On October 2 Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov took part in solemn celebration of the Day of mechanical engineer.

The guests had visited the exposition of machine-building enterprises, inventions of young people and original technical ideas before the solemn event.

Tatarstan President welcomed participants of the event from the stage: “The machine-building complex has always been and remains one of strategic areas of economics,” Rustam Minnikhanov noted. He reminded that the complex includes 150 regional enterprises with more than 140 thousand people employed. This year alone Tatartsan machine-building enterprises dispatched the goods for more than 220 bln rubles.

Rustam Minnikhanov noted that machine building is a competitive sphere and constant modernization of production facilities is required to sustain competition. According to Tatarstan President, first of all production facilities and management system should meet the latest standards. “The issues related to labour output, energy-intensity of production are of high priority,” Tatarstan President added.

Rustam Minnikhanov also noted that both civil and defense products should be produced. According to Tatarstan President, this year’s production output of defense products increased by 17%.

“Today Tatarstan has a powerful and promising machine-building complex. Many enterprises, that faced hard times, have achieved a strong position in the market and are rapidly developing,” Tatarstan President stated and congratulated all participants of the event on their professional holiday – the Day of mechanical engineer.

Then, Rustam Minnikhanov presented awards to the best workers and teams of the machine-building industry.

In his congratulatory speech Tatarstan Prime-Minister – Minister of Industry and Trade Ravil Zaripov noted machine-building enterprises of Tatarstan are implementing large production modernization programmes, actively employing advanced management and “Lean production” technologies. Vice-Premier also congratulated everybody on the holiday and presented awards.