In addition, it was confirmed that an important event will take place in August, which will be attended by French representatives.
The meeting took place in the traditional museum of the castle and was attended by the Secretariat for Productive Development and International Relations Marcella Petrantonio, Director of Tourism Mariano Bernstein, President of Apymet, Omar Farah, Museum authorities and an important group of dignitaries. local producers.
In the first place, work has been done on some organizational issues related to a sectoral event to be held in August at the Museum and which will coincide with the visit of our city by a delegation from France, made up of the mayor of the city by Thiers and Stephane Rodier and a group of researchers from the University of Clermont-Ferrand.
In turn, all parties agreed on the need to move forward with the creation of a common work space to define the various actions and initiatives in favor of developing the sector, the same thing that is happening in other areas of the local productive framework.
In this regard, they agreed to meet again next week and some producers raised the first lines that could be worked on as follows: standards of guarantee and quality and opening new internal and external markets.
During the meeting, Juana Echizarita, President of the Salami Council, gave Tandil some details of the experience in her sector and the appellation of origin.
Petrantonio described the meeting as “very good” and highlighted the willingness shown by some of the producers. “From the municipality, we understand the associated management as a city development scheme, we have a large number of examples and we want to try to move forward with the producers of knives, a product with a distinct and widely recognized tandel tradition.”
“From the local state, we are ready to accompany and support the private sector, in this case an entity like Apymet and the producers, it is now important that they stick to the idea and take a leading role in this space, where they will certainly be able to develop many businesses and projects.”
international recognition
Tandil is the only city in our country and one of the few cities in South America recognized as a member of the Cutlery World Capitals Group, which includes 27 other cities in the world.
This group of cities has been recognized by the Association of Capitals of the World for Cutlery, an entity created in 1901 and headquartered in France. Starting Friday, many of them will meet at the 3rd World Meeting of Cutlery Capitals to be held in the Spanish city of Albacete.
At that meeting, the constitution of the International Network of Knife Cities will be signed, which will incorporate Tandil, for which the Chief of Staff, Oscar Troggi, and Sergio Lazart, have been invited as the sector’s representative.
In addition, they will participate in various meetings with members from other cities around the world and work towards the possibility of Tandil hosting the World Meeting of Cutlery Capitals in the coming years.
