Over its life the event has approved itself as the main communication platform for an affirmative dialogue between the nuclear suppliers and customers. The ATOMEX traditionally includes a specialized exhibition of products manufactured by the nuclear and allied industries. The participation in the forum gives a unique opportunity for the managers and specialists responsible for procurement and supply of the equipment to assess directly the achievements and main areas of development of the products for nuclear power, in the first place of the components for NPPs under construction. “The large-scale nuclear reactor construction program in Russia and abroad, which ROSATOM carries out today, provides many orders for the equipment and services to machine engineering and construction and installation companies; last year, the volume of competitive procurement in the sector exceeded RUB 500 billion,” Sergey Kirienko, head of the Corporation says. “The task of outmost importance for the further improvement of ROSATOM companies’ procurement activities is the construction of a transparent and efficient system of interaction with the organizations interested in supplies of their products to the nuclear industry enterprises,” he added.
It should be noted that in the recent years the forum has substantially expanded its geographical presence. Now, the ATOMEX-Africa, ATOMEX-Europe, as well as ATOMEX-region in different cities of Russia, are run every year.
The interest in the forum on the part of foreign participants is growing. Last year, 634 delegates from 294 companies from Belarus, Germany, Spain, Russia, Ukraine, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Japan took part in ATOMEX 2013. This year, foreign delegates from KNF Neuberger Gmbh, Fennovoima Oy, Solmaz Customs Brokerage and Consultancy Co, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation registered as the forum participants.
Traditionally, the Forum of nuclear suppliers include a conference where suppliers present of their novelties and experience in product supplies and representatives of the customers announce most important changes in ROSATOM’s procurement system.
The key event is the plenary session where the keynote speakers will be Minister for Liaison with the Open Government of Russia Mikhail Abyzov, CEO of ROSATOM Sergey Kirienko, Deputy CEO for Development and International Business of ROSATOM Kirill Komarov, as well as representatives of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia and Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia.
Round-table and featured sessions will cover topics as follows: “Opportunities of nuclear industry suppliers. Arrangement of procurement activities”, “Construction, engineering and information technologies during NPP construction”, “Pricing during construction of nuclear power facilities”, “Information technologies during NPP construction”, “Quality assurance during equipment supply and services rendering at nuclear power facilities”, “Implementation of innovative technologies in the nuclear industry”, “Equipment supply and services rendering for NPP operation, repair and maintenance” etc.
The ATOMEX 2014 will also include presentations where the suppliers can demonstrate their products and services directly before the customer representatives. The suppliers will have opportunities to have meetings in the “Business-to-Business” format with customers to establish business contacts for the purposes of the cooperation development. During B2B meetings the suppliers will be able to find out about features of the procurement system, existing practice of interaction between the suppliers and customers and many other things.
On October 30, 2014 at the forum the featured session “Quality assurance during equipment supply and services rendering at nuclear power facilities” will be held. The speakers will be representatives of ROSATOM, its united engineering company NIAEP-ASE, Atomtechenergo and other customer-companies. The section participants will discuss tools of control and assessment of compliance within ROSATOM system, mechanisms of the technical regulation of products and services in the field of the use of atomic energy. In particular, the Corporation’s representatives are expected to speak on formats, general algorithms of the requirements and quality assessments, and equipment compliance. The main topic of the presentation to be made by a representative of NIAEP-ASE will be formulation of requirements and differentiated approach to quality control, as well as the quality assurance program used during construction of NPPs.
The full version of the forum’s program and list of participants are posted on the forum’s website at http://www.atomeks.ru/atomex-2014.
