Rustam Minnikhanov: We should envisage new strategic areas of developing relations with Schneider Electric

The Agreement on rendering educational services has been signed between Schneider Electric and the Kazan state power engineering university. Deputy director general of ZAO Schneider Electric in Russia and CIS Valery Sazhenkov and Acting rector of the Kazan state power engineering university Edward Abdullazyanov put signatures on the document.

The Agreement was signed at the RT Government House in presence of President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, President of Schneider Electric Supervision council Anri Lackmann, President of Schneider Electric in Russia and CIS Jean-Louis Stasi.

Before the signing ceremony, Rustam Minnikhanov and Anri Lackmann had discussed further interaction of Tatarstan and Schneider Electric in the sphere of energetics, promotion of the company’s produce at the republican market and in other regions.

To the point, the enterprise Schneider Electric (Kazan) is currently functioning in Tatarstan. Electrotechnical and electronic equipment for industrial use is produced at the enterprise. The company is establishing relationships with republican higher educational institutions, in particular with the Kazan state power engineering university.

“We should envisage new strategic areas of developing relations with Schneider Electric. Tatarstan is a developed industrial region with large amount of work in the construction sphere. We have to promote Schneider Electric produce, offer complex solutions especially in the sphere of energy resource saving,” Rustam Minnikhanov stated at the meeting with Anri Lackmann.