Today, the city of Naberezhnye Chelny hosted the official ceremony of opening the hi-tech industrial park by Haier with its Russia’s first washing machine factory.
The ceremony was attended by Presidential Envoy to the Volga Federal District Igor Komarov, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, Chairman and CEO of Haier Group Zhang Ruimin, Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov, and Mayor of Naberezhnye Chelny Nail Magdeyev.
The Industrial Park is expected to host hi-tech enterprises manufacturing Haier household appliances, a research and development centre, as well as a logistics terminal for exporting finished products to European countries.
Haier’s production facilities will include the production of washing machines, TV sets, refrigerators and freezing equipment, electric kitchen equipment, plants for processing sheet metal and making foam plastic parts, and others.
The Industrial Park area is 1,277,300 square metres. It is planned to attract $1 billion in investment and create 5,000 jobs.
The washing machine factory is the second enterprise of the Chinese corporation in Tatarstan (in 2016, a refrigeration equipment factory was opened).
Based on information by Tatarstan Presidential Press Service