Metal-Expo’2014 Organizing Committee synchronizing watches
Steel market players need to inform their partner about all the changes in the steel market that take place in Russia every year including launching new facilities, mastering new types of products, changes in sales policies and commodity flows etc. Metal-Expo International Industrial Exhibition ranking among top three industrial trade shows in Russia provides them a perfect opportunity for that. More than 700 companies from 30 world countries will participate in Metal-Expo’2014, the 20th Jubilee Exhibition. Some 4k professionals who will be working on their stands during the exhibition will have an opportunity to meet some 30k visitors representing various industry segments.
Thus, this year’s steel forum will be same big as last year. The majority of European companies who participate in Metal-Expo on a regular basis have already confirmed their participation this year as well. However, according to A. Romanov, Co-Chairman of Metal-Expo Organizing Committee this year companies from South-East Asia mainly from India and China expand their participation in the exhibition. On November 3, the Committee members: heads of ministries, branch associations, as well as steel and engineering companies etc. discussed the program of Metal-Expo events, shared points of views on the global economic situation and even had a VDNKhA tour to see the newly renovated facilities.
For the fourth time the winners of The Main Event in the Russian Steel Industry contest will be awarded during Metal-Expo’2014. The winners will become the most significant projects in the Russian steel industry. In addition to that manufacturing and engineering companies will be awarded Metal-Expo gold and silver medals for the best innovations and their most successful implementations in the steel industry. The Committee members also suggested a new nomination for international exhibitors: For Development of Scientific and Technical Cooperation with Russian Companies. Winners of the contest for the Best Implementation of Steel and Aluminium in Construction will also be nominated and awarded during the exhibition. In order to encourage young scientists to develop creative potential and promote their innovations Metal-Expo Organizing Committee will award winners of the contest for young scientist with monetary grants.
A steel construction conference organized by a newly established Association of Steel Construction Development will for the first time be held during the exhibition. According to I. Vedyakov, Kucherenko TsNIIPSK, among the main goals of the Association are improving steel construction norms, consolidation of market participants, as well as extending use of steels in civil and industrial construction. On November 13 Steel Construction: Strategy of 2020 a round table with the participation of Russian and international experts covering the most pressing problems of steel construction will be held on Metal-Expo’2014 platform.
The total of 50 conferences, presentations and round tables in the producer –- dealer and producer –- end-user formats will be held during Metal-Expo’2014. According to I. Chigir, Deputy Director of Department for Steel Industry, Machine-Tool Building and Heavy Engineering, The Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, during the exhibition the Ministry will hold a meeting of coordination council for the steel industry and a workshop on fulfilling the program on mastering new types and improving steel products for the automotive industry.
Among other events Russian Union of Metal and Steel Suppliers will hold a meeting on development of aluminium rolled products manufacture in Russia, and meeting for heads of steel mills supply departments. Hundreds of companies will attend Metal-Expo’2014 events including Russian Metal and Steel Market, Metal Construction: Dynamics of Development, Steel Industry and Freight Forwarding, New Advanced Materials and Technologies, Zinc: Protection from Corrosion, New Technologies of Non-Ferrous Metals Production and Processing, IT for Steel Industry and Steel Trading and many more covering all the aspects of the steel business.
Organizers of Metal-Expo’2014 are right in the middle of exposition arranging. This year the jubilee exhibition will boast of the exposition of cast iron sculptures by the famous Kasly works. The exposition will be arranged in cooperation with Mechel. Metal Supply and Sales will also arrange MetalPhotoArt exposition of steel industry photographs.
Over its 20-year history Metal-Expo has become the leader among steel industry forums exhibiting the whole range of ferrous and non-ferrous products, as well as the most state-of the-art equipment and technologies. This year the leading steel groups will present their new projects and strategies in the steel, construction, heavy-engineering, automotive, power-engineering and other industries.
Metal-Expo’2014 exposition will also include MetallStroyForum'2014 – International Exhibition for Steel Products and Structures for Construction, MetallurgMash'2014 - International Exhibition for Equipment and Technologies for Steel Industry and Metalworking and MetallTransLogistik'2014 International Exhibition for Transportation and Logistics for Mining and Metallurgical Complex.
The next meeting of Metal-Expo Organizing Committee will be held in December.
