Ildar Khalikov visits Pratt&Whitney plant in Montreal
13 March 2014, Thursday
On March 13 during his working trip to Canada (March 11-13), Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov visited Pratt&Whitney plant in Montreal.
Company’s official responsible for European markets made a brief presentation, told about company’s history and commercialization.
Being a part of United Technologies Corporation, Pratt&Whitney manufactures aircraft engines for civil and military aviation, module and mobile gas turbine units, locomotive and rocket engines.
Along with Rolls-Royce и General Electric, the company is in “Big Three” manufacturers of aircraft engines.
Providing 6 thousand jobs, the company is one of leading employers in Canada. It has 10 thousand branches in 195 countries, cooperates with 30 largest manufacturers of aircrafts, including Cessna, Bombardier, Eurocopter, ATR 72.
Engines produced by Pratt&Whitney are supplied to Kazan helicopters plant for completion of Ansat helicopter.
Company’s employees showed Ildar Khalikov and members of Tatarstan delegation around manufacturing and assembly sites.
Later on, members of Tatarstan delegation will head for Toronto.
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.
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