Expansion of glass container production in Dagestan will create about 200 jobs

The implementation of the investment project to expand the production of glass containers in the city of Dagestan Lights will create about 200 jobs. The total budget of the investment project will be more than 1.8 billion rubles, Zarema Urazaeva, head of the press service of the Ministry of Economy and Territorial Development of Dagestan, told TASS on Friday.

"In 2020, in Dagestan, on the basis of the plant of DagestanStekloTara OJSC in the city of Dagestan Lights, it is planned to start an investment project to modernize and expand the existing production of glass containers that meets European standards. The total budget of the project is over 1.8 billion rubles," said Urazaeva.

According to her, thanks to the implementation of this project, it is planned to create 192 new jobs. "The project involves the construction of a new furnace with a capacity of 240 tons per day and the installation of production equipment for the production of glass containers in the amount of 216 million pieces per year in 0.5 liter terms, with a capacity of 0.1 to 5 liters of lightweight glass containers with a neck of any type and diameter," - said the interlocutor of the agency.

She added that the goal of this investment project is to increase the volume of production of the enterprise. "The completion of the project and its commissioning is scheduled for 2021," concluded the Ministry of Economic Development of the region.

Earlier, TASS reported that in 2019, the export of glass containers produced in Dagestan almost doubled: from 129 to 245 million rubles. The volume of sales of these products in the domestic market amounted to 700 million rubles.

OJSC "DagestanStekloTara" (the city of Dagestan Lights) is the only manufacturer in the republic of glass containers. Export of goods is carried out to Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia.

Source: https://tass.ru/