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Today Andrey Fyodorov, Head of the Corporate Department at the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan, visited contest venues of the Governor’s Aircraft Building College in Komsomolsk-on-Amur in the Prototype Modelling skill.

Representatives of 42 constituent entities of the country (152 contestants, 127 experts, about 50 accompanying teams, 16 certified and technical experts of the Young Professionals Union) gathered at the Governor’s Aircraft Building College. The qualifying rounds are held here in 3 skills: CNC Milling, CNC Turning, and Prototype Modelling.

Participants in all categories will compete in the main age category of 16 to 22 years old and in the Junior category of 14 to 16 years old. Juniors aged 12 to 14 will also take part in the Prototype Modelling contest.

Semi-finals will be held in 31 regions of the Russian Federation in 135 skills of WorldSkills and 81 skills of WorldSkills Junior, where more than 80 regions will take part. Tatarstan will be represented in 117 skills of WorldSkills and 72 skills of WorldSkills Junior.

A regular meeting of the Supervisory Board of the Innopolis Special Economic Zone was held today by President Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov. The event took place in the House of Tatarstan Government.

As Rustam Minnikhanov noted, this is the second meeting of the Supervisory Board this year. He said that today Innopolis has created 3,900 jobs, 107 residents and 26 partner companies are operating, and 76 start-ups are being implemented. According to him, new projects to create innovation infrastructure are also being implemented at the site of Innopolis SEZ and there are plans for further housing construction.

At the meeting, projects of 11 companies were approved with a total investment of over RUB 3 billion. Residents and partners will create over 400 highly skilled jobs.

Tatarstan’s Deputy Prime Minister Roman Shaikhutdinov said that the Innopolis Special Economic Zone has been showing stable growth in terms of key indicators year after year. At year-end 2020, the revenue of residents and partners cumulatively totalled RUB 23.1 billion, which is 53 per cent more than in 2019, investments were RUB 28.7 billion (up 65 per cent), and tax payments totalled RUB 4 billion (up 67 per cent). It is important that Innopolis has started diversification by sectors and is actively developing not only the IT sector, but also medicine and manufacturing industry. This will give an impetus for a new round of Innopolis SEZ development.

A regular meeting of the Board of Directors of Tatenergo chaired by Ildar Khalikov was held today via video conferencing. The meeting summed up the results of the current heating period.

In particular, it was noted that the preparations for this period ensured a stable power supply to businesses, social facilities, as well as the population in Tatarstan. The minimum temperature peaks were passed reliably and there were sufficient capacity reserves.

The number of accidents at the equipment of Tatenergo power plants decreased from 33 to 26 in the heating period of 2020-2021; the total damage rate of company’s heat networks decreased from 300 to 294 cases. At the same time, it should be noted that in Naberezhnye Chelny and Nizhnekamsk the number of ruptures increased; the overall reduction was made possible by the programme implemented in Kazan to switch over apartment buildings to individual heating substations.

Chairman of the Board of Directors Ildar Khalikov noted that the company successfully coped with the issues of heating period. “Today, we don’t have to rush things as we did years ago, the company now works as planned”, he said. But this does not mean stopping to seek for solutions to modernise the heating plants. Only modernisation would eventually preserve the principle of reasonable tariffs and make it possible to cut payments for heat resources consumed.

A concert dedicated to the 135th anniversary of great Tatar poet Ğabdulla Tuqay was held on 26 April, 2021 in the auditorium of the Committee for Interethnic Relations and Friendly Ties with Foreign Countries under the Uzbekistani Cabinet of Ministers. The event was timed to coincide with the Year of Native Languages and National Unity in Tatarstan.

Welcoming speeches and congratulations were given by Head of Spirituality and Education Department at the Committee for Interethnic Relations and Friendly Ties with Foreign Countries Abdurakhim Nurmurodov, employee of the Rossotrudnichestvo Office in Uzbekistan Andrey Krasilnikov, Adviser to the Representative Office of Tatarstan in Uzbekistan Nariman Karimov, Chairman of the Tatar Public Cultural and Educational Centre (TPCEC) in Tashkent Rishat Nabiullin, Chairman of the TPCEC Council of Elders Rim Giniatullin. Nariman Karimov read out an address of Tatarstan President Minnikhanov on the occasion of the Day of Native Languages and the 135th anniversary of Ğabdulla Tuqay.

The event featured video flash mobs with representatives of Tatar communities from around the world, children and adults, including those from the city of Tashkent. A video of students of the Academy of Public Administration under the Uzbekistan President reciting poems by Tuqay in Russian and Uzbek was also shown.

At the end of the event all the participants performed “Tugan Tel”, a song by Tuqay.

POZIS, part of the Tecmash Concern under the Rostec Corporation, has increased its output of refrigeration equipment by 50% in the 1st quarter of 2021 compared to the same period last year.

As part of the production diversification, the company is confidently mastering and producing new hi-tech household and medical refrigeration equipment, thus increasing its production output.

One of the company’s latest developments is a POZIS RK FNF-173 refrigerator with Full No Frost system and electronic control panel. The advantage of this appliance is its cooling system avoiding formation of ice and frost on the walls of the freezing chamber. Besides, the electronic control panel located on its door allows controlling the operation of the refrigerating and freezing chambers without opening the door. The appliance has some additional operating modes: Vacations, Energy-Saving, and Freezing. The time and temperature values are shown on the panel’s display module. The refrigerator is equipped with an open door alarm and enjoys a high energy efficiency class.

POZIS is one of the leading companies in the Russia’s defence industry in terms of development of its hi-tech export-oriented civilian production. Over 90% of its civilian output is domestic, medical, and special-purpose refrigeration equipment.

The OOO Agro-Industrial Company Food Programme has launched a Labour Productivity national project. At the end of February 2021, the company signed an agreement with the Tatarstan’s Regional Competence Centre.

The AIC Food Programme is engaged in dairy cattle breeding and is part of the RM AGRO agro-industrial holding, which was established in 1998. Currently, the holding includes a complex of enterprises engaged in fodder production, cattle breeding, and marketing of dairy and meat products under the RM brand. The company’s operations are based on the principles of environmental friendliness and full quality control of products at all production stages. Technologies based on Israeli herd management systems and feed centre systems are used. The combination of present-day devices and software makes it possible to guarantee the production of natural raw materials of the highest grade.

Tatarstan’s RCC experts will soon begin training the working group and managers of the company in the basics of lean production, project implementation techniques, as well as basic tools (5C, Production Analysis, Mapping, and Standardised Work).

Within the framework of the project, optimisation of the pilot flow is planned at the AIC Food Programme with the application of lean production methods and tools, training and internship of enterprise employees, and formation of a project office.

Kazanorgsintez and NextChem, jointly with MET Development, daughter companies of Maire Tecnimont S.p.A., have signed a Memorandum of Understanding concerning the joint development of a new biodegradable polymer plant in Tatarstan. The project will make use of know-how by NextChem and capabilities of MET Development.

Under the agreement, Kazanorgsintez and Maire Tecnimont Group will jointly assess and analyse the potential of building a biopolymer plant in Tatarstan. Maire Tecnimont Group will provide technological solutions and the best know-how for project development and implementation, building on its project portfolio. NextChem is ready to provide its know-how and to assist in the execution of the front end engineering design (FEED), engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) of the production facilities.

Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. heads an industrial group that is a global market leader in natural resources processing (oil and gas plant design, ownership of technology, expertise, and know-how). Its subsidiary NextChem operates in the area of green chemistry and technology for energy supply strategies.

Kazanorgsintez (part of the TAIF Group) is one of the largest polyethylene producers and the only polycarbonate manufacturer in Russia. It is the only Russian member of the international PE100+ Association.

Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov had a meeting today with Governor of Magadan Oblast Sergey Nosov. The meeting was held on the sidelines of the Tatarstan International Forum for Energy Efficiency and Ecology held at the Kazan Expo site.

The meeting discussed the prospects for the comprehensive development of interregional ties, including the expansion of the volume and range of mutual supplies, as well as the strengthening of humanitarian relations.

Rustam Minnikhanov presented Sergei Nosov with a medal “100 Years of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic”.

An Agreement was also signed today between the Government of the Republic of Tatarstan and the Government of the Magadan Oblast on trade, economic, scientific, technology, social, and cultural cooperation.

A meeting of the Tatarstan Government dedicated to the implementation of the programme “Energy Saving and Energy Efficiency in Tatarstan” on the results of 2020 and the tasks for 2021 was held today at the site of the Kazan Expo International Exhibition Centre.

Chaired by Prime Minister of Tatarstan Aleksey Pesoshin, the meeting was attended by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Mikhail Ivanov and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov.

The meeting addressed issues of improving energy efficiency of the republic’s economy, development of power engineering in Tatarstan, development of the Russia’s NGV fuel market, as well as formation and implementation of governmental policies in the field of power engineering in Russia.

Rustam Minnikhanov underlined that a number of innovative energy projects are currently underway in Tatarstan, including hydrogen, CNG, and electric vehicles.

Speaking at the meeting, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov reported that the republic’s GRP energy intensity dropped by 5% in 2020 compared to 2019.

At the end of the meeting, Prime Minister of Tatarstan Aleksey Pesoshin awarded the winners of national contests for energy saving and energy efficiency.

The Tatarstan International Forum for Energy Efficiency and Ecology was opened today at the Kazan Expo Exhibition Centre. The opening ceremony was attended by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, Russia’s Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Mikhail Ivanov, Prime Minister of Tatarstan Aleksey Pesoshin, and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov.

The Forum’s programme includes a number of events on energy efficiency, development of large and distributed power generation, market development of gas motor fuel, application of alternative energy sources, digitalisation in energy sector, and hydrogen power.

The Tatarstan President and other guests toured the 21st International Specialised Exhibition entitled “Energy. Resource Saving” organised as part of the Forum. More than 80 Russian companies presented their state-of-the-art materials, equipment, and technologies ensuring efficient and safe operation of energy sector enterprises.  Rustam Minnikhanov visited the stands of the Tatarstan Grid Company, Tatenergo, Tatenergosbyt, Tatneft, TAIF, Gazprom LNG Technologies, RariTEK, NTC UES and other companies in the sector. 

Also on the sidelines of the Forum, a cooperation agreement was signed in the presence of the Tatarstan President between MTS Entertainment and Kazan Expo. The parties agreed to cooperate on the strategic development of concert activities.