(June 8, 2017) On the occasion of the opening of the Astana Expo, which will take place from June 10 to September 10, Lombardy and its companies will be the protagonists of the "Kazakh Path", which will see the Chamber of Commerce in action with its special promos company. The Lombardy Business Package, organized by the Lombardy Region, is organized from June 16 to 21, with the participation of the vice-president of the Lombardy Region Fabrizio Sala, an internationalization path in Astana and Almaty for 22 Lombardy companies operating in the following sectors: agro-industry, machinery and equipment, metallurgy, contract, furniture and design, fashion & fashion and renewable energies. The goal of the initiative is to foster business opportunities in the Kazakh market for business, thanks to the organization of b2b meetings with local operators. The companies come from the provinces of Milan, Bergamo, Brescia, Mantua, Monza, Como and Varese. The initiative is part of the project "Accompanying routes in strategic markets for the Lombard economic system", planned by Regione Lombardia and Unioncamere Lombardia. "Kazakhstan is a land of opportunity, one of the world's emerging economies," says Fabrizio Sala, vice president of the Lombardy Region, and House, Social Housing, Expo and Internationalization of Enterprises Assessor - Between Lombardy and Kazakhstan the link starts from Expo 2015, when we held the first diplomatic meetings with the Kazakh representations and ideally will find its landing with this mission, today it is Kazakhstan to host an international exhibition. Together with China and Russia, Central Asian countries represent for us important partners with whom we can build that new silk road that will have to see in Lombardy an important actor. "For companies that will participate in the Kazakh Expo there is the opportunity to take advantage of the official platform for b2b meeting between businesses. (9colonne)

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Kazakhstan is worth more than 454 million exchanges in Lombardy in 2016, with some 174 million imports and 280 million exports. Milan alone exceeds 184 million (+ 25.7% over last year). Following are Pavia (104 million, -43.3%), Varese (41 million, + 88.9%) and Cremona (38 million, -78.1%). The biggest increases were recorded by Lodi (7 million, + 422.2%) and Varese (+ 88.9%). Among the sectors that weigh most in Lombardy in trade with Kazakhstan, we find manufacturing products (77,890,618 million imports and 280,126,744 of exports) and mining and quarry mining products (88,457,117 million of import). Among the sectors that weigh most in Milan in trade with Kazakhstan are manufacturing products (26,957,858 of import and 152,627,848 of exports) and the products of agriculture, forestry and fisheries (4,863,122 of import ). It emerges from an elaboration of the Chamber of Commerce of Milan on Istat data from 2016 and 2015.