OREANDA-NEWS. April 19, 2012. Just at that moment, that is 16.50 of Astana time, a road-show to attract investments in Astana takes place in Vienna, within the forum "Development of business and investment in Kazakhstan", organized by the Austrian Embassy in Kazakhstan.

Head of the Administrative department of special economic zone “Astana new city” Meder Maselov and Head of the Investors service center of Astana city Timur Koblan just finished a presentation. They told to businessmen of Europe - representatives of 50 major Austrian companies - about the preferences provided by the tax, land and other laws in force on the territory of the special economic zone "Astana-new city." Also, they presented to participants all nuances of the state support in the framework of the "Business road map 2020" and the State program of forced industrial-innovative development of Kazakhstan.

Meder Maselov informed the edition-team of the web-site www.astana.kz by telephone, that the presentation of investment opportunities in Astana aroused the most lively reaction of the Viennese audience.

"At once after the presentation, representatives of different companies came up and propose to hold an extended presentation for business community of Vienna in Astana, to demonstrate opportunities of the Industrial park, priority areas of the innovative development, to demonstrate registration peculiarities of representative offices of foreign companies in Astana and a possibility of purchasing the business. Of course, we accept all applications and we will work them more specifically in Astana, in particular during preparations to the Third International Investment Forum "Astana Invest 2012", which is scheduled on May of this year," Meder Maselov said.

Among the companies that have expressed their interest in cooperation are Maba Track Solutions GmbH, Calderys Austria GmbH, Capespan Austria GesmbH, Cimbria Heid GmbH, Frey Wille GmbH & Co KG, Panalpina Welttransport GmbH, Miraplast Gmbh, Stalltechnik ing. Brauer GmbH. Meder Maselov expressed his hope that at a very early date, representatives of these companies will meet at the negotiating table in Astana.