Among APYMEL’s members there are 29 companies that are exporting, which together create 3,700 jobs and produce 4.9 million litres of milk per day. The goal of APYMEL’s COMEX Platform is to promote exports among member SMEs as a means of strengthening companies, the local economies, associativism, the Argentinian dairy industry and national development.

 APYMEL’S COMEX PLATFORM is intended to:

• Create new exporters of Argentinian dairy products, thus adding more SMEs to our programme.
• Promote worldwide recognition of the quality of Argentinian dairy products by adding source value.
• Increase SMEs’ customer portfolio and develop new markets for Apymel exporters’ products.
• Increase the number of export partners.
• Develop associative export projects.

The Platform supports partners in their export process through advice on paperwork and trade, training, relations with state agencies, financing, and facilitating their participation in fairs, trade missions and business networking meetings. In addition, it guides companies with a vocation for export in the adaptation of their infrastructure, in the application of quality standards, environmental policy and technological innovation.

Since 2013, the COMEX Platform participated in 5 trade missions to the Middle East, China, Brazil, and Angola. It organized 4 business networking meetings in Buenos Aires and Cordoba, and participated with stands in 5 international fairs: Gulfood in Dubai, Mercosuper in Curitiba (Brazil), Expocruz in Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia), APAS in Sao Paulo (Brazil), ANUGA (Germany), World Food Moscow (Russia), Sial Paris (France) and World Food in Beijing (China).

During 2015, besides participating again in Gulfood Dubai and APAS Brazil, it attended Food Ingredients (China), Dairy Tech in Milan (Italy) and will attend the World Food in Moscow in September and at ANUGA in October. A trade mission took place in Chile last March and in Bolivia, Peru and Colombia in June. On September 4th, within the framework of the 2nd  National Congress of Dairy SMEs, a new networking meeting of export businesses will be held.

OUR GOALS:

• Promote exports among Apymel SMEs as a means to strengthen companies, the local economies, associativism, the Argentinian dairy industry and our national development. 

• Contribute to the overall progress of the dairy activity. 
• Represent the interests of the Associates before Official and Private Organizations. 
• Seek technical improvement in the production and trade and to spread technical knowledge.

ACHIEVEMENTS:

• We managed to make Apymel and its partners visible locally and internationally.
• We have a client portfolio in more than 15 countries.
• We set out to work on associativism in all its facets, and at present we are reaping the benefits and sharing our experience.
• We have developed a working method and a network of relationships that enable us to make export a simpler process.
• The number of export partners has grown significantly.
• The volume of exports has increased.
• Currently, Apymel’s agenda is at the level of the main dairy companies in the country.