Joint Oil and Gas Group, a resident of the Titanium Valley special economic zone, received permission to build a plant making industrial gas equipment and gas and condensate processing equipment, with 3.5 billion rubles of investment and 150 jobs; construction starts in autumn 2024 and completion is planned for 2026.

Russian manufacturer GMS Group disclosed a combined investment program exceeding 35 billion rubles for modernization and new capacity, including 12 billion rubles invested in 2014-2022 and over 23 billion rubles planned for 2023-2026. Projects include pump and compressor plants in Orel, Kazan and Zelenodolsk and a facility in Livny.

Arnest Packaging Solutions plans to complete a modernization of its aluminum lid production in Naro-Fominsk in September 2024. The project costs more than 1.3 billion roubles and will add 1.8 billion CDL lids a year.

Arnest Packaging Solutions plans a third aluminum can line at its new Ulyanovsk plant by end-2025 and possibly a fourth in 2026. Total investment in the plant is expected to exceed 20 billion roubles, with capacity reaching about 3 billion cans a year.

Kartontara, 100% owned by SFT Group, will commission a second corrugated packaging plant in Maykop, Adygea, by late 2024, with total investment of about 2.8 billion rubles. The plant will have capacity up to 130 million square meters per year and create over 134 jobs.

Smolensk governor Vasily Anokhin announced an investment project at the Rudnya container plant to raise tin can production from 30 million to 50 million units per year, with investment exceeding 800 million rubles. Construction of a warehouse and production building has begun, and two new can lines will be installed.

Kazankompressormash is building a 12 billion ruble test stand in Zelenodolsk, Tatarstan, for testing ultra-high-power compressors, with no equivalent in Russia. The managing director described the project in an interview with Business Online.

Under an agreement signed with the Chelyabinsk regional governor at Innoprom-2024, ChelyabinskSpecGrazhdanStroy, part of LD group, plans to expand production of pipeline valves with over 1.5 billion rubles of investment, new workshops and more than 250 jobs by 2029.

GMS Group is building an assembly and test complex in Zelenodolsk, Tatarstan, for super-high-capacity LNG compressors above 65 MW, with investment of up to 11.9 billion rubles. Testing is planned to start in the first quarter of next year.

JSC GMS Livgidromash plans to invest RUB 8 billion in a new production complex in the Oryol Region to make medium-capacity pumps for refining, petrochemical, oil and gas, and energy industries. The investment agreement was signed ahead of the St. Petersburg forum, with full capacity expected in 2026.

A plant producing large-tonnage LNG compressor units, costing about 10bn rubles, is planned in Zelenodolsk district, Tatarstan, for Kazankompressormash. Construction is planned to finish by end-2024 and create over 50 jobs in the first stage.

Mondi decided to offload its Russian operations after its board considered all options, including legal separation. The company had already suspended operations and significant capital projects in Russia.

Arnest Packaging Solutions officially opened an aluminum beverage can plant in the Zavolzhye Industrial Park in Ulyanovsk with total investment above RUB 13.5 billion, including a RUB 5 billion concessional loan from the Federal Industrial Development Fund. At design capacity it will produce over 1.6 billion cans per year.

ADL, the Moscow Oblast government and the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade signed a special investment contract to build a fourth workshop at ADL's plant in Kolomna. The 750 million ruble project will create 80 jobs and is due by the end of 2024.

Russian group Arnest is building an aluminum beverage can plant in Ulyanovsk's Zavolzhye industrial park, with investment above 10 billion rubles, capacity up to 2,000 cans per minute, and first line launch planned for Q1 2024.

PAO Penzkompressormash in Penza modernized its machine tool fleet in 2024 with an investment of about 1 billion rubles, raising productivity; the regional minister reviewed the project in August 2025.

Valve maker ANKOS plans to invest 110 million rubles from 2023 to 2026 to modernize its foundry in Krasnokamsk and machining site in Lysva, Perm Krai, and to make new products for the oil and gas sector. The project is expected to create 14 new jobs.

Russian machinery holding GMS Group is investing 11.9 billion rubles in a test complex for ultra-powerful LNG refrigerant compressors at Kazankompressormash in Zelenodolsk, Tatarstan, with a state subsidy of 6.7 billion rubles. Commissioning is planned for Q1 2025.

Novgorod group Powerz is completing a 120 million ruble investment project to produce large-diameter three-eccentric valves, with a workshop due by spring 2024 and up to 40 new jobs. The news was reported on 2023-10-19.

The valve project plans a second and third phase, including reconstruction of an empty old building and tripling the floor area of the new building.

The NBM group opened a plant in Veliky Novgorod through its subsidiary T-ARM LLC to produce pipeline valves for the oil, chemical and gas industries. The first stage cost 400 million rubles and plans for up to 100 new jobs.

Sempa Pompa has laid the foundation for a new high-tech pump plant covering 102,000 square meters in Vladimir, Russia, to expand pump production and range. The article is dated 2023-07-25 and gives no investment value or completion date.

Kantek (CANTEC) plans to expand its polymer packaging plant in Stavropol's Energiya industrial park with total investment estimated at 3 billion roubles, in seven production lines, with launch not earlier than 2026 and about 6,000 tonnes per year capacity by 2034.

Russian refrigeration components maker Frigopoint commissioned a billet heating furnace and two 315-ton impact presses for hot forging large ball valves at its Belgorod plant, with a line output of 1000 parts per shift.

REPH signed a contract with Gazprom Komplektatsiya to supply four centrifugal compressors for the Power of Siberia gas pipeline, to be made at the Nevsky Plant in St. Petersburg and shipped in late 2023. Each compressor is rated at 333.4 cubic metres per minute.

CNP's Russian subsidiary SiNaPi Rus plans to launch production of industrial booster and fire-fighting pump stations at the Esipovo industrial park in Solnechnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, with an investment of about 100 million rubles and around 20 jobs, with launch planned for Q3 2023.

Perint, a plastic packaging manufacturer, is building a new 15,000 square meter production and warehouse building on a three-hectare plot in the Sorzha-Staraya industrial zone, Vsevolozhsky district, Leningrad Region. The one billion ruble investment is expected to take about two years and will raise output from 4.5 to 6.5 million units per day.

GazEnergoKomplekt is building an oil, gas and energy equipment plant in Glinishchevo, Bryansk district, Russia, with an investment of 2.1 billion rubles. The plant is expected to employ 600 people by 2025 and will make tanks, pressure regulators and shut-off valves.

NBM group opened a pipeline valve and fittings plant in Veliky Novgorod through its subsidiary T-ARM LLC. The first phase cost 400 million rubles and plans up to 100 new jobs.

Russia's government commission approved the sale of International Paper's 50 per cent stake in Ilim SA to its Russian joint venture partners for $484 million, with a further $24 million deal for IP's remaining 2.39% stake in JSC Ilim Group; completion is expected in April 2023.

SFT Group plans a new corrugated packaging plant in an industrial park in Takhtamukaysky district, Adygea, with capacity up to 200 million m² per year and investment up to 4 billion rubles.

Five Krasnodar Krai manufacturers signed 37 contracts worth about 26.9 million rubles at the UPAKEXPO packaging exhibition in Moscow, and nine further contracts worth 10.5 million rubles are under negotiation.

ADL Trading House will build a new production complex on two hectares in Kolomna urban district, Moscow Oblast, to manufacture pipeline valves, investing 600 million rubles and creating 40 jobs. Commissioning is planned for 2025.

The Bologovskiy Armature Plant (BAZ Industrial Group) started producing 15 to 50 mm ball valves for taps that it previously bought from other suppliers. It plans to make 600,000 units in 2023.

Stupinsky Gofrokombinat plans a new corrugated board production facility in Stupino, Moscow Oblast, with investment above 3.2 billion rubles, more than 400 jobs and planned capacity of 200 million square metres per year, with commissioning scheduled for 2026.

A pipeline valve production workshop costing 1 billion rubles, built by ООО Torgovy Dom ADL, received its commissioning permit in Kolomna, Moscow Oblast, on 17 January 2023. The 6,500 sq m facility created 55 jobs.

The Bologovsky brass pipeline valve plant in Tver Oblast bought new machinery in 2022 and is preparing a new galvanic shop with capacity up to 5 million units per year. It plans to reach nearly 8 million units annually and set up three logistics hubs in 2023.

Mondi agreed to sell its three Russian packaging converting plants to Gotek Group for RUB 1.6 billion (about EUR 24 million), with completion expected in the first half of 2023 subject to Russian government approval.

Russian group Arnest, the new owner of former Ball Corporation assets, will resume building an aluminium beverage can plant in the Zavolzhye industrial zone of Ulyanovsk Oblast. Total investment will exceed 10 billion rubles, with completion planned by end of 2023 and up to 200 jobs.

L-PACK Kashira LLC plans to build a factory worth 2 billion rubles in Kashira, Moscow Region, to make corrugated cardboard and secondary corrugated packaging for milk and juices, with commissioning scheduled for 2024.

Huhtamaki is selling its four Russian production sites, which employ 724 people, to Russian buyer Espetina Ltd for 151 million euros. Huhtamaki expects a profit of about 15 million euros in the third quarter of 2022.

The Satellite plant in Blagoveshchensk, Bashkortostan, which makes pipeline valves, is investing 340 million rubles in a new production workshop, expected to open in September and create 75 jobs and double production capacity.

The Kirov plant Mayak received an approved loan from the Russian Fund for Industrial Development to move its gas compressor production to series output of 120 units per year. The total project budget is 206.1 million rubles and is expected to create 22 jobs.

Russian compressor maker AO NPO Kompressor won a tender to supply marine compressor equipment for a passenger-cargo ferry, including two electric starting-air compressors for the ferry's diesel generator.

Governor Alexei Dyumin and TBKO signed an agreement at SPIEF on June 16, 2022 to build a plant in the Uzlovaya special economic zone producing 18,000 gas cylinders per year. The investment is about 1.6 billion rubles and about 150 jobs will be created, with commissioning planned within three years.

KSB opened a 5,000 square meter plant in the Indigo industrial park in New Moscow, funded with about 750 million rubles of foreign investment. It expects to create 110 jobs and produce about 700 pumps in 2019 and 1,200 in 2020.

HMS Group has signed a contract worth RUB 3.3 billion to manufacture gas transportation units (compressors). Deliveries are scheduled for 2023-2024 to a gas condensate field in Russia.

Pneumostroymashina plans to build a new plant in Yekaterinburg to produce high-end hydraulic motors and pumps, with a estimated cost of 5 billion rubles. Output is expected to rise from 3,500 to 12,000 units per month.

Atlantis-Pak, a major Russian packaging maker, opened a new plant in Rostov-on-Don producing film for meat, sausage, fish and cheese products. The investment was 1.9 billion rubles, including a 500 million ruble preferential loan.

Planeta-Centr received a preferential loan of 246.8 million rubles from the Fund for Industrial Development to expand production of printed polymer packaging film and wicket bags in the Omsk region. The total modernization budget is 550.6 million rubles.