Ilsur Metshin visits Danaflex

The Mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin visited the company Danaflex-Nano. 936 employees currently work in the production of flexible packaging and film materials. The head of the city looked around the factory workshops, the canteen of the enterprise, and also got acquainted with human resources management of the company.

Azat Galiyev, Director of the Flexible Packaging business, member of the Executive Directorate of Danaflex-Nano LLC, reported that Danaflex was founded in 2001 and over the years has become the largest Russian manufacturer of flexible packaging. The group of companies unites four plants with its own RTD center. All plants are located in Tatarstan: two are located in Kazan, two are located on the territory of the special economic zone SEZ Alabuga. The total number of employees at all plants is 1,759 people. The group's revenue in 2022 amounted to 27 billion rubles, almost 100 thousand tons of products were manufactured.

Ilsur Metshin inspected the flexible packaging production shop and the printing shop, got acquainted with the introduction of ESG principles at the enterprise, visited the canteen and talked with the employees of the enterprise. The Mayor was informed about the human resources management of enterprises. Since July 2023, the group of companies has been providing its employees with medical insurance, and since 2022– free meals in the canteens of the enterprise. All factories are equipped with recreation rooms, a gym and showers.

The priority is also feedback from employees through the Open Window system, employees can send anonymous messages that are processed every Friday. Online meetings with top managers are also held for employees every month.

The lack of personnel of Danaflex-Nano LLC was compensated by the modernized mentoring system introduced this year, which made it possible to reduce the duration of training of new employees by half – from 16 to 8 months. Previously, mentors had to supervise newcomers in addition to their main work. To date, the work of mentors is carried out by adaptation managers. Danaflex plans to adopt this experience at other plants.

“Human resources are key. Today it is not enough to hire a qualified worker, it is necessary to build a corporate culture and a motivation system. Your HR experience is successful. I suggest you take part in our business personnel forum. You have to share your experience together with other Kazan enterprises. You not only set a goal to become a leader in your industry, but also pay great attention to working with personnel, in your strategy, HR management is a priority. This is very important,”- the Mayor said.

The business forum “Human resources are key” will be held on November 10 at the Kazan City Hall. It will bring together heads of industrial enterprises, representatives of the corporate sector and business, the leadership of universities and colleges, as well as representatives of other cities and regions of the country.

Together with the Mayor of Kazan, the company was also visited by the head of the administration of the Kirovsky and Moskovsky city districts Sergey Mironov, head of the Human Resources Department Irina Bochkova, Chairman of the Economic Development Committee Guzel Mingazova.