The Spanish Manufacturers – Exporters Association of Agricultural Machinery, Components, Irrigation Systems, Livestock and Post Harvesting Equipment – AGRAGEX- was founded in 1978 with the primary goal of promoting the sales of participating businesses in foreign markets.

AGRAGEX – a non-profit organization- is currently comprised by 148 associated companies spread out across the whole of Spain and responsible for 90% of the exports within the sector.

In order to achieve its objectives, AGRAGEX carries out a number of different promotional activities emphatizing the followings: Direct Trade Delegations, Group Participation in Major International Trade Shows, Organization of Foreign Buyer Delegations to Spain, Market Studies and Analysis, channeling of enquiries as well as a variety of advertising activities in trade magazines, mailings, catalogues, etc.

All these activities are financed through Members´annual fees, assistance from the Spanish Foreign Trade Institute (ICEX), the Directorate-General of Foreign Trade (a subdivision of the Ministry of Economic Affairs) and the Basque Government. The current AGRAGEX General Catalogue, is the result of a collective effort, on the part of the association’s 142 participating manufacturers, a stimulus both for the Association and for Spanish exporting industries as a whole.

While this edition of the catalogue is on the market in 2008, AGRAGEX will celebrate its 30th Anniversary. What began in 1978 as an answer to the needs of several companies to travel abroad, has turned today into a reference for the Spanish exporters in this sector.

Whithin the new policy of the Spanish Government for Professional Associations like ours, the Spanish Foreign Trade Institute (ICEX) has developed an ambitious Communication Plan for high technology content sectors. AGRAGEX has been selected to carry out this plan. AGRAGEX with important actions of communication it is promoting and presenting the image of Spain as a manufacturer country of equipments and machinery with an advanced technology. With this Communication Plan, AGRAGEX intends to show the whole world the industrial power Spain can offer and is, in fact, already offering.

Lastly, we would like to take this opportunity to publicy thank the Bilbao Chamber of Commerce, Industry an Shipping for its generous contributions in terms of office space, services and infrastructure, and the Spanish Foreign trade Institute (ICEX) for its invaluable support in all areas, to the Secretary General of Foreign trade of the Ministry of Economy, to the Basque Government and as well as extend our gratitude to all those corporations and individuals who have made it possible for AGRAGEX to increase in foreign trade promotion.