The import of food equipment to Russia has increased by 59% since 2020.

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.

The Chestny Znak system moves to a new level of control: from September 1, 2026, automatic fines are introduced without inspectors, and the list of labeled goods is expanding. This directly affects the equipment of manufacturers and sellers.

A new high-tech coffee production plant of Lalibela Coffee has started operating in the village of Stabna, Smolensk region. Investments totaled 2.5 billion rubles, and the new capacities will allow the company to capture up to 15% of the natural coffee market in Russia.

Corrugated food-packaging maker L-Pak Kashira commissioned a second 2.8-meter corrugator, doubling output of five-layer board and creating over 20 new jobs.

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.