Azerbaijan, Iran plan to accelerate creation of joint plant for medicine production
Iran and Azerbaijan plan to accelerate the work on the establishment of a joint pharmaceutical enterprise in the industrial park in Baku, Iranian Deputy Minister of Health Iraj Harirchi told Trend on March 30.
He said this issue will be discussed during the visit of the Iranian Health Minister Hassan Ghazizadeh Hashemi to Azerbaijan on April 19.
“The decision to create a joint pharmaceutical enterprise was again confirmed during the recent visit [March 28-29] of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to Azerbaijan,” Harirchi noted.
He added that the parties agreed to expand cooperation in the creation of the joint venture for medicine production, as well as in the medical field and in establishing links between the medical universities of the two countries.
Azerbaijan and Iran signed the memorandum of understanding on the construction of a joint pharmaceutical plant on April 21, 2016. The groundbreaking ceremony of the joint plant Caspian Pharmed was held in the Pirallahi district of Baku in January 2017.
The cost of the plant is $20.6 million, and the Iranian side will invest some $11 million in its construction. The project shareholders are Iran’s Tamin Pharmaceutical Investment Company (49 percent), Azersun Holding (26 percent) and Azerbaijan Investment Company (25 percent).
The project will consist of three stages. In the first phase there will be production of pills and capsules, ampoules and vial - in the second stage, and production of antibiotic drugs will be in the third stage.
The major part of drugs is planned to be sold in Azerbaijan’s domestic market, while a certain part will be exported to Russia, Kazakhstan, Georgia and other countries.
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Azerbaijan sending metal products for new BMW plant in Germany
The Sumgayit Technologies Park (STP) delivered the first cargo of galvanized steel products to Germany for construction of a new plant of German auto giant BMW in Cologne, the STP told Trend.
"A contract for supply of the first cargo of metal products to Germany was signed with the contractor company, DMT Foundry GmbH, and negotiations are currently underway to supply the next cargo."
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Azerbaijan's e-security center , Microsoft to cooperate in cyber security
The e-security center CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies will take advantage of Microsoft's experience in providing protection against cyber attacks, the ministry said on April 2.
The ministry said that a relevant agreement on cooperation in this field was reached within a Memorandum of Understanding signed at the level of the leaderships of Microsoft Azerbaijan and CERT.
Under the memo, CERT will use Microsoft's services and technologies in the field of cyber security, share experience in this field, cooperate in conducting relevant studies, etc.
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Repair of Baku-Boyuk Kasik railway continues
Azerbaijan Railways CJSC has launched the next stage of work for overhaul of the Baku-Boyuk Kasik railway, the press service of the company said in a statement April 2.
The overhaul of the 4.5-km Govlar-Tovuz section began on April 2.
The reconstruction work will last one week.
The project to reconstruct the 600-km Baku-Boyuk Kasik railway started in October 2015.
To date, 507 kilometers of the railway have been reconstructed.
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Two new solar power plants are planned to be commissioned in Azerbaijan
Two new solar power plants are planned to be commissioned in Azerbaijan in the near future, Nizami Asgarov, chief technologist of Azerbaijan’s Azguntex company, told Trend April 3.
The power plants will operate on solar panels manufactured by the company, he added.
“The power plant in Baku’s Sahil settlement is fully ready for operation,” he said. “It is only left to connect solar generating facilities to the common electricity grid. After the start of its operation, it is also planned to commission a similar solar power plant in Sumgait city, where the work has almost been completed.”
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