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Today, within his working trip to Moscow, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov had a meeting with Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Denis Manturov. During the meeting, some issues of region’s industrial development were discussed. Minister Manturov noted that Tatarstan is one of the most important industrial centres of our country.

The parties also touched upon the issue of increasing the amount of funding for subsidies to reimburse part of the costs of transporting products abroad pursuant to Resolution of the Russian Federation Government No. 496 dated April 26, 2017 and rendering support for republic’s enterprises from the “waiting list”.

In addition, the Minister of Industry and Trade of Russia presented the Tatarstan President a certificate for 40 Melodia brand pianos produced by Tulskaya Garmon, as well as certificates for sports equipment of domestic manufacture: two hardware and software suites “Become a Champion”, four “Wrestling” sports kits, ten “Baidarka” sports kits, 30 snowboards, and 600 hockey sticks.

Musical instruments were received within the framework of the Cultural Environment federal programme under the Culture national project, which provides for equipping children’s art schools in regions with domestically produced pianos.

By Tatarstan Presidential Press Service

On January 27, in the territory of the Volgograd Memorial in Tashkent, a commemorative action was held, dedicated to the 77th anniversary of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the Nazi siege. The action was organised by the Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Representative Office of Rossotrudnichestvo in the Republic of Uzbekistan.

The event was attended by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Uzbekistan Vladimir Tyurdenev, defence attaché of the Russian Embassy in Uzbekistan Aleksandr Zemzerov, Head of the Rossotrudnichestvo Office in Uzbekistan Mikhail Vozhdaev, diplomats of the Russian Embassy in Uzbekistan, Representative Office of Tatarstan in Uzbekistan, chairmen and activists of the Russian, Tatar, Bashkir, and Crimean Tatar cultural centres, residents of the besieged Leningrad, the public, and the media.

The procession of the ceremonial guard marked the beginning of a commemorative action, during which a flower-laying ceremony took place at the Eternal Flame and at the burial place of a capsule with earth and ashes of Uzbek soldiers brought from the Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery of St. Petersburg.

Within the event, Russian Ambassador to Uzbekistan Vladimir Tyurdenev presented commemorative medals of 75 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 to distinguished persons for their active participation in patriotic education of citizens and solving social and economic problems of WWII veterans.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov had a meeting met with Consul General of the Republic of Turkey in Kazan İsmet Erikan.

During the meeting, the parties outlined the priority areas of bilateral cooperation in the fields of manufacturing industry, trade, and economic relations.

“Today’s meeting will make it possible to find common ground in the development of cooperation between Tatarstan and the Republic of Turkey within the framework of Russian-Turkish relations. Tatarstan is always open to new projects, and we are ready to support our partners in their implementation”, said Minister Karimov.

At the end of the working meeting, the parties blueprinted the continuation of joint work and holding of additional meetings with top executives of some Tatarstan companies, such as Tatneft, TAIF, KAMAZ, and TatkhimPlast.

Today, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov had a meeting with Consul General of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Kazan Zhanbolat Murzalin.

The Consul General of Kazakhstan introduced Deputy Trade Representative of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the Russian Federation Nurzhan Sadykov, who will carry out his activities in Kazan on a permanent basis.

The parties discussed the existing formats of interaction aimed at developing bilateral trade and economic cooperation, as well as key joint projects and initiatives.

The companies of Tatneft and KAMAZ are actively working on the implementation of projects in the mechanical engineering, oil, and gas spheres in Kazakhstan. Other enterprises of Tatarstan are also interested in developing trade and economic relations with Kazakhstani partners.

The parties also positively assessed their joint work in 2020 on the supply of medicines and the sending of medical specialists from Tatarstan as part of activities to curb the spread of coronavirus infection.

In the meantime, the foreign trade turnover between Tatarstan and Kazakhstan amounted to almost USD 550 million in 11 months of 2020.

Sollers Ford received a RUB 1.14 billion investment loan from SberCIB for a project to organise full-scale production of diesel engines for Ford Transit vehicles. The bank’s funds were used to buy the production assets of the engine plant from the Ford Motor Company, which was stopped after the JV Ford Sollers business restructuring in 2019.

The plant covers an area of ​​42,600 square metres and is located in close proximity to the Ford Transit vehicle manufacturing facility. The plant is equipped with advanced hi-tech equipment that meets all the requirements of productivity, environmental friendliness and safety in compliance with the global standards of the Ford Motor Company. The production will be automated at an extremely high level (95%), which would positively affect the quality of the engines manufactured there.

Ford Transit is one of the most popular vehicles in the LCV segment. The loyalty of its customers are due to a number of vehicle’s advantages, such as quality and reliability, low cost of ownership, high level of service in an official dealer network at an affordable, one-of-the-lowest for LCVs, maintenance cost, and many others.

The Ford Transit production has been established at the Sollers Ford plant in Yelabuga using a full-cycle technology, which allows the company to offer Russian customers an up-to-date product, customised for the buyer and adapted to operate in Russian conditions, at a competitive price. Its line of basic versions includes all-metal vans, buses and chassis.

On February 12, 2021 within the Kama Industrial Forum 2021, the city of Naberezhnye Chelny will see a workshop on the implementation of actions for the Labour Productivity national project. Participation in the workshop is free.

The organisers of the workshop are the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan and the Tatarstan’s Regional Competence Centre for Labour Productivity.

The objective of the workshop is to inform enterprises about the conditions for participation in the Labour Productivity national project, the government support measures being envisaged, the results and expertise of implementing projects to increase labour productivity at enterprises.

The workshop will be traditionally attended by representatives of ministries, agencies, municipalities, enterprises, and organisations in the real sector of the economy. Speeches are expected from representatives of the Federal Competence Centre for Labour Productivity, the School of Exports at the Russian Export Centre (the Export Growth Accelerator programme), and the Russian Industrial Development Fund (concessional lending programme). At the end of the workshop, a question-and-answer session will take place, which will address the most pressing issues related to these programmes.

Within the framework of the Kama Industrial Forum, a number of annual specialised exhibitions with international participation will also took place, such as the Mechanical Engineering. Metalworking. Metallurgy. Welding, the Zakamye Power Engineering, and the Oil. Gas. Chemistry. Environment.

In 2020, the POZIS company (part of the Tecmash Concern under the Rostec Corporation) almost doubled the output of medical refrigeration equipment to combat COVID-19. The greatest demand is for pharmaceutical refrigerators and freezers, including special refrigeration units for storing blood, plasma and vaccines.

For the production of all POZIS medical equipment, all necessary technical solutions are used to meet the present-day “cold chain” requirements, i.e., the storage of drugs while maintaining constant temperature conditions and GMP standards.

Also, the enterprise has significantly increased the output of disinfecting equipment. The production of bactericidal irradiators-recirculators has increased 8.5 times.

The increase in the production and sales of disinfecting equipment became possible due to a loan received from the Industrial Development Fund under the Combating Epidemiological Diseases programme. The funds received were used to purchase materials and components for the production of bactericidal irradiators-recirculators.

Medical refrigeration and disinfection equipment is one of the main areas in the civil segment of POZIS; these are products with high export potential that include more than 160 modifications of medical devices holding registration certificates from the Roszdravnadzor. The quality level of the products meets European and international standards.

Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov had an online meeting with President of the Volga-Dnepr Group Aleksey Isaykin. The meeting was also attended by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov.

For over 30 years, the Volga-Dnepr Group has been representing Russian civil cargo aviation in the international market. The Group includes Russia’s leading cargo air carriers and also has charter transportation capabilities.

During the meeting, the parties outlined steps to further develop cooperation between Tatarstan and the Volga-Dnepr Group. In particular, they discussed the project of creating a transportation hub based on the Kazan International Airport.

Starting from today, mass vaccination against coronavirus has begun in Tatarstan.

“Anyone can get a Covid-19 vaccine after registering at a local health centre”, the press service of the Ministry of Health of Tatarstan confirmed to the Tatar-Inform News Agency.

One ampoule of the Sputnik V vaccine is intended for five people, while the expiration date after its opening is only two hours, so Tatarstan citizens should take a responsible approach to vaccination after the registration and come to the medical facility at the appointed time.

Sputnik V is a two-phase vaccine, after the first visit for vaccination one will need to come again in 21 days. If acute respiratory viral infection symptoms appear between the two phases, vaccination will have to be interrupted, so you should be doubly careful of your health.

Antibodies to coronavirus are expected to appear two weeks after the second vaccination.

More information can be found on the website (in Russian).

In the rating of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation for implementing the activities of the Targeted Support for Increasing Labour Productivity at Enterprises federal project by regional competence centres, the Republic of Tatarstan ranked among Top 3 from 26 regions of Russia. A place in the rating is assigned according to such criteria as level of satisfaction with a regional competence centre (RCC) activities, compliance with project implementation schedule, fulfilment of plans for completing projects, and the staffing level.

According to the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan, a total of 105 enterprises of the basic non-resource sectors of the economy are participants in the national project, while the target for 2024 is the involvement of 249 organisations.

The national project’s operator in our republic is the Tatarstan’s Regional Competence Centre for Labour Productivity established in 2017. The regional centre has successfully implemented more than 50 projects to increase productivity in various sectors of the republic’s economy. The RCC staff includes highly professional expert practitioners.

To conduct practical training for employees of enterprises participating in the national project in 2020, the Process Factory was created, an up-to-date training production site, where participants can gain experience in using lean manufacturing tools and study the mechanisms affecting the improvements in operational and economic performance. Some 350 employees have completed the training already.