ExpoFerretera, organized jointly by Messe Frankfurt Argentina and the Argentine Chamber of Hardware Stores and Related Products (CAFARA), is the center of business for the hardware industry in South America and the only one in its specialty in Argentina. The main players of the market take part in it, thus gathering simultaneously offer and demand. Know its most relevant facts and figures.
What is coming...
The 2019 edition will cover an area of 18,000 sqm in which around 300 local and international exhibitors will present their latest news in products and services with an estimate of 18,000 business professionals, shopkeepers and hobbyists from different countries.
- Download 2019 factsheet (pdf, 162 KB)
- Download 2019 brochure (pdf, 2 MB)
The figures of ExpoFerretera 2017

Summary of 2017 edition
A total of 338 exhibitors from Argentina, Germany, Brazil, China, Hong Kong, Serbia, and Taiwan offered their products and services to 16,775 visitors coming from Argentina, Germany, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Spain, United States, France, Mexico, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Switzerland, Taiwan, Uruguay and Venezuela. More than 150 meetings were celebrated in which buyers from 8 countries met with Argentine small and medium companies that are able to export. The expectations were exceeded. And this is shown in the 20% growth in the planned area.
Visitors’ surveys
- Download visitors’ surveys (pdf, 115 KB)
Exhibitors’ surveys
- Download exhibitors’ surveys (pdf, 119 KB)
Product groups
ExpoFerretera exhibits a wide proposal in products and services. It covers the whole production chain by presenting the latest innovations of a sector in constant growth.
Visitors’ profile

Every two years, ExpoFerretera receives approximately 18,000 visitors from different countries. Among the main visitors we find:
- Hardware shopkeepers
- Decorators
- Electric engineers
- Machine operators
- Painters
- Locksmiths
- Gardeners and landscape gardeners
- Qualified workers
- Consortium managers
- Professionals of the building, hiring and planning industry