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In Bratislava again began the 31st building fair Coneco 2010. It was oficially opened on 24th March 2010 by the First Lady Mrs. Silvia Gašparovičová along with the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education Ján Mikolaj, who is also responsible for administration of the Ministry of Construction and Regional Development. The fact that there is a big interest for the fair shows the number of exhibitors – 636 this year. Included are professional organizations not only from Slovakia but also from the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Croatia or Romania.
In her speech Mrs. Gašparovičová noted that the construction in recent years has undergone a hard development phase. "Construction sensitively responded to the global financial crisis, where there was a significant and large drop in residential construction and civil buildings. However, despite the crisis, very promising was launched the construction of highways, which is a great benefit for Slovakia," said Spouse of the President. According to Mrs. Gašparovičová essential for maintaining the level of construction was and is the availability of skilled labor. As she said, "lack of understanding of the problem of providing construction craft occupations was created a very unfavorable situation, particularly critically is to obtain interested students for education is specialized industrial schools. Especially this period would be appropriate to the turnover and to changes in preparing youth for future careers." She wished the fair many success and satisfaction of visitors and exhibitors.
Positive step for the building business was according to Mr. Ján Mikolaj the Government Programme of Thermal Insulation. "By the implementation we have managed to create and to keep thousands of jobs. It is not just about jobs related to the thermal insulation performance, but also jobs in the manufacture of building materials and materials that are produced mainly in Slovakia," said the Deputy Prime Minister Mr. Ján Mikolaj. He added that he believes that the participants in this year’s fair CONECO will show readiness to tackle today’s problems, including further gradual improvement of living standards in our regions, towns and cities.
After opening the exhibition First Lady viewed visited the fair and visited a number of exhibitors in their stands, and she was lively interested in their products and technologies. |
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