Chelyabinsk Region is going to be visited by the Trade and Economic Mission of Austria on February 13 and February 14, 2006. The Mission will be headed by the Director of Eastern Countries Department of Austrian Chamber of Economics Guido Stock and Johann Kausl, Austrian Trade Commissioner for Russia in Moscow, the spokesperson for Regional Ministry of Economic Development said to UrBC representative.

28 Austrian companies are going to send along their representatives, VAMED Engineering GmbH & Co KG (dealing in all-inclusive hospital building, medical equipment, hospital modernization and repair work, technical management, introducing IT to different types of clinics), ARDEX Baustoff GmbH (dealing in building chemicals), Bernecker & Reiner Industrie Electronic GmbH (dealing in industrial automation), Vado Engineering GmbH (dealing in block heat and power plants, diesel and industrial engines) among them.

Some meetings with Chelyabinsk Region Governor Peter Sumin and Mayor Mikhail Yurevitch are going to take place. The Austrian executives will meet the representatives of local industrial enterprises in the South Ural Chamber of Commerce and Industry as well. The businesspersons will visit the South Ural State University, some local enterprises and the winter sports facility.