Roadmap for implementing projects, measures to create rare earth processing cluster signed in Russia's Krasnoyarsk

KRASNOYARSK. Nov 6 (Interfax) - Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu has signed an agreement in Krasnoyarsk as part of measures to create a cluster for critical metals deep processing in the Angara-Yenisei macro-region.

The Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a development fund of the Mendeleev Valley Innovation Science and Technology Center have signed a roadmap for the implementation of projects and measures.

The branch will become a "key link" in the development of the project alongside actively involved industrial partners, Shoigu said at a meeting with scientists and professors, which focused on the prospects of developing the cluster of deep processing of non-ferrous, rare metals and rare earths.

The list of industrial companies planning to create capacity in Siberia is constantly expanding and there are substantial preferences and concessions envisaged for the project participants, he said.

The cluster is expected to be created in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Irkutsk region, Khakassia and Tyva. Its aim is to turn Siberia's resources potential into a source of the country's sustainable innovative development, he said. The project is about forming an ecosystem that would combine the production and processing of rare metals and rare earths, the development of advanced materials, microelectronics, energy solutions and artificial intelligence systems in close interaction among industry, science and education. Shoigu is the proponent of its creation.