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The Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan hosted today the meeting of the Supervisory Board of the Kazan Expo International Exhibition Centre.

The meeting was attended by Chairman of the IEC Supervisory Board, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov, Minister of Land and Property Relations of Tatarstan Fanil Agliullin, Head of the Tatarstan Investment Development Agency Taliya Minullina, and Director General of Kazan Expo IEC Robert Minnegaliev.

The participants to the meeting discussed the key results of financial and economic activities, outlined priority areas for further development, as well as ideas for new projects planned for holding on the territory of the Kazan Expo IEC.

In Naberezhnye Chelny, the Tehnotron Industrial Trade and Financial Company launched a new facility for the production of interior, exterior parts, and automotive components for KAMAZ, GAZ, and other automakers.

With the attraction of loans from the Industrial Development Fund, the company has established the production of exterior and interior parts for new KAMAZ trucks of K5 series: front bumpers, facing panels, and dashboards. The production capacity is 40,000 sets per year. The full-scale deliveries of products are scheduled for 2021.

The company has also expanded the production of other auto components such as viscous couplings of various modifications, traction couplings, and fifth wheel couplings. Their output exceeds 15,000 parts per year. The products are intended for trucks of KAMAZ, GAZ, Ural, and Daimler plants operating in Russia.

Earlier, the IDF provided the company with two preferential loans totalling RUB 272 million under the Component Products programme at 1% per annum in the first three years and 5% for the remaining term of the loan. The aggregate investment in the new production facilities exceeded RUB 400 million.

The IDF resources were used to purchase up-to-date equipment, including injection moulding machines for plastic products, a high-duty robotic painting line, as well as a robotic line for the manufacture of dashboard parts from soft polyurethane foam.

Today, a press conference was held on the premises of the Tatar-Inform Agency within the framework of the all-Russian MediaTEK event to summarise the results of the fuel and energy sector in 2020 and determine its tasks for 2021.

The event was attended by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov, Director General of Tatenergo Rauzil Khaziev, Director General of TGC-16 Eduard Galeyev, Technical Director of Tatarstan Grid Company Ilshat Galimzyanov, Director of Tatneft Department in Kazan Damir Mukhametshin, Director of the Regional Dispatching Office of UES in Tatarstan Andrey Bolshakov, Director of the Tatarstan Centre for Energy Saving Technologies Marat Akhmerov, Director of the Department for Development and External Relations at the Kazan State Power Engineering University Emil Shamsutdinov, etc.

As part of the event, an award ceremony took place for the winners of the 6th All-Russian Contest for the Media, Energy Sector Press Services, and Regional Administrations. Journalists involved in covering the activities in the Tatarstan’s fuel and energy sector were also encouraged. In the category “New Energy for the Country and Fuel and Energy Sector Development” among the regional media, the Realnoe Vremya Internet newspaper was recognised as the best. The special prize of the MediaTEK-2020 Expert Council “For Many Years of Work with Children to Foster a Caring Attitude towards Energy” was awarded to Tatenergosbyt, while the “Best Corporate Media” title was awarded to Neftyanye Vesti newspaper of Tatneft.

Today, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan hosted a regular meeting of the Tatarstan Committee to Combat Illicit Trafficking in Industrial Products. The Committee considered the issues of introducing packaged water marking, the self-checking procedures for product safety using the registers of the Federal Service for Accreditation, as well as the Committee’s action plan for 2021.

In order to counteract the circulation of counterfeit packaged drinking water, an experiment on its marking by identification means (in accordance with Russian Government Decree No. 348 of March 27, 2020) is being conducted in Russia. The marking experiment will last until March 1, 2021. This will be followed by a transition period when connection to the marking system will be voluntary. After that, marking will become mandatory for all producers, importers, and retailers.

Mrs. Yulia Danilina, Head of the Volga Federal District Office of the Federal Service for Accreditation made a presentation on the self-checking procedures for product safety using the RusAccreditation registers. She also noted that starting from January 1, 2021 the certification bodies will no longer be able to register declarations of conformity in a single register. Then it will only be possible to apply for registration of the declaration with the use of the RusAccreditation’s FSIS system.

At the end of the meeting, the members of the Tatarstan Committee to Combat Illicit Trafficking in Industrial Products approved an Action Plan for 2021.

POZIS (part of the Tecmash Concern under the Rostec Corporation) has completed the construction of a new logistics centre with advanced technologies for the shipment, storage, and transportation of household appliances. The warehouse’s area of ​​over 15,000 square metres will allow storing about 40,000 large household appliances on a single site at the same time.

The logistics hub was built within the investment programme approved by the Rostec Corporation for the comprehensive production development of household and medical refrigeration equipment jointly with Novikombank.

The key advantage of the new centre is the introduction of a digital WMS (warehouse management system). It will allow regulating the reception, processing, and shipment of products, but most importantly, it will streamline the work of personnel in various areas and effectively distribute the scope of responsibility.

POZIS is one of the most successful companies not only in the Rostec Corporation, but in the country’ defence industry as well, which systematically implements a diversification programme, while competing with leading foreign companies. Each year, in cooperation with the Russian Export Centre, it builds up its exports of household appliances and medical refrigeration equipment.

The grand opening of the logistics hub is scheduled for early next year.

Within the framework of the Ten Days of Disabled People held each December in Tatarstan, the Good Deeds Marathon took place in Yelabuga. This annual charity event has become a tradition in the city. The mission of the Marathon is to help children in need of support and treatment. The Yelabuga Palace of Culture bring together schoolchildren, students, veterans, deputies, entrepreneurs, heads of city’s enterprises and institutions, and families with disabled children.

Representatives of the Kastamonu company, which traditionally supported the Good Deeds Marathon, presented money certificates to families in need. In addition, the children received medicines, medical equipment, musical instruments, sports equipment, bicycles, and many other necessary things from various benefactors.

Recently, Kastamonu has also supported the Give Warmth charity event, which aims to help the Vernost animal shelter. The shelter is currently a home for over 150 dogs. Pets need help every day, and on the threshold of the coldest time of the year, the shelter especially requires assistance with insulation and repairs.

The company takes part in charity events on a regular basis. Earlier, it joined the all-Russian Circle of Life environmental campaign by donating over 600 kilograms of recyclable materials and allocated funds for the purchase of seedlings for the Green Square in Yelabuga. This October, during the Ten Days of the Elderly, its employees handed over food packages to veterans and pensioners of the Yelabuga District.

On December 21, 2020, the Zainsk District saw a ceremonial event of opening four state-of-the-art automotive natural gas filling stations, which will be operated by drivers of Aktanysh, Zainsk, Menzelinsk, and Nurlat districts. The ceremony was attended by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov, Minister of Transport and Roads of Tatarstan Farit Khanifov, heads of Zainsk, Menzelinsk, Aktanysh, and Nurlat districts.

In addition, the event was attended by Deputy Head of Gazprom’s Department 308 Andrey Savin, Director General of Gazprom Gazomotornoye Toplivo Timur Soin, Director General of Gazprom Transgaz Kazan Rustem Usmanov, and Director General of RariTEK Holding Rafael Batyrshin.

As a result, the republic’s territory today hosts 28 NGV filling stations and 1 mobile gas filling station in the in the Mendeleyevsk Municipal District.

The development of CNG filling infrastructure in Tatarstan is carried out within the framework of the national Energy Development Programme and the Tatarstan government programme entitled “Construction of NGV Filling Stations in Tatarstan in 2019–2023”.

In 2020, due to the current epidemiological situation in Tatarstan, the All-Russian Festival of Energy Saving and Ecology #VmesteYarche (Brighter Together) was held in the format of a social campaign from August to October 2020.

As part of the #VmesteYarche campaign, the following events were held in Tatarstan: events dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, the 100th anniversary of the GOELRO plan, the 100th anniversary of the TASSR; “Dialogue among Equals” production meeting of young employees; the All-Russian Energy Saving and Ecology Week; thematic events in educational institutions; tours of fuel and energy sector companies and of the KSPEU’s Energy Saving Centre; the #VmesteYarche Energy Quiz; participation in the All-Russian federal contests timed to coincide with the #VmesteYarche festival.

In 2020, social campaign events in support of the #VmesteYarche festival were held in 27 municipal districts of the republic, covering 146 schools and 27,659 schoolchildren, 5 universities and more than 1,000 students of secondary vocational and higher educational institutions, and 6 fuel and energy sector companies.

The festival has been held since 2016 with the support from the Ministry of Energy of Russia, the Ministry of Youth of Russia, the Ministry of Education of Russia, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russia and is aimed at popularising energy saving and respect for nature and trades in the fuel and energy sector, with an aim of building an energy efficient way of thinking in general public.

Zelenodolsk Shipyard is the leading shipbuilding company of our country. This was said today by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov at a ceremonial event dedicated to the 125th anniversary of the Zelenodolsk Shipyard n. a. Maxim Gorky.

Before the ceremony, President Minnikhanov visited the exhibition of the republic’s defence industry companies and reviewed the main groups of their products.

Festive events took place at the Volga shipbuilding facility. While congratulating the staff on this date, Rustam Minnikhanov stressed that the team of the Zelenodolsk Shipyard is currently implementing important State tasks, including export ones.

According to Deputy Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation Aleksey Krivoruchko, Zelenodolsk shipbuilders always take thorough and efficient approaches to their work and results.

“The Navy receives excellent combat units with up-to-date architecture and formidable weapons. May the ships serve long for the glory of our Fatherland and the Navy”, said Commander-in-Chief of the Navy Nikolay Yevmenov.

As part of the ceremony, Rustam Minnikhanov presented Tatarstan awards to the employees who made a significant contribution to the company’s development. Also, the “100 Years of the TASSR” medal was awarded to Russian Deputy Defence Minister Aleksey Krivoruchko and Navy Commander-in-Chief Nikolay Yevmenov.

Until February 1, 2021, all participants in the turnover are required to mark their inventory balances not sold before January 1, 2021. Starting from January 1, 2021, the circulation of unmarked light industry goods will be prohibited.

The following light industry goods are subject to mandatory marking by means of identification: garments (including work clothes) made of natural or composite leather; blouses (knitted or crocheted) for women or girls; coats, short coats, capes, raincoats, jackets (including ski ones), windbreakers, storm jackets, and similar products; bed linen, table linen, toilet and kitchen linen.

Background information on the marking of light industry goods can be found on the official website of the Chestny Znak marking information system at https://chestnyznak.ru/en/business/projects/light_industry. Contacts of Information Centre and Technical Support: E-mail: support@crpt.ru, Tel.: +7 (800) 222 1523.

For more details, please see the Goods Marking and Traceability Section on the official website of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia at https://minpromtorg.gov.ru/activities/markirovka (in Russian).

As part of the information campaign, training is underway on the chestnyznak.ru website for participants in the circulation of goods subject to mandatory marking.

For more details on the webinar programme, please follow the link (in Russian).