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An official groundbreaking ceremony was held at “Manufaktury Bosco” Garment Factory  site in Kaluga-Yug industrial park on September 14, 2018. It was attended by Mikhail Kusnirovich,  CEO, Bosco di Ciliegi Group, Andrey Churaev, Director General, “Manufaktury Bosco” OOO, Anatoly Artamonov, Governor of Kaluga Region, Igor Schegolev, Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Central Federal District.

An official groundbreaking ceremony was held on September 7, 2018 in Kaluga special economic zone (Borovsk District, Kaluga Region) where a milk processing plant of TH Group, Vietnam, is to be built. The event was attended by Alexey Gordeev, Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation, Anatoly Artamonov, Kaluga Region Governor, Nguen Fu Chong, General secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Thai Hyung, President, TH Group, high officials of Russia and Vietnam.  

First test cargo from Japan to Russia via Trans-Siberian railway arrived to container terminal of Freight Village Vorsino. Dmitry Ermolov, Executive Director, FVC Sever OOO (Freight Village RU) and Olga Stepanova, Sales Director, Russian Railways Logistics AO, met the cargo at the terminal.

Delegation of German companies Baden-Wurttemberg federal land visited Kaluga Region with business mission on August 29. The delegation is headed by Peter Schlosser, Head of CIS Department, Economic and Scientific Cooperation Society, Baden-Wurttemberg federal land. Also, representatives of Chambers of Commerce and Industry and Associations for foreign trade promotion are members of the delegation.  

New part of L'Oréal at the territory of Vorsino Industrial Park in Kaluga Region successfully underwent evaluation procedure under the world’s most stringent certification system of sustainable and energy-efficient construction LEED, version 4, getting 80 points of 110 possible, and LEED v4 Platinum Certificate was awarded to it by the US Green Building Council.  

Russian – Japanese industrial forum named Prospects of Russia-Japan Cooperation in Digital Technology Age was held on July 9, 2018 at INNOPROM International Industrial Exhibition. Tsutomu Nakagawa, Deputy Director General, International Trade Policy, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan, Hirouki Harada, Executive Vice President,    FANUC Europe, Ilia Dimitrov, Executive Director, Association of Online Trading Platforms, took part in the discussions. Dmitry Denisov, First Deputy Governor of Kaluga Region, also attended the event.    

A groundbreaking ceremony at the site of Gabriel-Chemie-Rus-2 new plant was held on June 28, 2018. The production facility is to manufacture plastic colors’ and additives’ masterbatches. The ceremony was attended by Ilya Veselov, Minister for Economic Development of Kaluga Region, Rudolf Lukawski, Trade Counselor of the Embassy of Austria, Andreas Berger, Member of the Board and CFO, Gabriel-Chemie Group, Helmut Koenig, Member of the Board and Technical Director,  Gabriel-Chemie Group, Olga Purikova, Director, Gabriel-Chemie-Rus-2 LLC.

On June 26, 2018 an expert council headed by Vladimir Popov, Deputy Governor of Kaluga Region, held a meeting to assess applications of new companies intended to become residents of Kaluga industrial special economic zone, established I the region. The council have assessed and approved applications submitted by two companies, namely  National Collagen Company and MPT-Plastik. These companies are to invest over RUR 3,200,000,000 in their projects in total.    

A German parliament delegation visited Kaluga on June 19-21, 2018. It is headed by Waldemar Gerdt, a member of Alternative fur Deutschland  fraction in Bundestag and a member of Bundestag Committee for Foreign Affairs.

A conference dedicated to cooperation between Russia and Italy in the field of trade and economy field is to be held in Comune di Marcon (Venice province, Italy), was held on June 19. The main focus of the event was on specific features of industrial localization in Russia in general, and in industrial parks and special economic zones in particular. Kaluga Region Government organization was headed by Vladimir Popov, Deputy Governor.