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In the period from September 9 to September 12, 2019, the Kazanskaya Yarmarka Exhibition Centre will host the 14th International Foundry Congress and the Casting 2019 International Exhibition.
The event is organised by the Russian Foundry Association, the Tatarstan Government, the Tatarstan Republic’s Branch of the Russian Foundry Association with the support from the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation.
The eventful programme of the congress comprises plenary sessions and sectional meetings. The sections will be organised in three areas:
Section No. 1: Foundry alloys;
Section No. 2: Production of moulds and cores;
Section No. 3: Special types of castings.
In addition, the congress participants will have an opportunity to visit the production sites of such industrial enterprises in Tatarstan as KAMAZ, Zelenodolsk Shipyard, and Kazancompressormash.
The official opening of the 14th International Foundry Congress will be held on September 10 at 9:00. We invite all foundry experts to participate!
More details can be found at the link (in Russian).
Today, the Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure in Kazan hosted the #VmesteYarche 2019 festival of energy conservation and respect for nature in the format of a citywide family holiday.
In the Park, visitors of all ages could attend entertainment thematic zones devoted to the issues of rational energy consumption and careful attitude towards resources. These are venues with intellectual games, children’s master classes, performances, a spectacular dance battle, as well as “Boulevard of Energy Efficient Technologies” display, photo exhibitions of the 100th anniversary of GOELRO and WorldSkills.
At the entrance to the Park, a presentation of gas engine vehicles took place, both cars (Lada Vesta and Lada Largus) and trucks and agricultural machinery (racing KAMAZ-Master, Belarus tractors) were exhibited. On-site experts advised all interested in acquisition of gas engine vehicles and conversion opportunities.
The Festival opening ceremony was marked by a flash mob with the participation of employees of energy companies and students. In addition, Leroy Merlin and Megastroy trading companies organised points for exchanging traditional light bulbs for LED ones on the territory of the Festival.
The Festival brought together more than 15,000 people and ended under the light of city lanterns and the music of young performers.
The TANECO Complex saw an on-site meeting of the Council for Head Experts of Oil Refining and Petrochemical Enterprises. The event was attended by instrument and environment engineers of major Russian oil, chemical, and gas companies.
The participants to the meeting were shown the key production facilities of the Complex; special attention was paid to environmental facilities.
The treatment facilities of TANECO attracted the most interest among the guests. As of now, these are one of the most advanced WTFs in Russia’s oil refining industry. In some indicators, the efficiency of wastewater treatment is 99.9%. The guests also commended the environmental monitoring system, in which stationary sources of pollutant emissions are equipped with automatic measuring and accounting devices.
At the sectional sessions of the meeting, information was provided on the development of oil and gas refining sector at Tatneft, as well as on the introduction of digital technologies at TANECO. During the meeting, head ecologists and metrologists exchanged work experience, discussed problems, as well as ways to solve them.
Based on information by Tatneft press service
On September 5, Kazan saw a meeting of the Board of Directors of Nizhnekamskneftekhim chaired by its Chairman of the Board and Director General of TAIF Ruslan Shigabutdinov.
According to the agenda, the meeting dealt with the company’s interim accounting (financial) statements for 6 months of 2019, as well as the implementation of the capital investment plan and the financing of capital investments in 2019.
In the first half of the year, revenues amounted to RUB 90,563 million. Compared with the corresponding last year’s period, the growth was RUB 3,059 million.
During the meeting, members of the Board of Directors also considered and approved changes to the capital investment plan and capital investment funding by Nizhnekamskneftekhim in 2019.
Based on information by Nizhnekamskneftekhim press service
This was announced today at a press conference by Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Almaz Khusainov.
“This year, we have prepared a specialised exhibition of gas engine technology, where everyone can ask all questions of interest on converting vehicles to more environmentally friendly gas fuels”, Almaz Khusainov said.
“The #VmesteYarche Festival, which will take place on Saturday, is a kind of focal point for the annual work of teaching reasonable energy consumption”, noted Aydar Sagetdinov, Chairman of Youth Union of Tatarstan’s Enterprises and Organisations.
So, youth leaders go to schools and talk in classes about the correct energy consumption, open days are organised for students at enterprises, companies conduct lessons on ecology and energy security, including those in children’s summer camps.
On September 7 from 11.00 to 20.30, residents and guests of the city will enjoy entertaining intellectual games and sports, the “Boulevard of Energy Efficient Technologies” exhibition, children’s thematic master classes and performances, a family sports festival, a spectacular dance battle, and an action to exchange traditional incandescent lamps for energy-saving ones.
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.
On September 4, 2019, the Kazan Helicopters of the Russian Helicopters Holding (part of the Rostec Corporation) marks the 79th anniversary since its founding.
In honour of this event, over 90 factory workers were awarded with certificates of appreciation and gratitude from the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia, the Tatarstan Cabinet of Ministers, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan, the Rostec Corporation, the Russian Helicopters Holding, and the Federal Service for Military Technology Cooperation.
The birthday of the enterprise is considered to be September 4, 1940, when the Leningrad Aviation Plant No. 387 was established. With the outbreak of WWII, it was evacuated to Kazan and merged with the local factory of transport parts No. 169. During the war, the plant manufactured about 11,000 Po-2 light night bombers.
The turning point in the plant’s history was the start of production of the first domestic mass-produced helicopter Mi-1 in 1951. But a company’s brand identity is the legendary Mi-8/17, one of the most numerous helicopters in the aviation history, which is produced even today and is operated in 92 countries throughout the world.
Since 1997, the Kazan Helicopters has been certified as a helicopter developer: serially produced Ansat light twin-engine helicopter recently marked 20 years since its first take-off on August 17, 1999.
Based on information by Russian Helicopters Holding
A meeting with representatives of X5 Retail Group was held today by Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov.
GR Director of X5 Retail Group Aleksandr Ilyin spoke about the company’s activities in the republic.
X5 Retail Group is one of the Russia’s leaders in multi-format grocery retail area. It manages the stores of several retail chains: “corner stores” under the Pyaterochka brand, Perekrestok supermarkets, Karusel hypermarkets, and convenience stores under the Perekrestok Express brand. Today, there are 661 Pyaterochka stores, 15 Perekrestok stores, and 5 Karusel stores in Tatarstan.
Aleksandr Ilyin also noted that projects are currently underway for the construction of two X5 Retail Group distribution centres in Novaya Tura (Zelenodolsk District of Tatarstan) and in Yelabuga (territory of the former Yelabuga Airport).
The company also participates in the “Made in Tatarstan” programme, when locally manufactured goods are specially marked on the shelves, and signs in stores are accompanied by wordings in the Tatar language.
Representatives of X5 Retail Group shared their experience from other regions of the country. In particular, Moscow region features an active development of online commerce, cashless sales, and a kitchen factory project (ready-made meals).
On September 3, a visiting workshop meeting entitled “Features of Federal Supervision in the Construction of Chemical and Petrochemical Complex Projects” took place on the premises of the TANECO Complex.
The meeting was attended by Deputy Head of the Federal Service for Environmental, Technology, and Nuclear Supervision (Rostekhnadzor) Aleksandr Trembitsky, Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov, Head of the Volga Regional Division of Rostekhnadzor Boris Petrov, Deputy Director General for Capital Construction of Tatneft Nikolay Glazkov, managers and experts of Rostekhnadzor from a number of Russian regions, and others.
A tour was organised for the guests to key TANECO facilities, both operating and under construction, so that representatives of the supervisory authority were able to gain an insight into a complete oil refining chain and inspect industrial, fire and environmental safety systems in place at the TANECO complex.
The participants to the meeting discussed the problems encountered during the construction and operation of hazardous facilities, and exchanged their experience.
Acting Director General of TANECO Aydar Khismatullin shared company’s expertise in the commissioning of completed construction projects.
Based on information by Tatneft press service
A pilot project for heating system diagnostics using robots will be implemented in Tatarstan. This was announced at the Tatarstan OG&P Forum’2019, where industrial safety and reliability of operation has become one of the key topics.
Aimed at reducing the risk of energy sector accidents, an agreement was signed in the presence of Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov between Tatenergo and Energobezopastnost Research and Engineering Centre, as well as a quadripartite agreement between the Energoprogress Engineering Centre, Energobezopastnost, the St. Petersburg State University, and OOO Device Engineering. Based on these documents, the companies will conduct diagnostics of Tatenergo heating networks using a robotic complex.
A similar technology has been successfully applied in oil industry; however, it will be its first use in the heat supply area. This domestically developed solution enable a heat supply company to schedule repair work in a timely manner and to significantly reduce its costs. For highly deteriorated networks, the use of this technology becomes especially relevant, industry experts say. A pilot project based on this solution is expected to be implemented in Tatarstan with subsequent replication of this experience in other regions of Russia.
Based on information by Energoprogress Engineering Centre