Mir Stekla - 2010

Significant properties and massive potential of the glass made itself as a widely used construction material. Because of the wide range spread of glass in various fields, the Russian glass market is dramatically growing. This leads to the arrival of the new companies every year. Adding the growth of the Russian glass market, international trades show namely Mir Stekla is being conducted every year. This exhibition started its journey in the year of 1999. Mir Stekla International exhibition is the largest trade show for the glass industry in Russia, CIS and Eastern Europe.

Mir Stekla (World of Glass) – 2010, 12th international exhibition for Glass products, Manufacturing, Processing and Finishing Technology is going to be held from June 7-10, 2010 at Expocentr’ Krasnaya Presnya Fairgrounds, Moscow, Russia. This exhibition is going to be organized by ZAO Expocentr. This exhibition carries the official UFI label “UFI Approved Event” and the label of RUEF – the Russian Union of Exhibitions and fairs and the trade show will be supported by the chamber of commerce and industry of the Russian federation.

Opportunities
Mir Stekla offers a place to introduce the new products and grab the audience focus easily. It also increases the customer’s perception on the products by face to face communication and enhances brand awareness. Mir Stekla will provide a great platform to analysis the needs and expectations of the clients or customers. This show makes the product to reach the greater number of target customers by direct sales.

This exhibition will cover several sectors such as Glass production, production technology, production and treatment of sheet glass, machine-tools and equipment for production and finishing treatment of other kinds of glass, research and development in glass industry, technology and the production of refractory, auxiliary equipment and tools, contract work, service, consulting engineering, ready-made glassware and so on.

Exhibitors’ profile
It is expected that this exhibition will be occupied by exhibitors from 24 countries. Exhibit profile includes auxiliary and operating materials, batching equipment, coating technology, measuring and testing equipment, raw materials, artistic glass production equipment, cooling system, drilling equipments, instrument control system, windows or doors fabrication machinery etc.

Visitors’ profile
Visitors profile includes glass manufacturers, architects, automobile component distributors, Automobile manufactures, contractors, engineers, property developers, windows and façade builders and so on. Visitors are also expected from more than 24 nations.

A large attendance of glass industry professionals from various places and also from the Russia will definitely yield a great profit for the exhibitors who are exhibiting the products. High quality service provided by the Expocentr’ staff and the venue’s well-developed infrastructure will definitely promote successful exhibiting.

Ryugyong Hotel with a Sound Facelift

Ryugyong hotel in North Korea, once known as the worst building in the history of mankind, now made a history by stamping itself as the prettiest glass building with glistening glass façade. The construction of this building started in 1987 and then it got stopped in 1992 due to the government’s financial difficulties. Again the construction work got started in April 2008, nearly 16 years later. This building is shortly known as “105 hotel” and “The 105”.

This hotel covers an area of about 3, 900,000 sq.ft. This 105-story hotel rose to a height of 330 meters and its height simply dominates the Pyongyang skyline. Moreover this building is expected to be the world’s tallest hotel, after its completion in 2012. This building contains three wings rising at 75 degree angles and it is supposed to have five revolving restaurant and an observation deck.

The façade of this hotel is constructed with very shiny and amazing reflective glasses and glass windows on one side of the concrete giant. Mirrored glass has to be fixed at the other side of the muddish-grey concrete structure. The old 3000-room hotel is made up of concrete formed and molded by cement masons. This new Ryugyong hotel resembles a blossoming flower and the concrete shell is covered by a blue sheet of glass.

Ryugyong hotel is going to incorporate glass paneling and telecommunication antennas. The openings of the building are used for the vegetable garden and orchards. Two water basins at the central wing are used to collect rain water and the collected water is used for the irrigation facilities of the vertical garden. The rest of the ground and the unused part of the basement will be occupied by green slopes and wooden zones. This hotel also incorporates sanitary installations and kitchens, plugged into the central shafts.

This building is also intended to contain a hospital, a bowling alley and seven revolving restaurant/night clubs. This hotel also included an elevator shafts. Amazingly there are many safety equipments hanging from the bottom to top of the building including harnesses, ladders and safety nets. It is estimated that the revamping plan will cost nearly $2 billions. Hopefully, this revamping plan will result in great success and will make the Ryugyong hotel a notable icon.