The stages of this project implementation were discussed at the meeting by the Minister of Economic Development of the Tula Region Pavel Tatarenko and the General Director of McCain Foods Rus LLC Alexander Petrov.
As a reminder, Governor Alexei Dyumin and Alexander Petrov signed an agreement on the construction of a potato processing complex in the special economic zone (SEZ) Uzlovaya on December 29, 2020.
Alexander Petrov said that the construction of the plant is scheduled to begin in May this year and be completed by the end of 2022. The production of finished products is scheduled for late 2022 - early 2023. The new enterprise will process more than 200 thousand tons of potatoes and produce more than 100 thousand tons of finished products per year.
Pavel Tatarenko noted that the creation of such a plant is a strategically important project for the development of the region. The new production is aimed not only at replacing imported products that are now supplied from Europe, but also at developing the export of agricultural products in the Tula region.
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McCain became the first foreign resident of the Uzlovaya special economic zone.