STEEL + TECHNOLOGY 01/2020 EXTRACT

72 | STEEL DISTRIBUTION
40 years of Messe Düsseldorf representation in Moscow
Exposcentre Moscow, the fair ground of Messe Düsseldorf Moscow (Picture: Messe
Düsseldorf)
On 15 October 1979, Messe Düsseldorf
opened its official representation in
Moscow. Today, the Moscow subsidiary
accounts for 44% Messe Düsseldorf
Group’s abroad sales.
Messe Düsseldorf Moscow today
employs 49 members of staff and
organizes 14 trade fairs and trade fair
participations in Moscow, Novokuznetsk,
Kazan, Ufa and Yekaterinburg.
As early as in 1963, Messe Düsseldorf
ventured behind the Iron Curtain
opening up a new market for its customers.
“It was adventurous, to say
the least, to organize trade fairs in the
then Soviet Union,” remembers Werner
M. Dornscheidt, president and
CEO of Messe Düsseldorf. Messe
Düsseldorf is an active and acknowledged
member of the Russian exhibition
industry. In 2010 Messe Düsseldorf
Moscow was the first foreign
company to become a member of the
Russian Union of Exhibitions and Fairs.
In 2018 membership as the first foreign
member in the Convention Bureau
Russia followed.
Thomas Stenzel, Managing Director
of Messe Düsseldorf Moscow, stresses
the importance of the company as a
mediator between the two countries:
“We pave the way to the Russian market
for Germany companies, create a local
platform for the Russian economy and
accompany companies from Russia to
Messe Düsseldorf events all over the
world.”
The longstanding activities of Messe
Düsseldorf in Moscow also formed the
basis for the town twinning between Düsseldorf
and Moscow in 1992.
• Messe Düsseldorf
NLMK begins commercial deliveries of high-strength steel for machine building
As part of its high-strength hot-rolled
steel development programme, NLMK
has started commercial deliveries from
its Lipetsk site of S500MC and S550MC
high-strength HRC (yield strength 500
and 550 MPa) to the Russian market.
These steel grades are 40% stronger than
general-purpose hot-rolled products, and
are used in heavy-duty structures and components,
such as in dump truck bodies,
scrap trucks, truck chassis, cranes and other
special purpose machinery. The metal
undergoes special thermomechanical treatment
at NLMK’s hot rolling mill to acquire
its strength properties. High-strength steel
sheets come in the following dimensions:
4 mm to 8 mm thick, up to 1,500 mm wide,
and up to 12 meters long. Customers can
order in small batches of up to 20 t with
truck delivery. They also have the option of
adding high-strength Quard© plates to their
order, which NLMK supplies to Russia from
its NLMK Clabecq plant in Belgium.
• NLMK
TimkenSteel to close material services facility in Houston
TimkenSteel Corporation is going to
close its TimkenSteel Material Services
facility in Houston, Texas, in the first
quarter of 2020.
As a result of the plant closure, Timken-
Steel expects to realize approximately US$
6 million to US$ 8 million of annual savings.
“We are focusing on our core strengths of
making and heat treating steel, and more
fully utilizing our supply chain to provide the
value-added services required by our customers.
This change to how we serve the
evolving energy market will improve the
company’s financial performance,” said
William Bryan, executive vice president of
manufacturing and supply chain. The operation
currently employs approximately 100
people who provide precision value-added
and finishing services, primarily to customers
that service the energy market.
• TimkenSteel
STEEL + TECHNOLOGY 2 (2020) No. 1