OREANDA-NEWS. November 20, 2012. Within the frames of International Forum ‘Russian Industrialist’ presentation of Non-Profit Partnership St Petersburg Machine Tool Industry Cluster (NP KSP) established on the initiative and on the basis of Kirovsky Zavod was held.

The tool-making cluster officially has become the 10th regional cluster formation in the city.

Among 15 participants of the tool-making cluster the developments and products on the integrated stand of the partnership were presented by subsidiaries of Kirovsky Zavod: Kirov Stankomash LLC specialized on production of gear production machinery and Kirov Instrument LLC producing equipment and tools.

The stand also presented the activity of other companies – cluster members: Balt-System (producer of numerical control systems), SKB IS (producer of measuring systems), AVA Hydrosystems (producer of hydraulic equipment), St Petersburg Precision Machine Building Plant (producer of precision polishing equipment), Stankozavod TBS (producer of boring equipment) and others.

Governor of St Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko visited the Cluster’s exposition. Presenting the exposition President of Non-Profit Partnership St Petersburg Machine Tool Industry Cluster - Director General of JSC Kirovsky Zavod Georgy Semenenko emphasized that the cluster united almost all producers of machine tool industry and specialized enterprises of the North-West. Provided that the total amount of the people employed in the cluster composes over 2 thousand people. And overall revenue is about 2 billion rubles.

Among consumers of the products of the cluster’s members there are many leading enterprises of the region, Russia and the CIS countries such as Power Machines, Nevsky Zavod, Perm Motors, Kazan Helicopters and etc. As the main objectives of the cluster Georgy Semenenko noted development of joint innovative products from local component parts and ready machine-building technologies within the frames of the life cycle ‘R&D – launching into production – serial production’.

Head of the city highly estimated the fact of a new cluster establishment, having emphasized that implementation of its objective in St Petersburg which preserved a high potential of machine-building could be a quite workable objective. Governor expressed readiness to render necessary assistance and support to the cluster’s members.

Project Coordinator and one of the initiators of establishment of Non-Profit Partnership St Petersburg Machine Tool Industry Cluster, Director of Kirov Stankomash LLC Yegor Skripkin announced that by the end of the current year it was planned to form a special subdivision in the management structure of the cluster which would coordinate activity and represent interests of its members at opening and implementation of joint projects. Further plans include construction of multi-purpose mechanic processing production, possibly – in the territory of Kirovsky Zavod which will be used and loaded by the cluster’s members on the principles of shared access.

On the day of the Forum opening, September 25 a cooperation agreement between of Non-Profit Partnership St Petersburg Machine Tool Industry Cluster and Association of Machine Building enterprises of the Republic of Belarus Belstankoinstrument was signed. This document reflects intention of the parties to cooperate closely in the most efficient application of their potentials for modernization of industrial enterprises of two countries, in implementation of joint double-sided and multi-partner projects, mutual promotion of the products at the market of goods and services.