Soyuzgidravlika in Belgorod modernized and expanded production of gear oil pumps for Russian road and agricultural machinery makers. Capacity rose 35% to 250,000 units per year, and the RUB 118 million investment was partly financed by the Fund for Industrial Development (VEB.RF) with an RUB 80 million loan.

Ball launched a new production line at its Naro-Fominsk plant in the Moscow Region that can make more than 4,000 can lids per minute. The investment exceeds 1.5 billion rubles, creates about 40 jobs, and is expected to add 1.85 billion lids a year by the end of 2022.

Tecnimont and MT Russia signed an EPC contract with Rosneft for the VGO Hydrocracking Complex at the Ryazan Refining Company refinery, southeast of Moscow. The contract value is approximately €1.1 billion ($1.2 billion, excluding Russian VAT) and is subject to financial closing.

Lummus Technology has been awarded a contract by LUKOIL Permnefteorgsintez for a new integrated MTBE and alkylation plant at LUKOIL's refinery in Perm, Russia, using its CD Etherol and CD Alky technologies. The award was announced on 14 January 2022.

Rostec's United Engine Corporation opened a new compressor production complex at ODK-Kuznetsov in Samara, investing 4.8 billion rubles. The new capacity doubles the plant's throughput, and about 500 jobs are expected across two new production lines.

FLSmidth received an order worth about DKK 350 million to supply process equipment for Polyus's new Blagodatnoye Mill 5 gold concentrator, which will add 8 Mt per year of capacity and start operations in 2025.

Trelleborg Sealing Solutions will start producing high-performance seals at Yesipovo outside Moscow in Q3 2022. Part of a group investment of just under SEK 300 million across Russia, Vietnam, Japan and Morocco over five years.

JSC Volga completed a 1.5 billion ruble project that expanded thermomechanical pulp production by 60,000 tons per year and created 240 jobs. The completion date is reported only as recent.

Russian paper producer JSC Volga launched a new investment project worth 5 billion rubles to produce container types of paper and cardboard. The company reported 2020 output of 276,099 tons.

Moscow Region Development Corporation (KRMO) and AVK Armatura signed an investment agreement for a shut-off valve manufacturing complex in the Yesipovo industrial park, with investment above 1 billion rubles and at least 80 jobs.

Ekotar LLC is launching a corrugated cardboard and packaging factory at the Uytash investment site in Dagestan, with 220 million rubles of investor funds and 90 permanent jobs.

AMPO POYAM VALVES is manufacturing more than 20,000 ball, gate, globe and check valves for the Arctic LNG 2 onshore LNG plant on the Gydan Peninsula, Russia. The EPC contractor is GYGAZ SNC, a joint venture of Technip and Saipem.

VA Tech Wabag secured an engineering and procurement order worth USD 165 million from Amur Gas Chemical Complex in Russia, a SIBUR and Sinopec joint venture. Wabag will supply the integrated wastewater treatment facilities with zero liquid discharge.

Ampo Poyam Valves has completed design and is manufacturing more than 20,000 ball, gate, globe, and check valves for the Arctic LNG 2 liquefaction terminal on the Gydan Peninsula. The EPC contractor is Gygaz SNC, a joint venture of Technip and Saipem.

Severn Unival's Brighouse team delivered six triple offset butterfly control valves to a north Russian LNG plant, shipping them by a mid-March deadline ahead of the spring ice-road closure. The customer was not named.

Segezha Group signed a letter of intent with the Tver regional government at SPIEF to build an eco-friendly paper packaging plant in the Borovlevo-3 industrial park. Investment is about 3 billion rubles, with over 100 jobs and commissioning planned for mid-2023.

NKBK is adding corrugated production lines at its Novosibirsk plant, including a second single facer and new die-cutting lines, to exceed 18 million square meters per month by the end of 2021.

Acron and Haldor Topsoe completed the revamp of the Ammonia-4 plant at Acron's Novgorod site, which now produces 2,500 metric tonnes per day of ammonia. The overhaul was finished in November 2020 and passed guarantee test runs.

REP Holding has shipped 15 sets of centrifugal compressors from its Nevsky plant under a contract with NPO Iskra, for gas-turbine compressor units serving Gazprom Dobycha Urengoy fields.

SUEZ signed a contract to supply wastewater treatment technology for a new polymer plant of Irkutsk Oil Company in Eastern Siberia, plus a 10-year service agreement. The plant is to be commissioned in 2024 with a maximum design flow of 9,600 m3 per day.

Trillium Flow Technologies' French unit has secured a contract from EPC contractor TechnipFMC to supply 659 safety valves for Novatek's Arctic LNG 2 project on the Gydan peninsula, Russia. The contract value was not disclosed.

Progress Agro group has launched a RUB 204 million polypropylene packaging plant in Ust-Labinsk, Krasnodar Krai, on the Kuban industrial park. The plant can produce up to 8.6 million polypropylene bags and polyethylene film a year and created about 70 jobs.

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.

Siekmann Econosto, based in Dortmund, Germany, is supplying industrial valves for the Amur gas processing plant in Russia, with an order volume above EUR 44 million. The plant targets processing of more than 42 billion cubic metres of natural gas per year.

Siekmann Econosto is supplying industrial valves worth more than EUR 44 million for a large gas processing plant under construction near Svobodny in Amur, Russia. The contractor relies on the firm to procure over 41,000 valves.

REP Holding will supply 12 sets of ЦБК405 centrifugal compressors for the second phase of the Power of Siberia gas pipeline, under a contract with Kazankompressormash for GPA-16U units, as announced on 30 October 2020.

AO Zavod im. Gadzhieva plans to spend 600 million rubles on technical re-equipment and expansion of its blank production in Makhachkala, Dagestan, with 213.18 million rubles spent so far and 570 jobs planned, of which 95 have been created.

Allegro, a joint venture of EVRAZ and Rail Service, signed a contract with ANDRITZ for an integrated railway wheel production line in the Titanium Valley special economic zone in Sverdlovsk region. The overall project investment is estimated at 16 billion rubles (about $200 million), with first equipment deliveries planned for Q1 2022.

Effective October 1, 2020, LEWA Nikkiso Russia is consolidated into the Nikkiso Cryogenic Industries Group as Nikkiso Industrial Russia, under Vice President Russia Ayman Zeitoun, to serve Nikkiso's industrial division customers in Russia.

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.

HMS Group signed a RUB 4.5 billion contract to engineer and manufacture gas compression units for a client's gas booster station, with delivery planned for 2021. The announcement is dated 3 August 2020.

Compressor Controls Corp. won multiple contracts to provide turbomachinery controls and optimization for the three 6.6-MMtpy LNG trains of Novatek's Arctic LNG 2 project in Russia's Yamal-Nenets region. The article is dated 2020-08-01 and the contract timing is not precisely stated.

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.

Tver regional governor discussed with Shell Neft plans to expand lubricant production at its Torzhok plant, with investment up to 6 billion roubles, output rising to 300 million litres a year, and work starting in 2021 and finishing in 2023.

Arkhbum is upgrading its Ulyanovsk corrugated plant, which makes double and triple wall packaging with monthly output of 16 million square meters. The total project cost is 2.5 billion rubles, with a new plant due to launch in March 2021.

Johnson Matthey won a contract from Technoleasing, part of ESN Group, to license its combined reforming methanol technology and Advanced Series Loop for a 3,000 mtpd methanol plant in Skovorodino, Amur Oblast, Russia. The contract includes engineering, equipment and catalyst supply and is subject to a final investment decision by Technoleasing.

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.

Compressor Controls Corporation has been awarded multiple contracts for the Arctic LNG 2 project in the Russian Arctic region, which is valued at $21.3 billion. The contract values were not disclosed.

Segezha Packaging launched a third production line at its Salsk plant in Rostov Region, with an investment of 500 million rubles and capacity of 83 million units per year. The announcement was reported on 20 April 2020.

Framatome secured a contract to supply the reactor protection system for units 1 and 2 of Kursk Nuclear Power Plant II, including 45 TELEPERM XS I&C cabinets. Installation is expected to be completed by the end of 2025.

Saipem, in joint venture with Renaissance, was awarded the onshore engineering and construction contract for the Arctic LNG 2 project in the Gydan Peninsula, Siberia, worth $2.5 billion.

Atlantis-Pak is installing a high-barrier packaging film line with 800 kg/hour capacity at Rostov Civil Aviation Plant No. 412 in Rostov-on-Don, as a temporary measure before a new plant in Yuzhno-Bataisk. Commissioning is planned for October 2020; total investment exceeds 3 billion rubles.

Novatek selected ZiO-Podolsk, part of Atomenergomash, as supplier of cryogenic heat exchangers for its Obsky LNG plant. The plant has a planned capacity of 4.8 million tonnes per year of LNG.

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.

Siemens and Kazankompressormash won a tender for gas turbines and compressor equipment for Novatek's Obsky LNG, with Siemens supplying seven SGT-700 turbines. The total equipment contract is worth about EUR 130 million, and Novatek will also pay for 20-25 years of service.

Kazankompressormash, together with Siemens (GMS group), signed a contract with Obsky LNG in Yamal to design and manufacture six main gas compressor units worth about EUR 130 million. Delivery of the units is planned for 2021.

HMS Group signed a contract with NOVATEK to engineer and manufacture six gas compression units for the Obsky LPG processing plant, with delivery planned for 2021.

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.