President of Tatarstan meets with Director General of Elabuga plant Kastamonu Entegre
21 November 2012, Wednesday
President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov has met with Director General of OOO “Kastamonu Integrated Wood Industry” Onur Guven.
Aide to the Tatarstan President on international issues Radik Gimatdinov, Mayor of Naberezhnye Chelny Vasil Shaikhraziev, Director General of SEZ Alabuga Timur Shagivaleev and Director General of ZAO “Gasprom mezhregiongas Kazan” Rinat Khanbikov participated in the meeting at the RT Government House.
OOO “Kastamonu Integrated Wood Industry” is a subsidiary of the Turkish company Kastamonu Entegre. The company is building a plant for producing MDF panels with a capacity of 380 thousand tons per year on the territory of SEZ Alabuga. The production is to be launched in the second half of 2013.
At today’s meeting Rustam Minnikhanov and Onur Guven discussed the process of plant construction.
On March 10, the third meeting of the organizing committee on preparation and holding of the 20th anniversary Russian Venture Forum 2026 to be held in Kazan from April 8 to 10, chaired by Russian Minister of Science and Higher Education Valery Falkov and with participation of Tatarstan Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan and co-chair of the forum’s organizing committee Aleksey Pesoshin, President of the Academy of Sciences of Tatarstan Rifkat Minnikhanov, Director of the Investment and Venture Fund of Tatarstan Damir Galiev as well as representatives of federal and regional authorities, development institutions and partner organizations via videoconference, took place.
On 10 March, speaking at a briefing dedicated to the development of the national Max messenger in Tatarstan and held in the Government House of the republic with all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the Minister of Digitalization of Public Administration, Information Technologies and Communication of the republic Ilya Nachvin informed that according to the data of March 2026 about 1.5m residents of Tatarstan use domestic Max messenger.
On 5 February Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin took part in ceremony of awarding winners of the regional competition “The Woman of the Year. The Man of the Year: A Woman’s View” held at the Korston Leisure and Recreation Center in Kazan.
On 4 March at a briefing in the Government House of the republic Tatarstan Minister of Land and Property Relation Fanil Agliullin told about changes in land legislation enforced from 1 March of the current year. He said that they simplify a number of procedures for land plot owners including expanding the possibilities for land use and changing the rules for changing the category of a plot.