Marketing & Strategy

A patchwork in Prague

More than a hundred of participants joined the 5th Central & Eastern Europe Nuclear industry Congress in Prague. The event intended to provide opportunities throughout the entire nuclear power plant life cycle, but it switched to a patchwork of infomercials, government reporting generalities, planning and achievements.

Atomex: some potential but a lack of quality and definitely not international

Bringing the suppliers to the buyers, especially when this is Rosatom, quite a great positioning for an exhibition. The location was ideal, close to the Red Square and the trendy district of Moscow. Moreover, the content of Atomex would potentially attract any supplier: Training to become a supplier of Rosatom, participation in various workshops, B2B …

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WNE: The nuclear is definitively in Paris

For its third edition, WNE changed its location to Paris Nord. In the last two editions, most of the critics targeted the French focus of the event. This time, the organizers attracted more foreign companies to make WNE a symbol of the nuclear world. The big ones More foreign companies came to WNE, but WNE …

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PowerGen was dying in Vienna

PowerGen used to be ten years ago a respectable exhibition with tenths of manufacturer, operators, engineering companies. In the last session organized in Vienna, under the strange name of “Electrify Europe”we witnessed a Zombie event. What is a Zombie event? It looks like it is alive, but it goes nowhere, and the place is unexciting. …

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INPPS : from Government benefactor to private occurrence.

The International Nuclear Power Plant Summit was held between March 6-7 in Istanbul. For the fifth year, around 500 persons came to this burgeoning market to understand what is possible to achieve. This year, the exhibition revealed  several properties of what is to expect in Turkey: The large number of Turkish exhibitors: compared to the …

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KSG Makina and Ateliers de la Meuse : what’s next?

During the INPPS summit, only two companies were interviewed by the national media: KSG Makina (KSG), a private company based in Adana (Turkey) and Ateliers de la Meuse (ALM), a joint venture between a private investor and the government of Belgium. If KSG Makina is a company focused in the construction, renewable energy and steel …

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ICCI: quality or nothing

The 23rdInternational Energy & Environment Fair & Conference (ICCI) was held on May 3-5 in Istanbul. The event was partially acquired by Penwell (the organizer of Power-Gen) and that was obvious in the show. From several dozens of small booths and irrelevant companies in 2016, this event features bigger companies, bigger booth and optimized space. …

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South Africa : is this really happening?

On January 12, as International Business Development Director of the Nuclear Industry Association of Turkey (NIATR), a meeting was organized with the Managing Director of the Nuclear Industry Association of South Africa (NIASA), Mr. Knox Msebenzi. The target was to create a bridge between the leading country in Africa and the most powerful industrial country …

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