Latvian President visits Sumgait Technologies Park
Baku, April 25 (AZERTAC). President of Latvia Andris Berzins has today visited the Sumgait Technologies Park (STP) as part of his official trip to Azerbaijan.
The Latvian President was told that consisting of 17 plants STP manufactures high quality products, including various types of cables, transformers, high voltage equipment, hydroturbines, water pumps, electrical engines, pipes, and technical gases.
President Andris Berzins toured the area of the STP by bus.
The Latvian leader was informed on a tower where high-voltage cable isolation lines would be built as part of the third stage of STP Cable factory construction.
The President viewed the expansion work at the polymer products plant. The water and gas, sewerage as well as multi-layer polyethylene pipes with aluminum cover and other types of pipes are produced in the factory.
The "Sumgait -3" private substation is just first enterprise in the Southern Caucasus. The substation`s territory is not large, so it can be used in the construction of the city type of the substation. The substation is automated at the highest level and possesses an internally micro-control system. This mechanism doesn`t need repair and it is possible to manage from the direct central dispatcher point. The power of the substation is 200 MVA. The substation is connected to the republican energy system and from here the energy is transferred to the main production enterprises of Sumgait.
The plastic pipes with diameter 800 mm are being manufactured in the plant. The production of such pipes (Pressure reaches 16 atmospheres) is the first action in the CIS area and they will be used in cabling, construction of small hydro-electric stations and also in the junction of gas, water and sewerage systems. The annual industrial capacity of the enterprise is 20 000 tons. It is intended to Broad the production corps and to increase the production of the range of goods twice in the future years.
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