Exhibitors' reviews

  • 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.
  • 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

    Steel producers from all over Russia and all over the world come to Metal-Expo. It is a good opportunity to meet during these 2-3 days with people whom you will not see during the year to strengthen old relations, establish new contacts, share opinions, etc. The international status of the exhibition is very important to us for we do consider OMK an international company. Our partners come here to know our achievements and check them with their expectations.
  • 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."
  • D. Goroshkov
    Sales Director, Severstal

    It has become a good tradition to participate in Metal-Expo not only as Cherepovets Steel Mill, but also with other Severstal assets including Severstal-Metiz, Izhora Pipe Mill and Severstal Invest incorporated in Russian Steel division. Each company has a lot to exhibit including the latest know-how in new types of products and services.
  • V. Semyonov
    Director of Department for Basic Industries by the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation

    We need to develop communications between industries and increase the number of events including those held during Metal-Expo Industrial Exhibition which has been balanced over the recent years in terms of participation of suppliers and consumers of steel equipment and technologies.

  • A. Deineko
    Direcotr General, Mechel-Steel, Management Company

    We have no state holidays between November 4 and the New Year. Only steel producers celebrate one more event thanks to the organizer of Metal-Expo forum. The last year was quite successful to Mechel for we have reached the cre-crisis level and even surpassed it in some showings. Mechel brings into operation new facilities and continues its innovative program. I wish you all success and sustainable development!
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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. 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.

  • 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. 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.

  • 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. 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."
  • 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."
  • 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."
  • 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. Schukin
    Head of ArcelorMittal representative in the CIS

    We have participated in Metal-Expo since 2001 skipping only the 2009 event. I do hope we will participate in the 17th Metal-Expo exhibition and even the 20th Metal-Expo event for it is a truly international exhibition! In our opinion Metal-Expo is very important for development of both Russian steel production and consumption markets. The Russian market has high capacity with a clear industrial trend and its customer is exacting. Since our products are in demand due to traditional high quality, supplies in the domestic market are important to us.
  • S. Khudorozhkova
    Head of Rolled Products Sales Department, Department for Sales and Marketing, Motovilikha Plants

    It is always very important to meet with someone you know at the exhibition. And Metal-Expo always provides an opportunity to meet with your colleagues from the Russian regions at conferences, round tables etc... It is an unexpected meeting with old friends. This year the exhibition has been perfectly organized in terms of service and convenience for exhibitors and visitors. We have already concluded a few agreements and received real orders which have been later confirmed.

  • R. Modzgvrishvili
    Director General, RusSpetsStal Trade House

    Any mill, any sales department of a holding is interested in participation in the exhibition for it is not only a matter of image. Though the participation the mill confirms its strong position in the market, shows its possibilities and its face. Besides, Metal-Expo provides a good opportunity to meet with customers at once.
  • A. Zaitsev
    Director General, A-Group

    We always expect meeting with our customers, traditional suppliers as well as potential customers at Metal-Expo hoping the meetings to eventually have a monetary expression. The peculiarity of our company is that we succeed in various segments of the market. And we try our best to strengthen our positions always finding new solutions to offer to our customers.
  • D. Mangi
    President, M&S POOL

    The exhibition has become important step to our association in promoting its members’ brands in the CIS markets. For sure, besides demonstrating our possibilities and finding new customers the exhibition helps us works out the future policy and strategy of the company. We do believe, the exhibition is needed to all the companies operating in this industry and we would like to thank its organizer for it.
  • A. Kurgansky
    Deputy Managing Director for Commercial Issues, KUMZ

    Tens of companies have visited our stand during the exhibition and we have conducted mutually beneficial negations with many of them. We have held meeting with almost all KUMZ strategic partners representing first of all Russian and the CIS aerospace and defense complexes. During the four days we have also held meetings with transportation machine-building companies that is, our distributors. According to A. Petrov, Minister of Industry and Science of the Sverdlovsk region who has visited our stand our exposition was one of the best at Metal-Expo in terms of design and information provided.
  • A. Kostitsyn
    Deputy Head of Marketing, DimAl

    Metal-Expo’2010 has been very fruitful. We have concluded a few supplies agreements, besides, many companies got interested in our products. We can not help noting that the exhibition grows with years in terms of the number of exhibitors including international ones as well as visitors. When participating in the exhibition we pursue two goals. The first one is promoting out image for participation in such an event speaks for the company’s strong position and sustainable development in the market. The second goal is increase in sales for this very exhibition provides a perfect opportunity to meet a big number of decision makers and buyers face to face to understand better their needs and requirements and persuade the try our products. As a result, we have concluded fruitful contracts at every Metal-Expo event.