Press Release
Aqua-Therm St. Petersburg - 2015
On 18-21 March the 2nd International exhibition "Aqua-Therm St. Petersburg", a unique for the Northwest of Russia exhibition for domestic and industrial heating, water supply, sanitary, air-conditioning, ventilation, equipment for pools, saunas and SPA, was held in CEC EXPOFORUM, St. Petersburg, Russia.
The following persons took part in the official opening ceremony: Marat Oganesyan, St. Petersburg Vice-Governor, President of the Union of Construction Organisations; Igor Shikalov, Head of Prospective Development Department, St. Petersburg Committee on Construction; Sergei Kuchikhin, Vice-President, the Russian Association of Builders, Honored Builder of Russia; Efim Basin, Chairman, the Construction Committee of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, Hero of Socialist Labor, Honored Builder of Russia; Vladimir Katenev, President of St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Alexei Belousov, Director General, Association of St. Petersburg Builders, Coordinator of the National Association of Builders of St. Petersburg; Oleg Britov, CEO of noncommercial partnership Association of Construction Organisations, Vice-President of the Russian Association of Builders of the Northwestern Federal District; Sergei Voronkov, Director General, ExpoForum International; Irina Lubina, Director General, PRIMEXPO.
102 companies from Russia, China, Germany, Finland, Hong Kong, Turkey, and Poland took part in the exhibition 2015. They were GRUNDFOS, EAST WAY INCOME, INTERMA, KAUKORA, REMS, TECE, ROLS ISOMARKET, LINAS, K-FLEX, ROCKWOOL, FG SYSTEM, VENTPROM SPb, UPONOR RUS, MARKOPOOL NORDWEST, THERMAFLEX Insulation+, TOPOL-ECO, EGO ENGINEERING, BLAGOVEST-Ñ+, TERMOROS SPB, PETROVENTKOMPLEKT, POLYPLASTIC CENTER, KAN, MEIBES RUS, JEREMIAS RUS, DOMOTEKHNIKA, PIPELIFE, OPTIMA, CVM, ARMACELL and many others.
43 % of exhibitors took part in "Aqua-Therm St. Petersburg" for the first time which indicates confidence in the exhibition as an effective marketing tool for business development, with the new economic conditions in mind. One of such exhibitors is company PALMIRA HOLDING SPB. Sergei Vetelev, CEO of the company, shared the participation results: "It is the first time when we acted as an exhibitor, and we were very surprised with the number of visitors of the exhibition and our stand (not less than 400 people at a conservative estimate. The exhibition organisers should be specially mentioned due to their operative assistance during the stand installation and the exhibition performance. We are going to participate in Aqua-Therm St. Petersburg in 2016."
Stands of companies with energy-saving production and production solutions based on nonconventional renewable sources of energy: ARMACELL, ROCKWOOL, DOMAP, THERMAFLEX INSULATION + were labeled with special sign "NEW ENERGY".
8054 specialists visited "Aqua-Therm St. Petersburg" exhibition. Total amount of visitors to "Aqua-Therm St. Petersburg" and held at the same time exhibitions (InterStroyExpo and Country Living) is over 16000 people. According to visitors poll, 32 % of attendees represented design and installation companies, 20 % - manufacturers, 25 % - wholesalers and retailers, and 8 % - building companies.
The 17th conference "Effective systems of heating, ventilation, air-conditioning and heat supply" and master-class "Systems of smoke ventilation" organised by PRIMEXPO together with ABOK association were held within the business programme of "Aqua-Therm St. Petersburg". The events covered the main trends in energy and heat-saving systems, innovative approaches to designing, modern equipment and innovative technologies in building engineering systems.
In 2015 for the first time the exhibition "Aqua-Therm St. Petersburg" was held at CEC EXPOFORUM, a new convention and exhibition centre in St. Petersburg which was highly appreciated by exhibitors and visitors.