On December 29, the Governor of the Tula Region Alexey Dyumin and General Director of McCain Foods Rus LLC Alexander Petrov signed an agreement on the construction of a potato processing complex in the Uzlovaya SEZ.
«McCain Foods Limited ”is an international leader among frozen food producers. The company produces a third of all French fries in the world. The processing complex at Uzlovaya will become its first Russian production site. It is planned to invest about 12,7 billion rubles in the project.
“It is a great honor for the Tula region that the company has chosen our region for the implementation of its investment project. It will create more than 160 jobs and facilitate the emergence of new logistics centers and storage facilities. It will allow not only to satisfy domestic demand, replacing import supplies, but in the future it will work for export, ”said Alexey Dyumin during a working meeting with an investor.
Alexander Petrov thanked the Governor for his support and expressed hope for a long and fruitful cooperation.