September 19 – 23, 2011, Kiev was visited by the Executive Vice President, Representative Director of “Kobe Steel” Takashi Matsutani, who was recently appointed as the Honorary Consul of Ukraine in Japan. During his stay in Kiev Mr. Matsutani met with the Prime Minister of Ukraine, M. Azarov, gave speech at the Ukrainian-Japanese business forum and visited Chernobyl Nuclear Plant.
September 21, 2011, Executive Vice President of “Kobe Steel” visited “Hares Engineering” head-quarters, where “Kobe Steel” and “Hares Engineering” signed a Consortium Agreement for construction of the ITmk3 plant in Kazakhstan. Takashi Matsutani handed in to Mr. Hares Youssef, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of “Hares Engineering”, the certificate reaffirming the status of “Hares Engineering” being an exclusive Licensee of the ITmk3 technology in the territory of Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan and a number of other countries until December, 31, 2019.