Flint Group accelerates investment in Russian packaging market
Flint Group has announced a series of key investment actions in its Russian packaging inks business.
The new site is supposed to become the base for the entire Russian Flint Group Packaging Inks team
-With a presence in the Russian market spanning more than 25 years, the company has confirmed that a new packaging inks manufacturing site is currently under construction, conveniently located south west of Moscow in the Kaluga region.
Base for the Russian Flint Group Packaging Inks team
The site is supposed to become the base for the entire Russian Flint Group Packaging Inks team, including laboratory facilities alongside technical and customer service functions.
According to Flint Group, the new site will manufacture water and solvent-based ink ranges for the paper & board and flexible packaging sectors and will deliver a number of new, sustainable ink ranges.
Andrei Popov, Commercial Director Packaging Inks Russia/CIS at Flint Group, commented: “Despite the challenges of today’s COVID-19 pandemic, we can confirm that the new Kaluga region site will be operational early in 2022. Operating within such a vast country, the strategic location of the site offers us tremendous advantages in supply flexibility and lead times, which are especially important in today’s packaging market where fast response is critical for our, and our customers’, competitiveness.”
