Strong Faith in Finland as a Place of Manufacture and Investment
The international Alihankinta 2016 trade fair kicked off on Wednesday in Tampere, Finland. Until Thursday 29 September, all five facilities at the Tampere Exhibition and Sports Centre will be filled by some 1,000 exhibitors from more than 20 different countries.
This year's themes include digitisation and leadership and on Wednesday startups will meet industrial companies at a new Slush-type AlihankintaHEAT event. Jussi Maksimainen, a site and operations director at Sandvik Mining and Construction Oy, a partner company of Alihankinta 2016, opened the trade fair, and futurist Ilkka Halava delivered the keynote speech. During the opening ceremony, the Finnish Association of Purchasing and Logistics (LOGY) awarded Isku-Yhtymä Oy from Lahti with the title of Main Supplier of the Year, and Tampereen Tiivisteteollisuus Oy the title Subcontractor of the Year.
At the press conference on the opening day addresses were heard from Jussi Maksimainen, Ilkka Halava and representatives of the awarded companies. In addition, Anna-Kaisa Ikonen, Mayor of Tampere, and Sergey Movchan, Vice President of St. Petersburg, talked about Partneriat, an event to be held in Tampere on 26–28 September, the participants in which will also visit the trade fair. The objective of Partneriat is to increase cooperation between small and medium-sized enterprises from Finland and Russia.
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Held since 1988, the Alihankinta trade fair demonstrates the Finnish industry and its leading companies. Last year, the trade fair was visited by 16,955 industrial leaders and experts. The main partners of Tampere Trade Fairs are the Federation of Finnish Technology Industries, the Rubber Manufacturers' Association of Finland, the Finnish Plastics Industries Federation and the Finnish Association of Purchasing and Logistics (LOGY). AlihankintaHEAT is offered by Finland Events, the event unit of Tampere Trade Fairs, in cooperation with Rapid Action Group Oy (RAG).