Yokogawa Electric Corporation aims for long-term cooperation with Tatarstan

Yokogawa Electric CIS has been selected as a general contractor to computerise the oil refining and petrochemical complex in Nizhnekamsk, said the Aide to the Prime Minister of Tatarstan Iskander Muflikhanov.

On 24 June, the Tatar head of government Rustam Minnikhanov visited the Yokogawa Electric’s headquarters in Singapore while on a business trip. In the course of the meeting between Rustam Minnikhanov and Yokogawa Electric International CEO Teruyoshi Minaki, the parties discussed issues including the opening in the autumn of 2008 (tentatively September-October) of a company’s technical centre on the grounds of the Kazan-based Idea technology park and a Yokogawa solution centre (to be set up within the year).

The technical centre is to be used to train engineers and technical personnel engaged in industrial computerisation at Tatarstan’s oil refining and petrochemical enterprises. The planned solution centre is to service customers both inside Tatarstan and across Russia and the CIS. The centre will be used as a base to provide consulting services in the field of computer-aided production management systems, to design training sets for technological processes and to implement extended control schemes, which should allow a considerable reduction in production costs.

Iskander Muflikhanov went on to say that Rustam Minnikhanov had within the business visit to Singapore toured a Yokogawa Electric International plant manufacturing the CENTUM 300 CS automated control systems and the PROSAFE-RS emergency protection systems.

The Tatar head of government examined the organisational and production techniques ensuring the high quality of the products. The Yokogawa Electric International CEO Teruyoshi Minaki in turn confirmed that the company was most seriously considering its presence in Tatarstan which should contribute to the republic’s innovative economic development.