FIREPLACES SALON | About

Dates: March, 10th-13th, 2010
Venue: Crocus Expo Exhibition Center
Sponsor: Classic Flame
Floor area: 5000 sq. m
General Information Sponsor: Fireplaces and Heating Magazine ("Beautiful Houses Press" Publishing House)
Internet support: www.kamin-magazine.ru, www.houses.ru

The 6th International exhibition "Fireplaces Salon" devoted to fireplaces, stoves and heating systems, took place from April, 10th till April, 13th, 2010, in the Crocus Expo fairgrounds. For a long time already this event is being referred as the most significant exhibition project both in Russia's and the Eastern Europe’s fireplaces industry, demonstrating the brand new innovations and developments of Russian and foreign manufacturers. Summarizing the 2009 work undertaken, the «Swat Kaminkow» magazine from Poland awarded the Russian fair with “The Event of the Year” prize. 

Total 2010 visitors' number exceeded 25 500, mostly experts. The organizers declare 10% floor area growth in comparison to 2009.

«As earlier, the «Fireplaces Salon» exhibition amazes with its scale and demonstrates a wide variety of fireplaces and stoves: classical and designer’s, exclusive and art works, with various facings, also heating systems working on both traditional and alternative energy sources», — says Oleg Feoktistov, General Director, World Expo Group.

70 companies from 16 countries such as USA, France, Italy, Austria, the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Greece, Czekh Republic, Hungary, Poland, China and Russia took part in the fair.

For the first time the Russian market welcomed the production and brand new developments from new foreign participants such as “M-Design” from Belgium (fireboxes with two faces), “Kratki.Pl Marek Bal” from Poland (cast iron fireboxes, bio-fireplaces, fireplace accessories), “Nibe Stoves” from Sweden (fireplaces-stoves), “Totem” from France (steel fireboxes with fire resistant brick facing) and “Caminos” from Greece (higher thermal efficiency fireplaces retailer).

Their participation in the show highlights one of the top market trends: consumers more often prefer economic and energy efficient solutions, paying their special attention to an overall performance and output of heating devices and their technical characteristics, giving less priority to design, as it was just several years ago.

2010 fair’s highlight was the first ever Russian fireplace manufacturers’ breakthrough. If previously the Russian participants had represented basically foreign brands, in 2010 the market offer was added with domestic trade marks. As an example, the “Ekokamin” company’s premiere was the launch of “Made in Russia” cast iron fireboxes. The family stonework company “Arto and sons” from the Moscow region presented exclusive author’s fireplaces. Another well-known Russian company – “Meta Group” – included into its exposition the wide range of fireplace facings, fireboxes and stoves, made by newest technologies.

Besides classical wood fireplaces and stoves, electric and gas fireplaces were widely presented at the exhibition. The city apartment owners got their chance to choose a fireplace with a real flame’s perfect imitation.