Press Release
Specialized Exhibition "Progressive Technologies in Automation. PTA-St. Petersburg, 2009 "
From the 24th to 26th of June 2009 the V Specialized Exhibition "Progressive Technologies in Automation. PTA-St. Petersburg, 2009 " was successfully held with the official support of St.-Petersburg Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Union of the Building Organizations of St.-Petersburg, International Society of Automation (ISA), Center of Building Automation, Northwest AVOK.
According to Kateneev V.I., the president of the St.-Petersburg Chamber of Commerce & Industry: "The exhibition which is traditionally held in St. Petersburg promotes technologies in the field of process automation , constitutes the core of modern and efficient industry, contributes to the development of international relationships, attracts the attention of Russian and international investors to the main problems of the industry."
The vice-president of ISA Bobovich A.V. considers that the V Specialized Exhibition "PTA-St. Petersburg, 2009 " will attract new investments, facilitate establishing of international relationships between all the market participants. It is a good opportunity to find a real mutual solution for each industrial enterprise of the region."
On the opening ceremony VIPA company was awarded by STA magazine for the project "Controllers VIPA operate production lines at Volkswagen factory ".
Also, according to the decision of the International Society of Automation the winner of the competition "The best student's project" in the field of automation was Andrienko Grigorij Vladimirovich , the student of the St. Petersburg Institute of Aerospace Machinery.
More than 50 companies from Russia, Germany, Belgium , Korea took part in the exhibition. They presented new production samples, offered different solutions .
There were Compel, GeFanuc, Indasoft, NSI, PROSOFT, Schroff, SWD Software, SoftLink and other companies among them.
Besides the exposition the visitors had an opportunity to attend Joint Indasoft and Ge Fanuc seminar, Prosoft seminar, process Automation and Embedded Systems North-West Conference and many other seminars.
There were also held Siberia and Ural presentations, round table "Human resources role in the sphere of industrial automation".