OREANDA-NEWS. The International Seminar-conference “The Prospects of the Automobile Cluster Development in Tatarstan Republic” took place in Naberezhnye Chelny. Over 200 foreign, Russian and Tatarstan representatives of the automotive industry participated in the seminar. They discussed the problems of automotive industry development, the republican automotive component producers’ difficulties and the issues of investment attraction for realization of the projects under development. According to Rustam Minnikhanov, Head of the RT Government, the republic has large production capacities and attracts attention.


- The area of the Republic of Tatarstan (Kama Industrial Cluster) is the concentration of automobile and component parts producers and an interesting place for small-scale business development. With the resource base and customers it would be wrong not to take advantage of the opportunities. The main component parts customers will be “KAMAZ” Inc. and “Severstal-Avto”. I guarantee that all projects on parts production will be provided with the necessary home-produced raw stock. We are interested in automobile parts production development and strive for favourable conditions. I appeal to everybody who is in engaged in this business and regards Tatarstan as the sphere where they can work. We offer you mutually beneficial cooperation. Sergey Kogoghin, Director General of “KAMAZ” Inc., said that in the nearest future the demand of “KAMAZ” on automobile parts will grow by several times.


- Realization of the large-scale reengineering project will allow “KAMAZ” to halve the area, to decrease the base by tens of times, to increase working efficiency by 6-8 times, to reduce the nomenclature produced in “KAMAZ” Inc. by 70%. And, correspondingly, to increase by several times the purchased nomenclature of automobile parts. The production of the part of units will be left in “KAMAZ” Inc., the rest will be divided among the Russian and foreign suppliers. Standard demands will be made to all suppliers. It should be underlined that “KAMAZ” sets the task for producers to conform to the quality standards ISO 16000. We suppose that the network of our suppliers will grow and, basically, will be located in Naberezhnye Chelny.