Concern Kalashnikov could set up production of medical, building tools - Rogozin
IZHEVSK. Sept 20 (Interfax) - Concern Kalashnikov could start making civilian products such as medical and building tools, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said.
"Today, we are already discussing the possibility of Concern Kalashnikov launching, at its new production facilities, the production of medical instrument, [and] say, building instrument," he told journalists.
Rogozin urged copying the company's experience of self-restoration and development seen in recent years.
The company's owner, Rostec state corporation, invited a private investor who funded the modernization of the company's production facilities, he said.
The upgrade enabled Concern Kalashnikov to diversify its products, Rogozin said.
"We believe - and the president supported us - that this experience should be copied, and in November-December, at the behest of the military-industrial commission, we will hold a major military-industrial conference where the experience of Concern Kalashnikov will be offered as a template for how [a company] can, at the expense of investment, and without constantly asking for our already strained budget, re-equip its production facilities and make them ultra-modern, sharpened [to meet] the challenges of defense and security, but also those of the highly technological civilian production," Rogozin said.