The Cluster of Automotive Industry celebrates its 5th anniversary!

On August 26, in Togliatti, there was held a meeting of the Association Council and a general meeting of members of the Machine-building Association Cluster of Automotive Industry.  During the event there were discussed the results of the Cluster's work for the previous year and priority areas of development for the near future.

 

The list of the Association Council members has not been significantly changed. Among new participants - the general director of Gumma Line LLC, Srdjan Srechkovich.

 

The following participants retained their membership in the Council: Eduard Vaino - Chairman of the Council, Alexander Kuznetsov - Strategy Manager at the Department of Strategy and Management – APO RUS, Andrey Kraynov - General Director of the Machine-building Association Cluster of Automotive Industry, Alexander Gorin - Business Development Director of Faurecia Automotive Development LLC, Dmitry Yakubovsky - Director of Autoliv LLC, Yulia Guseva - Managing Director of Gestamp Russia, Igor Gun - General Director of NPO BelMag, Tatiana Filimonova - Director of Prizma LLC.

 

The event was attended by Andrey Shamin, Minister of Industry and Trade of the Samara region. In the speech he noted the high efficiency of the Cluster for the development of local suppliers to the requirements of the Alliance Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi. Andrey Shamin also delivered certificates to the labor collectives of 17 Cluster members, which contribute to the socio-economic and industrial development of the region, and the Cluster development. Viktor Popov, Global Managing Director of Polad JSC and Pavel Zelyukov, the member of the Board of Directors of Polad JSC received certificates for their personal contribution to the industry development.

 

During the general meeting, there were approved annual and accounting reports for 2020, Cluster's priority areas of activity for 2021-2022. Andrey Kraynov was re-elected as General Director of the Cluster.

 

During the general meeting there were approved 18 new Cluster members, including 2 automakers - RENAULT RUSSIA and PCMA RUS, as well as 16 suppliers - Access Mechanism, Antolin Group Saint-Petersburg, BAS Automotive Systems RUS, VM Automotive, Gavari Group, Gestamp Severstal Vsevolozhsk, Gestamp Togliatti, Gestamp-Severstal-Kaluga, DAAZ, Eurostyle Systems Klin, NPP ITELMA, Collini, OKB MEL, Standex RUS, TZA, Fritex. The total number of Cluster members has increased to 148.

 

There was mentioned further development of the Automotive Industry Competence Center. We have extensive experience in supporting local supplier’s development, which must be used in the regions and at the federal level. Cluster's competencies for the development of automotive component manufacturers should also be used in supplier projects with Volkswagen, Hyundai-KIA, Stellantis, and KAMAZ. In the future, it is planned to discuss this topic with the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia.

 

It is important to sign an agreement between the Cluster and the Ministry of Industry and Trade on long-term cooperation and information interaction in order to develop the automotive components industry and localize the automotive industry. For example, a similar agreement has already been concluded by the Ministry with the Consortium of Automotive Electronic Devices and Telematics.

 

It is appropriate to work out potential projects with suppliers that can be implemented with the help of the new tool of state support for automotive components manufacturers ("grants for automotive components").

 

Since 2020, the Cluster has been actively formulating and submitting for discussion proposals for adjusting and updating Decree No.719 in order to improve efficiency of state incentive measures to increase the localization level of production of cars and automotive components. The Сluster and its members need to continue this work in the future, paying attention to the proposals related to automotive electronics.

 

Also, there were discussed issues related to new tools for supporting projects of automotive components localization, measures of state support for the automotive industry, innovative projects, interaction with federal and regional authorities, proposals to the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia, the role of the Cluster in projects of automotive industry localization and the development of local suppliers’ competencies.

 

After considering all the issues on the meeting agenda and exchanging views on the further Cluster development, solving industry issues, there was a delivery of certificates to the Cluster members.