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Saturn engineering company from Naberezhnye Chelny specialises in the production of building accessories since 1991. The company occupies a leading position in the country in the manufacture of accessories for doors and windows: handles, hinges, opening devices, etc.
In December last year, the company became one of the participants in the Labour Productivity and Employment Support national project. With the support of experts from the Federal Competence Centre (FCC), the company optimised the manufacturing process for door hinges of the STN-0611 type. These hinges are designed for the installation of aluminum profile doors and are the most demanded product of its production line.
The FCC experts, together with company’s employees, succeeded to increase the production output on the line. So, over the past six months, one employee of the company began to produce 29% more sets of hinges, 83 sets instead of 64 per day. At the same time, a set of such fittings is now manufactured in 8 days, or 43% faster. Prior to the project, this process took 2 weeks.
The achieved effect is the result of well-coordinated work of the FCC experts and the employees.
The national project was approved by the May Decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2018 and is designed to create conditions for a 5% annual increase in labour productivity throughout the country by 2024.
On September 9 at 11:00, participants of the 100% Tatarstan online event at the 100tatarstan.com website will be able to exchange views and receive valuable knowledge and advice from experts in the field of international cooperation.
As part of the event, a panel discussion entitled “Open to the World: Impact of External Relations of Tatarstan on Socio-Economic Development” will take place on the 100% Tatarstan platform, which will be attended by Aide to the Tatarstan President Gazinur Bakirov, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov, and head of the Tatarstan Investment Development Agency Taliya Minullina.
There will also be a presentation dedicated to the work of the Tatarstan’s representative offices. The participants will include Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan German Lerner, Plenipotentiary Representative of Tatarstan in Kazakhstan Denis Valeyev, Representative of Tatarstan in Finland Albina Rakhimullina, and Permanent Representative of Tatarstan in St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region Renat Valiullin.
In addition, within the framework of 100% Tatarstan event, the audience will be addressed by the governors of St. Petersburg, Moscow, Sverdlovsk and Nizhny Novgorod regions, as well as the head of Bashkortostan.
Anyone from all over the world can participate in the forum. One can connect to the broadcast or study the event’s programme at www.100tatarstan.com.
Today, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov and Russian Minister of Energy Aleksandr Novak took part in a ceremony dedicated to the launch of the Zainsk GRES (district power plant) upgrade. A new 850-MW CCGT unit will be built near the Plant, which will significantly increase the efficiency of the GRES.
Rustam Minnikhanov thanked the country’s leaders for supporting the project to upgrade the power plant. “This is a very important project not only for the energy sector of the republic, but also for the energy system of our entire country”, the Tatarstan President stressed.
He said that the retrofitting of the Zainsk GRES will give a significant economic effect. The project will reduce the cost of electricity for consumers in the first price zone of the wholesale market by RUB 7 billion per year through increasing the supply of cheap energy to the market.
Minister Novak noted that Zainsk GRES is a backbone power plant for the united energy system of the Middle Volga region. He stressed that over the past 5 years, the average consumption of electricity in Tatarstan has been growing by 2.5% annually, which is higher than the national average (1%).
The contract for the design, procurement and construction of the 850-MW CCGT unit was signed between Tatenergo and the Turkey-headquartered Enka in July this year. The retrofitting is planned to be completed in 2025.
On September 8, 2020, the Korston Hotel & Mall hosted the General Election and Reporting Meeting of the Tatarstan Association of Enterprises and Industrialists (a regional association of employers).
The Meeting was attended by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, Prime Minister of Tatarstan Aleksey Pesoshin, Chairman of the Tatarstan State Council Farid Mukhametshin, Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov, Mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin, and other distinguished guests.
Director General of Tatarstan AEI Aleksey Pakhomov made a report on the work of the Association in 2017-2019 and its tasks for the coming period. He summed up the results of the Association’s three-year activities and recalled that this year marks its 30th anniversary.
Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov addressed the participants of the meeting, positively assessing the activities of the Tatarstan Association of Enterprises and Industrialists and wishing it to continue making a significant contribution to tackling problems of the republic’s socio-economic development.
Rustam Minnikhanov expressed gratitude to the managers who, in a difficult epidemiological and economic situation, kept jobs and did not allow mass layoffs, were able to avoid large foci of the disease at their enterprises thanks to caring attitude for their teams.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan informs that a procedure in the State Information System of Manufacturing Industry (GISP) was launched for public discussion of the list of types of technologies recognised as state-of-the-art technologies in order to conclude special investment contracts (SPICs).
A SPIC is an agreement between an investor and the state, which fixes the obligations of investors and the obligations of the Russian Federation, a constituent entity of the Russian Federation, or a municipality.
The goal of a SPIC is the introduction of state-of-the-art technology that allows the manufacturing of products that are competitive on the world level.
Public discussion is carried out from September 2, 2020 to September 16, 2020.
All registered GISP users can take part in public discussions at http://gisp.gov.ru/svrmntech.
To view and, if necessary, submit proposals for the declared state-of-the-art technologies, please follow the link: https://gisp.gov.ru/svrmntech/pub/app/search.
More details can be found in the attached instructions at https://gisp.gov.ru/documents/12957421.
Ruslan Maksudov, Director General of Tatspirtprom, introduced today the new director of the White Kremlin brewery to the staff. It was 33-year-old Ildar Zalakov, who has been working in the top management of the Tatspirtprom Company since 2015.
After graduating from the Kazan Financial and Economic Institute, he worked in the administrative sector at the Tatarstan Office of the Federal Antimonopoly Service and the Republic’s Agency for Press and Mass Communications.
Marina Grishina, who has combined the plant manager’s post with the position of chief brewer for six months, will continue her work at the enterprise.
The ceremony of introducing the director of a Russia’s largest brewery was also attended by Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov and Head of the Chistopol Municipal District Dmitry Ivanov.
The White Kremlin Brewery, branch of Tatspirtprom, celebrated its second anniversary in August 2020. The portfolio of the brewery includes 25 brands. In addition to its own products, the company produces beer from a Bavarian licensor. The company’s products can be seen at large federal and local trade chains in more than 60 regions of Russia. The beer is exported to Belarus, Armenia, Estonia, and other neighbouring countries. Tatspirtprom makes a significant contribution to the republic’s budget. For 2 years, more than RUB 3 billion was transferred to the budget of Tatarstan as excise taxes.
A ceremony of launching the high-pressure gas pipeline GDS N2 “Yelabuga Central - Nizhnekamskneftekhim” took place today. The event was attended by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov, Mayor of Nizhnekamsk Aydar Metshin, and other high-ranking guests.
The new high-pressure pipeline from Yelabuga city to Nizhnekamskneftekhim with a length of 30 km was laid in 17 months. The construction cost totalled RUB 4.3 billion including VAT. The commissioning of this gas pipeline became the final stage in a large-scale project of the TAIF Group to improve the reliability of gas supply to the group’s enterprises located in the Nizhnekamsk Industrial Hub.
The new gas pipeline will ensure the supply of the necessary additional volumes of natural gas for the development of enterprises in the Nizhnekamsk Industrial Hub in the amount of up to 4 billion cubic metres per year.
In 2025, compared to 2009, the planned consumption of natural gas by enterprises of the TAIF Group in Nizhnekamsk will almost triple. The commissioning of this pipeline enable the Group to continue the further development and retrofitting of energy, petrochemical and oil refining units located in Nizhnekamsk and, at the same time, by excluding fuel oil, to improve the ecosystems in the Lower Kama National Park and the overall ecology of Nizhnekamsk and Yelabuga districts.
On September 18, 2020, the city of Ryazan will see the Interregional Forum entitled “Development of Industrial Clusters and Technoparks: Reboot".
The event is held by the Government of the Ryazan Region and the Agency for the Development of Production Systems and Competencies with the support from the Association of Clusters and Technoparks of Russia.
As part of the Forum’s programme, a discussion of issues will be held aimed at strengthening sectoral and interregional cooperation, as well as the role and place of industrial infrastructure in the implementation of national projects.
The Forum is held in compliance with all epidemiological regulations and recommendations of the Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare.
Registration of participants is carried out on the website http://forum-rzn.ru until September 08, 2020.
The contact person for the Forum: Deputy Head of the Cluster Development Centre at the Agency for Development of Production Systems and Competencies Vyacheslav Podkovyrov, Tel.: +7 (4912) 600-506, E-mail: clastery62@mail.ru.
The Kazan Helicopters of the Russian Helicopters Holding (part of the Rostec Corporation) was visited today by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, Russian Minister for Civil Defence, Emergency Situations and Disaster Relief (EMERCOM), Colonel-General Evgeny Zinichev, and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov.
Accompanied by Andrey Boginsky, Director General of the Russian Helicopters Holding, the guests examined the rotorcrafts manufactured by the company. Then the delegation visited the unit assembly plant, where they inspected the technology capabilities of the company. In the final assembly workshop, Minister Zinichev was informed about the progress in the manufacture of the Mi-8MTV-1 helicopter in the interests of the Russia’s EMERCOM under the contract signed in June 2020.
Also, as part of his working trip to Tatarstan, the head of the Russian EMERCOM visited Naberezhnye Chelny, where, jointly with the Tatarstan President, he made a tour of the KAMAZ automaker. At the Science and Technology Centre, Rustam Minnikhanov and Evgeny Zinichev were introduced to the promising models of KAMAZ vehicles. Then the Tatarstan President and the Federal Minister examined the exhibition of fire-fighting and rescue vehicles on the KAMAZ chassis.
At the end of the visit, a meeting was held, during which the parties discussed prospects for further cooperation between the Russia’s EMERCOM and KAMAZ.
Today, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov visited the Zainsk Municipal District, where he inspected the facilities of the Zainsk District Power Plant by Tatenergo and Plant TECHNO.
The Zainsk District Power Plant (GRES) remains the flagship of the district’s economy. Over the past year, it produced 6.8 billion kWh of electricity. This is 23.5% of the total electricity generated in the republic. The priority task of the company is to upgrade heat supply sections in the city of Zainsk in order to reduce heat losses in the heating network.
Based on the results of the projects selected for the thermal power plants upgrade, it is scheduled, by 2025, to build an 850 MW combined cycle plant at the Tatenergo’s Zainsk GRES.
Also, one of the leading industrial enterprises of the district is a branch of the TechnoNICOL, OOO Plant TECHNO. In the first half of 2020, the company produced 1,066,700 cubic metres of mineral heat and sound insulating materials.
“A strong economy allows Tatarstan to invest heavily in social programmes and infrastructure development. We can be proud of the results achieved owing to the joint work of every resident in Tatarstan”, said Minister Karimov during his speech to the employees of Zainsk GRES and Plant TECHNO.