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The first Tetra Pak recycling plant in the Urals and Siberia has started operating in Chelyabinsk. Tsentr Upakovki's facility processes up to 900 tonnes of feedstock per month, returning cardboard and aluminium to the production cycle and closing the loop with its own egg-tray output.

Kirov-based Liton, which makes packaging for dairy products, is expanding capacities: about 55.7 million rubles of preferential leasing from the SME Corporation program has been attracted to buy new equipment.

PolyER has become the first company in Russia to commercially produce food packaging from crystallized polyethylene terephthalate (C-PET), a heat-resistant and recyclable material for ready meals, retail and central kitchens.

In September 2026, the NOTIS assembly shop in Berdsk is assembling and testing a whole range of new packaging equipment: horizontal flow-pack machines, inclined vertical systems for fragile sweets, a large feed packaging line and machines for ready meals.

At the Innoprom-2026 exhibition in Yekaterinburg, the Krasnodar region signed agreements to modernize two packaging material plants. Total investment will exceed 900 million rubles, strengthening domestic packaging supply for the region's food industry.

The Kofemania restaurant brand has put into operation its first in-house food industry production complex in Moscow. The full-cycle factory kitchen on Ryabinovaya Street with a capacity of up to 100 tonnes per day was built under the large-scale investment projects mechanism (MaIP), with investments of 4.45 billion rubles.

ITMO University presented a laboratory prototype of 'smart' packaging for ready meals at the OpenBio forum: product condition can be assessed visually by a color-changing label — without a smartphone or special devices.

On September 23, a press tour of Gofromir Group took place in Noginsk at the full-cycle printing house Printomir: the facility with a capacity of over 50 million packaging units per month announced 30% output growth, four-color flexography on corrugated board and the first industrial batch of packaging with eco-friendly lamination.

The Moscow-based OSQ Group is expanding its presence in the Kaliningrad region: the company is looking for a site near Khrabrovo Airport for the construction of a new paper packaging plant for ready meals and street food, having already invested 200 million rubles in the project.

"Packaging Systems" JSC, a leading supplier of integrated solutions, has carried out a comprehensive modernization of the Lipetsk "Lebedyanmoloko" dairy plant: a bottling line for ultra-pasteurized milk and cream with a shelf life of up to 12 months in aseptic packaging has been launched.

The company of the "NEOPOLIS" group will build a new production and warehouse building to meet the growing demand for flexible packaging for food and feed. The capacity launch is scheduled for April 2026.

A new production facility for food polymer packaging will be opened in the "Kashira" special economic zone in the Moscow region. The SEZ resident "Ushakov—Kashira" company will invest about 600 million rubles in the project and create 90 jobs. The launch of the enterprise is scheduled for 2028.

One of the key Russian manufacturers of food packaging, PJSC "Lambumiz", has reached the stage of approving the construction of a new aseptic packaging production. The first stage of the workshop with the capacity to meet the growing demand of dairy farmers will be launched in the summer of 2026.

SIBUR and its partners have launched the industrial production of HAGL film with antifog effect, a universal domestic material for sealing plastic trays with ready-made food, at "BIAXPLEN" in Nizhny Novgorod. The tray and film are a monopolymeric solution that can be recycled without pre-sorting.

JSC "Packaging" Packaging Systems, the largest Russian manufacturer of aseptic cardboard packaging (formerly the Russian "subsidiary" of Tetra Pak), intends to increase the capacity of the plant in Lobnya, Moscow region, by 50% — from 4 to 6 billion packages per year. The total investment in the project for 2024-2027 will amount to about 6 billion rubles, and the expansion is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2027.

High-tech production of aluminum cans for the beer and alcohol industry has been launched in the Voronezh special economic zone "Center". The "Alba Voronezh" plant was built in just 11 months with an investment of about 12 billion rubles and is already reaching a capacity of up to 4 thousand cans per minute. This is one of the key steps towards import substitution of packaging in the Russian food industry.

EXPOCENTRE JSC has announced the dates of the main industry event for the food and processing industry: the 31st International exhibition Agroprodmash-2026 will be held from September 28 to October 1, 2026 at the Moscow Crocus Expo IEC. The organizers promise a record scale — more than 930 companies from 21 countries and over 27,000 professional visitors.

Unified labeling rules for certain types of food products have been established across EAEU member states

The company "Grant" from the Tula region is presenting its innovative solutions for hygiene in food and industrial enterprises at the international exhibition "INNOPROM."

Scientists from Tomsk State University have presented a unique film that eliminates up to 100% of microbes on the packaging surface.

The Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade has proposed to extend until August 31, 2026, the experiment on labeling meat products, including sausages and similar food products made from meat, offal, or animal blood, as well as those made from poultry meat and offal, packaged in consumer packaging.

The company "InComPro" has begun production in Shelekhov, Irkutsk Oblast, of import-substituting aluminum tubes for ointments, creams, and toothpaste.