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MEXICO
Daniel Paim and Maria Santos of Schmidt Moldes
ANDELLAC Celebrates 41st Expo Congresso in Cancun
The 41st ANDELLAC Expo Congresso in Cancun was opened by ANDELLAC technical director Ruben Albarran ( (left) and president Raul Castillo Arteaga (below)
The Mexican tyre dealers and retreaders association, ANDELLAC, has been organising an exhibition and conference for its members for over forty years and this year the Association decided to move the event from Acapulco to the Moon Palace Resort in Cancun. The 41st Expo Congresso took place from 2-4 October and, according to visitors to the event, the exhibition continued to exhibit the slow but steady growth that the event has enjoyed in recent years.
The ANDELLAC conference has always had a strong social aspect, and so it was this year too, with
a strong programme
of events for wives
and partners as well
as delegates,
including
sightseeing tours,
golf and tennis
tournaments and a concert on the final evening by Barry Ivan White (Barry White’s son, in case you hadn’t guessed).
The event began with a lavish and well attended opening evening hosted by ANDELLAC President Raul Castillo Arteaga and the Association’s Technical Director, Ruben Albarran. Their introduction was followed by an interesting presentation by by
business guru Mario Borghini whose presentation was called “Innovate or Die. How to Grow in a Changing Market.”
The main development at this
Hosted by ANDELLAC, the meeting was attended by the Associations of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Uruguay as well as David Stevens from TRIB
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years event, at least as far as retreaders were concerned, was the fact that the event hosted the second meeting of ALARNEU, the Federation of Latin American Retreaders – the Latin
American equivalent of BIPAVER.
and Roy Littlefield from TIA. The event also included an exhibition, which unlike many other national tyre shows, was well supported by the tyre industry, with Pirelli, Continental, Goodyear, Cooper
Juan Silveti, Jose Suarez and Francisco Ibarzabal of Galgo