Germany – a half of the German federal lands will attend MSV
Most foreign exhibitors will come again from Germany, in addition to usual participants also newcomers will be among them. To significant newcomers will belong – besides the above mentioned company Vattenfall Europe Mining (power engineering) also the firms Tusch & Richter or Solution.S Europe (both exhibiting at IMT). Federal lands have been preparing a magnificent presentation of the German industrial offer. An enormous official participation will have the Middle-German lands Thuringia, Saxony and Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria and for the first time also Hesse.

Slovak participation
The International Engineering Fair was launched in former Czechoslovakia and Slovakia has long been third in the number of represented firms, after the Czech Republic and Germany. Also this year some forty Slovak firms have been registered and some have not been decided yet. For the first time the company Caspro, offering equipment for the plastic industry, will attend MSV. Firm Makino comes back to the Brno fair; it will present metalworking machinery on its stand of 100 m2. Firms such as Trens, Profing, Železierne Podbrezová, Slovak Power-Engineering Works or KM-System belong to usual participants. And not even education is missing, Technical University Žilina offers a cooperation with enterprises.
In addition to individual stands also a joint stand of Slovak firms, under the patronage of the Ministry of Economy, will come again to Brno. In Hall F, on the space of 100 m2, ten firms from different branches will present themselves, among others IMC Slovakia, Toma Industries, Formica or Vakuumtechnik Ecler.
Within the accompanying program of MSV 2010, the Slovak National Day will be held again incl. its traditional Press conference – on Tuesday , September 14. Other accompanying events supporting bilateral relations and the Czech-Slovak trading exchange have been prepared, too.

Austria – the partner country of MSV
Third place in the number of foreign exhibitors is taken by Austria which has been announced the Partner country of MSV 2010. Within this exclusive partnership Austria has been preparing an enormous official group stand of Austrian firms, but also a business mission of Austrian professionals and the event Austrian Showcase designed for establishing contacts among Czech and Austrian firms, in particular in environmental technologies.

In the number of individual exhibitors Italy and Switzerland follow, however, also Russia must be mentioned which has been preparing a high official participation on the space of 2000 m2. Some more official stands have been announced by France, the Netherlands, China and Taiwan which will have two stands under the patronage of the Taiwan Union of Machining Technology and the Taiwan Electrical-Technical Union.