The challenges of the future, imposed by competitiveness, modernity and innovation, forced AIMMAP to give immediate answers to the request of the innumerable firms of the metallurgical and mechanical engineering sectors.
Along with the discussion of nuclear points for the development of the country and for the survival of its representatives, the associations should promote activities aiming to help forming the ideas of more restrict groups out of which would arise both the operational and legislative solutions for the framing of the entrepreneurial world or even of one specific sector.
As AIMMAP has been preparing the future since its very beginning, AIMMAP is the outcome of a group of determined industrialists who share the same strong will to produce and move forward.

AIMMAP, founded in 1957, is one of the most representative associations of our country, whose main objective is to assist its members in a continuous and everlasting way so as to advise and help them to improve their competitiveness and process of modernization.
Since this association has been supported by people who have dedicated to it much of their time, dynamism and spirit of initiative, AIMMAP can feel proud of being endowed with a range of capacities which are a basis of a very important fulcrum of support not only for its associates but also for the whole sector it covers.
As a result of very well combined procedures in areas of strategic importance for the modernization of the metallurgical and mechanical engineering, AIMMAP has nowadays a logistic organization which cooperates with state institutions and offers a very wide and important range of services and support to its associated companies.
AIMMAP's task is to contribute towards the promotion and development of the sectors it covers, by giving not only technical support for professional training but also technological and logistic assistance. AIMMAP's main objective is to foster a well sustained development in the sector.
AIMMAP undoubtedly plays a very decisive role in the Portuguese entrepreneurs' world. Being one of the oldest sectorial associations of the country, it represents the most important