Zavod Gradient will start construction in 2025 of a plant in the Rostov special economic zone in Novocherkassk to make industrial refrigeration units, targeting 500 units per year at full capacity.

Valfex will invest more than 5 billion rubles in two new plants and two warehouses near the village of Sukhodol in Vladimir region, set to open next year, according to governor Alexander Avdeev.

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.

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.

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.