OREANDA-NEWS. August 24, 2012. Leonid Chernigov, General Manager of Rakurs Group, was officially invited to a ceremony of opening of Washing Machine Factory and Logistic Centre’s third line of BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate Concern in Neudorf-Strelna industrial zone near St. Petersburg.

BSH concern and its home appliances brands: Bosch, Siemens and others are the symbol of the highest German quality and the highest technologies in the whole world, enterprise in St. Petersburg is not an exception.

Leonid Chernigov sincerely congratulates BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate with effective realization of ambitious purposes and wishes further prosperity and success!

A new full-cycle factory completely corresponding to strict German requirements of quality, functionality and environment protection will produce slimline washing machines of Bosch and Siemens brands. Planned annual production volume will be 350 thousand appliances. BSH investments in the factory construction have been 1,2 billion rubles.

Together with the factory opening there took place a ceremonial opening of Logistic Centre’s final third line (the second one was launched in 2010). Total investments volume in the logistic centre with the total area 30,000 sq.m. was 800 million rubles.

The ceremony was held at the territory of the new factory workshop for components manufacturing.

Among almost two hundred guests there were heads of authority bodies, factory’s dealers and partners, journalists and the factory’s management. The main participants were St. Petersburg Governor Georgiy Poltavchenko and Dr. Kurt-Ludwig Gutberlet, BSH CEO. The General Consul of Germany in St. Petersburg Dr. Benedict Haller also greeted guests. After the ceremony guests had an excursion around the new factory.