Has Russia forgotten how to make gas turbines for power plants? Russia has stopped testing a high-capacity gas turbine due to an accident at the Siemens Gas Turbine Technology Plant.
In August 2012, our country became a member of the World trade organization(WTO). This circumstance will inevitably lead to increased competition in the domestic market of power engineering. Here, as elsewhere, the law applies: "change or die." Without revising the technology and without carrying out a deep modernization, it will be almost impossible to fight the sharks of Western engineering. In this regard, the issues related to the development of modern equipment operating as part of combined cycle plants (CCGT).
Over the past two decades, combined cycle technology has become the most popular in the global energy sector - it accounts for up to two thirds of all generating capacities commissioned today on the planet. This is due to the fact that in combined-cycle plants, the energy of the burned fuel is used in a binary cycle - first in a gas turbine, and then in a steam one, and therefore CCGT is more efficient than any thermal power plant (TPP) operating only in a steam cycle.
Currently, the only area in the thermal power industry in which gas turbine manufacturers from Russia are critically behind the world's leading manufacturers is high-capacity gas turbines - 200 MW and more. Moreover, foreign leaders have not only mastered the production of gas turbines with a unit capacity of 340 MW, but also successfully tested and use a single-shaft CCGT layout, when a gas turbine with a capacity of 340 MW and a steam turbine with a capacity of 160 MW have a common shaft. This arrangement allows to significantly reduce the construction time and the cost of the power unit.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia in March 2011 adopted the "Strategy for the development of power engineering Russian Federation for 2010–2020 and until 2030”, according to which this direction in the domestic power engineering industry receives solid support from the state. As a result, by 2016, the Russian power engineering industry should carry out industrial development, including full-scale tests and refinement on its own test benches, of advanced gas turbine units (GTP) with a capacity of 65-110 and 270-350 MW and combined-cycle plants (CCP) running on natural gas with an increase in their coefficient of performance (COP) up to 60%.
Moreover, gas turbine manufacturers from Russia are able to produce all the main units of CCGT - steam turbines, boilers, turbogenerators, but a modern gas turbine is not yet given. Although back in the 70s, our country was a leader in this direction, when for the first time in the world supercritical steam parameters were mastered.
In general, as a result of the implementation of the Strategy, it is assumed that the share of power unit projects using foreign main power equipment should be no more than 40% by 2015, no more than 30% by 2020, no more than 10% by 2025 . It is believed that otherwise there may be a dangerous dependence of the stability of the unified energy system of Russia on the supply of foreign components. During the operation of power equipment, it is regularly necessary to replace a number of components and parts operating at high temperatures and pressures. At the same time, some of these components are not produced in Russia. For example, even for the domestic gas turbine GTE-110 and licensed GTE-160, some of the most important components and parts (for example, disks for rotors) are purchased only abroad.
In our market, such large and advanced concerns as Siemens and General Electric are actively and very successfully operating, which often win tenders for the supply of power equipment. There are already several generating facilities in the Russian energy system, to some extent equipped with the main energy equipment manufactured by Siemens, General Electric, etc. True, their total capacity does not yet exceed 5% of the total capacity of the Russian energy system.
However, many generating companies that use domestic equipment when replacing it still prefer to turn to firms with which they have been accustomed to work for decades. This is not just a tribute to tradition, but a justified calculation - many Russian companies carried out a technological renovation of production and are fighting on an equal footing with the world's power engineering giants. Today we will talk in more detail about the prospects of such large enterprises, as Kaluga Turbine Plant JSC (Kaluga), Ural Turbine Plant CJSC (Yekaterinburg), NPO Saturn (Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Region), Leningrad Metal Plant (St. Petersburg) , Perm Motor Building Complex (Perm Territory).
The difficult international situation is forcing Russia to speed up import substitution programs, especially in strategic sectors. In particular, to overcome dependence on imports in the energy sector, the Ministry of Energy and the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation are developing measures to support domestic turbine construction. Are Russian manufacturers, including the only specialized plant in the Ural Federal District, ready to meet the growing demand for new turbines, the RG correspondent found out.
At the new CHPP "Akademicheskaya" in Yekaterinburg, a turbine manufactured by UTZ is operating as part of a CCGT. Photo: Tatyana Andreeva / RG
Pavel Zavalny, Chairman of the Energy Committee of the State Duma, notes two main problems of the energy industry - its technological backwardness and a high percentage of depreciation of the existing main equipment.
According to the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation, over 60 percent of power equipment in Russia, in particular turbines, has exhausted its park resource. In the Ural Federal District, in Sverdlovsk region more than 70 percent of them, however, after the commissioning of new capacities, this percentage has slightly decreased, but still there is a lot of old equipment and it needs to be changed. After all, energy is not just one of the basic industries, the responsibility here is too high: imagine what will happen if you turn off the light and heat in winter, - says Yuri Brodov, head of the Turbines and Engines Department of the Ural Power Engineering Institute, UrFU, Doctor of Technical Sciences.
According to Zavalny, the fuel utilization rate at Russian thermal power plants is slightly above 50 percent, while the share of combined cycle gas plants (CCGTs) considered the most efficient is less than 15 percent. It should be noted that CCGTs were put into operation in Russia in the last decade - exclusively on the basis of imported equipment. The situation with the Siemens arbitration lawsuit regarding the alleged illegal delivery of their equipment to the Crimea showed what a trap this is. But it is unlikely that it will be possible to quickly solve the problem of import substitution.
The fact is that if domestic steam turbines have been quite competitive since the times of the USSR, then the situation with gas turbines is much worse.
When the Turbomotor Plant (TMZ) in the late 1970s and early 1980s was tasked with creating a 25 megawatt power gas turbine, it took 10 years (three samples were made that required further refinement). The last turbine was decommissioned in December 2012. In 1991, the development of an energy gas turbine began in Ukraine, in 2001 RAO "UES of Russia" somewhat prematurely decided to organize series production turbines at the Saturn site. But it is still far from the creation of a competitive machine, - says Valery Neuimin, Ph.D.
Engineers are able to reproduce previously developed products, there is no question of creating a fundamentally new one
It's not just about the Urals turbine plant(UTZ is the assignee of TMZ. - Approx. ed.), but also about others Russian manufacturers. Some time ago, at the state level, it was decided to buy gas turbines abroad, mainly in Germany. Then the factories curtailed the development of new gas turbines, have switched for the most part to the manufacture of spare parts for them, - says Yuri Brodov. - But now the country has set the task of reviving domestic gas turbine construction, because it is impossible to depend on Western suppliers in such a responsible industry.
The same UTZ has been actively involved in the construction of combined cycle units in recent years - it supplies steam turbines for them. But along with them, foreign-made gas turbines are installed - Siemens, General Electric, Alstom, Mitsubishi.
Today, two and a half hundred imported gas turbines operate in Russia - according to the Ministry of Energy, they make up 63 percent of the total. About 300 new machines are required to modernize the industry, and by 2035 - twice as many. Therefore, the task was set to create worthy domestic developments and put production on stream. First of all, the problem is in high-capacity gas turbine plants - they simply do not exist, and attempts to create them have not yet been successful. So, the other day, the media reported that during the tests in December 2017, the last sample of GTE-110 (GTE-110M - a joint development of Rosnano, Rostec and InterRAO) collapsed.
The state has high hopes for the Leningrad Metal Works (Power Machines), the largest manufacturer of steam and hydraulic turbines, which also has a joint venture with Siemens to produce gas turbines. However, as Valery Neuimin notes, if initially our side in this joint venture had 60 percent of the shares, and the Germans 40, then today the ratio is the opposite - 35 and 65.
The German company is not interested in the development of competitive equipment by Russia - years of joint work testify to this, - Neuimin expresses doubts about the effectiveness of such a partnership.
According to him, in order to create own production gas turbines, the state must support at least two enterprises in the Russian Federation so that they compete with each other. And you shouldn’t develop a high-power machine right away - it’s better to first bring to mind a small turbine, say, with a capacity of 65 megawatts, work out the technology, as they say, fill your hand and then move on to a more serious model. Otherwise, the money will be thrown to the wind: "it's like instructing an unknown company to develop spaceship, because a gas turbine is by no means a simple thing," the expert states.
As for the production of other types of turbines in Russia, not everything is going smoothly here either. At first glance, the capacities are quite large: today, only UTZ, as RG was told at the enterprise, is capable of producing power equipment with a total capacity of up to 2.5 gigawatts per year. However, it is very conditional to call the machines produced by Russian factories new: for example, the T-295 turbine, designed to replace the T-250 designed in 1967, does not differ radically from its predecessor, although a number of innovations have been introduced into it.
Today, turbine developers are mainly engaged in "buttons for a suit," Valery Neuimin believes. - In fact, now there are people left at the factories who are still able to reproduce previously developed products, but it is fundamental to create new technology there is no speech. This is a natural result of perestroika and the dashing 90s, when industrialists had to think about simply surviving. In fairness, we note: Soviet steam turbines were exceptionally reliable, a multiple margin of safety allowed power plants to operate for several decades without replacing equipment and without serious accidents. According to Valery Neuimin, modern steam turbines for thermal power plants have reached the limit of their efficiency, and the introduction of any innovations in existing designs will not radically improve this indicator. And for the time being, Russia cannot count on a quick breakthrough in gas turbine construction.
Such an industry, as for various purposes, refers to the type of engineering that produces goods with high added value. Therefore, the development of this area is consistent with the priorities of the leadership of our country, which tirelessly declares that we need to “jump off the oil needle” and more actively enter the market with high-tech products. In this sense, the production of turbines in Russia may well become one of the drivers of the domestic economy, along with the oil industry and other types of extractive industries.
Production of turbines of all types
Russian manufacturers produce both types of turbine units - for energy and transport. The former are used to generate electricity at thermal power plants. The latter are supplied to enterprises of the aviation industry and shipbuilding. A feature of the production of turbines is the lack of specialization of factories. That is, the same enterprise produces, as a rule, equipment of both types.
For example, the St. Petersburg production association "Saturn", which began in the 1950s with the production of only power machines, later added gas turbine plants for marine vessels to its range. And the Perm Motors plant, which at first specialized in the manufacture of aircraft engines, switched to the additional production of steam turbines for the electric power industry. Among other things, the lack of specialization speaks of the wide technical capabilities of our manufacturers - they can produce any equipment with guarantees of quality assurance.
Dynamics of turbine production in the Russian Federation
According to the publication BusinesStat, the production of turbines in Russia in the period from 2012 to 2016 increased by about 5 times. If in 2012 the enterprises of the industry produced a total of about 120 units, then in 2016 this figure exceeded 600 units. The increase was mainly due to the growth of power engineering. The dynamics were not affected by the crisis and, in particular, by the increase in the exchange rate.
The fact is that turbine plants practically do not use foreign technologies and do not need import substitution. In the manufacture of turbine equipment, only our own materials and equipment are used. By the way, this is an additional point that makes this area of engineering a competitor to the oil industry.
If the oil industry needs foreign technologies to develop new oil fields and, especially, the Arctic shelf, then the manufacturers of gas turbine plants make do with their own developments. This reduces the cost of producing turbines and therefore reduces the cost, which in turn improves the competitiveness of our products.
Cooperation with foreign manufacturers
The above does not mean at all that our manufacturers are pursuing a policy of secrecy. On the contrary, the trend recent years is to strengthen cooperation with foreign vendors. The need for this is dictated by the fact that our manufacturers are not able to organize the production of gas turbines with increased power. But such flagships, like some European companies, have the necessary resources. The pilot project was the opening of a joint venture between the St. Petersburg Saturn plant and the German company Siemens.
Yes, cooperation with distant partners in the field of turbine production is intensifying, which cannot be said about cooperation with close subcontractors. For example, due to the events in Ukraine, our manufacturers have practically lost ties with the Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkov production associations, which have been supplying components since Soviet times.
However, here, too, our manufacturers manage to solve problems positively. So, at the Rybinsk Turbine Plant in Yaroslavl region which produces power plants for the ships of the Russian Navy, switched to the production of their own components to replace those that previously came from Ukraine.
Changing market conditions
AT recent times the structure of demand has changed towards the consumption of low power devices. That is, the production of turbines in the country has intensified, but more low-power units have been produced. At the same time, an increase in demand for small-capacity products is observed both in the energy sector and in transport. Small power plants and small vehicles are popular today.
Another trend in 2017 is to increase the production of steam turbines. This equipment, of course, loses in functionality to gas turbine units, but it is preferable in terms of cost. For the construction of diesel and coal-fired power plants, these devices are purchased. These products are in demand in the Far North.
In conclusion, a few words about the prospects of the industry. According to experts, the production of turbines in Russia will grow to 1,000 units per year by 2021. All the necessary prerequisites are considered for this.
Russia has found a way to circumvent Western sanctions for the sake of the most important state task - the construction of the Crimean power plants. The turbines produced by the German company Siemens, which are necessary for the operation of the stations, have been delivered to the peninsula. However, how did it happen that our country was unable to develop such equipment itself?
Russia has delivered two of the four gas turbines to Crimea for use at the Sevastopol power plant, Reuters reported yesterday, citing sources. According to them, turbines of the SGT5-2000E model of the German concern Siemens were delivered to the port of Sevastopol.
Russia is building two power plants with a capacity of 940 megawatts in Crimea, and earlier the supply of Siemens turbines to them was frozen due to Western sanctions. However, apparently, a way out was found: these turbines were supplied by some third party companies, not Siemens itself.
Russian companies mass-produce only turbines for low-capacity power plants. For example, the capacity of the GTE-25P gas turbine is 25 MW. But modern power plants reach a capacity of 400-450 MW (as in the Crimea), and they need more powerful turbines - 160-290 MW. The turbine delivered to Sevastopol has exactly the required capacity of 168 MW. Russia is forced to find ways to circumvent Western sanctions in order to fulfill the program to ensure the energy security of the Crimean peninsula.
How did it happen that in Russia there are no technologies and sites for the production of high-capacity gas turbines?
After the collapse of the USSR in the 90s and early 2000s, Russian power engineering was on the verge of survival. But then a massive program for the construction of power plants began, that is, there was a demand for the products of Russian machine-building plants. But instead of creating their own product in Russia, a different path was chosen - and, at first glance, very logical. Why reinvent the wheel, spend a lot of time and money on development, research and production, if you can buy already modern and ready-made abroad.
“In the 2000s, we built gas turbine power plants with GE and Siemens turbines. Thus, they hooked our already poor energy on the needle of Western companies. Now a lot of money is paid for the maintenance of foreign turbines. An hour of work for a Siemens service engineer costs as much as a month's salary for a mechanic at this power plant. In the 2000s, it was necessary not to build gas turbine power plants, but to modernize our main generating capacities,” the CEO believes engineering company Powerz Maxim Muratshin.
“I am engaged in production, and I was always offended when earlier the top management said that we would buy everything abroad, because ours do not know how to do anything. Now everyone is awake, but time has passed. Already there is no such demand to create a new turbine to replace the Siemens one. But at that time it was possible to create your own high-capacity turbine and sell it to 30 gas turbine power plants. That's what the Germans would do. And the Russians just bought these 30 turbines from foreigners,” adds the interlocutor.
Now the main problem in power engineering is the wear and tear of machinery and equipment in the absence of high demand. More precisely, there is a demand from power plants, where outdated equipment must be urgently replaced. However, they don't have the money to do so.
“Power plants do not have enough money to carry out large-scale modernization in the face of a strict tariff policy regulated by the state. Power plants cannot sell electricity at a price that would earn them a quick upgrade. We have very cheap electricity compared to Western countries", - says Muratshin.
Therefore, the situation in the energy industry cannot be called rosy. For example, at one time the largest boiler plant in the Soviet Union, Krasny Kotelshchik (part of Power Machines), at its peak produced 40 large-capacity boilers per year, and now only one or two per year. “There is no demand, and the capacities that were in the Soviet Union have been lost. But we still have the basic technologies, so within two or three years our plants can again produce 40-50 boilers a year. It's a matter of time and money. But here we are dragged to the last, and then they want to quickly do everything in two days, ”muratshin worries.
Demand for gas turbines is even more difficult, because generating electricity from gas boilers is expensive. No one in the world builds its power industry only on this type of generation, as a rule, there is the main generating capacity, and gas turbine power plants supplement it. The advantage of gas turbine stations is that they are quickly connected and provide energy to the network, which is important during peak periods of consumption (morning and evening). Whereas, for example, steam or coal-fired boilers require several hours to cook. “In addition, there is no coal in Crimea, but it has its own gas, plus a gas pipeline is being pulled from the Russian mainland,” Muratshin explains the logic according to which a gas-fired power plant was chosen for Crimea.
But there is another reason why Russia bought German, and not domestic, turbines for power plants under construction in Crimea. The development of domestic analogues is already underway. It's about about the gas turbine GTD-110M, which is being modernized and finalized at the United Engine Corporation together with Inter RAO and Rosnano. This turbine was developed in the 90s and 2000s, it was even used at Ivanovskaya GRES and Ryazanskaya GRES in the late 2000s. However, the product turned out to be with many "childhood diseases". Actually, NPO "Saturn" is now engaged in their treatment.
And since the project of the Crimean power plants is extremely important from many points of view, apparently, for the sake of reliability, it was decided not to use crude domestic turbine for it. The UEC explained that they would not have time to finalize their turbine before the start of construction of stations in the Crimea. By the end of this year, only a prototype of the modernized GTD-110M will be created. While the launch of the first blocks of two thermal power plants in Simferopol and Sevastopol is promised by the beginning of 2018.
However, if it were not for the sanctions, then there would be no serious problems with turbines for Crimea. Moreover, even Siemens turbines are not a purely imported product. Aleksey Kalachev from Finam Investment Company notes that turbines for the Crimean CHPPs could be produced in Russia, at the St. Petersburg plant Siemens Gas Turbine Technologies.
"Of course it is subsidiary Siemens, and probably some of the components are supplied for assembly from European factories. But still this is a joint venture, and production is localized on Russian territory and for Russian needs,” says Kalachev. That is, Russia not only buys foreign turbines, but also forced foreigners to invest in production on Russian territory. According to Kalachev, it is precisely the creation of a joint venture in Russia with foreign partners that makes it possible to quickly and effectively overcome the technological gap.
“Without the participation of foreign partners, the creation of independent and completely independent technologies and technological platforms is theoretically possible, but it will require significant time and money,” the expert explains. Moreover, money is needed not only for the modernization of production, but also for training, research and development, engineering schools, etc. By the way, it took Siemens 10 years to create the SGT5-8000H turbine.
The real origin of the turbines delivered to the Crimea turned out to be quite understandable. According to Technopromexport, four sets of turbines for power facilities in Crimea were purchased on the secondary market. And he, as you know, is not subject to sanctions.
Respondent: A. S. Lebedev, Doctor of Technical Sciences
— On June 18, a new high-tech plant for the production of gas turbine units was opened. What are the challenges facing the company?
The main task is the introduction of gas turbine technologies in the Russian market and the maximum localization of the production of large gas turbines with a capacity of 170, 300 MW for power plants operating in the combined cycle.
I would suggest taking a step back and making a short digression into history so that it is clear where we came from, how the joint venture between Siemens and Power Machines was organized. It all started in 1991, when a joint venture was created - then LMZ and Siemens - to assemble gas turbines. An agreement was signed on the transfer of technology to the then Leningrad Metal Plant, which is now part of Power Machines OJSC. This joint venture produced 19 turbines in 10 years. Over the years, LMZ has accumulated production experience in order to learn how to not only assemble these turbines, but also manufacture some components on their own.
Based on this experience, in 2001 a license agreement was concluded with Siemens for the right to manufacture, sell and after-sales after-sales service turbines of the same type. They received the Russian marking GTE-160. These are turbines that produce 160 MW, and in combined-cycle units 450 MW, that is, this is essentially teamwork gas turbine with steam turbines. And 35 such GTE-160 turbines were manufactured and sold under the Siemens license, 31 of them for Russian market. They are quite widely used in St. Petersburg, in particular, at the Severo-Zapadnaya CHPP, at the Yuzhnaya CHPP, Pravoberezhnaya CHPP, in Kaliningrad, in Southern Siberia, in Moscow 6 such turbines operate in combined cycle units. It can even be said without false modesty that this is the most common gas turbine in the Russian Federation today. It is a fact. No one has produced such a series of powerful gas turbines in such quantity.
And now, based on this experience of joint production, a new agreement was concluded and a new joint venture, Siemens Gas Turbine Technologies, was created. It happened more than three years ago, in December 2011. Now we will produce turbines on our own own factory. The tasks remain the same - to master production, achieve maximum localization and fit into the government's development program for import substitution.
— So, in fact, you have become a competitor to the Power Machines?
In terms of gas turbines, we are not competitors. Because Power Machines has been manufacturing steam and hydraulic turbines since 2011. The entire gas turbine business with engineers, with continued execution of contracts, was transferred by Power Machines to a joint venture. We are 35 percent owned by Power Machines and 65 percent by Siemens. That is, we have entered into this joint venture with the entire gas turbine part of Power Machines. In other words, we are business partners, not competitors.
— What is the differenceSiemens gas turbinesfrom domestic analogues?
In this power class, the only sample of domestic products is the NPO Saturn Rybinsk turbine - GTD-110 with a capacity of 110 MW. Today it is the most powerful turbine of its own production in the Russian Federation. Quite widely represented in Russia are turbines up to 30 MW based on the conversion of aircraft engines. There is a very extensive field for competition here, and Russian products are the main ones in this power class. For large gas turbines, there is no such competitive product in Russia today. 110 MW is all there is, today 6 such units have been manufactured. On the part of the customer there are certain complaints about their operation. Since it is in a certain sense a competitor, I would not like to comment on the results of its activities.
- What kind latest developments you are using?
All possible Siemens developments. We are an enterprise that is mainly owned by this corporation, as a result of which we have access to both documentation and all the results of research and development activities implemented in those gas turbines for which we have a license - these are 170 and 307 MW. Documents in the volume of production organized in Gorelovo are available to us without any restrictions, they allow us to introduce the latest developments.
Along with this, we ourselves participate in these developments. An example is our cooperation with the Polytechnic University. The university is now divided into institutes, and the Institute of Energy and Electrical Engineering has the Department of "Turbines, hydraulic machines and aircraft engines", this is one of the departments of the institute. We have contracts with this and another department and conduct joint research activities. In one case, we test an element of a gas turbine - an outlet diffuser. For two years, quite a lot has already been done interesting job on the stand. A stand that we actually paid for and helped create.
At the same department, but in the division of hydraulic machines, we are conducting another research work. Why on the subject of hydraulic machines? The fact is that gas turbines are equipped with hydraulic drives, and this very department has accumulated a lot of experience in research on the drive of various elements. Elements that control the operation of a gas turbine and a hydro turbine. Moreover, for the sake of this cooperation, the department participated in a serious competition, where it defeated its main competitors from a Chinese university.
In addition to joint research work with these two departments, we also give lectures, try to support and train our own staff while still on the student bench.
— Are your main customers Russian or foreign enterprises?
We have a license with the right to manufacture and sell to Russia and the CIS. In agreement with the main founder, Siemens Corporation, we can sell to other countries. And without any additional approvals, we sell gas turbines to Russian energy structures, these are Gazprom Energoholding, Inter RAO, Fortum and other owners of energy systems.
— In your opinion, what is the key difference between the organization of engineering work at your enterprise?
It seems to me that there are no fundamental differences from the Russian production enterprise. Probably because over the past 20 years, Russian enterprises have become a bit like Western ones - Western management has appeared, borrowed management systems have been introduced technological process and quality. That is, there is no revolutionary difference.
But I would highlight two differences. The first is specialization, that is, an engineer is engaged in purely technical, even more creative activities. There is no such definite dispersion in the activities of an engineer, as in a typical Russian enterprise, when it is used almost everywhere.
I will demonstrate by the example of engineering - there are at least three such engineerings at Siemens: one main engineering for a product, for example, for a gas turbine, where the gas turbine plant itself, all its internals, all its technical solutions, concepts are being implemented. The second engineering is service engineering, which deals with upgrades, revisions, inspections, and it does not deal with the creation of a new product. The third engineering can be characterized as technical solutions for system integration, which fits the gas turbine into the equipment of the station - all air preparation devices for its operation, fuel supply, gas facilities, which must be in connection with other elements of the power plant. And again, he is not engaged in the creation of a new product, but focuses on the area outside the main gas turbine.
Second fundamental difference of our production is due to the fact that Siemens is a global company. This is both good and difficult at the same time. In the global Siemens corporation, all procedures, rules, and regulatory documents must be universal for countries Latin America, Finland, China, Russia and other countries. They should be quite voluminous, quite detailed and they must be followed. And this is necessary in global company get used to a lot global processes and rules written in great detail.
— What role does participation in engineering forums, such as, for example, the Engineering Assembly of Russia, play in the development of the enterprise? Are you planning to participate in the upcoming November event?
Yes, we plan to participate. We would like not only to declare ourselves, that we are a company with developed engineering, a company that works with scientific institutions, and makes its own developments together with Siemens. We would also like some kind of search for partners on topics of interest, for example, on the localization of production. We probably just don't know about the possibilities that really exist. We need to operate more with some kind of databases, be more flexible in the search for sub-suppliers, suppliers, materials, components, or vice versa, engineering services. Because now is such a difficult time when you need to evaluate everything from an economic point of view, when you need to re-evaluate what you need to do yourself and what services it is better to purchase, at the same time evaluating how profitable it will be not only in this moment but also in the future. Maybe you need to make certain investments and in the future to master some kind of production or services on your own. In order to acquire this outlook, participation in such conferences and meetings is very important. So we will definitely participate.
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