Magnitogorsk Precision Metalworking Plant (MZTM) will receive a 50 million ruble loan from the Chelyabinsk Region Industrial Development Fund to buy new lathes and a boring-milling machine, and expand its production workshop. The total project cost is 94 million rubles, creating 9 jobs, with launch planned for end of 2026.

Kirovsky Kompressor, a subsidiary of PAO Kirovsky Zavod Mayak, is starting construction in April 2026 of a new workshop for welding and galvanic coating. The site will bring component production in-house and is targeted to reach serial compressor output by mid-2027.

Chelyabinsk company Chelyabinskspetsgrazhdanstroy plans to raise gearbox production for pipeline valves from 3,000 to 8,000 units per month by 2027, with an investment of about 839 million rubles that has already created more than 60 jobs.

The Kirov plant Mayak received an approved loan from the Russian Fund for Industrial Development to move its gas compressor production to series output of 120 units per year. The total project budget is 206.1 million rubles and is expected to create 22 jobs.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.