2010 Packaging Industry is a booming sector in Russia. 2010 is a crucial year : International players win industry share through mergers and acquisitions
In the past three years NB Europe merged with NB-Retal, the largest PET preform manufacturer in Russia. As a result the new company, Retal Industries, became one of the largest packaging producers in Eastern Europe and the CIS. Another international player, Mayr-Melnhof Packaging, acquired St Petersburg folding carton manufacturer Rossiyskiy Poligrafitcheskiy Center and a majority share of one of Russia’s largest folding carton producers, Polygrafoformleniye in the past 5 years.
High quality packaging producers increase capacity these days.
Russian packaging producers which installed high quality modern equipment during the last few years of the review period continued to increase their production capacity and invest in new technologies to satisfy the demand for high quality packaging. Between 2005 and 2009 leading producers such as Komus Upakovka (rigid plastic), Metupak (metal food cans and metal closures), and Art Metall Pack (metal tins, food cans and peel-off-foil closures) invested millions in installing new facilities preparing for further expansion in Russia and to develop exports to the CIS and Eastern Europe.
Local manufacturing of multi-layer films
Russian producers are becoming increasingly involved in the manufacture of multi-layer flexible packaging. From 2005, four Russian manufacturers – BeePack Group, Biaksplen, Green Plastic, and Novatek-Polymer – began producing this type of packaging. These plants are expected to reduce the need for imported films.
Local and international players open new packaging plants
In 2010, we can observe that the boom has been in progress since major industrial changes. The leading Russian manufacturer of glass bottles, Ruscam invested in 2005 in a new plant in Ufa city (Urals region) whilst Tetra Pak launched the project of building a new, liquid food packaging factory. Essel Propack, international squeezable plastic tube manufacturer, also recently opened a new plant near Moscow in Noginsk city (Moscow area).
