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A meeting was held at the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan with the participation of representatives from the Federal Service for Surveillance in Healthcare and Social Development of the Russian Federation (Roszdravnadzor), the All-Russian Scientific Research and Testing Institute of Medical Technology (VNIIIMT Roszdravnadzor), the territorial office of the Roszdravnadzor in Tatarstan, the Information and Methodological Centre for Expertise, Accounting, and Analysis of the Circulation of Medical Devices, and the PharmMedPolis of Tatarstan.
The meeting was held by Deputy Minister Aleksey Savelchev. Participants discussed the creation of an accredited laboratory of Roszdravnadzor to assess the conformity of medical products and medicines in Kazan.
Competitive selection under CCIP, corporate competitiveness improvement programmes, has been summed up. From Tatarstan, selected were 11 regional-level enterprises and 3 companies of federal level. A single list of manufacturers implementing CCIP can be found in the State Information System of Manufacturing Industry (GISP) and is available for authorised users.
CCIP is one of the key mechanisms of the International Cooperation and Exports national project aimed at supporting the increase in output and sales of competitive industrial products manufactured in Russia (as regulated by Russian Government Resolution No. 191 of February 23, 2019).
The final list, approved by the interdepartmental commission, included 14 Tatarstan enterprises related to the implementation of export-oriented projects in chemical, petrochemical, mechanical engineering, and wood-processing sectors.
Companies that have entered into relevant agreements with the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia will be able to get soft loans in a wide range of areas, including investment loans for the creation of export-oriented businesses, letters of credit, factoring, and loans to foreign buyers of Russian products. The size of the subsidised interest rate will be 4.5% per annum.
Based on information by minpromtorg.gov.ru, strategy24.ru
The transaction on the acquisition of Neste’s retail business in Russia by Tatneft was closed today.
An agreement on the sale by Neste Corporation of its Russian fuel retail business consisting of 75 fuel stations in North-West Russia and a terminal in Saint Petersburg to Tatneft was signed in July of 2019. The transaction was approved by the Federal Antimonopoly Service on 4 October and closed on 31 October 2019.
Pursuant to a separate agreement between Tatneft and Neste, following the acquisition, the acquired retail network will continue to operate under the Neste brand for up to 5 years.
Tatneft’s retail network is one of the five Russia’s largest ones with more than 710 own filling stations. The focus of Tatneft’s retail sales strategy is on the sale of high-grade fuels produced at its own state-of-the-art TANECO Refinery. One of the key priorities upon the development and operation of Tatneft’s retail network is to minimise environmental impact.
Neste (NESTE, Nasdaq Helsinki) is the world’s largest producer of renewable diesel fuel refined from waste and residues.
Based on information by Tatneft press service
Today in the Tatarstan Ministry of Industry and Trade, Deputy Prime Minister of Tatarstan Albert Karimov had a meeting with journalists from Russian and Belarusian media, as well as media from the Common State.
A delegation of 22 journalists is visiting Tatarstan as part of a four-day press tour on the topic “Prospects for Economic and Cultural Cooperation between the Republic of Belarus and the Republic of Tatarstan”.
Minister Karimov described the industrial profile of the republic, which is determined by such sectors as oil production, petrochemicals, mechanical engineering, electric power, food processing, light and woodworking industries. He also spoke about joint projects in the field of culture.
Belarus is fourth in the list of the largest exporting countries of our republic, being one of the strategic partners of Tatarstan. In 2018, the foreign trade turnover between Tatarstan and Belarus amounted to over US$ 1.19 billion, an increase of 14% compared to 2017.
Belarus is also one of the largest trading partners of Tatarstan: exports to Belarus accounts for 6.5% of the total exports of Tatarstan, and imports, for 5.1%. The basis of the Tatarstan’s exports to Belarus is fuel, crude oil and products of its distillation, which in percentage terms makes up more than 60% of all exports from Tatarstan.
In addition, the Minister answered questions devoted to the development of the mechanical engineering industry, particularly concerning the gas engine fuel market.
Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov had a meeting with Consul General of Turkey in Kazan İsmet Erikan. The meeting was also attended by Commercial Attaché of the Turkish Consulate General İsmet Özkan.
Welcoming the guests, the Minister noted the successful development of relations between Tatarstan and Turkey. In 2018, foreign trade turnover amounted to more than US$ 300 million, which is an increase of 4% compared to the previous year.
According to the Consul General, “Tatarstan has a separate place in Turkey’s foreign economic relations. Our companies are satisfied with their work and stay in Tatarstan”. He said that Turkish companies that opened their production facilities in Tatarstan had long-term plans for investing in the republic. İsmet Erikan also spoke about other promising areas of cooperation between Tatarstan and Turkey: “We have preferential investment areas: first of all, petrochemicals. However, trade and economic relations between Tatarstan and Turkey should be bilateral, so we invite Tatarstan companies to implement their investment projects in Turkey”.
Minister Karimov said that the bilateral nature of cooperation is a priority for the republic: “In Tatarstan, the International Cooperation and Exports national project is currently underway, which, in particular, provides support for investment projects being implemented abroad”.
Today, Kazan saw the start of Phase Three of the social project aimed at introducing the Mechatronics dual study programme in educational institutions. It is being implemented in the region by Ford Sollers with the support from the Ministry of Education and Science of Tatarstan and the Ford Motor Company Fund.
The project was launched in December 2017. Within first two phases in 2017 and 2018, teachers from leading educational organisations of Tatarstan completed three-day trainings on the dual education system, improved their qualifications by studying at the Festo hi-tech training centre in Moscow, and developed their programmes for Mechatronics speciality.
Project’s Phase Three (October 30 to December 4) will be devoted to a practice-oriented approach in the vocational education system and mentoring at enterprises. At the project finals in December 2019, participants will be awarded advanced training diplomas and a certificate for the purchase of mechatronics equipment to one of the best vocational education institutions.
Mechatronics is a job of the future and is highly demanded in the context of growing production automation and robotics. The Russian Ministry of Labour and Social Protection has included it to the list of the 50 most sought-after new and promising jobs in the labour market, requiring secondary vocational education.
Based on information by Ford Sollers press service
Ramil Mannapov, Head of the Tatneft’s Procurement Centre, was named among the winners of Competitive Procurement Leader’2019 award and presented a diploma and a commemorative token in the Competitive Procurement Professional category.
The award ceremony of the Competitive Procurement Leader’2019 contest took place in Moscow with participation of leading companies representing various industrial sectors of Russia, as well as representatives of regulatory and government authorities. Participants and guests of the conference discussed expansion of procurement procedures and their role as business development drivers, present-day efficient tools for procurement activities, ways of increasing the quality of supplies, strengthening long-term relationships with suppliers, etc.
The Competitive Procurement Leader’2019 award was attended by large Russian companies, public figures, and business media. All in all, there were more than 220 works presented to compete for the award. The contestants were assessed by independent experts being procurement directors of major domestic enterprises.
The award was established in 2012 to draw attention to the most important projects in the procurement area. Every year, hundreds of nominees are included in the competitive selection to receive the expert assessment of the companies’ achievements in the field of procurement and to share experience with their peers.
Based on information by Tatneft press service
Dear current and retired employees of the Customs Service!
On behalf of the Government of Tatarstan and on my personal behalf, I congratulate you on your professional holiday, Russian Customs Day.
For more than three hundred years, customs officials have been serving citizens, protecting the country’s economic interests. The customs service has the most important tasks of protecting national security, increasing the competitiveness of the national economy in the interests of the State, ensuring its sovereignty, and regulating foreign trade relations for the good of the country.
In the light of globalisation processes, customs operations are becoming increasingly relevant and important. The activities of customs service employees contribute largely to the protection of human life safety and the entire environment.
On this holiday, I would also like to express our warm words of gratitude to industry’s retired employees who laid a solid foundation for the customs service of today.
I congratulate all the employees of the Tatarstan’s customs service on their professional holiday and wish you peaceful service, good health, family well-being, and every success in your life!
Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov
On October 25, the Gorky Zelenodolsk Shipyard saw the ceremony of laying down two vessels of the BLV03 project for the needs of the Directorate of the State Customer for Marine Transport Development Programmes.
The vessels were named “Alexander Parfyonov” and “Vsevolod Peresypkin” in honour of academicians of transport, directors of marine industry institutions, LenMorNIIProekt and the Central Marine Research and Design Institute.
The ceremony was attended by Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Timur Samatov, Acting Director General of the SCMTDP Directorate Anatoly Mishanov, Head of the Zelenodolsk Executive Committee Mikhail Afanasyev, Director General of the Zelenodolsk Shipyard Aleksandr Karpov, and other officials.
The guests were granted the honorary right to install builder’s plates to the hulls of the new vessels.
Vessels of the BLV03 project, developed by the Marine Engineering Bureau, are Ice3 class danlayers. It is expected that they will be involved in work in the waters of the Northern Sea Route ports in order to ensure the safety of navigation and the development of port infrastructure.
Based on information by Zelenodolsk Shipyard press service
The KNRTU-KAI saw the opening of the Composite Technology Special Competence Centre, a training and research laboratory on the basis of the university. The laboratory is a joint project of the Tupolev Kazan National Research Technical University and UMATEX (Rosatom). The project is implemented with the aim of training highly qualified personnel in the field of composites, as well as upgrading qualifications of designers, technologists, and experts working in the field of design and manufacture of products from polymer composites.
The opening ceremony was attended by Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov, Principal of KNRTU-KAI Albert Gilmutdinov, Director General of UMATEX (Rosatom) Aleksandr Tyunin, other officials, as well as representatives of business community and educational institutions.
Guests also visited the premises of the new laboratory: a 3D modelling class, a tool room for car prototype making from composite materials, a moulding laboratory where the car prototype is laid up from carbon fibre-based materials, and a laboratory of finished products, where the end product is cured in a heating cabinet.
During the opening ceremony, KNRTU-KAI Principal Albert Gilmutdinov and UMATEX Director General Alexander Tyunin signed an agreement on KNRTU-KAI’s entry into the Composites Without Borders interregional industrial cluster.
Based on information by UMATEX press service