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Confectionery Expansion
Based on last year's result experts predict that the export of russian sweets in 2021 compared to 2020 will increase by more than 19% and amount to 830 thousand tons. These figures will record-breaking industry. The producer hlebprom made its contribution to confectionery expansion. Export manager Tahir Arbuzov told us about the company’s export goals.
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Green house with an online shop
Moscow producers of greens and vegetables skillfully use several trends in the consumer market – starting with care for the environment and health-related matters to the maximum ease of purchase. Olga Kuzmitskaya, Marketing Department Manager of Agroholding Moskovsky told us how a green house complex with 50 years of experience adapts to the new market trends.
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Delicious, just like at home
We will miss our favorite childhood food all our life, especially when we are so far away from home. But that is all in the past now thanks to export you can find your favourite food products from Moscow even overseas. We asked a few friends who live abroad what food products imported from moscow they usually buy.
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The success story of Dr. Spinato's Localisation
Moscow food industry enterprises have always been known for the quality of their products. Today, there are almost 50 companies in the city that produce flour, bakery and pastry products, meat and fish products. What if your business outgrows itself?
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On the market
The deficit of highly qualified specialists in Russia may reach about 3 mln people by the end of 2030. Representatives of Moscow companies shared their opinion on the main hr problems.
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New Life for Abandoned Industrial Zones
Last week, the first agreement on the territory integrated development (TID) was signed in Moscow, to partially develop the Oktyabrskoye Pole production zone in the north-west of Moscow.
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Scaling up unique skills
Apart from educational partners and development institutes, Moscow Technical School works with leading Moscow manufacturing companies. We talked to Pavel Vorobyev, managing director of QRate company, about the aspirations of the project's industrial partners.
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Student, Open #Mosprom!
Moscow University and Polytechnic students are active participants of the Discover#Mosprom project. They take guided tours to Moscow plants and factories to get familiar with the present-day industry, to expand their intellectual horizon and to make a choice of a future job. We talked to students about their studies, career prospects and impressions of Discover#Mosprom.
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The Course for Savings
In 2019 alone, three researchers from the UK, America and Japan won the Nobel Prize for "Creating Lithium-Ion Batteries". Although the development itself appeared first back in the '70s. Victoria Klein, Founder of EnSol, the energy efficient solutions company in MOSCOW, told about who is currently producing such batteries in Russia and how to turn from an unpopular green business into a market leader in ten years.
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Key asset
Today's students will have to develop industry in this rapidly changing world. Representatives of Moscow technical universities told us where their graduates plan to work and in what way the cooperation with industrial partners helps to adjust the educational process to market needs.
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The future of russian concrete roads
EUROCEMENT Group knows how to build high-quality and durable roads that will improve the environmental situation in Russia and help Motorists use less fuel. Sergei Demakov, Vice President for Innovation and Technical Development of EUROCEMENT Group is elaborating on the topic.
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Making our workers shine
Moscow is one of the busiest cities in Russia. As reported by RIA Rating, the unemployment rate here is 1.5% with 75 unemployed job-seekers for every 100 open vacancies. The second city with a similar low unemployment rate is Saint Petersburg. However, the job market there is more competitive, there are 147 unemployed job-seekers for 100 open vacancies.
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Cable Evolution: from Submarine Depths to Space
Cable products are the basis for all industrial productions: cables supply them with power and transmit information. Cables are required in all production segments, so this industry is considered a kind of indicator for the overall status and trends of the national and global industry. We talked to Sergey Lobanov, Chief Commercial Officer of the Spetskabel plant, about how this industry lives today, whether it is possible to launch cable production without any equipment at all and how their evolution...
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Something To Be Proud of Manufacturing Results 2020
Test flights, introduction of product labelling, launch of the first robot - Moscow factories shared their results of the year.
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"Russia is the most important market for PHILIPS"
As part of the first life cycle contracts, PHILIPS will supply Moscow hospitals with the most innovative equipment from its portfolio: 36 Ingenia ambition MR scanners and 14 "Azurion 7" angiographic systems, and then will ensure the operability of this equipment for ten years. Maxim Kuznetsov, CEO of PHILIPS in Russia and the CIS, told about this.
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Anything for victory
Murat Gassiev is a Russian boxer who, during his career, won two world champion belts in cruiserweight category according to the IBF and WBA versions. Murat shared his view on sports achievements with PromMoscow readers and future Spartakiad participants.
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Aripix Robotics: "Technology Bank" is a comfortable "marketplace" for developers of high-tech solutions"
General director of Aripix Robotics Andrey Spiridonov on how to open the production of robots, at which enterprises they will be useful and how to get into the "Technology Bank".
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BITROBOTICS: Robots Are Coming!
Among the solutions in the "Technology Bank" you can find the products of the resident of the special economic zone "Technopolis" Moscow" Bitrobotics Company. The company produces high-speed automated systems based on its developed robots. They, for example, help to upgrade the production and packaging of daily demand goods.
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While The Clock Strikes Twelve...
It has always a good habit to sum up the results before the New Year Eve. This year, the tradition takes on a special meaning. The period of pandemic and time constraints was a difficult one for the manufacturing industry in Moscow. Nevertheless, the city passed this test with dignity. Alexander Prokhorov, Head of the Moscow Department of Investment and Industrial Policy, talks about the results achieved by the industrial sector by the end of the year.
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Event Calender
It was a year full of diffent events. The coronavirus made adjustments to them, but despite this fact, new investment projects were launched and important events for Moscow and the its industry took place.
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Where the Future Is Made
By the end of the year Bitrobotics will open production of high-speed industrial robots and robotic systems for FMCG manufacturing in the Technopolis Moscow Special Economic Zone. Svyatoslav Stesin, CEO of Bitrobotics, told about the prospects, market situation, training of young personnel and company's plans.
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From Theory to Practice
The first capital developer to sign an agreement on the integrated development of industrial areas was the RG-Development group of companies. The PromMoscow magazine talked to Tatyana Tikhonova, CEO of the company, about whether it is difficult to work with former industrial zones, how the situation with environmental protection actually develops in such areas and what Muscovites can expect from the development of abandoned districts.
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Celebrities Came to Factories
The Open#Mosprom project conducted a series of online broadcasts, in which well-known Russian actors and TV hosts visited industrial enterprises in Moscow, and then shared their impressions in social media. Yekaterina Klimova and Anna Hilkevich were the first to go to Moscow factories and found out why air is added to ice cream and what lipstick and cement have in common.
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Goodbye, SIM Cards
SIM cards are waiting for a new stage of evolution: according to the Russian Ministry of Communications, 10+ million subscribers can abandon the usual plastic carriers in Russia alone in the next three years. Higher technology will replace them. Istcompis Rus LLC, a Moscow-based company, was the first in Russia to provide remote loading of new virtual SIM cards to subscriber devices. But first things first.
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100 Years of Electronics
On July 29, the centennial anniversary was celebrated by the Chief Scientific Officer of the Semenikhin Research Institute of Automatic Equipment, D.Sc. in engineering, professor Vladimir Kuklev - the most prominent Russian specialist in development of information display systems, an organizer of science and production, a public figure, a war veteran, a professor, a full member of the Academy of New Information Technologies. He is now working on a report that will form the basis for the Development...
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Nikolai Valuev: "Main objective of sport is character building"
The Russian capital is hosting the Mosprom Spartakiad for the second year, which is attended by employees of industrial enterprises and students of Moscow technical universities. This year, athletes compete in eight sports, including boxing and ice hockey. The ambassador of the event, a famous Russian boxer Nikolai Valuev, told about the role of sport in his life and in the character building of modern man.
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What other areas await transformation in the coming years
IAD of Verkhniye Kotly: Two land plots of total 4.89 hectares have come under IAD, and almost 60,000 square meters of facilities will appear here within the IAD project.
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They Will Not Pass
Diagnostika-M, a Technopolis Moscow Special Economic Zone resident, has developed a AI-based perimeter security system.
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Moscow Exporters Continued Operating in Pandemic Environment
The COVID-19 restrictions and the termination of air and rail traffic between countries directly affected export activities. We asked Natalia Shuvalova, CEO of Mosprom Autonomous Non-profit Organization, to tell about how ANO Mosprom helps Moscow manufacturers in this difficult period.
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Russian Robots Are Not Afraid of Frost
Robots are step by step becoming part of the domestic industrial production. However, the process has been going slow as long as the pandemic intervened and forced industrialists to accelerate the technological retrofit. Andrey Spiridonov, head of Aripix Robotics, told us about, how foreign robots can "freeze" in Russia, how to fit the manipulator into a real soviet-time plant, and what we need to do to provoke a machine rebellion.
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"Robots Can Replace Sales Officers in 18 Months"
Many industrial companies made a confident step into the digitalization era. And some of them went even further - towards robotizing production. Pavel Moryakov, CEO of Moskabelmet Group of Companies, told us, why robots become participants of the production process, how their interaction with employees is built, and when the company needs a digital twin.
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Faster, Higher, Vaster!
The majority of the Mosprom Spartakiad participants consider sport in production not just a hobby, but an integral part of the company life. The best proof of this is the growing interest in the event, as a result of which the organizers decided to turn the competition into an annual sports festival in Moscow.
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"Moscow is Doomed to Recycle"
The global consumption of electronics is growing at an enormous rate, and so is the amount of e-waste. Last year, the world's population threw out 54 m t of e-waste, which is a record value and 9 m t more than just five years ago, in 2014. At the same time, e-waste is one of the most toxic and harmful kinds of waste. CEO of ECOPOLIS Corporation Maksim Lobanov told us how Moscow, Russia and the world are solving the most complex problem of e-waste recycling.
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World after the "Corona"
The pandemic affected all business areas, making us revise many production and organizational processes, challenging the schemes of communication with colleagues and partners, pushing online even those who had not been ready yet. Life was divided into BEFORE and AFTER this. But what will our world be like after the coronavirus?
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"We know for sure that the crisis is a time to rethink"
Anton Zakharov, Regional Export Manager at Svetovye Tekhnologii, told us how Moscow manufacturers work in global markets, what trade barriers they have to overcome, and how they arrange their operations during the pandemic.
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NexTouch: Interactive Technologies For Life
Today, NexTouch (Next ltd.) is Russia's only commercial producer of interactive equipment and technical means for the disabled people rehabilitation. Commercial Director Valery Makovetsky talks about the company formation, development and achievements.
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Duty Free For High-Tech Production
Where are Moscow high-tech enterprises located, how do they manage to lower the fiscal load almost twice and why many of them are willing to have their customs control zone? A talk with Customs Infrastructure Department Head Of The Special Economic Zone Olga Kovalyova.
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Roland Bartholet: "We Are Interested In The Russian Market"
The Swiss Company Bartholet Maschinenbau AG is a leading global producer of cable cars. In his interview, Bartholet Maschinenbau AG President Roland Bartolet talks about the specifics of this transport means and about things that the Swiss manufacturer finds attractive on the Moscow market.
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Parus Elektro: Export Rules The Game
How can Moscow manufacturers enter the international arena and meet domestic needs with the state support? Prommoscow talked about this and other things with CEO of Parus Elektro Vladimir Khlebnikov.
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Development of production and foreign market entry: PROFILDOORS company experience
How to find your niche and survive the competition? Should you strive to enter a foreign market and what is needed for that? Find answers to these and many other questions in an interview with profildoors director Boris Kuznetsov.