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International specialized HVAC exhibition

MOSCOW, IEC Crocus Expo, Pavilion 1, hall 2, 3, 4
10 March 2009 – 13 March 2009

POST-RELEASE

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From the 10thtill the 13thof March, 2009, at the International Exhibition Center “Crocus Expo”, there took place the fifth international specialized HVAC exhibition “CLIMATE WORLD – 2009” – an exhibition representing the whole range of the Russian climate industry market – from equipment suppliers to engineering and installation companies.

“Climate World” Exhibition is an important event the main taskof which is to promote advanced equipment and technology, develop civilized forms of co-operation and fair competition principles, contribute to the stable development of the Russian climate industry.

Within the framework of “Climate World – 2009”project, there were five sections two of which are independent exhibitions.

  • Climatic equipment exhibition (air-conditioning and ventilation, heating and energy saving, centralized air-conditioning and VRF-systems, air moisturizing and cleaning systems);
  • Exhibition of cooling equipment for industry and business (components, accessories, tools, cooling boxes, chests, shopboards, shopwindows, complexes and warehouses, cryogenic equipment and technologies);
  • Buildings automation and control systems;
  • Tools, consumables, cooling agents, oils;
  • Training, employment, consulting services at the market of HVAC&R.

Russian exhibition company “EUROEXPO” and Association of Professional Companies in Industry of Climate (APIC) were the organizers of the exhibition.

Today, when the construction market is going through a dramatic recession and construction exhibitions either close or shrink twofold, “Climate World” exhibition has remained a really valuable

and significant event for the whole market of climatic equipment.

Among exhibition participants are: Russian companies producing various climatic equipment and leading international manufacturers and their representative offices operating at the Russian market of heating, ventilation, air-conditioning and industrial refrigeration market. The exhibition was also attended by the regional Russian companies operating in the field of climatic equipment and services.

Overall exhibition area – 18000 sq. m

Number of exhibitors – about 300 companies.

Number of visitors – 12000 persons.

Participating countries – 35 countries: Russia, Belorussia, China, Greece, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland, Slovakia, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, USA, Austria, Belgium, Lithuania, Ukraine, Czech Republic, UK, Denmark, Israel, Finland, Japan, Hong-Kong, Korea, Thailand and others.

Manufacturers participating in “CLIMATE WORLD – 2009”exhibition:AHI Carrier (Toshiba Carrier Corp.), Sharp Electronics; Aliseo Group, Geoclima; Bitzer, ebm-papst, Rosenberg, Testo AG, Weiss Klimatechnik, Ziehl-Abegg; Haier, Shanghai VS ImpExp.; Frico, Systemair; LG Electronics; "AMALVA"; "VEZA", "DELSOT", "CLIMATVENTMACH", "MEDVED CONCERN", "KORF", "LISSANT" VENTILATION PLANT, "normal vent", "teplomash", "tropik", "folter", rm vent, VKT, KRUKOVSKY VENTILARONY ZAVOD, PROMKHOLOD, Novenco, AERMEC, BAUKLIMA, SPS-KHOLOD, FREETECH, ROLS ISORMARKET, CIAT DISTRIBUTION, Gree and many other. Chinese factorieswere also widely represented (over 30 stands), among others – Galanz, Midea factories groups. At these very factories most of conditioners and components sold all over the world are produced.

Among participants were leading distributors and engineering companies, industry associations – APIC, ABOK, AFEC. Traditionally, the events of the exhibition are reported by international HVAC-magazine Janr (Japan).

Among the main sections of “Climate World – 2009” project are:

  • VRF-systems
  • Automation, management systems
  • Automobile air conditioners
  • Ventilation equipment, ventilation, fans
  • Air ducts, diffusers, silencers
  • Winter sets
  • Tools for construction, chilling, plumbing industry
  • Smart building
  • IR-heaters
  • Fireplaces
  • Compressors
  • Household and semi-industrial air conditioners
  • Household heaters
  • Gas and liquid fuel fed heaters
  • Training, employment, consulting services at the market of HVAC&R
  • Heating, water supply
  • Industrial air-cleaners, household air-cleaning systems, in-built vacuum cleaners
  • Drainage pumps
  • Industrial cooling equipment: component parts, accessories, tools
  • Mounting consumables
  • Air curtains
  • Heating pump installations
  • Fan heaters
  • heat-insulation materials
  • Air moisturizers, ionizers, cleaners, dryers
  • Cooling agents. Oils
  • Cooling cabinets, boxes, counters, shop windows
  • Air handling units
  • Chillers and fan-coils
  • Clean room
  • Energy saving

Association of Professional companies in Industry of Climate (APIC) and Association of Engineers for Heating, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning, Heat Supply and Building Thermal Physics (ABOK) held "The state and prospects of climatic equipment market development in Russia"symposium where the guests of the exhibitions met directors and specialists of the largest climatic companies of Russia, representatives of companies manufacturing HVAC equipment, experts from the Training and consulting center of APIC and specialists from ABOK.

At the symposium, there were presented reports on the following subjects:

  • “Training and employment in HVAC&R industry”
  • “Regulatory and methodological support in design and construction. NP ABOK standards system”.
  • “Situation at the climatic market in 2008. Market development prospects and new equipment-2009”.

There were master-classes for teaching installers of CVS, sales managers, specialists in climatic systems automation systems. At the seminar of Association of Engineers for Heating, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning, Heat Supply and Building Thermal Physics (ABOK) there were presentations and discussions of new regulatory documents, standards and specialized literature. On the third day of the exhibition, there was made a report on the state and perspectives of the climatic market development during the crisis. After that, representatives of the largest equipment manufacturers (Gree, General Climate, LG Electronics, Panasonic, Daikin, Midea, Mitsubishi Electric, Sanyo, Samsung, Sanyo, Hitachi, Haier, York, etc.) made presentations of their novelties. Most presentations and reports can be accessed at the site of the exhibition:

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ORGANIZERS:

ZAO “EUROEXPO”

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ZAO “EUROEXPO” was founded in 1995 for the purpose of promoting domestic and foreign companies at the Russian market by organizing their efficient participation in exhibitions.

Main fields of “EUROEXPO” company’s activity:

- organization of exhibitions, presentations, and conferences;

- construction of displays at exhibitions;

- design, development and realization of projects, exclusive stands of any level of complexity;

“Euroexpo” company has wide experience in organizing and conducting of special exhibitions. All exhibitions of Euroexpo are specialized exhibitions that facilitate business contacts, widening of business relations and prosperity of business.

Euroexpo organizes 14 annual specialized exhibitions:

  • Domestic construction materials;
  • МАTTEX (Moscow agua technology therm expo)
  • Pool Salon (Moscow pools salon);
  • Garden Tool (exhibition of tools and equipment for gardens and parks);
  • Climate World (HVAC equipment exhibition);
  • Intourmarket (tourism exhibition);
  • Investments. Construction. Property
  • Pipeline transport;
  • Apteka (pharmaceutical exhibition);
  • Otdykh / Leisure (trade fair for tourism and travel)
  • Mibexpo Russia (trade fair for business tourism);
  • Luxury Leisure (trade fair for luxury travel)
  • MITTEX (the variety of tools).
  • MERA (measurement, control & automation technology)
  • SVYAZ-EXPOCOMM (international exhibition of telecommunication equipment, control systems, information technologies and communication services)

Continuously improving its exhibitions and increasing the level of exhibition services quality for the participants and guests “Euroexpo” company remains open for new initiatives and organizing of new exhibition events.

Another actively developing field of “Euroexpo” company’s activity is construction of exhibitions, expositions, as wells as design, development and construction of exclusive exhibition displays which all is supported by the company’s own production facilities.

Since August of 2000, Euroexpo has been MCCCI member, and since December of 2001 it has been a full member of the Russian Union of Exhibitions and Fairs.

ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSIONAL COMPANIES IN INDUSTRY OF CLIMATE

Association of Professional companies in Industry of Climate (APIC) was founded in 1997. Now APIC consolidates over 100 professional HVAC companies of Russia.

The main goal of APIC is joint solution of problems of the Russian HVAC business, promotion of civilized methods of work and principles of fair competitions, cutting-edge equipment and advanced technologies, protection of interests of Russian suppliers of HVAC equipment and services.

APIC members represent the whole range of HVAC market: from manufacturers and suppliers of equipment to mounting companies. Any Russian or foreign company having good business reputation and having operated at the Russian market during not less than three years, recommended by at least two APIC members, may become a member of APIC.

Advantages of membership in APIC:

  • Additional discounts for goods and services provided by APIC members.
  • Preferences and privileges for commodity credits and payments in transactions with APIC members.
  • Opportunity of direct or through executive bodies of the Association resolution of disputes and conflicts with partners from among APIC members.
  • Reference letters and support for participation in tenders, intermediary services for searching for partners and state companies.
  • Co-operation and joint support of the Association in work with customers, fiscal bodies and third parties.
  • Support for negotiations with foreign partners and equipment suppliers.
  • Consultations on business matters, problems on marketing and advertisement, legal and any other issues.
  • Discounts for company’s personnel training at the Training and consulting center of APIC.
  • Access to results of marketing research and objective information on market players.
  • Advertising and informational support at APIC sites and in “Climate World” magazine.
  • Preferences and discounts in obtaining display spots at “Climate World” exhibition.
  • Possibility of participating in scientific conferences of APIC.
  • The right to use APIC logo.

Projects of APIC

  • APIC issues specialized magazine “Climate World”, is an owner of the following web-bases resources: APIC is a co-organizer of international specialized exhibition “Climate World”. In 2007, APIC opened Training center for technical training of managers, mounters, heads of departments of sales, service, and advertisement, as well as for other specialists in HVAC business. At present, Association’s own marketing agency is operating; it provides objective information on the situation at the Russian HVAC market.

Exhibition organizers:

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Official sponsor of the exhibition:

Sponsor of the exhibition:

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publication of the exhibition:

General Internet-partner:

Opinions of some participants of “Climate World” exhibition:

Mikhail Beizman, advertisement and marketing department head at ZAO “Euroclimate”: "Gree Electric Appliance Inc. company and its distributor in Russia,–"Euroclimate" company, are satisfied by the outcome of participation in the most significant Russian exhibition for climatic and cooling equipment. We would like to congratulate the organizers - Association of Professional Companies in Industry of Climate (APIC) and “Euroexpo” company on the brilliant conduct of the anniversary exhibition “Climate World”; also we would like to thank them for the status of the “Official sponsor” granted to us this year. Our active participation in the work of the exhibition stresses out the importance of the Russian market for GREE brand”.

Leonid Kiryakov, head of "Inrost”, “Nimal” companies and of General Climate company – an official sponsor of “Climate World" exhibition:“This year, many were afraid that the expo would not take place and, for some reason, many had negative attitude in advance. I did not share these expectations and I see now that I was right. The atmosphere was rather positive, the exhibition went not bad, at least, not worse than in the past year, that's for sure".

Sergey Slesarev, deputy General Director of OOO “ebm-papst rus”:“This was our first participation in “Climate World” expo and we are very satisfied since the daily number of visitors at our stand was three times more than that at the exhibitions we participated in previously”.

Pavel Yakovlev, General Director of “DataKrat Climatic systems” company: “It’s a good that t–is exhibition exists, at this very hard time, at the crossroads, when it is important to understand what should be done next. This is a meeting place not to be vacated. As a head of a regional company I can say that I need this exhibition, and I will visit it every year - at least for close communication with partners within a short-time framework. It is very important for me”.

Alexander Kovalenko, deputy General Director of “Haier – Conditioning systems” company:“I can definitely declare that the exhibition has taken place. Stands have become more modest, but the information was presented well, just like before. We had many new contacts with new dealers at our stand”.

Maxim Pautov, marketing and advertisements department head at “AERMEC” company:"As compared to the previous year, the number of visitors at our stand has increased. Many new companies are interested in our equipment and novelties. We would like to express our gratitude to ZAO “Euroexpo” and APIC for well-organized exhibition”.

Alexei Yevdokimov, Marketing Director at “Trade House White Guard” company: “This year, our company had the largest stand of all the years of participating in the exhibition. And despite all the negative forecasts, there were a lot of guests at the exhibition, especially on the second day. Visits of dealers have become shorter – one day instead of usual two or three days. It seems that many people have come to orient themselves in new economical situation while before they came to make specific orders".

Vladimir Minchev, General Director of “Teplovey” company: “This was our traditional, not first-year, participation in “Climate World” exhibition. And we think that, despite the crisis, participation in such events is very important for further development of our company. At this exhibition, we are looking for partners for replacing imported accessories of air-heating systems by domestic products; we also meet with many dealers".

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