OREANDA-NEWS. SUAL Group has commissioned a new ScovO plant to produce non-stick aluminium cookware. Investments in the project have been worth $16 million.

According to the press service of SUAL, the ScovO plant is located four kilometres from the town of Stupino, Moscow Region, and was built in 15 months. The plant expects to produce 500,000 units in 2006. In 2007 the plant will begin producing cookware at full capacity at 5.5-6 million units per year. This will help SUAL to more than double the volume currently produced by Demidovsky Consumer Goods. SUAL expects that by 2009 the two plants will produce 10 million units of a wide range of non-stick aluminium cookware — from mass-market to premium-market goods.

In order to use the best global experiences on working with non-stick coating, the company invited Du Pont and Akzo Nobel to advise on the process of building the equipment. In the future they will partner with ScovO and provide the non-stick coating to the plant. The main raw materials for the plant will be delivered from three leading Russian manufacturers of aluminium semi-finished products: Kamensk-Uralsky Metallurgical Plant, Samara Metallurgical Plant and Stupino Metallurgical Plant. The ScovO plant will be certified under the ISA 9001:2000 quality management system and the ISO 14001 environmental management system.