PRESIDENT TO DISCUSS VOLOGDA PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES OF THE RUSSIAN LIGHT INDUSTRY
President of the Russian Federation visited Vologda Textile company ``, where he inspected the production and new equipment, and talked with employees of the enterprise.
Vologda Textile `` - the only enterprise in Russia#39;s textile industry, which produces fabric and home textile products, including the use of traditional Vologda lace.
In 2005, the `first` Vologda Textile exported not severe, and finished fabrics in the Baltic States, Portugal and Spain. `` Vologda Textile became the first Russian producer, who managed to go through a competitive selection to represent their tissue at the French Premier Vision - the most authoritative in the West textile exhibition. And in 2010, the company received the first in Russia `Oeco-Tex Standard 100 #39;- an international certificate confirming the environmental safety and quality of its products - fabrics and home textile products.
Experts suggest that it was around this business for the foreseeable future will form the Russian textile cluster. In addition, light industry is a particularly important social. The industry employs about 400,000 people, 75 percent of them women -. Vladimir Putin congratulated the workers `Vologda Textile` Happy March 8.
Measures to support domestic light industry after Russia joins the World Trade Organization will be meeting today with the topic in the EC `Russian` House with leaders of Industry and Trade Ministry, Agriculture Ministry and the Federal Customs Service, the leaders of the industry and textile industry, the leading Russian designers.
The meeting will discuss the creation of clusters, including providing raw textile industry, maximizing the presence of light and textile industry in trade networks and providing state order for light industry.
