Flint Group has announced a series of key investment actions in its Russian packaging inks business to further extend support to customers in the region. With a presence in the Russian market spanning more than 25 years, the company has confirmed that a new packaging inks manufacturing site is currently under construction, conveniently located south west of Moscow in the Kaluga region.
The site will become the base for the entire Russian Flint Group Packaging Inks team, including laboratory facilities alongside technical and customer service functions. It will also be supported by the Flint Group Global Colour Centre (GCC) and Flint Group Global Innovation Centre (GIC), located in Poland and Sweden respectively, which provide 24/7 colour and technical support to the company’s customers in Russia and the Eastern European region.
The new site will manufacture the latest water and solvent-based ink ranges for the paper & board and flexible packaging sectors and will deliver a number of new, sustainable ink ranges that are key to future-proofing Flint Group customers’ businesses. The new facility will provide laboratory testing, quality control, customer and technical service expertise in addition to a larger, state of the art, manufacturing footprint. This facility will replace the existing site in Moscow; Flint Group Packaging Inks’ satellite facility in St. Petersburg will remain operational.
