Exhibitors' reviews

  • V. Rashnikov
    Director General of Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK)

    "I think Metal-Expo exhibition is necessary to all. It provides a perfect opportunity to establish business contacts, exchange experience, as well as to demonstrate all kinds of steel products we produce at MMK. We are here the the seventh time already (only once we did not participate in Metal-Expo), and we are planning to participate in every Metal-Expo exhibition in the future. At Metal-Expo we meet new partners and work out strategy for the future based on our buyers' demands."
  • V. Markin
    President of United Metallurgical Company

    The exhibition provides a unique opportunity to meet many colleagues which helps to solve many problems right away whereas usually it takes a month or two to solve them.
  • S. Bilan
    Deputy Director General for Marketing of Pipe Metallurgical Company

    "We expect the same what any other company expects from Moscow Metal Week. We expect to increase the number of our partners in Russia and abroad, strengthen relations with customers, share opinions with competitors and suppliers of billets and raw materials."
  • Yu. Karabasov
    Head of Moscow State University of Steels and Alloys

    "Here we see lots of forms of cooperation between high school institutions and metallurgical companies. We plan to develop our cooperation with metallurgical companies which will help us in training engineers for metallurgy."
  • B. Sivak
    Deputy Director General of VNIIMETMASH

    "The exhibition furthers the raising of prestige of the metallurgical complex. The exhibition is a perfect meeting spot for producers (machine-building enterprises) and consumers. At this exhibition for high technologies metallurgists try to find common opinions on the matters related to tendencies of development of Russian metallurgical industry."
  • A. Tikhonov
    Scientific Advisor, Avtovaz

    "We need to see the tendencies of development of Russian metallurgical industry for quality of cars directly depends on quality of steel."
  • A. Dementyev
    Deputy Minister of Industry and Energy of the Russian Federation

    Metal-Expo, the annual international industrial exhibition has become the key event of the industry and the main forum for Russian and international metal and steel producers.
  • A. Romanov
    President of the Russian Union of Metal and Steel Suppliers

    The annual trade show being a key event for specialists in all the branches of industry and economy as a whole stirs up the mining and metallurgical complex in particular for steel and aluminium still remain the main structural materials on the Earth.

  • S. Afonin
    President of Russian Union of Metal Exporters

    The exhibition is helpful to visitors for it gives answers to their questions providing them an opportunity to adjust the courses they pursue. The exhibition presents all the strategies, all the tendencies and all the strokes of tactics applied in the metallurgical and similar industries. Many conferences, seminars and round tables being a systemized information and analytical flow are held during Metal-Expo. Metal-Expo holds a strong position in the market for it is held annually without any directives from above and every year it shows a dynamic grow in the number of exhibitors. It is not an accidental event; the whole year through its organizers carry out an analytical research. As soon as the show closes the organizing committee begins preparation for the next event. This is the secret of success.

  • S. Nosov
    Director general of RusSpetsStal, JSC

    "According to our experience such exhibitions as usual finish with concluding of new contracts resulting in expanding of sales markets. I believe these are the questions any enterprise should solve under the market conditions. Our enterprise tries to reach such goals by means of exhibiting at this trade show. The exhibition is a key event of the year for metallurgists and exhibiting at it help us advertise our products in a more efficient way and strengthen our positions in the metallurgical market. And we have to do it."
  • E. Shakhpazov
    Director General of TsNIIChermet

    The exhibition is a place where specialists of different industries meet face to face, exchange their achievements and opinions. This is an important element of their cooperation. One can compare own achievements to his competitors’ noting the advantages and disadvantages and consider the ways to meet the actual and future demands. Enterprises of similar industries can get a clear picture of the situation in the metallurgical industry, know new types of products, pricing policies, as well as establish and extend new contacts. New types of products may also stimulate development of new engineering solutions.

  • S. Kolpakov
    President of International Metallurgists’ Union

    Metal-Expo clearly shows the level of every exhibitor as regards to the range and quality of products helping to understand that in order to become competitive one needs to work hard always improving the technology and process of steel making. After seeing samples manufactured abroad, subcontractors start demanding better quality from Russian producers which stimulates their development.

  • A. Drozdov
    Director General of DiPOS Group of Companies

    "Metal and steel trading is our way of life therefore Moscow Metal Week is helps us see what goes on in the metal and steel market and estimate our position in it."
  • A. Tarasov
    Director General of GINTSVETMET

    Participation in Metal-Expo is very useful to all the segments of the metallurgical industry for it gives an opportunity to establish direct contacts between science, production process and management structures. Engineers of new technologies and materials can see the demand for their developments. The exhibition is also important as a source of information to establish contacts between producers and consumers. The key to success of the exhibition is a high level of its organization and advertising campaign.

  • S. Odegov
    Director General of Magnezit Group

    At Metal-Expo we represent Magnezit Group as a whole, the companies it incorporates in particular, as well as all types of products – refractory and heat insulating materials for different heating units. We also demonstrate our possibilities as regards to complex supplies of refractories for blast and open-hearth furnaces, converters, electrical furnaces, ladles, continuous casting machines as well as units and lines of the non-ferrous industry. Besides we show the scope of engineering services the group can render.

  • N. Pasechnik
    President of Metallurgmash, Director General of VNIIMETMESH

    Since Metal-Expo, an annual trade show gives a strong impulse to development of the mining and metallurgical complex it is of a great interest to specialists in many branches of industry and economy for any segment of economy needs high quality steel products.

  • D. Summerfield
    Director for Marketing and Sales, Alcoa Russia

    Such exhibitions are a perfect opportunity to show customers our own products and services. It is a great honor to us to be here.

  • V. Katunin
    Director General of Chermetinformatsiya

    Before contacts among enterprises as well as steel producers and consumers were more frequent and open so to say. Now it is gone. That’s why participation in the trade being useful, to some extent compensates this shortage.

  • L. Polyansky
    Director General, Protek, Group of Companies

    I consider participation of our company in this largest metallurgical forum as an encouragement for the employees and raising of the corporate spirit of the company. It is always important to know your dealers, to know strategies of participation of Russian and international companies, to know new ideas, in other words to get beyond the customary circle of communication and work.

  • I. Lysenko
    Deputy Chairman of Committee for Metallurgy of Commerce and Industrial Chamber of the Russian Federation

    The large scale annual exhibition helps companies at relatively low cost to present themselves and to know others i.e. to demonstrate your possibilities to meet various demands to potential consumers, to know your competitors, to find out possible new places in the market for setting up new productions that would be better as compared to the ones already existing in the market. Consumers can compare products by different producers, choose what exactly they want to buy, and conclude contracts right away. Besides, communication of metallurgists, machine-builders, traders, and scientists, during the exhibition is always useful and furthers generation of new progressive ideas.

  • L. Avetov
    Chairman of Board of Directors of Brok-Invest-Service

    To us the exhibition has become the ground where we can adjust strategies and test our costomers.

  • S. Maslennikov
    Director General of StalInvest

    "The November Moscow Metal Week is a key event of the year for metal and steel traders. It provides a perfect opportunity for us to see what other companies offer, to meet with their representatives, to know opinions of the heads of governmental bodies and metallurgical enterprises concerning the prospects and tendencies of development of Russian metallurgical industry. By analyzing the information we get at the Moscow Metal Week we can adjust the strategy of our development."
  • S. Stepanova
    Deputy Director of Department for International Cooperation, Ministry of Industry and Energy of the Russian Federation

    The organizing committee of Metal-Expo does not function only once a year during the exhibition, but during the whole year. As soon as the exhibition closes, the organizing committee starts arranging a new exposition, conducting negotiations and meetings, composing and discussing the list of events etc. Since all the key associations and unions as well as state bodies in charge of development of the industry are involved in this process, eventually the forum becomes efficient and interesting.