NEWS

Friday 4 of July of 2008

Fluidra takes part in the World Business Summit on Water and Sustainable Development

The Spanish multinational has given its support to the World Business Summit on Water and Sustainable Development, which was held today in the framework of the Expo 2008.

Fluidra’s Director for Innovation and Development, Miquel Vázquez, gave a talk at the summit meeting on “Technological Advances in the Maintenance and Management of Water for Domestic and Leisure Use”

Barcelona, 4 July 2008 – The theme for today’s seminars, which are run by the Spanish Federation for Environmental Associations (FEAMA), was “Water as a Business Challenge at the Turn of the 21st Century”. The main aim was to raise awareness about the innovative advances made in the use of water and its sustainability. As a company whose overriding mission is to develop sustainable applications for the use of water, Fluidra had no other option than to be present at this debate between experts, politicians, businesspeople and members from the scientific community to discuss the contributions that businesses must make to technology and infrastructures in order to tackle the world’s water problems.

These seminars were held in the framework of the World Business Summit on Water and Sustainable Development at the Zaragoza Expo 2008 from 1 to 4 July. The initiative to hold this Business Summit was that of the Zaragoza Chamber of Commerce and Industry with the support of the FEAMA.

The talk given by Fluidra’s Director for Innovation and Development, Miquel Vázquez, was called “Technological Advances in the Maintenance and Management of Water for Domestic and Leisure Use”. At his presentation, Vázquez posited that in the context of water shortages businesses not only had a duty to be financially accountable, but also had to be aware of their social and environmental responsibilities.

Fluidra’s Director for Innovation and Development mentioned that in the current climate, businesses can contribute to the proper management of this scarce resource through the research and development of new facilities that bring about savings and reductions in water consumption. Vázquez discussed the main causes of water loss in domestic and leisure systems and offered solutions to remedy this situation.


About the Seminars

Other speakers at the meeting included personalities of international renown such as Carlos Fernández-Jauregui, Director of Office of the United Nations’ Water for Life Decade Programme; Pablo Huidobro, Head of the Department of Water for the UNIDO/ONUDI (United Nations Industrial Development Organisation); Polioptro Martínez Austria, Director General of the IMTA (Mexican Institute of Water Technology). The academic, business and political worlds were widely represented by such figures as Jaime Palop, the Director of the Water Agency of Andalusia. The closing session was a working lunch at which Carlos Fernández-Jauregui was the speaker.

As a federation, the FEAMA is doing more than any other to ensure that businesses and the Spanish authorities will make a firm commitment to sustainable development. The federation’s current members are environmental business associations from the regions of Andalusia (AESMA), Castile and León (CASLEMA), Catalonia (ACECMA), the Canaries (ACEMA), Galicia (APROEMA) and Murcia (AEMA-RM).


Fluidra, national and international benchmark for sustainable use of water

Fluidra is a Spanish multinational group, headquartered in Sabadell (Barcelona), dedicated to developing applications for sustainable water use.  The company specialises in solutions for water conservation, handling, treatment and enjoyment.

Fluidra currently has a presence in 31 countries by way of 156 branches and has several production centres located throughout the world. Fluidra products are distributed to more than 170 countries due to an extensive sales network. The group has some 3,800 employees.

Respect for water and its rational use are two concepts at the core of the philosophy of the group, which was founded in 2002. The companies which comprise Fluidra, some of these with almost 40 years of experience, have grown with this vision, specializing in a range of water-related sectors, i.e. water treatment, fluid handling, irrigation and swimming pool equipment.