Koblik Orenburg

History

2024: Plant Restart

In October 2024, it became known that the company Koblik Group resumed work at the production site (legal entity - Koblik Orenburg) in the Orenburg region, which previously belonged to the American manufacturer of agricultural equipment, and John Deere began to produce agricultural machinery. To restart the plant, ₽1,5 billion were invested, which made it possible to establish new technological processes in three months and start producing the first units of finished products, the Minister of Economic Development, Investment, Tourism and External Relations of the Orenburg Region said. Ignat Petukhov

According to Interfax, the restart of the plant ensured the creation of 30 jobs, but the company plans to expand its staff to 200 employees within a year. According to Petukhov, it is expected that the company will annually bring to the budget of the Orenburg region up to ₽160 million tax deductions, which will be a significant contribution to the economy of the region.

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At the first stage of production, Koblik Group launched the production of grain dryers. In the future, the company plans to expand its product line to include grain overloaders and conveyor dryers. According to the company, the launch of new production lines will not only increase the volume of manufactured equipment, but also strengthen the position of Koblik Group in the Russian agricultural equipment market.

Koblik Group was founded To Moscow in and specializes in the production of equipment for post-harvest processing of grain crops, including cleaning, drying and storing grain. The holding unites several machine-building plants Russia in and, Belarus among which enterprises in, and. Voronezh Smolensk Minsk

According to company representatives, the decision to buy a plant in the Orenburg region was made in the spring of 2023, after John Deere suspended its activities in Russia due to the imposed sanctions. The American concern transferred its production to Orenburg from the Moscow region in 2019, investing ₽1,2 billion in the development of the site. The new owners took less than a year to adapt the plant to their own production tasks.^[1]

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