fundo-RS and Carazinho-RS.
Its
production is directed for the “direct planting” technique, that brought
about a radical change for the agricultural production in the State from the
1980’s on).
Other
information on the company
Other
information on the municipality where the company is located
6) Boelter
Agro Industrial: traditional manufacturer of agriculture machine. It
is located in Gravataí-RS, in a 50,000 square meter area.
Its line of products are designed for the HARVEST
(Grain Trucks), SOIL PREPARATION (Soil Levelers, Laser Leveler, Mud Wall
Machines and Plows) and CATTLE RAISING (Silo Press). It operates all over Brazil
and in some foreign markets as Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador,
Guiana, Panama, Paraguay and Cuba.
Images
of items:
1
Other
information on the company
Other
information on the municipality where the city is located
See
other images of the municipality in the section "Nós estivemos lá...",
of the site Terragaucha
See
other images (on a Friday cloudy
afternoon) of the Fair:
