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 5 May, speaking at a regular meeting held by the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov in the Government House of the republic with participation of the regional Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin and all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing Utilities Sector of the republic Marat Ayzatullin informed that currently 63 school catering units are under repairs with the amount of work completed reaching 15 per cent.
On May 26, speaking at a briefing in the Cabinet of Ministers of the republic held in a videoconference mode with participation of all municipal regions of Tatarstan and focused on events scheduled for June 1, International Children’s Day, as well as the implementation of the “Summer in Tatarstan” programme, Deputy Prime Minister of the republic Leyla Fazleeva appealed that parents should closely supervise their children during recreational activities near water in order to prevent accidents.
On 18 May ay the CIPR conference in Nizhniy Nogorod the Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister Roman Shaykhutdinov, the Rector of the Innopolis University Aleksandr Gasnikpov and the Vice-rector of the University Yevgeny Bobrov will take part at round tables session of the conference.
Experts will discuss the role of Tatarstan and Innopolis as one of the key technological centers of the country and how regional innovative platforms help to solve tasks of the whole Russian industry. A special emphasis will be placed on the digital transformation of the oil and gas sector and how large clusters and scientific and technological centers are becoming drivers of industry change.
On 16 May, speaking at a meeting in the Government House of the republic held by the regional Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin with participation of the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the Minister of Agriculture and Food of the republic Marat Zyabbarov reported that the sowing of spring crops is in full swing in the republic with 1m 38 thousand hectares or 61 per cent of the planned have been sown.