NEWS
At the final meeting of the Expert Council of the Industry Development Fund, a number of loans were approved for the implementation of projects in Tatarstan.
With the aid of a RUB 500 million loan, Coşkunöz Alabuga will launch, in the territory of the SEZ Alabuga, a workshop with progressive and transfer stamping lines for import substitution of stamped parts for car chassis of AutoVAZ and other automakers. These parts are intended for the new unified platform of Lada and Renault cars. The project involves the introduction of new technology for stamping chassis, axles, and suspension parts on progressive and transfer stamping lines, as well as an arc bending technology.
The Plant of Brake Mechanisms from Naberezhnye Chelny will expand, using a loan of RUB 104.5 million, the production of brake pads for trucks. The company will acquire equipment that would make it possible to manufacture brake pads with a special cataphoretic coating. It is resistant to physical and chemical impacts and lasts eight times longer compared to traditional coatings.
The company intends to export about 15% of its products to European manufacturers of truck components, and sell them as spare parts in the secondary market. The remaining products are planned to be sold on the Russian market.
Based on information by IDF press service
The Expert Council of the Industrial Development Fund (IDF) approved a loan to the Transport Electrical Equipment Plant (Naberezhnye Chelny) under its Components programme.
Using a loan of RUB 464.1 million, the Transport Electrical Equipment Plant plans to upgrade and expand the production of EDU-133PCh electric motors for diesel locomotives. The production cost of the electric motors will be 25% lower than foreign ones and 7% lower than their domestic counterparts. The total project budget is RUB 590.3 million, of which RUB 464.1 million will be provided by IDF as a soft loan.
An increase in the supply of Russian electric motors would result in the substitution of imported products. According to the company, imported products currently account for 70% of the annual demand in Russian Railways. The implementation of this project would reduce it to 30%.
The EDU-133PCh electric motor is designed for shunting diesel locomotives used at short distances within the depot or on industrial sites.
Based on information by IDF press service
Today, a workshop was held for the industrial community of the republic, at which they talked about the current measures of government support and market support tools. The meeting was chaired by Deputy Minister Almaz Khusainov.
One of the key tools is being implemented through the Industrial Development Fund (IDF). Currently, the IDF is funding investment projects under the “Development Projects” and “Component Products” programmes.
In turn, representative of IT Park Tatyana Igumentseva spoke about measures to support enterprises provided for by the federal project “Digital Technology” of the national programme “Digital Economy of the Russian Federation”.
Vladislav Burdikov from the Tatarstan Centre for Energy Saving Technologies, which is a regional centre of competence, spoke about ongoing work with enterprises to implement the national project “Labour Productivity and Employment Support”.
The national project “International Cooperation and Exports” is another federal project being implemented by the Ministry of Industry and Trade from 2019 to 2024.
Several experts presented the range of existing measures of financial support from government and existing market tools for the development of enterprises. In addition, experts gave explanations on investment agreements in manufacturing industry and on benefits of leasing programmes.
Today in Naberezhnye Chelny, the KAMAZ Press and Frame Plant launched a new line for the production of aluminium fuel tanks, which is intended to replace the supplies of imported tanks from Austria. The ceremony was attended by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, Director General of the Rostec Group Sergey Chemezov, Deputy Prime Minister Albert Karimov, and other officials.
Before the launch of the new line, Russia has no facilities for the production of aluminium fuel tanks that would meet the quality and capacity requirements of KAMAZ, so the company purchased these products abroad. In 2017, KAMAZ decided to set up its own facilities for the aluminium fuel tank production. In 2018, the Industry Development Fund (IDF) supported the company’s project by providing the manufacturer with a loan under the Component Products programme.
Within this project, KAMAZ began producing aluminium fuel tanks with a capacity of 200 to 800 litres. The new production’s output is 35,000 tanks a year. However, the line is universal allowing the production of both aluminium and steel fuel tanks.
Earlier, the IDF granted the company a preferential loan for the purchase of new equipment. The total project budget was RUB 544 million, of which RUB 230 million is an IDF loan.
An important project for KAMAZ and the region has become the 150th production project launched with the involvement of a IDF loan.
Today, the Alabuga Special Economic Zone saw the grand opening of a state-of-the-art August Company facility for the production of chemical plant protection solutions that are beyond compare worldwide. The opening ceremony of the August-Alabuga plant was attended by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia for Agro-Industrial Complex, Natural Resources and Environment Aleksey Gordeyev, and Deputy Minister Aleksey Savelchev from the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan. The honoured guests also include representatives of relevant ministries from Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan and heads of major August Company partner enterprises, and other officials.
Construction of the facility began in 2016; the plant received a certificate from the Rostekhnadzor in May 2019. In addition to August, the construction investor was the Industry Development Fund, which provided a loan of RUB 500 million.
The production output of the August-Alabuga plant is 50 million litres of finished products and 8 million cans of plastic packaging per year. The company boasts of advanced equipment and has a high degree of automation. The plant will apply the clean production method, also used in the cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries.
The August-Alabuga facility will produce herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, disinfectants in liquid form, as well as multi-layer high-strength polymer cans with a capacity of 5 and 10 litres with an internal protective layer for packaging plant protection products.
The Expert Council of the Industry Development Fund (IDF) approved 5 projects in the Tver and Vladimir regions, and in the republics of Tatarstan, Udmurtia, and Mordovia. The total amount of IDF loans will be RUB 652 million, and the aggregate cost of the projects will amount to RUB 1.82 billion.
A RUB 26.5 million loan was approved for OOO Saturn from Tatarstan. Saturn is planning to lease the NH615 Nedschroef cold forming machine allowing the company to produce hardware – screws, bolts, shafts – in complicated shapes. After putting the new machine into operation, the capacity will increase from 40 to 240 pieces per minute.
The main customers of the company are manufacturers of electric locomotives, refrigeration equipment, defence and construction companies, automotive industry. The total project cost is RUB 98.5 million, of which RUB 26.5 million can be provided by the IDF as a loan to pay part of the advance payment under the lease agreement.