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Today, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov visited the new production site of divinyl styrene synthetic rubber (DSSR) with a capacity of 60,000 tonnes a year and styrene-butadiene-styrene thermoplastic elastomers (TPE) at Nizhnekamskneftekhim.

DSSR has attractive properties for tyre manufacturers. Application of DSSR in tyre production allows achieving the increase of its service life, better grip on wet, icy roads, and fuel economy. Another new type of polymer to be produced at the plant is styrene-butadiene-styrene thermoplastic elastomers (TPE). These products are used as additives for asphalt concrete pavement and roofing materials.

The Tatarstan President toured the DSSR production site. State-of-the-art technologies in line with international standards of industrial and environmental safety were used in the construction of the new production line. The production line has an up-to-date air emission purification unit at the rubber extraction phase - this additional measure enables preventing the emission of pollutants into the air.

The opening ceremony was attended by TAIF’s Director General and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Nizhnekamskneftekhim Ruslan Shigabutdinov, Chairman of the Management Board of SIBUR Holding Dmitry Konov, and Director General of Nizhnekamskneftekhim Ayrat Safin.

Today, a launch ceremony was held at the TANECO refinery complex in Nizhnekamsk to put into operation a catalytic cracking unit, a hydrogen plant, and an oil production unit. The event was attended by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov and Director General of Tatneft Nail Maganov.

Total investments in the three new facilities exceeded RUB 31 billion. When erecting the new facilities, Tatneft secured orders for the plants in nearly twenty Russian cities: in Kazan, Bugulma, Saint Petersburg, Ufa, Izhevsk, Volgograd, Yekaterinburg, Taganrog, etc. The equipment used is 95% domestic-made.

President Minnikhanov noted that today TANECO continues to develop hi-tech projects. Then he presented a number of government awards of Tatarstan. After that, Rustam Minnikhanov visited the new production facilities.

Since 2010, a total of 21 units have been put into operation at TANECO, the designed capacity of the oil refining complex is more than 15 million tonnes a year.

Nail Maganov thanked the Republic’s leaders for the support in implementing new projects. He said that four more new plants are slated to open this year.

Earlier, the President also toured the construction site of the second delayed coking unit. The unit capacity is 2 million tonnes a year. The new project will increase the oil refining volume to 15.3 million tonnes a year with a residual-oil-free production.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan, in accordance with Clause 3 of the Procedure for Including Businesses in the List of Organisations Related to Retail Trade, as approved by the Resolution of the Tatarstan Cabinet of Ministers No.  298 dated April 30, 2021 “On Measures of Government Support for Producers of Sunflower Oil and White Sugar” announces the selection of businesses for the inclusion in the list of organisations related to retail trade.

Selection period: from 09.00 on May 17, 2021 till 18.00 on May 26, 2021 inclusive.

Contacts: The Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan: Office 316, 4 Ostrovsky St., 420111, Kazan, Irina.Shevyakova@tatar.ru

To participate in the selection, the selection participant shall submit an application in the form containing, inter alia, information that the participant meets the criteria, the participant’s consent to the publication (placement) in the Internet telecommunications network of information about the participant, about the application submitted by the participant and other information about the participant, related to the selection, as well as to the processing of personal data (for individual entrepreneurs).

The Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan shall issue an order approving the list of organisations no later than 7 working days after the information on the selection results is posted on the official website of the Ministry of Industry and Trade in Internet.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation has made an additional selection of Russian organisations for the right to receive subsidies from the federal budget for financial support of research and development activities in the field of electronics manufacture (hereinafter, “the selection”, “the subsidy”) in accordance with the Rules for Granting Subsidies from the Federal Budget to Russian Organisations for Financial Support of Research and Development Activities in Electronics Manufacturing Means approved by Resolution of the Russian Federation Government No. 2136 dated 16 December 2020.

The aim of the subsidy is to stimulate Russian electronic industry companies to develop and produce means of production, materials, and CAD to achieve the indicator of the Share of Radio Electronics Products Manufactured in the Russian Federation in the Total Volume of the Domestic Radio Electronics Market set by the Development of Electronic and Radio Electronic Industry government programme.

The result of granting the subsidy are sales of electronics production means created under the project exceeding in monetary terms the volume of the federal budget funds allocated for the project implementation by not less than 15 per cent.

Contact person for questions related to this selection is Yelizaveta Sheina, consultant of the Department of Radio Electronics at the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade, Tel.: +7(495)870-29-21 (ext. 22987), Email: sheinaep@minprom.gov.ru.

The Kazan Giproniiaviaprom joined the Labour Productivity national project in March 2021. The project is being implemented with the support of experts from the Tatarstan Regional Competence Centre.

At present, the second phase of the Labour Productivity project, Diagnostics and Planning, is being implemented by the company.

Using the Mapping tool, the current, ideal, and target value stream maps have been developed and digitised. Mapping is a key tool for visualising and analysing material and information flows, identifying losses and potential for improvement in the process. Properly conducted, mapping provides an opportunity to visually see and understand how the process works, where value is created, and where losses occur.

The current state map created by the working group with the support from the Tatarstan’s RCC experts shows the associations between all of the elements in the office process, the problems, and areas for improvement.

The working group also created a map of the process target state - it compares the opportunities of the office process identified during the analysis with the needful requirements for maximum efficiency of the processes.

In the process, primary problems are collected. A problem is an obstacle on the way to achieving the target, a discrepancy between the current state and the target one.

Today, within the framework of the KAZAN DIGITAL WEEK’2021 forum, a presentation webinar was held on the topic “Digital Industry 4.0: Government Support Measures for Digital Initiatives”.

The speakers at the online event were Head of the Digital Transformation Department at IT-Park Anna Baranova, and Head of the Projects Group at Alabuga SEZ Danila Voronin.

The main topics of the webinar were the importance of implementing digital technologies in corporate production and management processes, as well as the existing government support measures for the implementation of digital initiatives to companies.

To view the presentation webinar and to learn more about government support measures for digital initiatives, please follow this link (in Russian).

On May 31, 2021, the State Procurement Committee of Tatarstan, with organisational support from the Tatarstan Procurement Development Centre, will held the workshop meeting for republic’s customers on the topic: “Changes to the Legislation on the Contract System and Procurement of Goods, Works, and Services by Individual Types of Legal Entities in 2021”, including that by means of live broadcast.

At the workshop meeting, representatives of the State Committee and the Procurement Development Centre will act as experts. The participants to the meeting will be able to ask questions to experts and get necessary explanations.

In view of the above, please assist in informing the corporate customers on the planned workshop and inviting their employees responsible for procurement (not more than two persons) to participate in this event or by joining to watch the live broadcast via https://youtu.be/HogGQBC2u0c (in Russian).

Time and venue of the workshop meeting is 31 May 2021, 10:00-14:55, Tatarstan Academy of Sciences, 20 Bauman St., Kazan.

Applications for participation in the workshop meeting are accepted by e-mail: edu.crz.rt@tatar.ru with note “For workshop on 31.05.2021” till 12:00 of May 28.

For questions related to the organisation of the workshop meeting, please contact: +7(843) 212-28-20 (19).

A presentation webinar entitled “Digital Industry 4.0: Government Support Measures for Digital Initiatives” will be held as part of the KAZAN DIGITAL WEEK’2021 international forum on 25th May at 10:00 a.m.

The implementation of digital technologies in the production and management processes of a company is essential to ensure the company’s operations in the long term.

In the upcoming webinar, the speakers will discuss the existing government support measures for the implementation of digital initiatives at companies.

Webinar Speakers:

Ms Anna Baranova, Head of Digital Transformation Department at IT Park

Mr Danila Voronin, Head of Alabuga SEZ Project Group

Moderator:

Mr Timur Samatov, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan

The webinar is co-organised by the IT Park State Autonomous Institution.

Participation is free of charge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyaQXQ9BabI

On May 21, 2021 a team of scientists from the Institute of Language, Literature, and Arts of the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences arrived in Tashkent, with the assistance from the Representative Office of Tatarstan in Uzbekistan, to study applied folk arts of Uzbekistan. The tour included visits to artisan workshops and museums in the cities of Tashkent, Samarkand, Shakhrisabz, Bukhara, Urgench, Khiva, and Nukus.

The delegation included Senior Researcher at the Department of Fine and Applied Arts Lyudmila Shklyaeva, Olga Ulemnova, and Natalya Gerasimova. The project team of scientists is the recipient of the Algarysh grant from the Tatarstan Government. The purpose of this scientific tour is to study the experience in the preservation of applied arts and crafts of the peoples of Uzbekistan and the identification of their interrelationship with the art of the Tatar people.

Upon arrival, a meeting was held with Aydar Ahtareev, Representative of Tatarstan in Uzbekistan, during which areas of cooperation were identified and opinions were exchanged. The participants noted the importance of establishing close cooperation with the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Tourism and Sports of Uzbekistan and Uzbek scientists, including activists of Tatar public cultural centres.

The delegation will stay in Uzbekistan until June 4. At the end of the visit, Tatarstan scholars plan to issue relevant publications.

Every year on June 22, on the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow, the day on which the Great Patriotic War began, a nationwide moment of silence is announced at 12.15 Moscow time.

It was in these minutes in 1941, that the citizens of the Soviet Union were officially informed of the attack on the country by Nazi Germany and declared the beginning of the Great Patriotic War.

A moment of silence is a reminder to the world of the aggression against our country and of the unbreakable will and courage of our multinational people, who did not submit to fascism and gave the world victory in the Second World War. It is a symbol of common and eternal national memory and mourning for all those who perished and all the victims of fascism, connecting generations in rejecting aggression and Nazism, defending universal human values and educating present and future generations in the tradition of good and justice and the values of peace and friendship.