TOMSK, May 23 – RIA Tomsk. Tomsk authorities expect the inclusion of the timber processing industrial park in the city of Asino in the number of priority investment projects of Minpromtorg, the press service of the regional administration reports with reference to the vice-governor Andrey Knorr on Tuesday. According to Knorr, Asino timber processing park will receive an boost to development in connection with the entry of a new investor in the project.
Earlier it was reported that in 2016 the Russian-Chinese project on creation in Asino the timber processing industrial park, in addition to the AVIC Foresty company (subsidiary of AVIC corporation, owns the Roskitinvest company), entered a new investor – Hubei timber industry company Fuhan. The industrial park will consist of two forestry complexes – TPC Roskininvest, which is being built in Asino, and Beloyars TPC, the memorandum on the construction of which was signed in 2015.
"Today, it is necessary to start preparing documents for the inclusion of the park in the federal list of priority investment projects, which will allow the company to participate in competitions for subsidies for infrastructure development. The preliminary approval of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation already exists ... This is the interstate project, and efforts of all parties are needed to improve the efficiency of the park", – the press service quoted Knorr.
The new investor plans to change the management system of the investment project, the press service reports with reference to AVIC Forestry CEO Luo Kan. Since December of last year Roskintinvest has been carrying out a technological, management and construction audit, which for some time mothballed the company's development plans."Now we form a new team and strategy for the development of the timber industry park for ten years. One of the key tasks – is to build a transparent holding structure, create a platform to attract new residents (investors) to the territory of the Asino timber processing industrial park and efficient production", – said Luo Kan.
The key events of this year, according to him, will be the full launch of the plant for the production of MDF boards, the construction of combined heat and power plant and railway container platform with a capacity up to 1000 containers per month. In the second half of 2017, the enterprise will begin a designing of the intrasite gas pipeline.
Asino timber processing industrial park, in which already invested more than 20 billion rubles, is included in the roadmap for the concept of creating the innovative territorial center "INO Tomsk" in the Tomsk region, approved by the decree of the government of the Russian Federation. In total, the park should give about 5.5 thousand jobs, for now about two thousand were created.