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Today, Minister Karimov took part in the annual General Shareholders Meeting of Kazanorgsintez dedicated to the results of 2018. The meeting was chaired by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov.
Director General Farid Minigulov reported on the company's activities in the past year. In 2018, Kazanorgsintez achieved a significant success in financial performance. Last year, revenues from marketable product sales exceeded RUB 79 billion, which is 9.7% higher than in 2017. The increase in revenues was largely due to the pricing situation on the market of polyethylene and polycarbonates.
The main sales market for Kazanorgsintez products is the domestic market accounting for 82% of revenues. In 2018, the company's products were delivered to 32 countries, the main buyers being companies from Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Belarus, China, Singapore, Lithuania, Serbia, and Uzbekistan.
Kazanorgsintez (part of the TAIF Group) is one of the Russia’s largest enterprises. It produces 40% of all Russian polyethylene and 100% of domestic polycarbonate. Its product portfolio includes polyethylene, bisphenol A, polycarbonate, and polyethylene pipes. The aggregate annual output is 1.7 million tonnes. All products manufactured by Kazanorgsintez are certified by the Gosstandard system of Russia.
Based on information by Kazanorgsintez
The Supervisory Board of the Industry Development Fund (IDF) approved the provision of loans for the implementation of nine industrial projects under various programmes: Conversion, Leasing Projects, Digital Industry, and Components.
Under the Components programme, a loan was approved to the Tatarstan-based KamEnergoMash (KER-Holding), with which the company is expected to launch the production of components for gas turbine units in Nizhnekamsk.
“We are confident that the IDF support and the development of such Russian enterprises are extremely important both for the region and for the industry in general,” company’s Director Andrei Melnikov said.
A concessional loan at 1% granted by the Industry Development Fund will be used to expand the production of domestic products within the framework of import substitution programme. According to the company’s information, foreign manufacturers now occupy 53% of the Russian market. In particular, the company will produce blades and disks for turbines and compressors, gearboxes, body elements. These are spare parts for gas turbines of Russian and foreign origin. The total project cost is RUB 529 million, of which RUB 398.9 million can be provided by the IDF as a concessional loan.
On the second day of the “Days of Tatarstan in Bashkortostan”, after the opening of the monument to Tatar poet Gabdulla Tukai and a visit to the Ufa State Oil Technical University, a Tatarstan-Bashkortostan business forum was held.
According to Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, the Days of Tatarstan in Bashkortostan cover a wide range of cooperation areas, from official contacts and business partnerships to a variety of humanitarian ties. In turn, acting Head of Bashkortostan Radiy Khabirov noted that many Bashkortostan enterprises are active today in interaction with Tatarstan companies. Significant inter-municipal projects are being implemented; the Bashkortostan and Tatarstan chambers of commerce and industry successfully work together. In addition, the forum dealt with the tourism potential of the two republics. At the end of the event, several sectoral agreements were signed and nine thematic round tables were held in various areas.
Bashkortostan is a strategic partner of Tatarstan with the interregional trade of over RUB 34 billion. Partnerships with their Bashkortostan peers are being successfully developed by some Tatarstan enterprises: Tatneft, KAMAZ, TAIF, TANECO, NEFIS, agricultural companies and many others. In particular, TANECO has introduced technologies developed by the Bashkortostan Petrochemicals Institute.
Based on information by Tatarstan Presidential Press Service
The PD Tatneft-Alabuga Fiberglass company launched an upgraded glass melting furnace for the production of continuous fiberglass.
A concessional loan for this project in the amount of RUB 441.51 million was provided by the Industry Development Fund (IDF) of the Russian Federation under the Development Projects programme. The total investment amounted to RUB 883 million.
Within the framework of the project, process equipment was purchased for the retrofitting of the glass melting furnace. The glass furnace upgrade would raise output by 32%, expand the range of products, and increase export sales.
PD Tatneft-Alabuga Fiberglass, a plant for the production of fibreglass and fibreglass-based products, was built as a joint project between Tatneft and the Preiss-Daimler Group of Germany, which specialises in fibreglass production. The company designs, develops, manufactures and sells fibreglass products under international standards, which is confirmed by ISO 9001: 2015 certificates.
Since the launch of its glass fibre production process in November 2010, the plant has been one of the largest fibreglass manufacturers in Russia.
Based on information by Tatneft and IDF press services
The Expert Council of the Industry Development Fund, based on the opinion of the Federal Centre of Competencies in the Field of Labour Productivity (FCC), approved the first concessional loan in the amount of RUB 80.5 million to OOO Tasma from Kazan as part of the national project titled “Labour Productivity and Employment Support”. The total project cost is RUB 151.4 million.
With the help of the IDF loan, the company plans to increase labour productivity by 25% due to the retrofitting of the barrier film production line and the introduction of new types of packaging products to the market.
The Increasing Labour Productivity programme by IDF, as one of the measures for supporting national project participants, is aimed at increasing labour efficiency in industrial enterprises by optimising the production system and increasing the efficiency of using domestic resources. Within the programme, the IDF issues loans of RUB 50 to 300 million for up to 5 years at 1% per annum. A total project budget starts from RUB 62.5 million, and co-financing by an applicant, from 20%.
A prerequisite for obtaining a target loan is the conclusion of the FCC that the company sufficiently uses internal reserves, and a further increase in labour productivity requires the attraction of additional investment.
Based on information by Tasma and FCC press services
Today, a meeting was held at the Idea Technopark on implementing the construction project of a salmon fish factory. The event was attended by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov, Director General of Idea Technopark Oleg Ibragimov and representatives of Norwegian delegation: Trade Counsellor at the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Moscow and Innovation Norway's Country Director for Russia Frode Mo, Marine Director at the University of Bergen Amund Maage, Head of Innovation Norway Foundation Hans Nugard, and Counsellor for Education, Research, and Technology at the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Moscow Radina Trengreid.
The project titled “Organisation of Atlantic Salmon Production in Closed-Circuit Water Supply Installations Rated at 3,000 Tonnes a Year” is designed for an annual capacity of 10,000 tonnes. The project’s total cost is estimated at EUR 85 million.
After the meeting, the Norwegian delegation attended the plenary session of the 16th All-Russian Young Scientist Conference “Food Technology and Biotechnology”.
Within the framework of the Republic’s Council on Reproduction of Aquatic Biological Resources and Aquaculture Development in Tatarstan, it is planned to create a state-of-the-art fish industry with an output of 40,000 tonnes of fish products by 2030. This area will be developed through creating the Aquaculture Technopark.
Based on information by Idea Technopark Press Service
Within the framework of the Unified Military Goods Commissioning Day, the Kazan Helicopters of the Russian Helicopters Holding (part of Rostec Corporation) transferred five Mi-8MTV-5-1 military transport helicopters to representatives of the Russian Defence Ministry. Kazan Helicopters expects to transfer another batch of five rotorcraft to the Ministry of Defence before the end of the year.
During pre-acceptance testing and acceptance procedures, the Military Representative Office conducted QA tests of build quality and component manufacturing and assembly quality. The finished helicopters were inspected in the final assembly workshop to check the installation and operating capacity of on-board systems. Tests were also conducted at a flight testing facility.
The Mi-8MTV-5-1 military transport helicopter, supplied to various power structures of the Russian Federation, belongs to the Mi-8/17 family and is designed to carry up to 4 tonnes of cargo and equipment. The helicopter can also fly search-and-rescue missions and carry out a number of specialised tasks. The cockpit includes lighting systems specially adapted to allow the use of night-vision goggles, enabling the helicopter to fly in hours of darkness at low and extremely low altitudes, and to land on and take off from unprepared sites.
Based on information by Kazan Helicopters - Russian Helicopters Holding
On April 15, 2019, the annual All-Russian No-Turnstile Week campaign started in Tatarstan as part of the “Year of Blue Collar”. The campaign is a set of actions aimed at improving career guidance, awareness of activities in major Russia’s enterprises and promoting engineering trades and specialties that are in demand in industries.
On Monday, the Alnas plant was visited by schoolchildren of the Almetyevsk Municipal District from Secondary School No. 11 and Ursalinskaya Basic School. At the plant, they were given a tour of the production workshops and the educational building of the Tatarstan’s College of the Future. Each of the students could try themselves in the role of welders, electricians, and programmers.
At the Continuing Professional Education and Industrial Training Centre of the Kazan Powder Plant, a meeting was held for 5th-year students of the Chemical Plant Equipment Chair at the KNRTU Institute of Chemical Engineering and Technology.
The students were addressed by the Chief Engineer, the head of the Personnel Policy Department, workshop supervisors, and the head of the Experimental Mechanical Section. Heads of the Kazan Gunpowder Plant divisions told students about promising areas of product development, specific features of work, social benefits for employees. The speakers shared their experience of the benefits of employment at the plant. For illustrative purposes, students were shown videos about factory life.
Today, a bilateral meeting was held between representatives of the Tatarstan Ministry of Industry and Trade and a commercial and industrial company from the Hunan Province of China.
The meeting chaired by Deputy Minister Ildar Mingaleyev was attended by top executives of Zhongfa Military-Financial Holding, a representative of Kazan Helicopters Marat Kiyamov, a representative of Tatarstan in China Marcel Gilyazov, and experts from the Ministry.
The parties discussed cooperation opportunities with enterprises of the Tatarstan’s civil aviation industry.
On April 12, 2019, the Pioneer Industrial Park in Nizhnekamsk saw the opening ceremony of the OOO Kamastal, a Russian-Chinese plant for the galvanised rolled steel painting. The event was attended by First Deputy Prime Minister of Tatarstan Rustam Nigmatullin.
Kamastal is a resident of the Nizhnekamsk Priority Social and Economic Development Area and manufactures products under the Roskamastal brand.
Production facilities of Kamastal meet all present-day requirements, they are equipped with the latest continuous painting process monitoring system that makes it possible to maintain high level of product quality at all times. One of the partners of Kamastal is China-headquartered Haier Group, which supplies steel for bodies of household appliances.