MECHEL HAS ATTENDED METAL EXPO’ 2010 ANNUAL EXHIBITION
Moscow, Russia – November 15, 2010 - Mechel OAO (NYSE: MTL), one of the leading
Russian mining and metals companies, has participated the 16th International
Industrial Exhibition Metal-Expo’ 2010, which was held at the All-Russia
Exhibition Center in Moscow on 9-12 November, 2010.
600 organizations from Russia, CIS, Europe, South-Eastern Asia, Middle East and
USA – from 30 countries in general, took part in the traditional forum of
steelworkers. More than 3 thousand company representatives operated at
exhibition. Their show-benches visited  about 23 thousand managers and
specialists from different spheres of industry. More than 40 conferences, round
tables, seminars and presentations were held within its framework.
Andrey Dementev, deputy minister of industry and commerce of Russian Federation,
opened the exhibition. After that Andrey Deineko, CEO of Mechel Steel Management
Company, turned to  the audience with his speech of welcome. He noted that the
year that has elapsed since the previous exhibition was very successful for
Mechel as its metallurgical enterprises succeeded to reach a pre-crisis
production level and some of them even exceeded it.
The integrated corporate booth of Mechel presented the production of the Group’s
subsidiaries, including Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant OAO, Izhstal OAO,
Beloretsk Metallurgical Plant OAO, Urals Stampings Plant OAO, and Vyartsilya
Metal Products Plant ZAO. The representatives of Mechel OAO steel division
(Mechel Steel Management Company OOO) as well as representatives of subsidiaries
from Mechel Service Global, an international steel trading holding, including
Russian Sales Network Mechel Service OOO, served the exposition booth. At least
120 Mechel’s representatives worked at the exhibition.
Exhibition visitors paid particular attention to such products as hardware,
rolled and flat steel, forged and stamped products.
The company was awarded a diploma for professional presentation of services and
goods and a cup for the best exposition.
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Mechel OAO
Ekaterina Videman
Tel. + 7 495 221 88 88
ekaterina.videman@mechel.com
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Mechel is one of the leading Russian companies. Its business includes four
segments: mining, steel, ferroalloy and power. Mechel unites producers of coal,
iron ore concentrate, nickel, steel, ferrochrome, ferrosilicon, rolled products,
hardware, heat and electric power. Mechel products are marketed domestically and
internationally.
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forward-looking statements regarding future events or the future financial
performance of Mechel, as defined in the safe harbor provisions of the U.S.
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. We wish to caution you that
these statements are only predictions and that actual events or results may
differ materially. We do not intend to update these statements. We refer you to
the documents Mechel files from time to time with the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission, including our Form 20-F. These documents contain and
identify important factors, including those contained in the section captioned
“Risk Factors” and “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements” in our
Form 20-F, that could cause the actual results to differ materially from those
contained in our projections or forward-looking statements, including, among
others, the achievement of anticipated levels of profitability, growth, cost and
synergy of our recent acquisitions, the impact of competitive pricing, the
ability to obtain necessary regulatory approvals and licenses, the impact of
developments in the Russian economic, political and legal environment,
volatility in stock markets or in the price of our shares or ADRs, financial
risk management and the impact of general business and global economic
conditions.