KAMAZ and Boschung sign an agreement to set up a joint venture
5 May 2011, Thursday
Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov met with the management of the Boschung AG on May 5.
The meeting took place at the Tatarstan House of Government. Marcel Boschung, a member of the Board of Director of Boschung AG, Ildar Khalikov, the Tatarstan Prime Minister, Lenar Safin, Tatarstan Transport and Road Minister, Radik Gaizatullin, Tatarstan Finance Minister, Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, Sergei Kogogin, the KAMAZ Director General, and other officials attended the meeting.
At the meeting, Rustam Minnikhanov thanked the Boschung management for the visit organized for Tatarstan representatives and the opportunity to get acquainted with Boschung products. He was positive about joint plans of Boschung and KAMAZ to manufacture community vehicles and machines for Kazan and other Russian cities.
Marcel Boschung expressed his confidence that the cooperation with OAO KAMAZ would be fruitful and successful and thanked KAMAZ Director General Sergei Kogogin for his readiness to organize the production process in Tatarstan.
Two documents were singed during the meeting: the trilateral Agreement of Intent between the KAZAn Executive Committee, KAMAZ and Boschung; the Agreement to set up a joint venture between KAMAZ and Boshung.
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.
On May 14, on the sidelines of the XVII International Economic Forum “Russia-the Islamic World: KazanForum”, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin and Head of the Federal Service for Accreditation Dmitry Volvach signed an agreement on interaction and cooperation in the development of the halal industry.
On May 14, Prime Minister of Tajikistan Kokhir Rasulzoda, who arrived on a working visit in Kazan to take part in the events of the XVII International Economic Forum “Russia-the Islamic World: KazanForum”, was met by Prime Minister of the republic Aleksey Pesoshin and other officials at the Kazan International Airport.