"Alba Voronezh" launched an aluminum can plant in the Voronezh region with a capacity of up to 4 thousand cans per minute. The project at the SEZ "Center" site cost 12 billion rubles, and construction took 11 months, Governor Alexander Gusev said.
The plant has created over 200 jobs, with a capacity of about 1 billion units of products per year, and warehouses can accommodate up to 150 million cans. Over ten years, the enterprise will contribute about 3 billion rubles in taxes to the regional budget and over 1 billion rubles in contributions to extra-budgetary funds. According to regional authorities, the plant will cover at least a quarter of the Russian market's demand for aluminum beverage packaging.
On the same day, a canning line for aluminum cans was launched at the Voronezh Baltika brewery – almost 260 million rubles, up to 40 thousand cans per hour. The first batch was "Voronezhskoye Zhigulevskoye," which has been produced for over 60 years. Gusev stated that beverage producers will be able to buy domestic packaging and not depend on foreign supplies.