A soft drink plant with capacity above 200 million litres per year opened in Aksai district, Rostov Oblast, Russia, after investment exceeding RUB 2 billion by the Lider group, creating 130 jobs.

Torgovy Dom ADL received a seven-year land lease of 1.3 hectares in the Kolomna district to build a plant for serial production of steel ball valves. The investment is about 1.1 billion rubles, with construction starting in 2021, full capacity planned for 2027, and 41 new jobs.

Arkhbum JSC is preparing a new corrugated board plant in Ulyanovsk for 2021, with BOBST supplying two packaging production lines worth an investment of €14.2 million.

Arkhbum-Pak will build another factory in the Vorsino industrial park in Kaluga Oblast, Russia, investing 2 billion rubles and creating about 200 jobs to make paper bags and tableware. The agreement was signed on 24 July 2020.

Russian company Penzenskiy Zavod Tochnykh Priborov is launching a new production site at the former Penzneftemash territory on Moskovskaya Street in Penza, making oil and gas equipment and adding over 350 jobs.

EGIDA has begun construction of a plant in the Lipetsk special economic zone producing elastic polyurethane foam, furniture fabrics and upholstery components. The investment was raised to 3.79 billion rubles, with more than 200 jobs planned by 2022.

Construction has started at Kazankompressormash in Tatarstan on a new production site for large compressors. The new workshop will produce units with drive capacity above 25 MW.

DS Controls of Veliky Novgorod is moving from servicing pipeline valves to producing them at a site in Leninogorsk, Tatarstan, with opening planned for March-April 2020. The plant plans up to 300 valves per month and 100 new jobs, with expected revenue of about $20 million a year.

Russian trading holding Forte announced plans to build a large pump manufacturing plant near Azov, Rostov region, in cooperation with Italian firm S.A.I.P., at an estimated cost of €40 million. The holding has acquired a site of over 100,000 sq m and targets production launch by mid-2021, with up to 700 jobs.

Sew-Eurodrive's Russian subsidiary plans to build a gear motor assembly plant in Novosibirsk for €15 million, with completion targeted for January 2021 and capacity of 10,000 units per year.

CHEMAGREGAT is completing the design of a new plant for pumping equipment and valves in the Center special economic zone near Voronezh. The investment is 200 million rubles and the project is planned to create 60 jobs.

Unilever, Arnest Group and the Tula region government signed a trilateral agreement at the St Petersburg forum in June 2019 to set up export-oriented contract manufacturing of cosmetic and household products in Novomoskovsk, to be run by Aerosol Novomoskovsk within three years.

German pump maker KSB opened a new 5,000 square metre pump plant in the Indigo industrial park in New Moscow, Russia, with about RUB 750 million of foreign investment and 110 jobs planned.

Sovremennaya upakovka plans to build a corrugated cardboard plant in the Stavropol region by 2021, with an investment of about 500 million rubles and 160 new jobs. The agreement was signed at the Sochi investment forum and the plant will be located in the Nevinnomyssk industrial park.

Axios-Jet has completed the first stage of a production line in Krasnoslobodsk making seals and components for shut-off valves, invesing 50 million rubles of a 150 million ruble project. The report is dated 7 February 2019.

Honeywell opened its third plant in Russia, a greenfield facility in the Lipetsk special economic zone, on January 31, 2019. The investment exceeded 900 million rubles and the plant will eventually employ about 200 people.

Korean Apollo group opened a valve manufacturing plant in Tatarstan, Russia, with an investment of $50 million. The 2,200 square meter facility produces pneumatic actuators and control and shut-off valves, with capacity of up to 7,000 units per year rising to 15,000 by 2021.

Emerson's Metran plant in Chelyabinsk will build a second production building of about 20,000 sq m on the northwest side, with construction starting May 2019 and completion by end-2020; experts estimate costs above $50 million.

Schlumberger opened a plant in the Lipetsk special economic zone to produce components for electric submersible pumps used in the oil industry, with an investment of 3.8 billion rubles. About 20% of the plant's workforce will be robots.

Danaflex opened a flexible packaging factory at the Alabuga Special Economic Zone in Tatarstan on 6 September 2018. The total investment is planned at 3 billion roubles, and over 200 people are already employed there.

Greif opened a steel drum and container plant in the Vorsino industrial park in the Kaluga region, Russia, with first-phase investment of 800 million rubles and 50 jobs created. Planned output is two million drums per year.

Sibenergoresurs group launched production of high-pressure plunger pumps for mining and metallurgy in Leninsk-Kuznetsky, Kemerovo region, with a 160 million ruble investment, using technology from Hauhinko.

Atlantis-Pak, part of Agrokom Group, began construction of a 3.4 billion ruble plant in the Yuzhno-Bataysk industrial park to make high-barrier films for food packaging, with 10,000 tonnes per year capacity and first-phase start planned for February 2020.

Industrial Investment has begun construction of a barrier packaging plant in the Tosno district of the Leningrad region, on the M10 industrial park. The plant, with about 1 billion rubles of investment and capacity of 3,000 tonnes per year, is due to open in August 2018 and create over 150 jobs.

Honeywell subsidiary Systems Sensor Technologies plans to launch its plant in the Lipetsk special economic zone in December 2017, after investing about 400 million rubles. The plant will make electrical, automation, fire detection and gas detection equipment.

Chelyabinsk Compressor Enterprise has begun work on a new purpose-built production site on 17 hectares in the Krasnoarmeysky municipal district, moving all plant and office operations there. Total investment is 1.2 billion rubles.

Chelyabinsk Compressor Plant has moved production from the Traktorozavodsky district to a newly built facility in Krasnoarmeysky district, with over 1.2 billion rubles invested in modernization. Production at the new site started in January 2017.

Schlumberger is starting construction of a plant in the Lipetsk special economic zone to produce components for electric submersible pumps used in oil production, with serial production planned by 2018 and an investment of 3.8 billion rubles.

NPO Regulator opened a production facility in Yaroslavl for axisymmetric control valves for the oil and gas industry, a 878.9 million rubles project financed in part by a 150 million ruble loan from the Russian Industrial Development Fund.

Uraltrubmash plans a plant in the Bogoslovsky industrial park in Krasnoturinsk, Sverdlovsk region, to make flexible coiled tubing for the oil industry. The investment is 2.3 billion rubles, with capacity of 4,500 tonnes expandable to 9,000 tonnes; the article is dated December 2016.

Sealed Air's subsidiary CJSC Sealed Air Kaustik has started construction of a €9.5 million food packaging plant in Volgograd, Russia, within a renovated factory of partner JSC Kaustik. The plant will make multilayer PP film packaging for processed meat and employs 45 workers, with plans to grow to 68.

Unit 4 of the Beloyarsk nuclear power plant, the 789 MWe BN-800 fast neutron reactor, has started commercial operation, state corporation Rosatom announced. The reactor burns mixed uranium-plutonium fuel.

Globalpak LLC plans to build a metal and polymer packaging factory for food and cosmetics in the Feodosia industrial park in Crimea, with an investment of over 250 million rubles. A cooperation memorandum was signed with the Crimea Development Corporation.

Schlumberger plans to begin construction of a plant making stages for electric submersible pumps in the Lipetsk special economic zone, Russia, by end of 2016. Total investment is 3.8 billion rubles, with serial production targeted for Q1 2018.