Owners of Sterlitamak milk plant to invest 450 million rubles in its development

UFA, 31 January 2020. /Bashinform News Agency/ translated by Tatiana Aksyutina/.

The Chelyabinsk "Rossiyskoe Moloko" (RosMol) Group of Companies presented at the "Investment Hour" session in the Bashkiria Government a project to modernize one of its branches - the Sterlitamak Dairy Plant. It is planned to establish several new lines: for packaging ultra-pasteurized milk in pure-pak containers, milk in individual 200-gram packages and in PET bottles, packaging butter in briquettes from 100 g to 500 g. The condensation stage also requires updating in the milk drying shop.

Since 2015, Rosmol Group has allocated about 1 billion rubles for the modernization of the Sterlitamak branch, having completely updated nine production sites, the general director of the company, Vladimir Chapaykin, informed. He noted that over the past two years, only local raw materials have been purchased for production ("EkoNiva", "Urozhay", and milk of the "Krasnaya Bashkiria" for the Magnitogorsk Dairy Plant).

As a result, the owners plan to increase the plant's capacity: processing from 150-200 tons to 500 tons, production - up to 200 tons per day. The company's revenue may amount to 5 billion rubles a year.

The cost of the investment project is 450 million rubles, additional jobs - 56. Now 560 people work at the dairy. Investors are requesting standard tax benefits and reimbursement of 40% of the cost of acquiring equipment of the state support measures.

Commenting on the investors' proposal, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture of Bashkortostan Ilshat Fazrakhmanov called their approach "an example of effective business management". Rosmol Group manages milk processing enterprises in Chelyabinsk, Magnitogorsk, Chebarkul, Novouralsk (Sverdlovsk Region), Moscow Region, Germany, and has two own agricultural enterprises. It produces products under the brands "Pervy Vkus" and "Darenka".