Алекс
11-23-2007, 03:07 AM
http://www.guardian.co.uk/feedarticle?id=7093930
Russia will build six major chemical plants by 2015 as it seeks to cut imports of value added products, including plastics, for booming industries such as the car sector, a minister said on Wednesday. Energy and Industry Minister Viktor Khristenko said the government wanted the share of the chemical industry to rise to 3 percent of gross domestic product by 2015, from 1.7 percent now, under a strategy reviewed at a cabinet meeting.
The ratio of value-added chemical products to basic chemical materials should rise to 70 to 30 by 2015 from the current 30 to 70, he said.
"We will have to continue actively lobbying the interests of Russian firms on foreign markets and help them, including by political means, defend their interests when special inquiries or prohibitive measures are opened against them," Khristenko told a news conference. :bbbat:
Russia's outdated petrochemical and chemical industries were almost entirely privatised :jew: in the 1990s, when they plunged into a deep crisis due to lack of funding. Primary resources as oil and gas were usually exported to the West.
Gas export monopoly Gazprom began industry consolidation at the start of this decade to form petrochemical giant Sibur, while other firms and refiners have also started upgrading their facilities.
Khristenko said the industry's revival will be helped by active development of new gas fields in East Siberia and the Far East as well demand for modern materials from many actively developing sectors, including the car building industry.
"It is important to create conditions in which car makers that came to our market, send signals which are felt by metallurgical and chemical firms," he said adding that plastics represented 30 percent of the cost of a modern car.
Nearly all major car producers have announced plans or have already built car factories in Russia, mainly near St Petersburg, dubbed Russia's Detroit, after the government introduced tax breaks to lure foreign investors.
All car makers now enjoy a zero import duty on car components, but will have to fully switch to Russian components in a few years.
Khristenko said four out of six new plants would be located in East Siberia and the Far East, which are set to replace West Siberia as the main oil and gas producing provinces in the decades to come. They will be located in Krasnoyarsk, Yakutsk, Irkutsk and on the Pacific Coast.
In the European part of Russia, one plant in Nizhnekamsk is already under construction by oil producer Tatneft and would cost 130 billion roubles ($5.34 billion), of which 16 billion will come from the budget.
An upgrade of the Novomoskovsky chemical factory would cost 50 billion roubles, of which 9 billion will be state funds.
Khristenko said the state had no plans to cap foreign investors' involvement in the chemical industry, unlike in the oil and gas sector, which are considered strategic. :confused:
"There are no limits on foreign investors, we welcome their involvement," he said, adding that one of the key challenges for the sector would be the ability to get used to higher gas prices, which are set to be fully liberalised by 2011.
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Russia wisely maintains key government shares in the new works, while inviting foreign investment. Foreign companies will have to employ Russians, buy Russian materials, Russian machine tools, etc., developing the native economy. They will be limited to selling their products in Russia. They will be sent to the east and underdeveloped regions as pioneers. Eventually the government will escalate restrictions and regulations, then buy up foreign investors' shares at 75% of market price. The investors will be happy to sell before the government starts publicising the new regulations, which would cause the shareprice to plummet.
SPACE STATION
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL2268354620071122
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will build a new space launch center in the Far East by 2015, Russian media reported on Thursday, citing First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov.
President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree that clears the way for the new cosmodrome, with launches set to start in 2015, Rossiiskaya Gazeta newspaper reported.
The launch center, in Russia's Far East region of Amur, will be called Vostochny, Ivanov was quoted as saying by the newspaper. It would be Russia's first launch center for manned missions on its own territory.
Russia currently has several space launch centers on its own territory, including one at Plesetsk in northern Russia, but none are used for manned missions.
Russia plans its first manned space mission from its own territory by 2018.
Russia's Space Agency said earlier this month that they had received an official decision to build a launch center, but no definitive site had been chosen.
The Russian government currently rents the Baikonur Cosmodrome in eastern Kazakhstan, but has faced difficulties with its lease agreement after an unmanned Proton rocket crashed on Sept 6 near a city where the Kazakh president was visiting.
Russia will build six major chemical plants by 2015 as it seeks to cut imports of value added products, including plastics, for booming industries such as the car sector, a minister said on Wednesday. Energy and Industry Minister Viktor Khristenko said the government wanted the share of the chemical industry to rise to 3 percent of gross domestic product by 2015, from 1.7 percent now, under a strategy reviewed at a cabinet meeting.
The ratio of value-added chemical products to basic chemical materials should rise to 70 to 30 by 2015 from the current 30 to 70, he said.
"We will have to continue actively lobbying the interests of Russian firms on foreign markets and help them, including by political means, defend their interests when special inquiries or prohibitive measures are opened against them," Khristenko told a news conference. :bbbat:
Russia's outdated petrochemical and chemical industries were almost entirely privatised :jew: in the 1990s, when they plunged into a deep crisis due to lack of funding. Primary resources as oil and gas were usually exported to the West.
Gas export monopoly Gazprom began industry consolidation at the start of this decade to form petrochemical giant Sibur, while other firms and refiners have also started upgrading their facilities.
Khristenko said the industry's revival will be helped by active development of new gas fields in East Siberia and the Far East as well demand for modern materials from many actively developing sectors, including the car building industry.
"It is important to create conditions in which car makers that came to our market, send signals which are felt by metallurgical and chemical firms," he said adding that plastics represented 30 percent of the cost of a modern car.
Nearly all major car producers have announced plans or have already built car factories in Russia, mainly near St Petersburg, dubbed Russia's Detroit, after the government introduced tax breaks to lure foreign investors.
All car makers now enjoy a zero import duty on car components, but will have to fully switch to Russian components in a few years.
Khristenko said four out of six new plants would be located in East Siberia and the Far East, which are set to replace West Siberia as the main oil and gas producing provinces in the decades to come. They will be located in Krasnoyarsk, Yakutsk, Irkutsk and on the Pacific Coast.
In the European part of Russia, one plant in Nizhnekamsk is already under construction by oil producer Tatneft and would cost 130 billion roubles ($5.34 billion), of which 16 billion will come from the budget.
An upgrade of the Novomoskovsky chemical factory would cost 50 billion roubles, of which 9 billion will be state funds.
Khristenko said the state had no plans to cap foreign investors' involvement in the chemical industry, unlike in the oil and gas sector, which are considered strategic. :confused:
"There are no limits on foreign investors, we welcome their involvement," he said, adding that one of the key challenges for the sector would be the ability to get used to higher gas prices, which are set to be fully liberalised by 2011.
---
Russia wisely maintains key government shares in the new works, while inviting foreign investment. Foreign companies will have to employ Russians, buy Russian materials, Russian machine tools, etc., developing the native economy. They will be limited to selling their products in Russia. They will be sent to the east and underdeveloped regions as pioneers. Eventually the government will escalate restrictions and regulations, then buy up foreign investors' shares at 75% of market price. The investors will be happy to sell before the government starts publicising the new regulations, which would cause the shareprice to plummet.
SPACE STATION
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL2268354620071122
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will build a new space launch center in the Far East by 2015, Russian media reported on Thursday, citing First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov.
President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree that clears the way for the new cosmodrome, with launches set to start in 2015, Rossiiskaya Gazeta newspaper reported.
The launch center, in Russia's Far East region of Amur, will be called Vostochny, Ivanov was quoted as saying by the newspaper. It would be Russia's first launch center for manned missions on its own territory.
Russia currently has several space launch centers on its own territory, including one at Plesetsk in northern Russia, but none are used for manned missions.
Russia plans its first manned space mission from its own territory by 2018.
Russia's Space Agency said earlier this month that they had received an official decision to build a launch center, but no definitive site had been chosen.
The Russian government currently rents the Baikonur Cosmodrome in eastern Kazakhstan, but has faced difficulties with its lease agreement after an unmanned Proton rocket crashed on Sept 6 near a city where the Kazakh president was visiting.