NEWS

Today, the Alabuga Special Economic Zone saw the grand opening of a state-of-the-art August Company facility for the production of chemical plant protection solutions that are beyond compare worldwide. The opening ceremony of the August-Alabuga plant was attended by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia for Agro-Industrial Complex, Natural Resources and Environment Aleksey Gordeyev, and Deputy Minister Aleksey Savelchev from the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan. The honoured guests also include representatives of relevant ministries from Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan and heads of major August Company partner enterprises, and other officials.

Construction of the facility began in 2016; the plant received a certificate from the Rostekhnadzor in May 2019. In addition to August, the construction investor was the Industry Development Fund, which provided a loan of RUB 500 million.

The production output of the August-Alabuga plant is 50 million litres of finished products and 8 million cans of plastic packaging per year. The company boasts of advanced equipment and has a high degree of automation. The plant will apply the clean production method, also used in the cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries.

The August-Alabuga facility will produce herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, disinfectants in liquid form, as well as multi-layer high-strength polymer cans with a capacity of 5 and 10 litres with an internal protective layer for packaging plant protection products.