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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.
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.
SPLAT (SPLAT Global) has launched production of kids' toothpaste in recyclable packaging at its Organic Pharmaceuticals plant in Okulovka, starting the category-wide shift to an eco-friendly tube format.
Farmasyntez Group commissioned a new pharmaceutical enterprise in Ussuriysk (Primorsky Krai). The plant with a design capacity of 12 million medicine packages a year was implemented under the import substitution program Pharma-2030; 90% of manufactured items are on the VED list.
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.
Biofarmlab, a resident of the Dubna SEZ, commissioned the third stage of its cosmetics plant. The new building of 5,600 sq m will allow the company to produce up to 100,000 units per day and 3 million units per month.
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.
Austrian packaging maker ALPLA expanded its portfolio for personal care and pharma with a new monomaterial foam dispenser featuring a twistlock. The system is made entirely of polypropylene, contains no metal and is fully recyclable.
Argumentum Pharma is completing the equipping of its new pharmaceutical plant in Moscow region's Dubna SEZ: high-tech automated filling and packaging lines have already been installed. Total investment in the project is estimated at 2.5 billion rubles, with commissioning planned before the end of 2026.
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.
INEOS Olefins & Polymers Europe announced the launch of innovative Recycl-IN rPP1025C hybrid polymer containing 70% recycled material, designed for cosmetics packaging without compromising on quality or performance.
Eco-packaging maker GVPAK (Green Valley Technology) presented at Paris Packaging Week 2026 its Pentawards Bronze-winning 'Zhi Ying Xiang Shui' paper bottle and a new collection of sustainable perfume packaging made from molded fiber.
From October 14 to 17, the 33rd International exhibition of the perfume and cosmetics industry InterCHARM 2026 will take place at Crocus Expo. Organizers announced the main premieres: from AI synthesis of cosmetic molecules and biotech ingredients to lyophilized formulas and refillable packaging.
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.
"Rinsler Pak" company (part of "Rinsler" / "Terra Plast" Group of Companies) has announced the construction of a new production site for plastic containers for cosmetics and household chemicals at the existing site in Vsevolozhsk, Leningrad region. Investments will amount to about 840 million rubles, the launch is scheduled for July–August 2025.