Tatarstan President meets Board Chairman of Chelyabinsk Pipe-Rolling Plant

On November 14, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov had a working meeting with Board Chairman of Chelyabinsk Pipe-Rolling Plant Alexander Fedorov. The meeting was also attended by Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister - Minster of Industry and Trade Ravil Zaripov, Aide to Tatarstan President on Economic Affiars Airat Khairullin, First Deputy Minister of Education and Science of the republic Andrei Pominov, Deputy Director General of JSC “Chelyabinsk Pipe-Rolling Plant” (“ChelPipe”) Maksim Ignatiev, Executive Director of JSC “AlNAS” Sergey Sachenko.

The meeting discussed prospects of development of the ALNAS Plant (located in town of Almetievsk, Tatarstan) owned by the Rimera Group which is a division of the ChelPipe. Alexander Fedorov has presented the results of the company activity for the first nine months of 2014, stressing that the ALNAS managed to achieve record production in the last five years. The plant has doubled production of electric centrifugal pumps, boosting its sales up to 315 million roubles per month, which is 40 per cent higher as compared to the same period last year.

Also, the meeting discussed prospects of participation of the ChelPipe in cooperation between Tatarstan and Kazakhstan. It was decided to include representatives of the ChelPipe in a working group on the development of cooperation, as Kazakhstan is a key export destination for the ChelPipe Group and the ALNAS plant in particular.

Minnikhanov expressed his confidence that this decision will not only favour the development of the ALNAS plant, but also make a significant contribution to the strengthening of relations between Tatarstan and Kazakhstan.