IEK GROUP Masters Legrand's Production Capacities
IEK GROUP is preparing to produce products at manufacturing sites previously owned by the French company Legrand. Currently, the process of localizing the production of electrical installation devices and cable ducts is underway. In the future, they will become part of IEK GROUP's global product offering, preserving the model range, design, and production technologies.
Details in "Rossiyskaya Gazeta".
Natalia Belskaya: A Company's Success is Directly Linked to Societal Development
The focus of the ESG agenda (Environmental, Social, and Governance) has recently shifted from the environmental component to the social one. This is a response to labor market challenges, in particular, the shortage of qualified personnel. The priority task becomes creating and maintaining a professional team at the enterprise.
Simultaneously, the understanding of social responsibility extends beyond caring for employees. Business looks further: actively participates in public life in the territories of its presence, supports professional communities.
For IEK GROUP, such social projects are a priority. They are initiated or actively participated in by the HR management department. The company participates in training qualified personnel for the industry, conducts educational and career guidance events. Participates in partners' projects: recently, IEK GROUP experts spoke at the XXXIV Open Moscow Engineering Conference for Schoolchildren "Potentsial", served on the jury of the Moscow children's championship "Masteryata" in the "Electrical Installation" competency.
Details ― in Natalia Belskaya's interview.
IEK DIGITAL and 'Energy 5.0': Can Machines Make Decisions?
Interview with IEK DIGITAL Executive Director Andrey Podlesny about the current state of enterprise automation, its prospects, what 'Energy 5.0' is, and how it is connected to the IEK DIGITAL brand.
"The concept of 'Energy 5.0' is logically considered within the framework of 'Industry 5.0', which will replace 'Industry 4.0'. This is the next step, where data analysis and decision-making are partially or fully performed by a mathematical model, not a person. The operator receives recommendations or ready-made action scenarios, which frees up employee resources for strategic tasks," explains Andrey Podlesny.
For more details about IEK DIGITAL products and development plans, integration of the brand's ecosystem with Ambiot brand solutions, and cybersecurity, read the interview.
IEK GROUP to Invest 2 Billion Rubles in Electrical Equipment Production in Ulyanovsk Region
A corresponding agreement between JSC "Kontaktor" (part of IEK GROUP) and the region was signed at SPIEF-2025.
Production is planned to be located on the territory of a future industrial-production type special economic zone (SEZ). Currently, the Ulyanovsk Region Development Corporation is preparing an application to establish an SEZ based on the "Zavolzhye" industrial park.
The project is expected to create up to 300 new jobs.
Details ― in the Interfax article.
Mikhail Gorbachev: The Art of Bond Issuance
IEK GROUP CFO Mikhail Gorbachev discussed the intricacies of issuing debt securities: how a company should prepare for a bond issue and on what terms to place them to attract investors and obtain borrowed funds.
Details – via the link.
'Kontaktor' Plant: From Wartime to Modern Technologies
The Ulyanovsk "Kontaktor" plant, which recently became part of IEK GROUP, has been producing reliable power equipment for over 80 years. Its history began during the Great Patriotic War with the production of items for the front.
"Kontaktor" was created in 1941 on the basis of an electrical apparatus workshop evacuated from the Kharkiv Electromechanical Plant to Ulyanovsk. The plant produced sights for 82-mm mortars, as well as components for tanks and the legendary "Katyusha" rocket launchers. Simultaneously, the enterprise manufactured products for the chemical and fuel industries, metallurgy and energy, machine building and machine tool building.
After the war ended, the enterprise returned to peaceful tracks and focused on the production of circuit breakers.
Read more about the "Kontaktor" plant during the war in "Rossiyskaya Gazeta".
IEK GROUP and 'Energy 5.0': The Fifth Industrial Revolution is Already Underway
Andrey Zabelin, General Director of IEK GROUP, in an interview with Izvestia newspaper, talked about the fifth industrial revolution and how new technologies affect production.
According to Andrey Zabelin, the fifth industrial revolution, or 'Industry 5.0', which involves human-machine interaction, will lead to a rethinking of the worker's role in production. Human participation in production cycles will decrease, as they will train robotic assistants to perform routine operations.
The concept of 'Energy 5.0' is important for this process: according to it, digitalization and production transformation will be facilitated by the implementation of new electrical engineering solutions. These are aimed at optimizing energy consumption and production process management, increasing productivity, and accumulating and analyzing data.
More details ― via the link.
Good Dynamics: Andrey Zabelin on the Russian Electrical Engineering Market
IEK GROUP General Director Andrey Zabelin, in an interview with "RBC Industries", talked about how the Russian electrical engineering market is developing after the departure of leading global companies.
Andrey Zabelin, in particular, assessed the dynamics in the electrical products market in 2024 as good. At the same time, among customers, especially from the industrial and commercial real estate sectors, interest in parallel imports is declining. When implementing new projects, market participants do not want to depend on unreliable supply channels and unpredictable prices.
More details ― on RBC Industries
How to Reduce Energy Consumption in Production — IEK GROUP General Director Andrey Zabelin Tells in "RBC Industries"
Any enterprise is interested in reducing the amount of electricity consumed. This helps reduce costs, increase product competitiveness, and follow the environmental agenda. However, often it is impossible to reduce the volume of electricity used in production because the technological process cannot be changed. Therefore, it is more appropriate to reduce energy losses.
More details — on RBC.
The Use of AMR and SCADA Allows for Automation of Electricity Metering
IEK GROUP has long been involved in the issue of reducing electricity consumption at enterprises and has its own technological solutions for this task. General Director of the company Andrey Zabelin said that an Automated Meter Reading (AMR) system is used to control electricity consumption. And combined with automation and dispatching systems built on MasterSCADA software products and the Industrial Internet of Things, the company's solution allows collecting data on electricity consumers in real-time.
"I can give an example from practice: not long ago, our specialists together with partners installed a comprehensive energy consumption metering system based on AMR at one of the resource-intensive production facilities in the nuclear industry. The system allowed planning energy consumption and using production capacities more efficiently, reducing electricity costs by 20% through the use of different tariffs. Considering the scale of the enterprise, this is a significant indicator," said Andrey Zabelin.
Details — in the "Kommersant" newspaper.