Ildar Khalikov visits Gabala (Azerbaijan)

6 March 2012, Tuesday
Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov has visited Gabala city during his two-day working visit to Azerbaijan. Head of republican government and members of Tatarstan delegation visited canning plant and piano factory.

To the point, Head of Tatarstan ministry of emergency situations Rafis Khabibullin, deputy of RF State Duma Irek Boguslavsky, Chairman of “Ak Bars Bank” Board Robert Musin, first vice Minister of industry and trade Igor Nosov, first vice Minister of forestry Kharis Musin, vice Minister of informatization and communications Anatoly Geller are on the delegation.

The canning plant in Gabala is a complex of workshops for processing fruits and vegetables grown in precincts. Produced juices are sold in Azerbaijan and exported in Russia.

Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov appreciated the level of enterprise. In his opinion, an important feature is that all juices are natural.

Head of republican Government marked that the canning plant in Gabala is similar to agro-industrial park being constructed in Kazan where agricultural production of local farmers is processed.

The founder and owner of piano factory “Beltmann piano” in Gabala is a Dutch master Hans Leferink. In 1901 his great grandfather Johann Beltmann founded a workshop of musical instruments in Holland, but the family factory closed in 2002 and Leferink opened new enterprise in 2008 in Azerbaijan. 135 people work at the factory. They produce about 1000 musical instruments per year priced at 9 thousand euro each.

Ildar Khalikov thanked Hans Leferink for conducted tour of the plant.
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