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LafargeHolcim Kaluga Region Plant has reached a maximum level of natural gas substitution with sorted solid municipal waste.

The Aviation Registry under the International Aviation Committee has accredited a science and research laboratory of A.G.Romashin Tekhnologiya ONPP (a member of Rostech State Corporation). as a technically competent center to test polymer composite materials and products therefrom intended for use in commercial aviation.

The Ministry for Economic Development of Kaluga Region sums up the region’s industry performance in the first six months of 2019.

On July 18-19, ‘Self-inspection and GMP/GDP Audit’ roundtable was organized at the Agency for Innovative Development of Kaluga Region. More than 40 employees of companies-participants of pharmaceutical cluster took part in the event. 

Ilya Veselov, Minister for Economic Development of Kaluga Region, held a meeting of the expert council of Kaluga special economic zone on July 12, 2019. Kaluga SEZ has two sites located in Lyudinovo and Borovsk districts.  

INNOPROM 2019, the 10^TH International Industrial Exhibition, is to be held in Yekaterinburg on July 8-11, 2019. For the first time the exhibition was held in 2010. In 2012 the Government of the Russian Federation assigned a federal status to INNOPROM, the largest industrial, trade and export venue of Russia. This year over 600 companies and delegations from 100 countries of the world are to attend the exhibition.

Decision was made at the meeting of the Inter-Departmental Commission for Special Investment Contracts (SpIC) to support projects proposed by Volkswagen, PCMA Rus and Volvo Companies.

A delegation of Italian pharmaceutical industry companies’ representatives visited Kaluga Region on June 14, 2019. It was headed by Pasquale Q. Terracciano, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Italian Republic in the Russian Federation The delegation was to get information on Kaluga Region economy and its investment potential. Other objectives included the expansion of the existing areas of cooperation and establishment of new contacts in the pharmaceutical industry.    

A presentation of the 6^th National Investment Climate Rating results was delivered at the XXIIIth Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum on June 6, 2019. Kaluga Region holds the 4^th place among 85 regions of the Russian Federation.

An agreement between the Government of Kaluga Region and Laboratoire Naturelle SA, Switzerland, was concluded on June 6, 2019 at XXIII Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum.  It was signed by Anatoly Artamonov, Governor of Kaluga Region, and Vaagn Manukyan, Chairman of the Board, Laboratoire Naturelle SA.