OREANDA-NEWS. August 25, 2016. Moscow "Expocentre" it was opened the 20th Anniversary International Exhibition of spare parts, automotive components, equipment and products for the maintenance of vehicles Automechanika - 2016.

This year the products at MIMS Automechanika Moscow were brought by 1022 companies from 42 countries. Six years ago, in 2010, there were 76 countries-participators, however, and this year there are widely represented sections "Auto parts", "Repair and maintenance", "Electricity and electronics", "Accessories & Tuning", "Sinks and equipment for service stations", "Management and information technology."

In the exhibition it was opened 7 national pavilions that are combining companies from Italy, France, China, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Japan. And the Japanese at the first time in Russia opened a pavilion in the format " the contrary show". Here at the stands of five companies (Avtovaz Renault Nissan Purchasing Organization, Calsonic Kansei RUS LLC, JSC "ISUZU RUS", Mitsuba Teklas Rus LLC, TAKATA RUS LLC) that have already opened the productions in Russia, the visitors can see the patterns that these companies would buy at Russian suppliers to improve the level of localization of its own production.

Within the business program MIMS it was opened the 7th Moscow International Automotive Forum (IMAF) on August 23rd, where participants discussed the key question - "The Russian car industry: whether the turning point came?" As the press-service of the organizers informed, the president of AVTOVAZ, Nicolas Moore, the CEO of "Renault Russia", Andrei Pankov, the CEO and first vice-president of "Ford Sollers", Adil Shirinov, and others spoke in a plenary session. In their speeches, the speakers tried to assess whether there is in the Russian market signs of growth, as well as there were announced strategies and plans of their companies in the long term.