EcoLinks Trade and Investment Bulgaria

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EcoLinks Trade and InvestmentBulgaria
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Summary of Activities

• Finding business opportunities for U.S. companies
• Facilitating environmental business partnerships
• Preparing market analyses and reports
• Organizing trade missions, trade shows and
  seminars in the US and in Bulgaria
• Facilitating Trade Investment Quick Response
  Awards of 5000
• www.ecolinks.org

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Forming the partnership

• Forms of partnerships
• purchase distributorship joint venture, etc.
• Gold Key Service, List of Contacts, Trade
  Missions, etc.
• EcoLinks Partnership Mission into Bulgaria, April
  2003
• Global Technology Network and EcoLinks
• QRA

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Trade missions, trade shows and
seminars

• EcoLinks Business Delegations
• EnviroExpo, May 7-10, 2002, Boston, MA
• Waste Expo, May 21-24, 2002, Las Vegas, NV
• Air and Waste Management Association Exhibition,
  June 23-27, 2002, Baltimore, MD
• WEFTEC, Sept.28-Oct.2, 2002, Chicago, Il
• ExIm Bank Finance Seminar, Budapest, September
  2002
• EcoLinks Alliance Meetings in the US and Bulgaria
• Participation in environmental finance seminars
• Catalogue shows in parallel to major trade shows
  in Bulgaria

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The Process of Quick
Response Awards

• Identify environmental projects
• Identify Bulgarian or US Partners through GTN,
  Tech Reps or the EEC
• Submit QRA application (approval in 2 weeks)
• Meet potential partners

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Quick Response Awards

• Manti Co. - Cytec Industries, Inc.
• Korabno mashinostroene - Bergey Windpower
• Prochema - Spectro Inc.
• Plobo - Active Catalysis Technologies
• Municipality of Montana - M3 Engineering
  Technology Corp.
• Simpo - Renu, etc.
• ET Georgi Kirov - Halliant

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Successes

• Success stories - worth of 8,300,000
• Montgomery Watson Harza (MWH)- Navan Mining Plc
• MWH - Umicore
• M3 Engineering and Consulting - CGS Consulting
• Bergey Windpower - Korabno mashinostroene
• Cytect Industries, Inc. - Manti Co.

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Partners in Bulgaria

• Ministry of Environment and Water
• Ministry of Regional Development Public Works
• Ministry of Energy Energy Resources
• Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
• Bulgarian Industrial Association
• Industry Associations
• Association of Municipalities
• EcoLinks Network

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Subsectors that offer the greatest
trade and investment opportunities
for US firms

• Energy saving equipment for industry and
  municipal purposes
• Recycling and waste utilization
• Wastewater and drinking water treatment,
  including equipment for detecting leakages of
  drinking water
• Solid and hazardous waste collection, disposal
  and treatment
• Renewable energy sources
• Clean production technologies

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Trade Leads

• Zoohraninvest Ltd. - wind generator with a
  capacity of 100 KW/per hour.
• Production of Wood Pellets in Chepelare
• Municipality of Sofia - Municipal Waste Treatment
  Project
• Magi-Mg - Treatment Technologies for Alkaline
  Waters
• Maritsa East Mine - Mining Water Treatment
• Natural Product 2000 Ltd. - Reverse Osmosis
  Equipment

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Trade leads

• ISPA/European Union Projects
• Construction of waste water treatment plants and
  landfill construction tenders
• Construction of municipal landfills
• World Bank/GEF Projects
• Wetland Restoration and Pollution Prevention
• Forest Development Project

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Contacts

• Stanislava Dimitrova
• Technology Representative
• EcoLinks Program
• Commercial Service
• US Embassy
• 1, Saborna St.
• Sofia 1000
• Tel. [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• E-mail stanislava.dimitrova_at_mail.doc.
  gov