POST PRESS RELEASE 2009

St.Petersburg Technical Fair
March 10-13, 2009, St. Petersburg, LENEXPO Fairgrounds

St. Petersburg Technical Fair was held on March 10-13, 2009 in Lenexpo Fairgrounds, St. Petersburg. The events of the Technical Fair were visited by 8 300 experts. About 400 industrial companies from Russia and 22 other countries including companies of the national expositions from India, China and Czech Republic presented their products in the territory of over 13 000 sq.m.

The plenary session Innovations and Industry. Conditions for Development, which has launched the Technical Fair, was participated by the representatives of the governmental authorities, heads of Russian regions' representatives and government agencies as well as high technologies and industrial innovations experts. Yuri Sentyurin, Deputy Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation addressed the participants of the Fair with a welcome speech. Valentina Matvienko, Governor of St Petersburg welcomed the participants emphasizing the great scale of the event and its unique format, quote 'The Technical Fair we are launching today is surely great. Such a scale of technical achievement has never been presented'. Moreover, the Fair has also been participated by Valeriy Chereshnev, chairman of the State Duma Committee of the Russian Federation, Dionis Gordin, investment managing director of Public Corporation ROSNANOTECH, Sergei Vasiliev, deputy chairman of Vnesheconombank and others.

For the whole period of the Fair there were presented international industry exhibitions on different directions, such as metallurgy, engineering, metalworking, automobile industry, an enterprise infrastructure and industrial innovations.

The novelty of the Fair 2009 was BLECH Russia 2009 – a jointly held first and only in Russia exhibition devoted to equipment and technologies of metal sheet working. Over 160 European producers from 17 countries around the world, including 6 companies from St. Petersburg and 19 companies from other Russian regions presented their products at the exhibition. The leading industry producers have exhibited a full range of equipment and technologies covering all the key sectors of the sheet metal working industry. Semi-finished products and sheet metal finished goods as well as tools and machines for every kind of work with sheet metal were exhibited for the industry experts. Among the exhibition participants there were: the industry leaders - SCHULER, Galica, Invernizzi, Neff, TAMA, OOO AMADA, ROBUR International, CSoft, Abamet Advanced Machinery and others. During the work of the exhibition the participating companies have made 20 presentations.

Over 120 enterprises in the territory of 1000 sq. m. presented their novelties of engineering and technologies as well as advanced materials and equipment at the 15th International Exhibition Congress High-Technologies. Innovations. Investments. For the first time the Exhibition 2009 was participated by foreign partners from Poland and Germany. The most popular exhibition was a retrospective exposition devoted to the anniversary of the first in Russia International Exhibition of Inventions. There were photos of exhibits and some kinds of products which St. Petersburg companies participating in the first exhibition of the industry had presented. Among the participants of the Exhibition of 1909 there were: Admiralteyskiye Izhorskie Zavodi (today - OMZ "Izhorskie Zavodi"), Y. M. Ayvaza Plant (today - Svetlana JSC), Mechanics, Optics and Horology Department at the Prince Nicholas Vocational School (today - Saint Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics) and A. N. Shaposhnikov Factory (today – ZAO Nevo-Tabacco). The participants of the Fair were also very interested in the central booth of the exhibition Innovation Technologies for Municipal Services where 16 enterprises including the Association of Electrical Manufacturers Soyuz-Energo, Investigation Development manufacture Bourevestnik, Holding Company PIGMENT, Vector, Electron and some others presented their products.

Innovation Industrial Forum 2009 under the motto 'Institutions, Investments, Infrastructure, Innovations and Intelligence as the basis of the national competitive ability of Russia' took the central place in the business program of the St. Petersburg Technical Fair. The Forum featured conferences, seminars, round table meetings and presentations participated by 2 770 experts.

Mikhail Richev, first deputy director Russian Science Center Kurcgatov Institute spoke about the Russian Federal Program Research and Development the Science and Technology Complex Priority Development Drections for 2007 – 2012 at the conference Nanotechnologies and Nanomaterials. The total cost of the program for 6 years amounts to 132, 83 bln. rubles with 60% devoted to nanotechnology industry development, as Mr. Richev said.

Problems of metalworking and production were also discussed at the conference Sheet Metal Working and Production held in two sections: Advanced Technologies and Equipment for Sheet Metal Working and Production and Sheet metal for automotive industry: current condition of production, challenges, prospects. The participants of the conference have discussed new technologies of hot and cold sheet metal rolling for automobile industry, innovation production of flat steel for oil and gas extraction and transporting in Arctic field, laser technologies and equipment for sheet metal working and many others.

Russian and foreign experts have actively discussed the current problems at the round table meetings, such as Human resources management in innovation enterprises in the context of unstable economic conditions, Active support of small and medium enterprises, Efficient enterprise management in the context of crisis, Problems of foundry production of components for automobile industry in St. Petersburg and Russia in the present economic conditions. Infrastructure, technologies, equipment, materials. Search for efficient forms of cooperation under the changing economic conditions, Successful subcontracting examples as well as Russian and Finnish round table meeting devoted to the issues of subcontracting for metalworking and engineering industries.

Following the traditions, the contest The Best Innovation Project and The Best Hi-Tech Technology of the Year was held. Experts from Federal State Institution Research and Development Institution RINKCE examined the contest. 166 applications were sold for the contest. According to the results of the contest, on the last day of the Fair there were awarded 74 Gold Medals, 75 Silver Medals, 11 Diplomas, 4 special prices and Grand Prix. The majority of the awards – 16 Gold Medals, 27 Silver Medals and 7 Diplomas - were presented to the participants of the exposition of the Khabarovsk Region Ministry for Economic Development. The Grand Prix in the category of The Best Innovation Project in the Field of Nanomaterials and Nanotechnologies was taken to Moscow by the representatives of Research and Development Center of surface properties and vacuum study. Special prices were awarded to Central Research and Development Institution of Materials (St. Petersburg), The Establishment of the Russian Academy of Sciences Geological Institute of Kola Science Center (Apatity), ïïï Zvezda-7 (Khabarovsk), P. A. Soloviev State Aviation Technology Academy (Ribinsk).

On the 12th of March St. Petersburg Technical Fair featured the Day of Young Expert. The Fair was visited by 500 students of the leading technical institutions of St. Petersburg, including: St. Petersburg POlytechnical college, the North-Western State Correspondence Technical University, St. Petersburg College Stankoelectron and many others. Students studing the course of Metallurgy and Metal Heat-Treating and Mechanical Engineering had an opportunity to see the equipment for metalworking, iron and steel industry and engineering.

On 10-12 March, the Partneriat: St.Petersburg - Regions of Russia. Lines of Cooperation. was held jointly with Fair. For its three days over 1500 people from 58 Russian regions participated in it. Within the framework of the Business Contact Exchange there were held 850 business meetings and 22 negotiations between large enterprises and potential partners. 26 companies have made up 12 collective expositions as a part of the regional exposition St. Petersburg – Regions of Russia.

There were held meetings among the representatives of profit and non-profit organizations and Mikhail Oseevsky, vice governor of St. Petersburg, Igor Ilyuhin and Dmitriy Bikov, deputy chairman of Committee of economic development, industrial policy and trade and others. Such companies as OAO Zvezda, State Transport Agency St. Petersburg Metro, ïïï Modern House Building Works, ïïï Lenpolygrafmash, LOMO PLC, Trading Company Machiny Kirovskogo Zavoda, ïáï Rustrubprom, Federal state Unitary Enterprise Gosmetr, Nonprofit Partnership Foundrymen Union of Saint-Petersburg, ïïï Valve Corporation, St. Petersburg Association of Automobile Components Producers, Engineering Club and some others have worked the most actively.

All the events of St. Petersburg Technical fair were organised by the group of companies RESTECæ with the support of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Government of St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Russian Association of Founders, Saint-Petersburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry and under the auspice of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

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St.Petersburg Technical Fair
March 10-13, 2009, St. Petersburg, LENEXPO Fairgrounds

Press Pelease

St. Petersburg Technical Fair, the leading industrial event of the North-West of Russia, will open its doors on 10-13 March, 2009.

The exposition features metallurgy, metalworking, engineering, automotive industry, industrial enterprises' infrastructure, industrial innovations industries, alongside the special business program including Matchmaking Center, The Best Innovation Project and the Best Hi-Tech Technology of the Year Contest, Career Fair, Young Expert Day, Hi-Tech Exhibition and Congress, Industrial and Innovation Forum and Partneriat: St.Petersburg - Russian Regions.

The St. Petersburg Technical Fair exposition area in 2009 amounts to over 13 000 square meters where over 400 enterprises from Russia and other countries will demonstrate its products, services and technologies.

St. Petersburg Technical Fair is a multi-field event that annually gathers professionals of the engineering and metallurgic branch from Russia, CIS, Europe and Asia in St. Petersburg. The format of the event formed for today is unique as it showcases the full range of production from raw materials to finished metallurgy and machinery products from the worldwide manufacturers and suppliers.

National expositions from Germany, India, Czech Republic will be presented within the framework of exhibition in 2009. Companies from Czech Republic, Slovakia and Finland are considered to be regular partners and participants of the exhibition, unlike those from Turkey who have just decided to take part in a collective exposition. Indian companies plan to present a larger exposition than the one they have made in 2008, and occupy an individual pavilion to exhibit the industrial products of Indian Republic is already the Fairs` tradition.

Promoting industrial innovations is considered to be one of the main features of St. Petersburg Technical Fair. Innovations are not only advanced research developments, innovations shall be implied in mass production. In the same time, every enterprise shall meet a strategic goal to update its facilities and product lines constantly. That is why science and industry are able and shall forth function as a sole mechanism. The Congress and Exhibition: High Technologies. Innovations. Investments. is devoted to the issue of adopting innovations in industries. The aim of the Congress and Exhibition is to contribute to development of knowledge-intensive production, generate innovation activity and introduce perspective developments to production. The Congress and Exhibition 2009 will be coincided with centennial anniversary of the first Russian exhibition of advanced inventions.

To define the most perspective innovation and investment projects and developments for the real sector of economy, St. Petersburg Technical Fair offers its participatns The Best Innovation Project and the Best Hi-tech Technology of the Year Contest.

The first ever BLECH Russia is going to be held jointly with the Fair; it is the first and only exhibition in Russia devoted to equipment and technologies for sheet metalworking. Sheet metal production and treatment has a huge impact for automotive, shipbuilding and aerospace industries as well as for building and engineering sectors. There is no doubt that the BLECH Russia'09 will become an important event for all the enterprises engaged in sheet metal producing and working as a meeting point of international and Russian professionals.

Another event to be held within St. Petersburg Technical Fair is AVTOPROM / ICTA. The Exhibition features automotive components production from fit stock, equipment, technologies and engineering innovations to finished goods for automobile and tractor producers. Special interest to the event is caused by rapid development of automotive industry in St. Petersburg: over the recent years 6 biggest world-known producers have established their manufactures there.

The most important integral part of St. Petersburg Technical Fair is the Industrial and Innovation Forum with its motto: Institutions, Investments, Infrastructure, Innovations, Intelligence as the basis of competitive ability of Russia. This motto reflects the tasks and objectives faced by Russian economy and industry in the best possible way. The entire complex of the Forum is devoted to the centennial anniversary of the first Russian exhibition of advanced inventions, twenty years' anniversary of innovative activities in Russia and fifteen years' anniversary of the Foundation for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises (FASIE). A basis conference: Century of Russian Technology and Industrial Development, St. Petersburg Industrial Congress and Industrial and Innovation Congress will be held within the Forum. The most burning issues such as raising power consumption effectiveness, efficient enterprise management in the context of a financial crisis, personnel training for industrial and innovation enterprises, perspectives of adopting nanotechnologies in industry will be discussed at the Forum.

Issues on interregional cooperation and partnership development will be discussed within the framework of Business Contact Exchange and Partneriat: St. Petersburg – Russian Regions. Lines of cooperation. Recently, the problem of personnel shortage has become especially urgent. This problem shall be partially solved by Career Fair. Its visitors will be offered job openings by manufacturing companies and recruitment agencies, enterprises will be offered a unique opportunity to make a direct agreement with technical educational establishments on target staff trainings.

Next year the St. Petersburg Technical Fair will celebrates its 5th anniversary, meanwhile the projects has gained reputation of the most rapidly growing industrial project in the North-West of Russia with the unique opportunities for global industry development.