Site news 28.08.2013
August 28, 2013, Rybinsk. – Today, on 28 August 2013 at the MAKS-2013 aviation and space salon, NPO Saturn and NPO Stankostroenie signed an Agreement of collaboration and understanding regarding joint implementation of the NPO Saturn production facilities technical and technological re-equipment program through the application of the Russian-made solutions and discontinuation of importing parts used in aerospace engineering.
The Agreement was co-signed by Ilya Fedorov, NPO Saturn chief executive officer and Ruslan Zvyagintsev, president of NPO Stankostroenie.
The following activities are stipulated by this Agreement:
• engineering of technical solutions with a follow-on implementation at NPO Saturn and other Russian companies;
• upgrading the equipment used in the NPO Saturn production infrastructure;
• identification of critical processes in machining of the jet engine parts;
• elaboration of technical requirements allowing the design and manufacture of the equipment, fabrication of the equipment prototypes and implementation of the common work results throughout the United Engine Corporation companies.
To ensure a holistic approach to re-equipping the NPO Saturn production faculties, the NPO Saturn tooling-production subsidiaries SatIZ and NIR will act as partners in the realization of this joint engineering process.
The production and financial potential of our companies have brought us to establishing a long-term, mutually profitable collaboration focused on the joint engineering efforts to satisfy the aircraft engine component production market, - emphasized NPO Saturn CEO Ilya Fedorov. – We have to come up with a common strategy of the Russian machine building development in the future with regard to its application in the engine-building business. In particular, we will be setting burning issues to the machine-building folks, which they would have to transform into the modern equipment solutions meeting all the aviation industry requirements”.
The intercompany agreement has a provision for setting up an NPO Saturn-based test center where the equipment produced by NPO Stankostroenie would be tested.
A permanent working group will be established to facilitate the most efficient implementation of tasks in various directions of the joint activity.
NPO Saturn Research and Production Association (OJSC) is an engine-building company specialized in the design and development, production and after-market support of gas turbine engines for military and civil aviation, Navy boats and power-generating plants and gas-pumping units. NPO Saturn is part of United Engine Corporation.
United Engine Corporation Managing Company (OJSC) is a subsidiary of OBORONPROM UIC (OJSC). The UEC structure integrates over 85% of Russia’s leading companies specialized in the design and development, serial production and after-market support of gas turbine machinery, as well as the key enterprises – the industry’s integral players. One of the UEC’s prioritized fields of activity is the implementation of comprehensive programs of development of the companies in the industry by introducing the world-class new technologies.
OBORONPROM United Industrial Corporation (OJSC) is a multi-field machine-building group created in 2002. It is part of Rostec. The main fields of activity – helicopter building (the Russian Helicopters holding), engine building (the UEC holding) and other assets.
