OREANDA-NEWS. August 14, 2007. The commissioning ceremony was held for new production equipment at the Samara subsidiary of Baltika Breweries. The overall investments for the project amounted to 101 million Euros (per year).

Anton Artemiev, President of Baltika Breweries: ‘The tripling of the production capacity at Baltika Samara brewery is an unprecedented project in the industry. In several months we have increased the capacity of the brewery in more than three times from 2 to 6.5 million hectolitres per year. In this way, Baltika Samara has strengthened its position as one of the largest and most modern breweries in Russia.’

The brewery is equipped with two new brew houses, 20 bright beer tanks, 60 cylinder-conical tanks, three new filling lines (two PET lines and one can filling line). The construction work has also involved the entire infrastructure of the brewery: a new water treatment facility has been brought on line, as well as a refrigeration compressor station, boiler plant, waste water treatment plant, new silos and railways.

The brewery’s modern equipment has been provided by the world’s largest suppliers to the industry, including Huppmann, Ziemann, PALL SeitzSchenk, KHS, Kronos, GEA Tuchenhagen, Buhler, ELGO Berkefeld, Enviro-Chemi, etc. Special attention was devoted to ecological safety at the enterprise: 8.5 million Euros were invested in modernisation of the existing waste water treatment plant and construction of its second stage.

Project institutes and construction enterprises of the Samara region took part in the construction work: Volgoenergopromstroyproekt, Volgapromzernoproekt, Ekos NTF, Amond, Ferrum, Grazhdanstroy Zheleznodorzhnik, Volgastalmontazh, Perspektiva, Regionspetsstroy, Kuibyshevskaya dorozhnaya PMK, Samaraenergospetsremont, Energotekhmontazh, Tekhpromsoyuz and ES-TEK. The involvement in the work of local organisations contributed to creation of additional workplaces in the region.

The expansion of production capacity led to significant increase in the brewery’s product assortment. Baltika №5, Baltika Cooler, Arsenalnoye Zakalennoye, two varieties of Yarpivo and the licensed beer Tuborg were added to Baltika №3, Baltika №9, Baltika №7, Arsenalnoye traditsionnoye, Bolshaya Kruzhka, Zhigulevskoye, Volga and the special Samara brand beer that was developed for the residents of the region.

A modern KHS can filling line installed allowed Baltika Samara brewery to become the first brewery in Russia bringing one-litre cans to market.

Following the expansion of production staff at the brewery has nearly doubled, from 473 to 860 employees.

Yuri Makariev, director of the Baltika Samara brewery: ‘The implementation of this project is the Company’s contribution to the economy of Samara region. The increase of production capacity creates new workplaces and significantly raises tax payments to the budget of the region. Already in 2007, Baltika’s tax payments will amount to more than 1 billion rubles.’