INDUSTRY
Industrial production plays major role in the Republic of Mordovia economy. About 40 thousand people are employed at industrial enterprises. Production of transportation means and equipment, electric, electronic and optic equipment, machinery and equipment, metallurgical production and production of ready-made metal items, chemical production, production of rubber and plastic items, textile and sewing production, wood processing and production of wooden items are main components of Mordovia industry. Production of transportation means and equipment is represented by the following joint-stock companies:
JSC “Ruzkhimmash” – supplier of equipment for chemical, oil and gas industry, producer of freight wagons, rail-road tank cars for gas, oil-products and acids transportation;
JSC “Saransk Wagon-Repairing Plant” – engaged in capital repair of tank cars;
JSC “MordovAgroMash” – specialises in machine building and metalworking.
Production of electric, electronic and optic equipment is carried out by:
JSC “Plant “Saranskkabel” – producer of wide spectrum of cables: power paper and plastic insulated, control, telephone, signal and blocking, fibre-optic and vessel cables;
SUE of the Republic of Mordovia “Lisma” – producer of lighting sources, including: general application incandescent, efficient gas-discharge, halogen lamps as well as different kinds of special lamps;
JSC “Electrovypryamitel” – producer of power semi-conductors, converters, rectifiers for electric locomotives engines, etc.;

JSC “Medoborudovanie” specialises in disinfection equipment and aqua distillers, medical aid cars and metal-polymeric pipes;
JSC “Orbita” – producer of semiconductors and integrated chips.
Production of machines and equipment is represented by:
JSC “Sarex” – one of the largest producers of excavators on the basis of wheel-tyre tractors (МТЗ-80/82б ЮМЗ-6АК) in Russia. But for traditional products “Sarex” produces a number of specialized machines and a wide spectrum of agri-cultural machinery: ploughs, cultivators, disc harrows;
JSC “Stankostroitel” – specialises in production of smith and press and milling equipment; electric, electronic and optic equipment.
Metallurgical production and production of ready-made metal items are represented by large enterprises – “VKM-Steel” Ltd and CJSC “Tsvetlit”.
Chemical production is represented by JSC “Biokhimik” producing more than 100 positions of medical products including antibiotics, blood substitutes, a wide spectrum of infusion and saline solutions.
Production of rubber and plastic items is presented by JSC “Saransk Plant “Rezinotechnika” producing more than 15 thousand positions of rubber products supplied to many industrial branches.
The largest wood processing and wooden items production enterprise is CJSC “Plyterra” – producer of plywood and birchen veneer sheet, saw-timber made of hardwood and softwood.
A number of enterprises of textile and sewing production are located in the territory of the Republic. They produce different sorts of sewing, knitted, ribbon weave and writhen items, decorative fabrics. These are JSC “Sura”, “Lenta”, “Lava”, CJSC “Ruztex”, CJSC “Trading House “Sartex”, “Ruzaevka sewing factory”.
The whole infra-structure for innovations support including Centre for Technologies Transfer, Innovation and Technology Centre, Venture Fund have been established in Mordovia.

JSC “Electrovypryamitel” is one of the first in Russia to develop production of items on the basis of wide-zoned semiconductor materials. Energy-saving converters such as secondary power-supply sources, new generation electric drives may be developed with their application which is extremely important for the country energy security provision. Innovative production of “Electrovypryamitel” is one of the proofs that Russia is capable of not only purchasing but also producing high-tech products.
Absolute leader on sales of produced goods volume is Car-Building Company of Mordovia. At this company production complex for steel and iron casting is being established alongside with new types of goods wagons production development and applied technologies modernisation. Presently production of iron castings for adulterants applied in oil-and-gas pipelines as well as middle and small castings for car-building have been developed. In 2009 “VKM-Steel” Ltd. plans to commission high tech equipment for large wagon casting production with the capacity of 30 thousand tons per year.
JSC “Orbita” is one of the few industrial enterprises in the Republic which produces complex high-tech products. The enterprise possesses the potential which allows gradual changing its profile in the conditions of competition, constant widening its nomenclature and increasing production volumes. Production of equipment designed for domestic electric nets modernisation has been developed at the enterprise in the framework of the adopted in Russia Medium-term Programme for electrical energy system development.
Joint Stock Financial Corporation “Systema” located in the territory of Saransk Television Plant jointly with JSC “NPK “NIIDAR” is developing high-tech production for defence and industrial complex.
In the coming years high-tech production of optic fibre for cable production which has no analogues in Russia will be developed. It is planned to build a plant with the capacity of 1.5 mln. km of optic fibre per year in Saransk. Presently all optic fibre consumed by Russian cable producers is purchased from foreign partners. Taking into account the dynamics of information technologies development and increase in the number of fibre-optic communication connections, a significant increase in optic fibre consumption is expected. Besides, development of import substituting products used particularly for exigencies of the Ministry of defence and Ministry of internal affairs of Russia as well as FAGCI will promote information and economic security of the country.