This is already the 25th anniversary Metalloobrabotka exhibition.

Mikhail Mishustin visits Metalloobrabotka 2025 exhibition. With Minister of Industry and Trade Anton Alikhanov and Minister of Science and Higher Education Valery Falkov

Mikhail Mishustin visits the Metalloobrabotka 2025 exhibition. The LASSARD LLC stand. LASSARD LLC Director-General Oleg Nefedov as an exhibition guide

Mikhail Mishustin visits the Metalloobrabotka 2025 exhibition. The LASSARD LLC stand. LASSARD LLC Director-General Oleg Nefedov as an exhibition guide
Mikhail Mishustin visits Metalloobrabotka 2025 exhibition. With Minister of Industry and Trade Anton Alikhanov and Minister of Science and Higher Education Valery Falkov
Metalloobrabotka (Metalworking), International Specialised Exhibition for Equipment, Tools and Instruments for the Metalworking Industry has been held since 1984 and ranks among the largest specialised international exhibitions in the field of machine-tools manufacturing. This year, Moscow is hosting the 25th anniversary exhibition with over 1,200 companies involved, including about 840 from 50 Russian regions, as well as participants from Belarus, China, India, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Italy, and the Republic of Korea.
The exhibition’s business programme prioritises applied objectives and the strategic long-term development of basic industries.
The business programme focuses on implementing the Production and Automation Systems national project, its goals and key indicators, state support measures, as well as technological leadership issues as a high-priority aspect of the industrial policy, including independence of imports, the development of the scientific and technological potential, and training skilled personnel.
The event serves as a key
platform for unveiling advanced research projects of the machine-building
sector and also helps establish stable and resilient production and technological chains. The exhibition aims to promote industrial cooperation, to strengthen ties between producers, suppliers and consumers, to introduce
domestic engineering solutions and to expand supplies of equipment and components independently of imports.
Excerpts from the transcript:
Mikhail Mishustin: Our machine-tool industry is currently making a powerful leap forward. A competence centre has been established, with the corresponding national project focused on developing production systems and automated control systems. It is crucial to enhance all relevant competencies and production capacities. We must utilise the toolkit available to the Ministry of Industry and Trade – including the Industrial Development Fund, preferential loans, industrial mortgages, and the cluster investment platform. All instrument variants should be employed. Naturally, we must not overlook raising private capital to this sector.
Today we saw the team from Beavertech – a group that returned from Western countries and has produced five-axis machine tools with nearly 80 to 90 percent localisation, something we could scarcely have imagined just recently. They are in enormous demand. Last year, they sold around 50 units, predominantly to private buyers. Small and medium-sized businesses are now purchasing these machines because their work quality and productivity speak for themselves. I consider this a significant milestone and would ask you, Mr Alikhanov (addressing Anton Alikhanov), and all colleagues to support this initiative.
When discussing the machine-tool industry and manufacturing, we must unequivocally prioritise personnel training – training engineering cadres and professionals. Specialists who will join production lines tomorrow and competently manage industrial production systems, including developing new flexible automated production lines and robotics incorporating artificial intelligence and cutting-edge technologies now being widely implemented.
I also wish to emphasise that the link between science, education, and industrial production must be robust, with its ultimate outcome being the attainment of national development goals set by the Head of State. This includes ensuring our country’s industrial and technological sovereignty is firmly safeguarded.