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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.
Conveyor cameras are no longer a pilot: at ready-meal kitchens, poultry plants and grain processing sites neural networks reject products in the flow, and the project economics fit into about 20 months.
Russian laminated tube manufacturer TD Freeman commissioned a new automated packaging line in July 2026. The company has expanded its cosmetic tube range with long-nozzle microtubes and a 22 mm format with an octagonal cap.
Italian group IMA has developed the first fully integrated suppository production and packaging line. The solution combines the IMA Sarong SAAS 15 forming, filling and sealing machine, the IMA Safe A83 cartoner, the IMA Life Sensitive AP400 labeller, the IMA BFB CP18 MINIFLEX case packer and Antares Vision serialization. The line will be available from October 2026 at the IMA Sarong plant.
At the 33rd InterCHARM 2026 exhibition, held October 14-17 at Crocus Expo, Russian machine-building plants and packaging equipment suppliers presented new filling machines, labeling machines and bottling lines for cosmetic production. The exhibition brought together a record 1,700+ companies from 30 countries.
On October 21, Omsk region governor Vitaly Khotsenko and Napitki Vmeste CEO Nikolai Tyurnikov officially launched a new automated filling line at the Omsk plant. As part of production modernization, the legendary Sibirskaya Korona brand was relaunched with an updated recipe and design, and the non-alcoholic segment was expanded.
At North America's largest packaging show PACK EXPO International 2026 (October 18-21, Chicago), Marchesini Group presented world premieres: a robotic high-speed line for monomaterial blisters and the new NPS robotic picking station with AI vision.
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.
At the iPDF 2026 exhibition, Chinese manufacturers unveiled next-gen cosmetic packaging: from infinitely recyclable aluminum tubes with CNY 20 million R&D investment to dual-chamber designs with six patents.
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.
A new granulation line has been launched at the ALIUM pharmaceutical site (Binnopharm Group) in Obolensk, Moscow region. The equipment is designed for loads of up to 150 kg per cycle and significantly raised the plant's productivity, which is already heading toward 70 million packs of medicines a year.
At Paris Packaging Week 2026 and Cosmoprof Bologna 2026, Berlin Packaging Beauty presented XOCO — a revolutionary material for cosmetic packaging made from upcycled hazelnut shells. The polypropylene-based compound with 10% organic filler is fully recyclable in standard PP streams.
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.
Swiss tube manufacturer Neopac unveiled a revolutionary development at Pharmapack in Paris — the PaperX FiberTop Tube, the first tube made entirely from wood-fiber-based material with about 85% fiber content. The development is designed to help cosmetic and pharma brands meet the requirements of the new EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR).
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.
Lactips (France) and SmartSolve (USA) have formalized a global strategic partnership and brought to market PureNil™ 0 — the world's first fully plastic-free, dispersible, printable flexible packaging for cosmetics and personal care.
A new administrative and production-warehouse complex of the pharmaceutical enterprise Farmstandart-UfaVITA has been commissioned in the center of Ufa. Investment exceeded 10 billion rubles, and new production lines are designed to produce 75 million medicine packages per year.
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.
On 4 September 2026, Indorama Ventures and German cosmetics packaging maker REBHAN launched LUXYCLEAR EBM PET 5508, a specialty PET grade that produces thick-walled bottles with glass-like clarity while retaining the lightweight, shatter-resistant benefits of plastic, with versions containing up to 100% chemically recycled content.
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.
GSS Cosmetics (Moscow), a contract cosmetics manufacturer, has launched production of exclusive-shaped plastic bottles on its own blow-molding line at the Pushkino complex to GMP standards, making unique packaging formats available to Russian brands without long import chains.
A Russian drugmaker, with the support of integrator IST-PAK, deployed an Italian SIEMPHARMA SRL counting-filling line for packaging tablets and capsules into plastic jars. The project was delivered despite a constrained shop floor and a fixed budget.
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.