Rinsler Pack is investing 840 million rubles in a new plastic packaging production site at its existing facility in Vsevolozhsk, Leningrad region, creating 177 jobs. Annual capacity will be 92 million unprinted bottles, 23 million printed bottles and 237 million container lids.

Russian plastic packaging maker Ai-Plast signed an agreement with the Rostov region government to expand production of plastic containers for cottage cheese at its Azov plant. Total investment exceeds 400 million rubles and about 20 new jobs are planned.

Anima Infinita Flex Novgorod, part of the NEOPOLIS holding, will build a new production and warehouse building at its Veliky Novgorod plant for over 1 billion rubles. The agreement was signed on 18 June, and production launch is planned for April 2026, with 60 jobs.

Atlantis-Pak, part of Agrokom Group, plans to build a new modern plant for sausage casings in the Rostov region of Russia over four years, with a 10 billion ruble investment, raising output by 45% to 4-5 billion rubles.

Kantek (CANTEC) plans to expand its polymer packaging plant in Stavropol's Energiya industrial park with total investment estimated at 3 billion roubles, in seven production lines, with launch not earlier than 2026 and about 6,000 tonnes per year capacity by 2034.

Perint, a plastic packaging manufacturer, is building a new 15,000 square meter production and warehouse building on a three-hectare plot in the Sorzha-Staraya industrial zone, Vsevolozhsky district, Leningrad Region. The one billion ruble investment is expected to take about two years and will raise output from 4.5 to 6.5 million units per day.

Atlantis-Pak, a major Russian packaging maker, opened a new plant in Rostov-on-Don producing film for meat, sausage, fish and cheese products. The investment was 1.9 billion rubles, including a 500 million ruble preferential loan.

Planeta-Centr received a preferential loan of 246.8 million rubles from the Fund for Industrial Development to expand production of printed polymer packaging film and wicket bags in the Omsk region. The total modernization budget is 550.6 million rubles.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.