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ConTech/ConLife: Russian construction industry puts its hopes on 2018

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The exhibitors’ estimates of the number of visitors varied strongly this year

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The BFT International trade journal has been providing local support to the trade show and symposium organizer and the exhibiting suppliers for many years

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As every year, the accompanying symposium was very well attended, presenting around 60 lectures from research and building practice

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Professor Christian Thienel from the University of the German Federal Armed Forces in Munich, Germany, gave an interesting speech on lightweight concrete

Figure: BFT International

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Scan the QR code and watch the interview with fair organizer Eduard Bolshakov on the perspectives of the Russian construction industry.

The trends of the previous year continued into this year’s ConTech/ConLife trade show and symposium: reticence among the Western European and US American suppliers of the concrete and precast concrete industry; an increasing number of exhibitors from China, Turkey and Russia.

This development was due primarily to the Western sanctions, the unfavorable euro-to-ruble and dollar-to-ruble exchange rates, which are back to around 1:70 and 1:60, respectively, and the ongoing economic crisis in Russia – for the time being, public and private investors continue to hold back on construction projects.

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