«Победить бюрократию мы не смогли»: «Р-Флот» вернёт средства Минпромторга из-за невыполнения условий субсидирования

The company faced bureaucratic barriers and a lack of sales market for new developments

The "R-Flot" group of companies, which develops marine reverse-reduction gears for high-speed diesel engines, is preparing to terminate the agreement with the Ministry of Industry and Trade and return subsidies. This was announced by the company's CEO, Alexey Klepikov, at the "Shipbuilding RU 2025" conference in Nizhny Novgorod.

Under the terms of the agreement, "R-Flot" was to develop and launch a line of gearboxes into mass production. One of the samples - "RRF-160" for the YaMZ-536 engine - has already been created and meets the technical requirements.

An industrial prototype was produced, completely Russian. That is, by and large, we have fulfilled the technical part of the subsidy that we had with the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
Alexey Klepikov, CEO of R-FlotAlexey Klepikov, CEO of R-Flot

However, further implementation of the project faced problems. Firstly, there is no sales market: the shipbuilding programs that the developers were counting on remained unrealized. Secondly, there were difficulties with the purchase of equipment - a Russian-made machine could only be delivered in 2 years. The company was forced to return part of the subsidy.

All my subsidies will be over soon. At the same time, we did not buy the machine, but paid the first leasing payment. So I am leasing equipment that will be brought to me in two years. Is this a normal scheme? We traveled, wrote letters. The answer is one - the equipment must be Russian. Return the money. We returned about 20 million rubles.
Alexey Klepikov, CEO of R-Flot

The company's CEO admitted that everything is in accordance with the letter of the law.

Unfortunately, we could not defeat bureaucracy, so our experience with subsidies from the Ministry of Industry and Trade is sad.
Alexey Klepikov, CEO of R-Flot

According to him, the contract with "R-Flot" will be terminated in the near future, they will have to return all funds subsidized by the Ministry of Industry and Trade, as well as pay fines.

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