Pantes

Pantes is one of the top 10 Russian contract electronics manufacturers, specializing in the development and production of high-tech electronics for applications critical to equipment failure, such as power, transport, communications and telecommunications.

Pantes equips a number of large industrial enterprises in Russia and St. Petersburg with electronic units and units, in particular, including Power Machines, Transmashholding, and the Smart City system.

2024: The start of construction of the plant for 1.5 billion rubles

At the end of June 2024, it became known that the St. Petersburg electronics manufacturer Pantes began construction of a new stage of the plant in the special economic zone (SEZ) "St. Petersburg." Investments in the project to expand the production of motherboards and Smart City systems will amount to 1.5 billion rubles.

According to the publication "Business Petersburg," Gosstroynadzor of St. Petersburg issued LLC "Pantes" permission to build the second stage of the plant at the site "Novoorlovskaya" SEZ. The project provides for the construction of a five-story production and warehouse complex with an area of ​ ​ 16 thousand square meters. m on a plot of 1.9 hectares.

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The new enterprise will specialize in the production of ready-made electronic units and blocks in cooperation with other Russian companies. It is planned that 355 jobs will be created at the plant. The construction permit is valid until the end of June 2030.

Tamara Rondaleva, General Director of SEZ St. Petersburg JSC, noted that Pantes is one of the largest Russian manufacturers of high-tech electronics, which makes a significant contribution to the development of microelectronics in Russia.

The existing Pantes plant with an area of ​ ​ 6 thousand square meters. m is located on a plot of 1.2 hectares and produces a wide range of products, including motherboards, drive control controllers, modules of the Internet of Things system. The production capacity is 1 million electronic units per year. Among the company's customers are Power Machines and Transmashholding.

Pantes previously commissioned the first stage of the plant, investing about 700 million rubles in the project. The company is one of the three leaders among SEZ residents in terms of tax deductions.

The expansion of Pantes production is part of the general development trend of the St. Petersburg SEZ. In 2024, four more residents began or plan to start building new enterprises in the zone. In addition, in 2025, the SEZ plans to begin construction of a second innovation center for the development and registration of new products by residents.^[1]

2023: Approval of the project in the SEZ "St. Petersburg"

The Expert Council of the SEZ "St. Petersburg" approved for the implementation of three new investment projects in the amount of 4 billion rubles. The press service of the special economic zone announced this at the end of August 2023. Read more here.

2022: Expansion of production

In early October 2022, a new Pantes platform for the production of electronics was officially opened in the special economic zone "St. Petersburg," the company told TAdviser. Pantes told TAdviser that the expansion is associated with an increase in demand for Russian-made electronics.

The plant is located on the territory of the SEZ "St. Petersburg" at the site "Novoorlovskaya." The area of ​ ​ the building where the production is located is 6 thousand square meters . m, and the area of ​ ​ the entire land plot is 1.2 hectares. The volume of investments in the project amounted to 700 million rubles.

The new plant is located on the territory of the SEZ "St. Petersburg"

In "Pantes" explained TAdviser, which increased the scale of production by 2 times: the existing production facilities are located on an area of ​ ​ 6 thousand square meters. m.

The new site will produce sophisticated high-tech electronics. The company explained to TAdviser that they mean blocks of various purposes in the interests of various industries: Russian Railways, power, communications, telecommunications, security systems. Classes of manufactured devices include server boards, storage boards, control boards for various mechanisms, including drive control, etc.

The planned production capacity at the first stage will be up to 1 million electronic units per year. Mass production of products is established in automatic mode.

The new site has commissioned technological equipment for the production of electronics from the world's leading manufacturers. As the company told TAdviser, in particular, the production uses equipment for surface automatic installation, automated output installation, automatic selective soldering and wave soldering plants. Due to competition in the contract manufacturing market, specific information about manufacturers and models of equipment is a trade secret.

Imported means of production from leading manufacturers were purchased for the new plant

The production building is designed and built using innovative engineering, environmental and energy-saving technologies in construction, which has reduced operating costs by more than 25%, Pantes said.

The launch of the new plant created more than 200 jobs for specialists in the electronic industry: highly qualified workers, technologists, developers and engineers.

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