New rule in Orekhovo-Zuyevo: company and city are one

For the first time, Gennadiy Panin, head of the Moscow area city district has had a routine visit to Metadynea, Ltd. site in Orekhovo-Zuyevo; the site is operated at the OJSC Karbolit production areas (both of them are part of Metafrax Group).

Armen Garslyan, Metafrax Board of Directors Chairman, Igor Spasskiy, Metadynea General Director, and Andrey Polovodov, Production Site Director, walked the mayor through the departments drawing his attention to the updated process equipment. The trip started from the new liquid raw materials storage: this year, Metadynea is going to start the storage complex operation; the complex has been built for three years, and 1 billion roubles was spent. Today, it is working in the commissioning mode.

The delegation has visited the production site, got acquainted with work of operators at the synthetic resin, novolac resin and phenolformaldehyde resin reactors and the formalin unit controllers; it has got acquainted with the modern laboratory unit where the resin viscosity, an important quality factor, is defined. The mini-reactor, a unique unit in the Russian territory that demonstrates the resin pulpifying, was put in operation here. The new technology helps to practically test new recipes and get small amounts of product with required properties, and then specialists load the reactors taking in account the experiment data.

• The product using range is very wide. – Explained Andrey Polovodov, Production Site Director of the Moscow area site, to the head of the district. – It is used to produce construction and abrasive materials, to join diamond instruments; it is used in space and defense industries as well. We work with the foreign and Russian partners, in our city, more than one hundred and half citizens with an average salary of 50 thousand roubles work on the production site in our city.

• In 2015, Metadynea channelled to the region budget more than 300 million roubles as taxes, a lot of money left in the municipal exchequer. The company intends to increase its participation in the social, economic and cultural programs of the city. – Noted Igor Spasskiy, Metadynea General Director.

• The company reregistration from the capital to Orekhovo-Zuevo is very important to the municipality. – Noted Gennadiy Panin. – In 2015, our district gained 7 million roubles of TIPI and 700 thousand roubles of tax on land. It is great that the company makes the prestige of our city higher: it had performed and still realizes a number of projects and it is the leader among the resin manufacturers. The advanced technology was implemented here and it offers wider opportunities and stronger infrastructure. We are happy to deal with such reliable partner.

For 11 years, our subsidiary company has been developed its capacities in Orekhovo-Zuevo: we decided to consider the city as the base in the centre of Russia, therefore we brought our tax potential here. – Said Armen Garslyan. – This year, we will invest into the site more than 1 billion roubles. Metafrax accepted the development program until 2030, and we know how will Metadynea be developed step-by-step, increasing its production capacity. 15 years ago we have justified the rule: “Company and city are one” and the same norm will be accepted for Orekhovo-Zuevo. I’m sure that from now on, the city and the company will be developed together, and we will be able to do more than we could do separately.