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March 10, 2010, Wednesday 07:58 GMT

The 7th Moscow International Chemical Summit will take place at the Renaissance Moscow Hotel on 18-19 March 2010. The event is supported by the Moscow city government, Russian Chemists Union, Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. The two-day conference is organised by the RCC Group consulting company.
The International Chemical Summit is the main forum of the Russian chemical and petrochemical industry. Every year the summit brings together about 200 heads of major Russian chemical companies and foreign delegates.
For more information on the conference, visit the summit website at www.chemsummit.ru
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