Press-release

Metal-Expo as the barometer of the industry

Metal-Expo’2011, 17th International Industrial Exhibition was held on 15-18 November in Halls 69 and 75, The All-Russia Exhibition Center, Moscow.  641 companies from 35 world countries participated in the event while more than 30 000 professionals from ferrous, non-ferrous industries, construction sector, machine-building, fuel and energy complex, transportations and logistics sectors, as well as steel trading visited the exhibition.

In 2011 this major event including the exhibition and a business forum gathered together leading steel producers, tubes and pipes mills, wire mesh manufacturers, non-ferrous metals processing plants, aluminium rolled products and alloys manufacturers, constructors, machine-builders, as well as companies from related industries. The whole range of ferrous and non-ferrous products, contemporary equipment and technologies were exhibited at Metal-Expo’2011.  17 segments of the exhibition corresponding to the 17 segments of the steel industry expanded 2 separate expositions MetallStroyForum’2011, Exhibition for Steel Products and Structures for Construction and MetallurgMash’2011, Exhibition for Equipment and Technologies for Steel Industry and Metalworking.

World leading steel companies and holdings, equipment manufacturers, engineering companies, largest steel traders etc. participated in Metal-Expo’2011. Over its 17-year history Metal-Expo has become the main business platform for steel producers and users,  and a key industrial event with the participation of such leaders of the steel industry as, MMK, Severstal, NLMK, Evraz Group, Metalloinvest, Mechel, RT-Metallurgy, major tubes producers including: TMK, OMK, ChTPZ, wire mesh manufacturers: Severstal-Metiz, MMK-Metiz, Beloretsk Steel Plant, leading non-ferrous producers: UMMC-Holding, VSMPO-Avisma Corporation, Russian Copper Company, KUMZ, as well as steel producers from the CIS including: Metinvest-Holding, Belorussian Steel Works, Dneprospetsstal, Interpipe, Centravis, NKMZ, Dneprotechservis, etc., Metinvest-Holding, Belorussian Steel Works, Dneprospetsstal, Interpipe, Centravis, NKMZ, Dneprotekhservis, etc., steel and engineering companies from Germany, Italy, Spain, Finland, Austria, and other European countries: ArcelorMittal, Outokumpu, Ruukki, Danieli, VALLOUREC & MANNESMANN TUBES,  Marcegaglia, SMS Group, RHI, Oto Mills,  Vesuvius, PU.MA, Liebherr, Robur, as well as companies from South-East Asia including China South Korea and Japan. More than 200 international companies arranged their expositions at the exhibition. The biggest exposition (42 stands) was German, China ranked second with 30 stands, while Italy ranked third (25 stands).

More than 4 000 professionals and company leaders worked on the stands during the 4 days of the exhibition. According to an independent auditing outlook top management and decision makers account for 53% of the total number of Metal-Expo visitors. This is one of a few events held in Russia which is hosting company leaders and CEOs as visitors. The event provided a good opportunity to meet business partners, find new sales markets, discuss ways of cooperation, and sign agreements on raw materials, equipment and steel products purchase.  

Metal-Expo has become one of platforms for finding consolidated solutions in the steel industry: a coordinating workshop of The Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation annually held at the exhibition gave state officials and steel producers an opportunity to discuss the most pressing issues of the industry. This year a workshop on development of the steel industry with the participation of more than 50 Russian steel group leaders covered general issues of coordination among producers and users including issues of price-forming, application of protective measures within one customs union, issues of Russia’s assessing WTO etc.  The Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation also held at Metal-Expo’2011 a workshop on carrying out a program on mastering new types of products and improving quality of products for the automotive industry for the period of 2010-2015.

Russian Union of Metal and Steel Suppliers held a meeting on issues of aluminium, its rolled products and profiles production and use in Russia with the participation of more than 50 company leaders including Rusal, Aluminium Products, KUMZ, Tatprof, Agrisovgaz, Mosmek, Relit, MAK, Alenext, GAZ, Renault etc.

An extended business program consisting of more than 50 events including Russian Metal and Steel Market conference, Zinc: Corrosion Protection seminar, Steel in Construction: Present and Future round table, New Promising Materials, Equipment and Technologies, Railway Delivery of Mining and Smelting Cargoes of Russia, Contemporary Technologies in Non-Ferrous Products Manufacture and Processing, IT for Steel Enterprises and many more was held during Metal-Expo’2011.  Steel producers and their partners gave an outlook of the current situation and worked out the strategy of for the future. Steel industry professionals generally agreed that it is too early to speak of the second wave of the crisis for the first wave has not yet passed causing volatility in the market.

For the first time this year a ceremony of awarding winners in the nomination The Main Event in the Russian Steel Industry’2011 was held at Metal-Expo’2011. Among the winners were 4 the most significant projects: “Iron Ozone 32" (ChTPZ), MMK Cold Rolling Mill, Blast Furnace #7 (NLMK), and OMK Mill 5000. In experts’ belief, these projects clearly show that a large-scale modernization is carried out in the Russian steel industry.

Metal-Expo’2011 has turned science to industry. More than 100 scientists and researchers attended a ceremony of awarding gold and silver medals for development and mastering new types of products, equipment and technologies. Such steel producers and research institutions as MMK, Severstal, Mechel, ChTPZ, OMK-Steel, Evraz, TsNIIChERMET, TsNIITMASh, VNIIMETMASh, GINTsVETMET etc. were awarded 17 gold and 13 silver medals. Developments of another 17 companies won in nomination for Revolutionary Solutions Applied in the Russian Steel Industry in 2011. During MetallStroyForum’2011 a few companies and institutions were awarded medals for The Best Solution for Application of Steel and Aluminium in Construction. For the first time a festival of students and post-graduates of steel institutions called Future is Determined Today was held during Metal-Expo’2011. During the festival scientists, and professors shared their viewpoints and expectations of young students. Parallel to the event a Job Market for students and post graduates was held at Meral-Expo’2011. A key event of the festival became awarding of winners of the competition among young scientists established by Metal-Expo Organizing Committee. Some 22 of 50 competitive works were awarded grants. Next year the amount of grants will increase from 50 000 to 150 000 rubles due to a few steel companies joining the bonus fund.

The majority of Metal-Expo’2011 exhibitors preliminary confirmed their participation in the next event. According to Organizer’s estimations Metal-Expo’2012 will considerably grow in the number of exhibitors as compared to this year’s event. A. Romanov, Co-Chairman of Metal-Expo Organizing Committee sated that Russia’s Assessing WTO in the first half of 2012 would considerably facilitate customs procedures stimulating investments, and steel trading. Metal-Expo as a business platform will become one of the tools of increasing of competition in the Russian market due to many international producers coming into it. Due to Russia’s possessing rich natural deposits and competent specialists its assessing WTO will also cause launching a number of projects in the mining and steel industries. Ferrous and non-ferrous products for a long time will remain the main construction materials getting more and more expensive with years due to a shortage in natural resources.

Metal-Expo Organizing Committee

 

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Metal-Expo is a full member of The Global Association of the Exhibition Industry (UFI) and Russian Union of Exhibitions and Fairs (RUEF). Every year the exhibition passes an independent auditing. The exhibition is endorsed by The Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, The Government of Moscow, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, Russian Union of Metal and Steel Suppliers, The International Union of Metallurgical Equipment Producers, Builders Association of Russia, Russian Builders’ Union, and Russian Engineering. 

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