The U.S. Department of Commerce's Global Environmental Team organized a 9-company trade mission to Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey October 1-5, 2007.

Highlights of this intensive week-long program included over 175 one-to-one meetings in the three countries, roundtable meetings with federal and municipal environmental-related government officials, and country market briefings. High-level networking events included a Consul General-hosted dinner in Turkey with the Mayor of Istanbul and senior level-Ministry and Municipal officials, and impressive U.S. Ambassador-hosted receptions in Romania and Bulgaria that offered the U.S. companies important visibility and excellent business contacts in each country. Informal feedback from the trade mission participations indicates a very high-level of satisfaction with all elements of the program. Company representatives universally reported strong distributor, partner and end-user leads in each country.
U.S. companies participating in this trade mission included: BioMicrobics (KS), Coler & Colantanio (MA) Environmental Products Company -ENVIPCO (CN), George Failing Co. - GEFCO (OK), Froehling and Robertson (VA), ITT (NY), MIOX (NM), Severn Trent Services (PA), and Zoeller (KY).