New brand of Tatarstan beer

9 August 2018, Thursday

August 8 saw the opening of new production facilities at the White Kremlin brewery in Chistopol. Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov witnessed the completion of the commissioning operations. From the Tatarstan Ministry of Industry and Trade, the event was attended by Deputy Minister Almaz Khusainov.

The construction of a brewery with a total floor space of ​​more than 153,000 square metres was started in the Chistopol Industrial Park in June 2017, while in June 2018 the first beer was cooked. Equipment for the brewery was supplied by Krones AG, Germany's leading specialist company for the design, manufacture, and installation of equipment for bottling, canning, and packaging. The plant production capacity is 10 million dekalitres a year with an option for further expansion. In total, the company created about 270 new jobs.

The cost of the project is estimated at RUB 5.6 billion, of which 76.4% are financial assets of Sberbank, and the rest are the company's own funds. The loan amount is RUB 4.2 billion. The loan agreement between Tatspirtprom and Bank Tatarstan of Sberbank was signed in March 2018.

The White Kremlin will be the first plant to develop industrial tourism in Tatarstan. The brewery has a beer museum, which is included in the sightseeing programme for the tourists visiting the republic.

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