Trade Fair

Tunnel Expo Turkey 2015

Prof. Nuh Bilgin, the chairman of the Turkish Tunnelling Society opened the fair in the foyer of the Expo halls in front of some 120 guests Quelle/credit: Marvin Klostermeier
Prof. Nuh Bilgin, the chairman of the Turkish Tunnelling Society opened the fair in the foyer of the Expo halls in front of some 120 guests
Quelle/credit: Marvin Klostermeier
Opening ceremony for the joint Tunnel and Mining Expo in Istanbul Quelle/credit: Marvin Klostermeier
Opening ceremony for the joint Tunnel and Mining Expo in Istanbul
Quelle/credit: Marvin Klostermeier
TTS award: Levent Özdemir (otl), Dr. Güner Gürtunca (2nd from left) and Prof. Nick Barton (otr) were honoured for their long-standing services in various spheres of tunnelling Quelle/credit: Marvin Klostermeier
TTS award: Levent Özdemir (otl), Dr. Güner Gürtunca (2nd from left) and Prof. Nick Barton (otr) were honoured for their long-standing services in various spheres of tunnelling
Quelle/credit: Marvin Klostermeier
Visitors from 20 nations attended the three-day Tunnel Expo in Istanbul, which was staged in conjunction with the Mining Expo in the adjacent fair halls Quelle/credit: Marvin Klostermeier
Visitors from 20 nations attended the three-day Tunnel Expo in Istanbul, which was staged in conjunction with the Mining Expo in the adjacent fair halls
Quelle/credit: Marvin Klostermeier

140 exhibitors from no less than 16 countries presented their products and tunnelling solutions on an area exceeding 2800 m² at the Tunnel Expo Turkey in the Istanbul Expo Centre in the district of Yeşilköy. According to the organizers apart from Turkish trade visitors, guests from a further 19 nations were in Istanbul from August 27 to 29, 2015: Albania, Algeria, China, Germany, France, Georgia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kasachstan, Croatia, Austria, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Uzbekistan and the Czech Republic. The second Tunnel Expo following up the initial event in 2014 was...

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