Described by the 546 exhibiting companies as the best of all the exhibitions held every year for the past 12 years, PAACE Automechanika Mexico 2006 attracted a record number of 17,557 visitors from 34 countries attended the three day event, according to the sponsoring organizations INA, MEMA, SEMA, APRA, AAIA and Messe Frankfurt in their review of the International Week of the Automotive Industry in Mexico.
Inaugurated by Mexico’s President Vicente Fox Quesada and by the Economy Minister Sergio García de Alba this particular show, which covered 21,000 square meters, attracted the largest participating contingent ever of Mexican autoparts companies, 161. The show is Mexico’s most important for the automotive industry and is one of the most important in Latin America.
PAACE Automechanika Mexico’s international character was visible by the 11 international pavilions from Germany, Argentina, Brazil, China, Colombia, South Korea, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Thailand and Taiwan and exhibitors came from 20 countries.
The exhibition was attended by the makers of original equipment, the aftermarket, service, tools and accessories marketers and by practically the whole of the automotive sector’s productive chain.
The technical seminars for industry professionals covered three days and were attended by almost 4,000 specialists. The seminars offered a full program of conferences, starting with one about diagnosis, and outline technologies regarding, battery upkeep, advice on the purchase of a patrimony, brake system maintenance, steering and suspension parts, automotive transmission operating systems, and leakage detection.
The International Week of the Automotive Industry, which included the congress, known as CIIAM, and PAACE Automechanika Mexico was covered by 135 accredited journalists.
PAACE Automechanika Mexico will be held again on July 11, 12 and 13, 2007, at the Centro Banamex in Mexico City.
