Cardboard container

Kartontara CJSC (Maykop, Republic of Adygea) is a company for the manufacture of corrugated cardboard, corrugated boxes, products of complex punching and other products. The peculiarity of production is that many works have to be performed in conditions far from ideal.

History

2025: Launch of Packaging Board Plant

SFT Group completed the construction of the Kartontara 2 corrugator factory in Maykop with an investment of ₽2,8 billion and announced an additional ₽20 billion investment in the launch of a new cardboard machine in Adygea. TAdviser got acquainted with such data in January 2025.

According to Kommersant, the Karontara enterprise provides corrugated packaging supplies to leading manufacturers of the agro-industrial complex in southern Russia. According to the company, the volume of corrugated products in 2023 amounted to 191 million square meters. m.

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The investment project Shaken"" involves the placement of new equipment on the territory of the existing enterprise "Cardboard." The implementation of the project includes the creation of additional infrastructure to ensure production capacity.

The growth of corrugated production in the southern regions of Russia will require an increase in the supply of raw materials from the central part of the country, the press service of SFT Group reported. According to the company's calculations, the volume of traffic by 2030 will reach 250 thousand tons per year. The average cost of transporting one ton is estimated at ₽8 -10 thousand.

The installation of a paper machine on the territory of the enterprise will provide savings of ₽1 billion on logistics costs in the production of packaging boards, calculated in the "SFT Group."

The holding specializes in the production of cardboard products and packaging materials from secondary raw materials. "SFT Group" develops production on the principle of a closed cycle. The company has been operating in the Russian market for 20 years.

The investment strategy of the holding provides for investments in the amount of ₽30 billion until 2026. The funds will be directed to the modernization of existing production facilities and the creation of new enterprises in various regions of Russia.

The launch of the Cardboard 2 corrugator plant will increase the company's production capacity in the southern region. The new enterprise will provide growing demand for packaging products from the agro-industrial complex and other sectors of the economy, the press service of SFT Group noted^[1]

1958-1993

The closed joint-stock company "Cartontara" (a former pulp and cardboard mill) was built on the instructions of the Krasnodar Sovnarkhoz on the basis of Decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR No. 115 of January 28, 1958. The company was created to process a semi-finished product that simultaneously arises at the tannin extract production plant. For this, an appropriate technology was developed that allowed the enterprise to be located within the city and did not cause irreparable damage to the environment. The first project for the construction of the plant was created in 1939 by the Ukrainian branch of Giprobum, which conducted research work and experiments on the use of odubin to obtain container cardboard. The design of the plant was carried out by Mosgiprobum. The estimated cost of the entire complex was more than 163 million rubles.

• On July 17, 1964, the state commission signed an act on the commissioning of the corrugated concrete workshop.
• On September 28, 1964, the heart of the plant came to life - the heat and power plant. The first electroenergy merged with the Krasnodarenergo system.
• On December 24, 1964, the first samples of cardboard were received, and three days of lowering, a whole tymbur of products was already removed from the corting machine.
• On May 8, 1965, the plant was fully commissioned. During the first year of the plant's operation, 25,770 tons of cardboard and 13,100 tons of cardboard containers were produced.
• As a result of the search for new forms of farming, the enterprise underwent a number of transformations. On the basis of order No. 5 of 28.06.1991 and in accordance with Decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR of 19.06.1990 No. 590, the fixed assets of the enterprise were donated to the ownership of the labor collective.
• During the transition of the country's economy to market relations, the tannin extract plant ceased to operate. Kartontara CJSC created difficult conditions for providing raw materials. The imported technological chips and wood began to be missed. Profits began to fall due to deteriorating work and higher prices for raw materials and energy resources. There was a need to solve the problem of increasing fiber output, reducing the consumption of electricity, heat, water and other resources.
• In this regard, since September 1993, instead of semi-cellulose, development of the production of CTMM began, which made it possible to raise the yield of fiber from wood to 85% instead of 55% in the production of semi-cellulose. The company was registered as a joint stock company on June 27, 1991.

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