Sergei Sobyanin visits Rudnevo’s high-tech ATM plant

Sergei Sobyanin has visited a new ATM production facility in the Rudnevo Industrial Park. The machines use the company’s internally developed software and domestic Elbrus microprocessors.

“A real breakthrough in the field of import substitution was the ATM production plant launched in Rudnevo. Its machines use domestic Elbrus microprocessors and the company’s own software. Now its capacity is about 15 thousand ATMs per year, to be twice as much in the future. Its main customers include six Russian banks,” Moscow Mayor wrote in his Telegram channel.

Source: Sergei Sobyanin’s Telegram channel @mos_sobyanin

Many foreign manufacturers of banking equipment have left the Russian market, thus, vacating niches for domestic companies and driving Russia-made innovative products.

Banking and Financial Systems LLC (a BFS Group company) has launched a plant taking up 5,500 square meters to have created 70 jobs; the staff to increase up to 130 people in the future.

The production line includes 11 final assembly posts and 9 testing posts. Most processes are done in an automated mode. For example, welding is performed by a next-gen welding robot. The company also uses 3D printing and prototyping of plastic ATM parts.

The production processes are more than 80 per cent locally arranged. The company intends to localize 100% of component production in Russia. For example, BFS ATMs are to incorporate Russia-made displays produced by a resident of the Technopolis Moscow SEZ. Today, the Banking and Financial Systems equipment pool employs laser cutting machines manufactured by a resident of the capital’s special economic zone, industrial collaborations being another advantage of Technopolis Moscow as a result.

BFS ATMs are based on state-of-the-art technologies and support popular financial transactions. They feature a multimedia and active anti-skimming (protection against fraudsters) system, a biometric camera and a narrow-beam microphone, plus a reader for contactless or transport cards, two-dimensional barcodes and QR codes.

The company’s product line includes four devices that are entered in the register of industrial products manufactured in the Russian Federation, such as a fully functional digital mini office, which can replace a conventional bank office.

The company’s first ATM is showcased in a pavilion of the Russia International Exhibition and Forum at VDNKh.

“This is not just an ATM. Thanks to an extra console, it features virtually 100 per cent of the office functionality. We can contact a consultant. And now we are exploring the possibility of video identification by adding a passport validator,” says Artem Zhilonov, CEO Banking and Financial Systems.

The digital office helps clients perform the most common transactions, including a new client agreement, issuing bank cards, online consulting, etc.

This year the plant’s products have been awarded the Best Industrial Design of Russia award, he adds.

Pre-orders for the innovative product cover more than seven thousand devices, major Russian banks named among the key customers.

The project run with the support of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation has in fact raised RUB 600 million of investment.

Rudnevo Industrial Park

Located in eastern Moscow near Nekrasovka and Lukhmanovskaya metro stations, Rudnevo is an industrial park in the Technopolis Moscow Special Economic Zone, which was built in record time to accommodate critically important industries, including the Federal Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems.

Its creation serves as a good example of effective present-day industrial policy. The construction began in Rudnevo in late 2020 and involved using domestic materials (for a number of items, import substitution was 100 per cent) and cutting-edge technologies. This has cut construction time by 35–50 per cent and the costs by 10–15 per cent.

19 buildings with a total area of 214,000 m², including a pilot production line and a design office, have been built in Rudnevo to date.

Workers are also constructing extra production buildings alongside with social infrastructure to house labs, offices, a training center, a shopping gallery, a pharmacy, gyms and other social facilities for employees.

In the future, the Rudnevo Industrial Park’s enterprises will create at least 15,000 good jobs primarily for residents of the rapidly developing Moscow districts of Kosino-Ukhtomsky and Nekrasovka, plus the municipal district of Lyubertsy, Moscow Region. Over 800,000 people in all are living in adjacent areas.

With the SEZ modality, Rudnevo residents get significant tax benefits. To be specific, they are exempt from property, transport and land taxes and enjoy the income tax rate of mere 2 per cent in addition to free customs zone arrangements and preferential land lease.

The industrial park offers its residents the following benefits:

— preferential lease of modern production facilities (brownfields);

— construction of production facilities meeting technical requirements of future users (Built-to-Suit);

— one-stop shop for interactions with authorities such as the Federal Agency for State Registration, Cadastre, and Cartography (Rosreestr), the Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing (Rospotrebnadzor), the Federal Environmental, Industrial and Nuclear Supervision Service (Rostechnadzor), and the Federal Tax Service;

— good transport connectivity, e. g., vicinity to the Moscow Ring Road, M5 Ural (Novoryazanskoye Highway), M7 Volga (Gorkovskoye Highway), Moscow High-Speed Diameter (MHSD) and the soon-to-be M12 Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod-Kazan road, Nekrasovka and Lukhmanovskaya metro stations, Zhukovsky and Domodedovo Airports;

— extensive road network: 5.5 kilometers of roads, turning circles and a terminal station for public transport designed;

— comfortable working conditions: public spaces (including conference and negotiations rooms), a canteen, cafes, parking spaces.

In addition to residents of the Federal Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Rudnevo accommodates the following companies:

— BFS, a producer of ATMs based on Elbrus microprocessors, with the production capacity of 15,000 machines per annum, to be twice as much (30,000 per annum) in the future;

— Nukon Energy LLC, a producer of electrical capacitors;

— Khartiya LLC, a manufacturer of industrial waste sorting equipment;

— VIP Camilla LLC, which produces incontinence underwear under an offset contract with the Moscow Government (the contract provides for the annual supply of at least 46 million items for local healthcare and social institutions within 10 years; the deliveries started in November).

There are also some other residents in Rudnevo.

In particular, it also accommodates a newly-built production building of Almaz-Antey aerospace defense concern.