International industrial exhibition "Metal-Expo 2014"
On 11-14 of November Dneprotechservice traditionally participated in international industrial exhibition "Metal-Expo '2014" (Moscow, Russian Federation) which was 20th, the round anniversary.
Over 20 years of its existence the exhibition "Metal Expo" took the leading position among the biggest industrial forums, turned out to become the main negotiation ground for metallurgical and metal-consuming companies having won the position of a key industrial exhibition. This year the exhibition hosted 670 companies from 35 countries of the world and about 30 000 of ferrous and non-ferrous metals consumers from construction industry, mechanical engineering, fuel-and-power sector, transportation and logistics, and metal-trading companies. "Metal-Expo '2014" demonstrated the entire variety of products, up-to-date equipment and technology for production, presented a line of projects of new mini-plants and works, introduced new development strategies of leading metallurgical groups.
Traditionally "Metal-Expo" hosted leading metallurgical enterprises and holding companies, producers and suppliers of equipment and engineering services. The halls of the Exhibition of Economic Achievements displayed exhibits of Magnitigorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK), Tube Metallurgy company (TMK), Severstal, Evrazholding, Mechel, United Metallurgical Company (OMK), Novolipetskiy Metallurgical Works (NLMK), Marcegaglia, Ukrainian Mining-and-Metallurgical Company (UGMK), Chelyabinsk Pipe-Rolling Plant (ChelPipe), Kamensk Uralsky Metallurgical Works (KUMZ), Metinvest Holding, ArcelorMittal, Byelorussian Steel Works (BMZ), RHI, Ruukki, Dneprospetsstal, OMZ-Special Steels, VSMPO-AVISMA, Outokumpu, Interpipe, Centravis, GMH-Holding, “Metallurgical Plant “Electrostal”, SMS Group, Danieli, ThyssenKrupp Mannex, Olimpia80, Voestalpine, Steel-Techno, TEM-PO Naberezhnochelninsky Tube Works and other manufacturers and suppliers of ferrous and non-ferrous metals, pipes and metalware. The exhibition hosted from Spain, Poland, India, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, and Belarus. The most numerous exhibits were from Russia, Germany, Italy, China, Ukraine and Finland.
Dneprotechservice participates in industrial forum since 2003. This year our company was presented by the delegation headed by Igor Ivanovich Vasilyev, the Marketing and Sales Director. In the course of the exhibition business meetings with current and potential Suppliers and Customers were held. Representatives of the delegation visited seminars, round tables and presentations on many segments of metallurgical segments.
The second day of November 12 turned out to be the busiest one with over 14.5 thousand of company top managers and specialists were working in the exhibition hall. This year, due to anniversary year of the forum the organizing committee instituted special awards (gold and silver metals) for foreign companies which greatly contributed in development of cooperation in science, technology and economy. The awards were bestowed by the President of the Russian Union of Suppliers of metallurgical products, Mr. Romaniv A.G. at the closing ceremony. Out of 320 companies only 50 awarded. Dneprotechservice was awarded with the gold medal of "METAL-EXPO".