Jakarta plans to purchase Russian-made helicopters in order to use them in the province of West Java in particular, Indonesia’s ambassador to Russia Wahid Supriyadi said. “We would like to purchase helicopters from Russia. There are many islands in West Java, so the helicopters are in great demand there”, the ambassador said at a meeting…
Car producer GAZ Group has signed several memorandums with Kazakhstan’s Semipalatinsky car assembling plant (SemAZ) to organize local assembly of its vehicles, the Russian company said in a statement. “The supply of car kits for mass production of GAZelle Next, GAZon Next and GAZelle Business, and heavy-duty equipment Ural Next, small, medium and heavy-duty buses…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the Industry and Trade and Economic Development ministries to work on proposal by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin to replace management of railway equipment and tank maker Uralvagonzavod and transfer it to the state company Rostec. In a September letter to Putin, Rogozin said the plant was in dire…
Pivdenmash (Dnipro) has welcomed a possibility of resuming production of the Zenit-3SL launch vehicle for Sea Launch project announced by the new owner of the platform – Russia’s S7 Group. The enterprise said in a statement that after the recent signing of a contract between S7 Group and Sea Launch S.A. the intention of the…
EP3D, brand new AC EMU produced by Demikhovsky Machine Building Factory (DMZ, belongs to Transmashholding Group), is being tested at VNIIZHT testing facility in Scherbinka, Moscow region. There is a high level of standardization in relation to mechanical engineering assemblies and components between EP3D and EP2D, DC EMU also designed by DMZ engineers. The EMU…
Silk Way Helicopter Services (SWHS MMC) commercial helicopter company and Russian helicopter holding Russian Helicopters signed a letter of intent within the ADEX 2016 International Defense Exhibition on September 27. The document was signed by Director General of Silk Way Helicopter Services Azer Sultanov and Deputy Director General of JSC Russian Helicopters Igor Chechikov. According…
OAO Mogilevliftmash elevator plant says it has invested Br6.3 million ($3.234 million) in production development in January-August, up by 7.9% YoY. The money spent on equipment purchases account for 83% of the total investment – Br5 million ($2.567 million): Mogilevliftmash purchased 8 units of equipment, including a paintshop for supersized parts (by Spain’s LAGOS S.A.),…