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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, the city of Naberezhnye Chelny hosted ceremonies dedicated to the Mechanical Engineer’s Day 2019.

The festive programme began with an exhibition of achievements by Tatarstan’s mechanical engineering enterprises. A street display featured vehicles manufactured by KAMAZ, ElAZ, RariTEK, MTZ-Tatarstan, and other enterprises. At the exhibition site, MTZ-Tatarstan presented the Tractor Dance musical number for spectators: tractors of Belarus-80X and Belarus-320.4 models danced around to music. The indoor mechanical engineering display was located in the Organ Hall.

In the evening, a festive programme was organised for guests with vocal and choreographic concert numbers and speeches by official persons.

According to the event’s tradition, awards were presented to current and retired employees, labour dynasties of machine builders, and the best young engineers. The award ceremony was attended by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov, Mayor of Naberezhnye Chelny Nail Magdeyev, and other guests of honour.

In January to August 2019, the Republic’s mechanical engineering sector shipped goods, performed jobs, and rendered services in the total amount of RUB 311.1 billion (101% y-o-y).

Photo courtesy of Tatarstan Presidential Press Service

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

Today, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan hosted a meeting with OOO Danfoss on the creation of smart heating systems in Kazan and Naberezhnye Chelny. The project is being implemented in pursuance of the instruction of the Tatarstan President following his visit to Denmark in April 2019.

A fruitful joint work is currently underway between Danfoss and Tatenergo, the Tatarstan Ministry of Construction, Architecture and Housing, as well as the executive committees of Kazan and Naberezhnye Chelny. Their representatives took part in today’s discussion of the project.

At the current meeting, participants discussed the progress of the project, including the timing of installation, efficiency, and financial aspects of the issue.

A smart heating system is a set of technical solutions, including the installation of heat storage, automation and dispatching, hydraulic balancing, the use of renewable heat sources, as well as the introduction of artificial intelligence.

Thanks to the installation of smart heating systems, heat costs are reduced, energy savings are increased, optimal cost planning and fair value are provided to the consumer.

Today, the industrial zone of Naberezhnye Chelny in the Trans-Kama area saw a ceremony of laying the first stone to the construction of the TechnoGorod multifunctional centre for additional education.

The event was attended by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov, top executives of the Rostec Corporation, KAMAZ, and other officials.

The mission of the project is education as the foundation for the successful national development.

A unique centre for additional education and a set of educational sites is intended to orient children and young people towards technical education at various levels, as well as for strategic interaction of enterprises and organisations with educational institutions in the region. The project is designed to attract 2,500 young technicians to the education centre. It will comprise an educational and entertainment facility, an innovation facility, a design facility, and a research and leisure centre.

In the future, TechnoGorod should become a place for educating and training the young generation of the city, where conditions will be created for the comprehensive study of various automotive vehicles.

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, Naberezhnye Chelny hosted the Hyundai Supplier Day. The event was organised by the Tatarstan Mechanical Engineering Cluster jointly with the Samara Region Automotive Industry Cluster, with the support from the Tatarstan Ministry of Industry and Trade.

As part of the Hyundai Supplier Day, an exhibition took place dedicated to the activities of enterprises and their products.

At the event, presentations of Hyundai and company’s first-tier suppliers were made, B2B meetings with potential suppliers were held, and visits to production sites of Tatarstan suppliers were arranged.

The event was attended by executives and employees from the auto component procurement department at Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Rus, representatives of the first-tier Hyundai suppliers (Sejong, Daewon, NVH, Donghee, Mobis, Sungwoo, Yura, Doowon, Peterform, Hanil) localised in Russia, as well as representatives of the Tatarstan Ministry of Industry and Trade.

To date, Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Rus is the second largest manufacturer of passenger cars in the Russian Federation after Avtovaz. In 2018, more than 235,000 vehicles left the assembly line of its plant in St. Petersburg.