Six residents, three of whom have already started production, have been attracted to the Alga special economic zone due to the inclusion of the territory of the Ufa Industrial Park in its composition. Artyom Penzin, director of the management company of the SEZ “Alga”, told about this at the webinar of the program “Leaders of Territorial Development” organized by the Institute of Knowledge Economics with the support of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia and the Association of Clusters and Technoparks of the Russian Federation. The speaker shared with the audience the experience and results of the integration of the Ufa Industrial Park into the Alga SEZ.
Nail Gabbasov, Director General of the Development Corporation of the Republic of Bashkortostan, also commented on the advantages of such an association of preferential zones. The agency is the management company of the SEZ “Alga” and the industrial park “Ufa”.
– To date, 6 residents have received resident status at the new site, of which 3 have already started production. At the same time, two of them took advantage of customs preferences when purchasing equipment, which provided investors with more comfortable conditions for starting production. In addition, thanks to the inclusion of the industrial park in the SEZ, our anchor resident decided to implement two more major investment projects on the territory of the Ufa Industrial Park,” Nail Gabbasov noted.
The Development Corporation stressed that industrial parks and SEZs offer a variety of advantages for investors. Industrial parks focus on creating favorable conditions for production by providing tenants with ready-made production facilities or land plots provided with infrastructure.
They can also offer support in construction, obtaining various permits and other issues, which greatly simplifies the start-up and running of the business. In turn, SEZs provide a wider range of benefits and services, including special tax conditions and customs preferences. Thus, the most attractive conditions for investors can be offered by an industrial park located in the SEZ.
To date, 22 companies are residents of the SEZ “Alga”. The investment portfolio of residents amounts to almost 65 billion rubles.