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Today, Minister Karimov, as a member of the Tatarstan Government delegation, took part in the inauguration of a new production facility. A new Danaflex Alabuga plant was launched on the territory of the A+ Park Alabuga, the industrial park within the Special Economic Zone. The company's investment project involves the production of flexible packaging materials for food and non-food products. The output of flexible packaging is rated at 22,250 tonnes per year. Its basic consumers are expected to be food-processing industry enterprises, enterprises making personal hygiene products and household chemical goods, and industrial enterprises.

Earlier today, Albert Karimov visited the city of Mendeleyevsk, where he inspected the production site of Ammoni. Its Chief Engineer Eduard Eremeyev elaborated on the company’s production processes and outputs: ammonia, methanol, granulated urea, ammonium nitrate, and non-concentrated nitric acid. Further on, a working meeting was held with top executives of Mendeleevskazot and Ammoni. The Minister was informed about the current state of their production and economic activities, and the parties discussed the action plan to optimise operational activities in 2018-2019.

Within the framework of the visit of the delegation from the industrial enterprises of the Free State of Thuringia (Germany) on September 10, 2018, the city of Naberezhnye Chelny will host a technology workshop titled “Present-Day Technologies and Digitalisation Expertise in German Mechanical Engineering Industry. Trends of Industry’s Development: Case Study of Thuringian Companies”. The workshop will be held with the organisational support of the Tatarstan Mechanical Engineering Cluster within the framework of implementing the cooperation agreement signed earlier with the German-Russian Mechanical Engineering Centre of the KNRTU-KAI.

The delegation of the Free State of Thuringia included representatives of German enterprises involved in the mechanical engineering.

The event programme comprised round table discussions on topical issues. The workshop will end with B2B discussions between the industrial enterprises of Tatarstan and Thuringia.

In the afternoon, individual meetings and visits to industrial enterprises of Naberezhnye Chelny are planned for the delegation.

Today, the Tatarstan Ministry of Industry and Trade hosted a meeting of the working group on cooperation in the petrochemical sector between Tatarstan and Belarus. The event was attended by Deputy Minister Aleksey Savelchev, Aide to the Prime Minister of Tatarstan for Petrochemicals Eldar Adeyev, Head of the Kazan Branch of the Embassy of Belarus in Russia Oleg Isaev, top executives and representatives of major Belarusian corporations (Belneftekhim, Belorusneft, Belshina) and petrochemical enterprises of Tatarstan.

During the meeting, the parties expressed mutual interest in retaining the current volumes of petrochemical feedstock and products. The Belarusian side noted the heightened interest in deliveries of petrochemical feedstock from Tatarstan, polymers of Tatarstan-based Nizhnekamskneftekhim and Kazanorgsintez.

At the meeting, a new trend of bilateral interaction was identified. Due to the fact that Tatarstan is the leader among the Russian regions in the development of the gas-engine technology programme, the meeting participants discussed a joint approach to expand cooperation in this field.

In 2017, the foreign trade turnover between Tatarstan and Belarus amounted to over US$ 1 billion, of which imports to Tatarstan were US$ 212.2 million, and exports, US$ 835 million.

Within the days of the Tatarstan Oil, Gas & Petrochemicals Forum, September 5 saw a meeting at the Tatarstan Ministry of Industry and Trade with Director of Department for Petrochemical Industry Development and Technical Regulation at the Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan Askhat Khasenov. The meeting was attended by representatives of a number of Tatarstan enterprises, such as NIIneftepromkhim, MIRRIKO, NPF Gektor, TekhnoKhimProm, NAPOR, Proton, and others. During the meeting, the participants expressed interest in cooperation between the Republic of Tatarstan and the Republic of Kazakhstan in the area of oilfield chemicals and outlined further steps to develop relations in this area.

Today, a “Day of SIBUR’s Supplier” round table discussion was held within the framework of the business programme of the Tatarstan Oil, Gas, & Petrochemical Forum 2018. The event organised by the Tatarstan Mechanical Engineering Cluster (Naberezhnye Chelny) was attended by representatives of Tatarstan companies invited with the assistance from the Tatarstan Ministry of Industry and Trade.

At the beginning of the meeting, Deputy Minister Aleksey Savelchev noted that SIBUR was interested in working with Tatarstan enterprises also beyond the framework of the import substitution programme. For Tatarstan manufacturers, this is an opportunity to acquire new experience of cooperation with the large Russian petrochemical holding and to eventually expand their partnership opportunities, including those with European chemical companies.

At the event, representatives of SIBUR Holding presented corporate policies in the field of procurement, import substitution of materials and technologies used in the company. Senior Manager of SIBUR Holding Vladimir Kirillov said that such events were very useful for both the corporation and the manufacturers, because there was often an opinion on the market that it was almost impossible to become a SIBUR’s supplier. SIBUR is ready to bust this myth by conducting a constructive bilateral dialogue.

Today, the Congress Centre hosted the first plenary meeting of the International Applied Research Conference “Modelling Geological Structure and Development Processes as a Basis for the Successful Exploitation of Oil and Gas Fields” with the participation of Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, Head of the Federal Service for Technical, Environmental, and Nuclear Supervision Aleksey Aleshin, Deputy Chairman of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Renad Sagdeyev, President of the Russia’s Union of Oil & Gas Producers Gennady Shmal. The meeting’s moderator was Minister Albert Karimov.

“The development of the oil industry under current conditions is feasible providing that the extraction processes become more efficient… through the digitisation of oil and gas systems for data collection, transmission, data processing and monitoring and control systems, the transfer of well management operations to real time,” Minister Karimov said in his welcoming speech.

Besides, the conference dealt with oil and gas sector as a backbone for technological upgrading of the entire Russian economy and its energy security, the Digital Oilfield, and the scientific engineering. The plenary session was attended by leading scientific community experts, Russian and global industry practitioners, representatives of associations, ministries and agencies, managers and experts of enterprises.

Today, within the framework of the 6th International Metrological Conference “Topical Issues of Metrological Assurance of Discharge and Amount Measurements of Liquids and Gases” at the Tatarstan Oil, Gas & Petrochemicals Forum, Director of the All-Russian Research Institute for Flow Metering Vladimir Solovyev handed over two samples of ELMER-001 express analysers to two representatives of Rosstandart’s interregional offices for use in supervisory activities on fuel market.

The issue of quality and under-filling of the motor fuels being sold at filling stations is given much interest by both consumers and supervisory authorities, including the Federal Agency for Technical Regulation and Metrology of Russia (Rosstandart), which is responsible for compliance assurance monitoring of motor fuels.

Rosstandart plans to use express testing to monitor the quality of gasoline and diesel fuels, which would simplify and accelerate its activities. With the use of the express testing, it is possible to determine the octane and cetane numbers of a fuel, sulphur mass fraction, concentration of iron, manganese and lead within a few minutes to an accuracy of 95%. This would reduce the burden on bona fide market participants by focusing on potential violators. In addition, it would save public money, because express testing costs five times cheaper than the full-scale laboratory testing.

Today, Kazan saw the opening of one of the largest international events in the Russia’s oil and gas industry, the Tatarstan Oil, Gas & Petrochemicals Forum. The opening ceremony was attended by Head of the Federal Service for Technical, Environmental, and Nuclear Supervision Aleksey Aleshin, Deputy Minister of Energy of Russia Anton Inyutsin, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov, President of the Russia’s Union of Oil & Gas Producers Gennady Shmal, and other officials.

This year, the Forum brought together four major industry-specific exhibition projects, the International Specialised Exhibition “Oil, Gas. Petrochemicals”, the Specialised Exhibition “Eco-Technologies and Equipment of the 21st Century”, the Specialised Exhibition “GEO-Kazan: Geologic Exploration. Survey. Mapping”, and the International Specialised Exhibition of Plastics and Rubbers “Interplastica Kazan 2018”.

The Forum is attended by over 160 exhibitors from Russia and foreign countries. The exhibition displays cutting-edge technologies, innovative equipment, and latest developments by polymer companies from Austria, Holland, Italy, China, Poland, and Russia.

The business programme of the Forum is declared to be very informative. Three days will be rich in conferences, round table discussions, business meetings with participation of republic’s top officials.

On September 6, a seminar meeting will be held on the participation of Tatarstan enterprises in federal and regional industry support programmes.

The seminar will be attended by representatives of federal and regional industry support institutions who will provide information on the current major government support measures at the federal and regional levels.

The seminar meeting will take place at the Kazanskaya Yarmarka Expo Centre (Volga Conference Room, 8 Orenburgsky Trakt) on September 6, from 11.00 to 13.00. Registration of participants starts at 10.00. Representatives of enterprises from any sectors of the economy are invited to participate.