ROSBIOTECH strengthens Russian-Chinese cooperation in the food industry.

In today’s world, effective resource management is becoming an increasingly crucial aspect of successful business operations. This is especially true for industries where equipment plays a key role—such as pharmaceuticals, cosmetology, and the food industry.

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.