Dubai WoodShow 2016, the Middle East’s Leading platform for wood and woodworking machinery, organised a networking event at The Armani hotel in Dubai.

The awards were presented by Dawood Al Shezawi, the chief executive of Strategic Marketing & Exhibitions, the event organiser and Walid Fargal, the director general, to Emmanuel Kamarianakis, the Consul General of Canada, and Ambrogio Delachi, the president of Eumabois, at a networking event held on the sidelines of Dubai WoodShow 2016.

“Canada has been our partner since the beginning. We hosted this event generously sponsored by the Canadian Consulate of Dubai to give a chance for all our exhibitors to network together. Our exhibitors have mainly contributed in the growth of our exhibition where we host exhibitors from more than 60 countries,” said Al Shezawi.

“Eumabois is the Association of European Wood Working Machinery where it has also been a great supporter of the exhibition for more than eight years, he added.

On the future plans, Al Shezawi said: “We are aiming for a 15 per cent increase and a conference about forestry and sustainable services alongside the wood show 2017.”

“We are working on further developing the show to make it a prime location of wood work and wood industrial market in the world. The aim of this show is to help the traders of each region to see new technologies and projects,” added Al Shezawi.

On the awards, Kamarianakis said: "Our relationship in UAE is strong and it’s only growing stronger. We have had a fantastic year in trade last year significantly in the export and imports from the UAE to Canada. We think it will continue and expect it to continue, a lot of investments as well specially on the wood exports industry."

"We are a top supplier of high quality wood it’s really a significant part of our economy and our natural resource and the forestry sector in particular and we can’t to continually brand our self as a supplier of quality, value in performance in wood product. Our wood is specially selected to handle the climate of this region. We are also among the largest producers of wood globally,” he added.

Lauding the award, Delachi said: "Eumabois is the federation of putting together 14 national association of wood working machinery manufacturer. We have thousands of companies in our association and about 25,000 employees."

“As Dubai is growing up the demand is growing, buildings are being constructed on a daily basis and those buildings will need furnishing. And those furniture will require a lot of machine that is the reason Dubai is one of our most important place to market our product,” he added.-TradeArabia News Service