Russia's Fund for Industrial Development approved a preferential loan of 110 million rubles to Atomspetsservis to produce spiral heat exchanger surfaces weighing 10 to 40 tonnes in Volgodonsk. The company would become the only Russian and third global producer of such equipment.

Metran, an Emerson-owned industrial group, will build a second production phase at its Chelyabinsk complex, adding about 20,000 square meters to reach roughly 50,000 square meters. Completion is expected by the end of 2020; the investment amount was not disclosed.

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.

Taganrog Boiler Plant Krasny Kotelshchik, part of Silovye Mashiny, plans to invest 550 million rubles in modernizing production in 2018, almost four times the previous year.

Gusar valve plant in Gus-Khrustalny, Vladimir region, is launching a new foundry to start serial production of pipeline valves for Russia's fuel and energy sector in late February 2018. The investment is about 1.7 billion rubles, capacity 7-8 thousand tonnes of steel per year, and 400 jobs will be created.

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.

Ampo Poyam Valves is supplying more than 2,000 engineered gate, globe and check valves to Tecnimont for EuroChem's Kingisepp ammonia plant in Russia. The plant has a design capacity of 2,700 tonnes per day and is due for commissioning in 2018.

REP Holding signed a contract with AviagazCenter to manufacture and supply seven 25 MW centrifugal compressors with magnetic bearings for the second string of the Ukhta–Torzhok gas pipeline. Delivery is planned for Q4 2018 at the Nevsky plant in St. Petersburg.

Samson Ringo supplied more than 20 pneumatic cage-guided globe control valves for the Yamal LNG plant, which has obtained a commissioning license for its first LNG train.

Iskra-Neftegas Company manufactured and supplied two GPA-16 gas pumping units for the booster compressor station of the Beregovoye field, operated by Sibneftegas. The units use NK-16-18STD gas turbines rated at 16 MW.

INGK Company supplied a gas pumping unit with a PKU016 compressor plant for a compressor station at the Pyreynoye field for customer Sibneftegas PJSC. The unit compresses natural gas.

Two oil-flooded screw compressor plants were installed at the Yuzhno-Vatlorskoye field compressor station for Surgutneftegas to compress associated petroleum gas. Energas Group of Companies carried out installation and commissioning.

Ringo Válvulas finished manufacturing more than 500 manual, motor-operated and pneumatic valves for Baltic Shipyard's nuclear icebreaker construction. The scope includes bellow-sealed globe and stop-check valves up to DN300.

Grossmann Group is starting production of Roediger vacuum sewerage equipment under a license from Bilfinger at its Compressor Complex site in St Petersburg, with a service center, and is investing 10 million euros. The news was reported on November 22, 2017.

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.

Russian manufacturers Veza, Arktos and SovPlim will supply about 1,000 supply-air units, over 100 exhaust units and climate equipment for the ZapSibNeftekhim complex in Tobolsk, part of contracts totalling about 1.5 billion rubles. LIK Forside will supply Siemens-based automation systems.

Samson's Surgut unit will supply large-diameter pipeline valves for the ZapSibNeftekhim petrochemical complex being built by SIBUR in Tobolsk, Russia. Total contracts with Russian suppliers for the project exceed 220 billion rubles.

Nevyansk Machine-Building Plant's compressor equipment unit was named the winner of two tenders from Irkutsk Oil Company to supply a modular nitrogen compressor station and three modular gas compressor stations for the Yaratkin field in the Irkutsk region. The announcement is dated 20 October 2017.

Russia's Ministry of Industry and Trade, Moscow Oblast and Germany's WILO signed a special investment contract on 13 October 2017 to modernise pump production, with over RUB 750 million invested and output over RUB 29.5 billion.

Eberspaecher Suetrak, via its Russian subsidiary Eberspaecher Climate Control Systems RUS, won a contract from bus maker Volgabus to equip 125 articulated city buses in St. Petersburg with AC353 air-conditioning systems.

Gazprom and MashTEK signed a long-term contract at the St. Petersburg Gas Forum for mass production and supply of gas compressor units by KOSMA Compressor Plant, a MashTEK subsidiary, with first deliveries planned for 2019. The contract covers 100 to 4,000 kW reciprocating compressors.

Sulzer's Russian subsidiary Zulzer Khemtek presented an expanded and modernized machinery plant in Serpukhov on 22 September 2017. Investment in the expansion was about 400 million roubles, and headcount is set to rise to 131 by year end.

A new production line for import-substituting anti-surge valves, control valves and electric drives for Gazprom was launched at the Tomsk Electromechanical Plant on September 5, 2017. Gazprom invested 1.2 billion roubles in the project.

Smurfit Kappa has acquired Soyuz, a Moscow-based corrugated packaging company with about 300 employees, strengthening its position in Russia. No financial terms were disclosed.

Kazan Motor-Building Production Association (KMPO) won a tender to design and deliver 16 MW gas compressors for Arctic Gas Company PJSC in the Yamal region, bidding 3.25 billion rubles. KMPO announced the signed contract on August 1, 2017.

Schlemmer Rusland opened a new turning workshop at its Nizhny Novgorod plant, producing turned parts up to 150 mm long and 60 mm in diameter, with a second stage of 8 CNC lathes planned for late 2017 to early 2018 at over 40 million rubles.

Gazprom is set to purchase 6 billion rubles worth of anti-surge valves and electric drives for the Power of Siberia pipeline from Tomsk Electromechanical Plant (TEMZ), with production starting in September 2017.

Tomsk Electromechanical Plant (TEMZ) is completing a new production line for import-substituting anti-surge valves for Gazprom, with series output expected to start in September 2017 in Tomsk. Gazprom is investing 1.5 billion rubles in the project.

Weir Flow Control France was awarded a contract by Yamgaz to engineer and supply critical service safety valves for the Yamal LNG Project in Russia.

Honeywell Process Solutions will add production lines at its Elster Gazelektronika plant in Arzamas, Nizhny Novgorod region, to make gas measurement equipment and medium- and high-pressure gas regulators for the Russian market.

Severstal selected Hanwha Techwin as supplier of electric compressors for the Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works, with assembly and commissioning included. The project costs 900 million rubles and is scheduled for completion by the end of 2018.

Tomsk Electromechanical Plant (TEMZ) has invested more than 1 billion rubles in a new production facility making equipment for Gazprom, with a total project investment of 1.5 billion rubles. The project includes a joint venture to produce anti-surge and control valves and electric drives.

OMK is modernizing casing, tubing and line pipe production at the Vyksa Metallurgical Plant, including a new pipe mill and finishing center, under a multi-year program of over 40 billion rubles, of which 12 billion rubles is tied to a 2016 agreement with the Nizhny Novgorod regional government.

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.

Kirovsky Zavod Gazovye Tekhnologii, part of Kirovsky Zavod, has spent 200–300 million rubles on developing and producing automatic compressed gas filling stations and plans another 1 billion rubles over two to three years. The company already holds a contract to build eight stations for Gazprom Gazomotornoe Toplivo.

Penza company Decor Trade, working with Hubei Jingshan Light Industrial Machinery, is expanding corrugated cardboard production under a project worth over 150 million rubles that began in 2015. The expansion targets a sevenfold increase in output to 7 million square metres per month.

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.

JSC POZiS, through its tender organiser in Zelenodolsk, Tatarstan, placed a single-supplier purchase for corrugated cardboard packaging for 2017 deliveries with NP Naberezhnochelninsky KBK, valued at 49,460,912 rubles.

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.

Halliburton filed with Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service over a potential acquisition of an interest in Novomet Oil Services Holding, an electrical submersible pump maker, possibly up to 100%. No agreement had been reached.

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.

BPC Engineering signed a contract to manufacture and supply two COMPEX reciprocating compressor stations for the Cryogenmash Laboratory Complex in the Moscow Region, part of a pilot natural gas liquefaction system. Shipment is scheduled for Q2 2017.

Linar opened a high-productivity line for screw caps for glass jars at its Nevinnomyssk plant in Stavropol Krai, installed in 2016. Cap output rose 37% to over 40 million pieces, with output planned to grow by half again in 2017.

SNC-Lavalin was awarded a contract by Norilsk Nickel to implement a sulfur recovery project at the Nadezhda Smelter in Russia's Krasnoyarsk Region to reduce SO2 emissions.

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.