The Association of HVACR Industry Professional Companies (APIC) and Euro Expo CJSC, the exhibition business professionals, inform that Climate World 2008, the fourth international specialized exhibition covering the whole of the Russian HVACR market, will take place in Moscow at the International Exhibition Center Crocus Expo on March 11^th – 14^th, 2008.

Climate World shows positive dynamic growth, with an increase in the number of participants (2005 - 128; 2006 - 192; 2007 - 228), visitors (2005 – 8.500; 2006 – 12.000; 2007 – 13.500), countries (2005 - 16; 2006 - 22; 2007 - 25) and exhibition space (2005 – 5.000; 2006 – 10.000; 2007 – 12.500). In the 2007 edition 64,59% of visitors were directors and 228 companies, such as Carrier, Daikin, Jarn, Aermek, Johnson Controls, Rusclimat, Thermocool, from 25 countries (Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Great Britain, Germany, Hong Kong, Greece, Israel, India, Italy, Spain, China, Korea, Latvia, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Turkey, Finland, France, Czechia, Switzerland, Sweden, Ukraine, Japan) participated in the event. 69,31% of participants in Climate World 2007 declared they would come back in 2008.

The scientific program of the Climate World 2008 exhibition is organized by APIC and ABOK (Non-Profit Partnership of Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning, Heat Supply and Thermal Physics Engineers). According to the organizer’s press release, on March 11th there will be a round table on “Advertising and Marketing in HVAC Business”, chaired by Artem Kushnerev, APIC’s expert on advertising. The next day, ABOk’s President Yuri Tabuntchikov will chair another round table, this time on “Regulations in Design and Construction”. On March 12th Dmitry Kuzin, APIC’s Executive Director, will be the chairman of the section on “Professional Training in HVAC and Refrigeration Business”.