VERONA, ITALY -- The inauguration for Marmomac 2021 was held during the first day of the show and attended by Maurizio Danses, president of Veronafiere; Federico Sboarina, the mayor of Verona; Marco De Angelis, the president of Confindustria Marmomacchine; Roberto Luongo, the CEO ICE Italian Trade & Investment Agency; Manuel Scalzotto, the president of the Province of Verona;and Luca Zaia, the president of the Veneto region. Following the inauguration was a musical interlude organized by the Arena Foundation, performing the famous airs of the opera festival.
Show management reports that a total of 45% of the 756 exhibiting companies come from abroad, totaling 329 companies from 39 different countries. Specifically, 80 companies have traveled from Turkey, 15 from Brazil, 11 from Egypt and six from Iran. These figures are also backed up by numerous international delegations of buyers, architects and importers of slabs and technologies from the U.S., Canada, Russia and the Maghreb (Egypt, Algeria and Tunisia).