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Today, Minister Karimov held a meeting with representatives of the V.A. Belugin Centre for Digital Economy, whose experts made presentations of their projects to increase labour productivity at enterprises in Tatarstan.

Projects under the conditional name of “Software and Hardware Package for Planning and Monitoring Production Processes” have been implemented at republic’s industrial enterprises since 2017.

Such a system helps to increase labour productivity by 20%-40% due to the introduction of digital economy elements at enterprises.

At the meeting, positive feedback was received on this programme from representatives of other republic’s ministries and agencies. In the future, it is planned to compile recommendations on the use of this system in the interests of the republic.

The V.A. Belugin Centre for Digital Economy was opened at the KNRTU-KAI in 2017. The mission of the Centre is to introduce the full life cycle system of the Digital Enterprise into the companies’ activities.

Today, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan hosted the first working meeting between Minister Karimov and Andrey Gavrilets, Director General of Lukoil-Uralnefteprodukt. The parties discussed the prospects for the development of the company’s chain of filling stations in Tatarstan.

In 2018, a decision was made to consolidate the enterprises, after which Lukoil-Permnefteprodukt was merged into Lukoil-Uralnefteprodukt. At the same time, a new regional manager, Oleg Popov, was appointed to Lukoil-Uralnefteprodukt.

The republic was visited by a delegation from the Omsk Oblast headed by its Governor Aleksandr Burkov. The delegation includes heads of relevant ministries, agencies, and a number of enterprises from the Omsk region. The main purpose of the visit is the exchange of best practices between the regions.

Minister Karimov introduced the governor with the activities of such enterprises as Eidos-Medicine, Eidos-Robotics, Zelenodolsk Shipyard, and Technopolis Himgrad. In addition, the delegation visited the IT Park and heard the presentation of the economic and investment potential of the republic at the Tatarstan Investment Development Agency.

At the end of the working day, a meeting was held with Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, after which the Agreement was signed between the Government of the Republic of Tatarstan and the Government of the Omsk Oblast on cooperation in the economic, cultural, social, and other spheres.

The Omsk Oblast is located in the south of the West Siberian Plain. The region is part of the Siberian Federal District of Russia. Its population is 1,944,225 people. Interregional trade with Tatarstan amounted to RUB 3.8 billion in 2016. In November 2019, the 16th Interregional Forum of Cooperation between Russia and Kazakhstan will be held in Omsk with the participation of the heads of states.

The renewed Ford Sollers joint venture officially launched its operations today. In the new company’s structure, the shareholders of Ford Motor Company and PAO Sollers remain partners, while Sollers is the managing shareholder with a 51% share in the authorised capital.

Ford Sollers will continue to strengthen its positions in the LCV segment with the Ford Transit model and a wide range of special and social modifications based on it.

Production of Ford Transit continues at the Ford Sollers plant in the Alabuga Special Economic Zone (Yelabuga, Tatarstan) using full-cycle technology, including welding and painting. The joint venture is planning to increase its output, which would allow Ford Transit to both maintain its leading positions among foreign brands in the Russian market, and increase its market share in the segment.

At the moment, the company is preparing for the production of an updated version of Ford Transit. At the same time, work is underway on expanding the range of specialised versions, which already comprises more than 55 modifications from school buses to ambulances and mobile stalls.

Another priority project of the Ford Sollers is the further development of vertical localisation, which provides for the organisation in Russia of the entire production chain from the extraction of raw materials to the production of finished components.

On June 29, for the first time in Kazan, the Lower Kaban Lake saw the Solar Regatta engineering competition. In total, 38 school and 7 university teams from 26 regions of Russia took part in the event.

The opening ceremony was attended by the Solar Regatta President, the Director of the National Centre for Engineering Contests and Competitions, the Vice-Principal for Research at the Kazan State Power Engineering University, and others.

During the competition, schoolchildren and students fought for such awards as “The Best Pilot”, “The Best Design Project”, “The Best Designer”, Euroclass-1 “Electric”, Euroclass-2 “Speed”, Euroclass-3 “Experimental”, etc.

On June 30, at the end of the Solar Regatta, an engineering and environmental forum “Renewable Energy in Water Transport” was held at the KSPEU. The main topics of the forum were current problems and long-term prospects for the use of renewable energy in Russia and the world, the use of solar cells in shipbuilding for sea and river transport, and engineering solutions shown by student teams at the Solar Regatta.

The Solar Regatta helps popularise engineering creativity and state-of-the-art environmental technologies, educate “future professionals” with technical competence and the ability to freely navigate the latest trends and technologies.

Dear current and retired employees of the republic’s shipbuilding industry!

On behalf of the Government of Tatarstan, I congratulate you on your professional holiday, the Shipbuilder’s Day!

In the contemporary world, the shipbuilding industry determines the national security of the state. Our shipbuilding traditions established several centuries ago are now continued by such companies as Ak Bars Shipbuilding Corporation, Zelenodolsk Design Office and others, occupying a worthy place in the shipbuilding industry of the Russian Federation.

AO Zelenodolsk Shipyard, part of the Ak Bars Shipbuilding Corporation, is one of the Russia’s largest and strategically important shipbuilding enterprises. During the years of its history, the company has built more than 1500 sea, river ships and vessels of various classes and purposes.

Professionalism and dedication to the work of each republic’s shipbuilder correspond to the best traditions in domestic shipbuilding. Through your work, you make an invaluable contribution to the socio-economic development of Tatarstan, to the country's defence and economic power.

Dear friends, on this day I wish you good health, personal and professional achievements, and family well-being!

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov

Minister Karimov visited today the Riel Engineering Group in order to study the activities of the company. The presentation was made by the company’s head Tagir Akhmetzyanov.

The group includes OOO Reell Engineering in Naberezhnye Chelny and OOO Reell Digital Technologies located in Innopolis. The company develops and manufactures software and hardware systems for Digital Production Industry 4.0+. The company provides a full range of automation services: development of design and estimate documentation, production, software development, installation, commissioning, maintenance and services.

Its portfolio includes solutions for the integrated automation of industrial enterprises at the levels of SCADA, MES, ERP, BI that covers all the processes in an enterprise: sales, design, production, operation, marketing.

It is also the developer of the SMART-CDB integration information data bus (certificate of computer programme registration No.2017615780) for bi-directional integration of enterprise automation systems.

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 saw ceremonial events dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the Nizhnekamsk Hydroelectric Power Plant. The events were attended by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov.

In honour of the round date, the commemorative stela was opened on the Gidrostroiteley Street. The monument in the form of a hydraulic turbine symbolises the labour feats of builders, installation and hydropower professionals, who participated in the HPP construction.

Also within the programme, the ceremonial meeting of the Energetik Palace of Culture took place with the participation of Nizhnekamsk HPP construction veterans. They were awarded certificates of honour, letters of appreciation, and memorable gifts. Some employees of the Nizhnekamsk HPP were also awarded the title of the Honoured Power Engineer of Tatarstan.

The Nizhnekamsk HPP is the only hydroelectric power station in the structure of Tatenergo and on the territory of Tatarstan, is part of the Volga-Kama cascade of hydroelectric power plants. This is an up-to-date high-tech company with an installed capacity of 1,205,000 kW, which is about 23% of the total installed capacity of Tatenergo. Since the start of the Nizhnekamsk HPP operation, more than 66 billion kWh of electricity has been generated. To date, a long-term programme for the hydroelectric power plant upgrade has also been developed for 2020-2049.