OREANDA-NEWS. November 18, 2011. Rustam Minnikhanov visited JSC "Radiopribor", part of the "Aerospace Equipment Corporation", in connection with the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the plant. He was accompanied by Alexey Aleshin, First Deputy Director of the State Corporation "Rostekhnologii", Nickolai Kolesov, General Director of JSC "Radioelectronic Technologies Concern", Sergey Bodrunov, Advisor to the Chairman of the Board of Directors of JSC "Aerospace Equipment Corporation", Ravil Zaripov, Minister of Industry and Trade of the Republic of Tatarstan, Anatoly Krasnov, Assistant of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan, and others.

Mechanical area of program-controlled machine tools created within the framework of the "Development program of modernization and technical re-equipment of JSC "Radiopribor" was presented to guests. Ronis Sharipov, General Director of JSC "Radiopribor", told about the plans for the re-equipment of the company.

А meeting on the implementation of the program of financial recovery of JSC "Radiopribor" took place within the framework of the visit. Ronis Sharipov, General Director of "Radiopribor" spoke about financial situation. According to him, the program of financial recovery of the company gave significant results. Ronis Sharipov reminded that in 2009 the company was in difficult financial situation with credit indebtedness about 300 million rubles. The program of financial recovery was approved by shareholders in January 2010. In July of that year the Government of Russia subsidized of 141,7 million rubles to the enterprise. "Radiopribor" had a profit at the end of 2010. In 2011 there has been a reduction of the net costs of the production, profitability has been maintained. It is predicted that 2011 the company will end with profit. It is assumed that the output of this year will be about 1 million rubles. In addition, it is expected that the main figures in 2011 will be 2,3 times higher than in 2008. Ronis Sharipov mentioned deterioration of equipment, buildings and constructions as well as the aging of engineers (many experts will retire soon) among the problems of the plant.

During the meeting the President of the Republic of Tatarstan announced that administration of the Republic will support all projects of the JSC "Radiopribor". According to Rustam Minnikhanov, the important thing is that the company operates, provides jobs and wages of employees. Today it is necessary to work on the long-term outlook, seek orders for production, cooperate with the State Corporation "Rostekhnologii". Head of the Republic also noticed that the company has positive tendencies in the work, financial recovery is in process, there is an equipment project of workshops with program-controlled machine tools. He also proposed to develop a training program for qualified personnel of JSC "Radiopribor". So it is necessary to involve universities, technical schools, vocational schools to update staff on blue-collar jobs, mid-technical personnel and engineering staff.