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.

Jereh won a contract worth $30 million to design and supply large gas-engine compressor units for a gas processing project near Yakutsk, Russia, designed for extreme cold down to -60 C.

UEC-Gas Turbines will manufacture and supply four GTN-16R-PS gas pumping units for a booster compressor station at the Zapolyarnoye oil and gas condensate field. The units are due to be commissioned in 2021.

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.

Rostov bakery Ayutinsky Bread signed an agreement with Italy's Record S.P.A to buy packaging equipment worth 60 million rubles.

Italian company S.A.I.P. will supply equipment for a pump manufacturing plant that Forte holding is building on a 100,000+ sq m site near Azov, Rostov region, with investment exceeding €40 million. The plant could employ up to 700 people, with launch targeted by mid-2021.

Russia's Commission on Foreign Investments approved Saudi investors acquiring a 20.5% stake in Novomet, a Russian artificial lift equipment maker, for about 5 billion rubles (around $78 million); RDIF will take a 10.2% stake.

Ural Turbine Plant (part of ROTEK) and TGK-11 signed a contract to modernize a T-100/120-130-2 steam turbine at Omsk CHP plant No. 4, under the DPM-2 program. Equipment delivery is scheduled for October 2020.

Ilim Gofra installed a Celmacch Chroma Print EVO 1700 printing machine at its Kommunar corrugated plant near St. Petersburg, part of ongoing converting capacity growth. The plant's 2018 investment in development was almost US$10 million.

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.

SFT Group opened the first phase of corrugated board packaging production at the Aleksinskaya paper and board mill in Tula region, after investing over 3.7 billion roubles and creating 200 jobs. A second phase planned to raise capacity to 310 million square metres and add 100 jobs.

HMS Group signed a contract to engineer and procure compressors and complementary equipment worth RUB 1.7 billion for a compressor station, with delivery planned for 2020. The announcement is dated August 15, 2019.

NPK NIKA of Shakhty plans to add two production workshops in 2019 and two more in 2020 at its equipment plant, which makes compressors and components for natural gas refueling stations.

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.

Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant, part of Mechel Group, produced 1.2 thousand tons of fittings for Gazprom's Portovaya and Divenskaya compressor stations in the Leningrad Region, supplied via Mechel-Service. Construction completion is scheduled for October 2020.

A Naberezhnye Chelny cardboard and paper mill is installing a Jumbo corrugated packaging line supplied by Engico, with delivery from June 14 and installation from July 15, 2019. The line is meant to supply large corrugated packaging to Haier, which operates nearby.

Udmurtia oil and gas equipment maker Technovek plans to expand its foundry section in Votkinsk with a 297 million ruble project, of which 146 million rubles may come as a concessional loan from the Fund for Industrial Development. The upgrade aims to raise monthly output of gate valves and fountain fittings and to boost exports by 202% by 2023.

JSC Arkhbum, a Russian corrugated producer, commissioned a new Emba 175QS Ultima four-colour casemaker at its Podolsk plant near Moscow, replacing older lines. The modernisation of the factory is ongoing and expected to be completed in 2020.

Austria's Prinzhorn Group has signed an agreement to buy a 50% stake in Russian paper and corrugated packaging maker SFT Group, which will become a joint venture. The deal is subject to regulatory approval and its value was not disclosed.

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.

Shchekinoazot has chosen Haldor Topsoe as licensor for ammonia technology at a new ammonia and urea plant in the Tula region of Russia, designed for 1,500 t/day of ammonia and 2,000 t/day of urea.

Severstal has agreed to buy a Korean compressor for its Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works, with first deliveries scheduled for autumn 2019. The investment exceeds 500 million rubles and aims to cut electricity consumption.

Czech company Jihostroj and the Tatarstan Investment Development Agency agreed to build a hydraulic equipment plant in the Alabuga special economic zone, with planned output of 80,000 units per year, 500 million rubles of investment and 50 jobs, launch expected in 2019.

Czech firm MPower Engineering and PKF SpetsTekhKomplekt signed a memorandum to localize production of valves and pumps in Tatarstan, Russia, creating up to 70 jobs by 2020 with annual output of 2,000-3,000 valve units.

Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) has commissioned a new cryogenic air separation unit built at its oxygen shop for 4.2 billion rubles, supplied by Kriogenmash; it has produced 100 million cubic meters of industrial gases.

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.

LMF, a Kaishan company, received a 6.2 million euro advance payment, 30% of a 20.67 million euro contract to supply 16 truck-mounted natural gas pipe evacuation units to a Russian natural gas company. The payment means the contract has officially come into effect.

Rubin Aviation Corporation plans to invest about 1.376 billion rubles to build new production workshops and expand existing output of aviation equipment in Balashikha, Moscow Oblast. The new production is planned to start by January 1, 2025 and reach full capacity by early 2029. The land agreement was signed at the Russian Investment Forum.

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.

Siemens was selected as compressor equipment provider for PAO NOVATEK's Arctic LNG 2 project, supplying three feed gas and six boil-off gas compressors for three liquefaction trains, with the third train's equipment partly fabricated locally in Russia.

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.

Austria-based Constantia Flexibles has agreed to acquire a major stake in TT-print, a Russian maker of aluminium blister foil and coldform pharmaceutical packaging, for an undisclosed sum. Completion was scheduled for Q1 2019.

Emsur, the flexible packaging division of Grupo Lantero, has acquired a majority of Russian shrink sleeve producer Eximpack, which it had partly owned for over two years.

HMS Group and NOVATEK signed a memorandum on strategic partnership to localize manufacture of compressors, pumps and other equipment for NOVATEK's LNG projects in Russia.

Kazankompressormash has begun construction of a new workshop over 11,000 square meters in Tatarstan to produce large compressors with drive power above 25 MW, employing over 300 staff, with first output planned for 2020.

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.

Gazprom chairman Viktor Zubkov attended the start of construction of a new multi-building compressor workshop over 15,000 sq m at the Kazanskompressormash plant in Kazan. The shop will make large compressors for natural gas liquefaction and is expected to start operating in 2020.

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.

Emerson's Metran industrial group will build a second phase of its Chelyabinsk production complex, adding about 20,000 square meters for a total site of 50,000 square meters, with completion planned by the end of 2020. The first phase had an investment of $40 million, and the second-phase investment amount was not disclosed.

Splav corporation won a tender to produce and supply more than 8,000 shut-off safety valves for innovative tank wagons built by JSC TikhvinKhimMash. The first batch ships in November 2018 and production runs through 2019.

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.

Novosibirsk electric motor maker Sibelektroprivod plans a new 4,000 square metre workshop costing about 100 million rubles, with phased launch in 2019 and full transfer by 2020. Output is expected to rise from about 120 to 150-200 units per month.

Segezhskaya Upakovka's Salsk branch of Segezha Group is commissioning a new GARANT MASCHINEN Triumph 5 QT SK bag converting line in Russia. It can produce up to 500,000 bags in September and 4.5 million by year-end, with total line capacity of 24 million units a year.

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.

Russian industrial group Metran, part of Emerson, has started production of ASCO solenoid valves series 327 and filter-regulators series 342 in Russia, its first ASCO production there. The products are rated for oil, gas, petrochemical and fertilizer industries.

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.

Austrian company Hawle committed to further localising production in Chaplygin, Lipetsk Oblast, and to launching new products for the Russian market. About 200 million rubles is planned for production, sales and operations in 2019.