The event, which will be held till 27 October 2012, is taking place at the exhibition premises of Uzexpocenter.

The fair is aimed at assisting business entities to optimize production, strengthening and developing inter-industry and intra-industry cooperation, inform companies on produced goods, helping to search business partners and signing agreements on supply of goods, including to exports.

This year, the fair is attended by over 1,100 producers from such areas as machinery, automobile, electrotechnical, construction industry, metallurgy, chemistry, petrochemical, food and light industries, pharmaceuticals, etc. They will present over 10,000 products.

At the same time, the fair is attended by representatives of diplomatic corpus, foreign companies and delegations of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of foreign states.

Opening the fair, Deputy Prime Minister of Uzbekistan Ulugbek Rozukulov said that the international industrial fair and cooperation exchange is considered as important event in economic life of Uzbekistan.

He said that local businesses have good chance to present their products and familiarize consumers with their goods, as well as get information of new products of other industries. They can also form orders portfolio and establish cooperation on joint projects and industrial cooperation.

Rozukulov said that the fair is held for the sixth time this year. He said that last year agreements on supply of goods and services for over 3.5 trillion soums and export contracts for US$3.9 billion were signed.

Last year, the fair was attended by 1,000 companies. Some 70,000 visited the fair, including representatives of over 800 foreign companies. The fair presented 6,500 products, manufactured in Uzbekistan.