Kielce feels the pull of Kiev
The young Kielce exhibition company, in business for about twelve years, has some 30 expositions in its programme. They attract more than 4,000 exhibitors, a quarter of them from abroad. Three shows are the exhibition organisers special pride and joy: the foundry technologies fair Metal, the plastics processing fair Plastpol and the defence industry exhibition MSPO.
MSPO is said to attract armaments groups and representatives of the military from all over the world. Each year Plastpol welcomes many foreign guests from the likes of Germany, Italy, Spain and France as well as Ukraine, Russia, Lithuania and Estonia. Some 635 firms from 25 countries take part. The Poles say the fair has advanced to the biggest event for the plastics industry in central and eastern Europe. Since Poland's accession to the European Union the International Fair of Road Construction, AutostradaPolska, already the eleventh of its kind featuring 690 companies from 21 countries, has become the meeting place for companies from the West with firms from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.
Plastpol and AutostradaPolska have already been exported from Kielce, which lies some 100 km northeast of Cracow: "Last year we became the first Polish exhibition company to take a show abroad. Organised in Kiev as PlastUkraine, Plastpol was a success. Moving forward, Road Engineering, the International Fair of the Road Construction Industry, Infrastructure, Construction Equipment and Special Vehicles, is to be collocated with PlastUkraine, next year from February 21 to 24."
The aim to become one of the major exhibition centres in central Europe is always uppermost. Which is why the exhibition programme is constantly being refined. As a result, this year two entirely new shows were rolled out: the Gas Engineering Fair Expo-Gas from June 27 to 29 and the International Fair of Local Public Transport Transexpo from September 20 to 22.
m+a report Nr.6 / 2005 vom 23.09.2005
m+a report vom 23. September 2005