The 4th research-to-practice international workshop conference "Composite materials: producing, application, market tendency" organized by the Union of Composites Manufacturers, Russia, took place on the 25th of November 2010 in Moscow, Russia.

During the conference the representatives of the leading enterprises and industry organizations of the  composite materials market have been discussing the vital topics of the industry.

The main aims of conference were to consolidate the industry's

As reported by information agency "ITAR-TASS", the Russian Army will completely change the uniform in 2011; the changes will be paid from the federal budget. The amount that will be allocated for the new uniform varies from 5 to 5,5 billion rubles.

The deputy minister of defense of the Russian Federation the colonel-general Dmitry Bulgakov has announced it at the 10th exhibition "The Russian manufacturers and supply support of Army" which took place in Moscow from 17 to 19 November

The research-to-practice conference "Topical issues of geo synthetics production and use in the transport (road) construction" initiated by "DorNII" and organized by Association of Producers of Geosynthetic Materials took place on the 10^th of November 2010 in Moscow, Russia.

During the conference the leading scientists, producing companies, specialists and experts of the area have been discussing the main topics such as new perspectives and expansion of the geosynthetics use in the road

Conversation with a management of the German company «Messe Frankfurt» is held in Representation of the Government of the Ivanovo area at the Government of the Russian Federation.

The main topic of meeting with a management of the international state German fair company was discussion of the possibilities for promoting the Ivanovo area as a Russian textile center at the international technical textile fair «Techtextil» which have been talking place annually for 14 years.

During the meeting

Massive road construction is to be started in Moscow.

Dmitri Medvedev held a meeting dedicated to the problems of transportation system in Moscow with the new Mayor of the Russian capital - Sergey Sobyanin.

The President mentioned that "it was very stressful to drive in Moscow" and qualified the situation with Moscow traffic as the question of vital importance, and the first problem the new Mayor would have to tackle.

The new Mayor reported that the problem of Moscow traffic could be

According to the Moscow government, the road and bridge construction is one of the weakest components of the Moscow infrastructure. In 2010 the road building and bridge construction sector got 60 billion rubles (approx, 2 billion USD) from the budget. The money were mostly spent on the actual construction works which had been already in progress and on preparations for construction of the 4th road ring of Moscow, which is going to start next year.
In the near future the government of Moscow

Manufacturing of technical textiles has been rapidly developing in Russia in the last couple of years. This field is specially perspective in such Russian textile clusters as the Ivanovo, Yaroslavl region and in some other regions of Russia involved in textile manufacturing. Successful development is also widely supported by the government. Thus according to the official site of Representation of the Ivanovo Region in Moscow, Ivanovo region senator Yury Smirnov has announced that  the new

As reported on the official site of the Belarus holding "Svetlogorskoe PO Khimvolokno" this company plans and has already started the multistage reconstruction and modernization of polyester textile threads production. According to company's estimates, execution of the project will increase the output volume 2011 more than 1,5-fond as compared to 2006. In 2009 the company installed equipment for manufacturing various threads, it is already in operation.

Besides, the company has bought the

Dear colleagues and friends!

Allow to congratulate you on a coming Russian holiday - Day of Road facilities workers. In Russia we annually commemorate this professional holiday 10 years in every third Sunday of October. The times are changing, and we are changing with them. Time of high speeds and innovative technologies puts new problems before road-building industry, and development programs open huge prospects. Experts of industry do a lot of work for transport and roads in Russia become as

We are glad to announce, that the Association of Producers of Geosynthetic Materials (APGM) became the official partner of Techtextil Russia Symposium 2011. APGM is a non-commercial organization founded in 2008 with the goal of defending the interests of manufacturers of geosynthetic materials. At present, APGM unites enterprises producing various types of geosynthetics (road geonets, geogrids, geotextiles, geomembrances, and so on), enterprises producing specialized equipment, research