Ildar Khalikov lays foundation stone of new distillery plant in Usady
8 June 2012, Friday
Modern distillery plant with capacity of 10 thousand decalitres of alcohol per 24 hours will appear on the territory of Usady distillery plant in half a year. The Tatarstan PM Ildar Khalikov has laid the foundation stone of new plant today.
The operating branch of JSC Tatspirtprom “Usady distillery plant” was chosen as the construction site for new venture.
The new plant will be constructed taking into account the latest global tendencies in the sphere of alcohol production. For the project realization JSC Tatspirtprom involved main domestic and foreign suppliers of equipment, i.e. OMAS SRL (Italy, equipment for grain processing and grinding), OAO “Tambov plant “Komsomolets” named after N.S.Artemov” (General designer and supplier of equipment for boiling and yeast fermentation departments), Frilli Impianti SRL (Italy, equipment for brew-purification department), Alfa Laval (Denmark) and Vetter Tec (Germany) – suppliers of equipment for processing distillery dregs.
Most stages of new production are based on modern energy-efficient principles. The amount of investments in construction of the new enterprise makes 1,25 bln roubles. 1 bln of this sum is provided by Sberbank. The new plant is to be launched in one year and a half.
The Tatarstan PM Ildar Khalikov noted that today’s event is not common for the republican economy. “Construction of the large modern plant is important for republic. The alcohol industry is considered to be the second contributor in the Tatarstan budget after oil industry, and competitiveness of this sphere is crucial for us,” Head of the RT Government said.
Ildar Khalikov informed that reconstruction works have been implemented at plants during the last few years. Overall structure of Tatspirtprom has changed, which attracts a large number of partners.
According to the Director General of JSC “Ak Bars Holding” Ivan Egorov, the new venture will become a leader among distillery plants in Russia in terms of capacity and technologies used.
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