More than 70 local and foreign companies participated in the Second Libya Industries Exhibition being held in Misrata from 25 February to 2 March. Foreign participants included Turkey, Greece, the United States and Algeria.
The opening ceremony was attended by Tripoli-based Libyan prime minister Abd Alhamid Aldabaiba, and his Ministers of Industry, Economy and Trade, Transportation, Social Affairs, the head of the Audit Bureau, several ambassadors to Libya, several directors of government institutions and bodies, and business leaders.
Exhibition received full government support
Speaking exclusively to Libya Herald yesterday at the exhibition in Misrata, Al-Mahdi Boulifa, the Media Spokesperson for the exhibition, said that this edition of the exhibition received the full support of the Tripoli government through the two Ministries of Industry and Economy, as well as the National Industry Promotion Authority, the Privatization and Investment Board (PIB), the Misrata Chamber of Commerce, local industrial and commercial institutions, in cooperation with the sovereign authorities that have a relationship with facilitating the entry of foreign participants from Turkey, Greece, the United States and Algeria.
Boulifa said all the exhibition space had been reserved, with approximately 5,000 square meters of covered space and 8,000 square metres of open spaces.
A wide field of industrial activities
He said the number of participants reached more than 70 local and foreign companies and industrial establishments whose activities are distributed in the fields of packaging, in the field of paint, the manufacture of its machines, equipment and supplies, the iron and steel industry, building materials, construction equipment, the wood and furniture industry, the plastic and aluminium industry, the construction chemicals industry, the mineral oil industry, and several other industrial fields.
Localisation of industry
Boulifa stressed the importance of holding this edition of the exhibition at this time, which he described as the right time to support the state’s efforts to localize industries and resume many industrial and service projects that need to open horizons for cooperation between the private sector and the government. In addition, there is the need to discover the development taking place in the world in various industrial fields through the participation of other countries in this exhibition.
Localisation then exports of surplus production
He added that this edition will witness the holding of specialized workshops and seminars in the field of technology transfer and the localisation of several industries that the Libyan private sector can carry out inside Libya to provide for local needs. At a further stage of the plan, the surplus can be exported abroad.
He said several interested specialists, academics and businessmen will participate in these seminars that are in the industrial field and its development.
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