The Ibero-American Symposium in Brazil
The third Ibero-American VLB Symposium for Brewing and Packaging Technology was held for the first time in Brazil, the third largest beer market in the world, from June 18th through 21st 2012. The sixth Symposium for Barley, Malt and Malt Production of Senai, a separate event, was also integrated into the conference program. Senai (National Service for Industrial Training) signed a cooperation agreement with VLB in the autumn of 2011. Over 300 participants from 21 nations traveled to Itaipava, located approximately 70 km from Rio de Janeiro, in order to attend the presentations simultaneously offered in English, Spanish and Portuguese.