Investment Projects

Establishment of an animal farm to produce rabbit meat and rabbit meat processed products. 

Modern format of street food. The café will be made of refurbished sea container. Location in the very center of the city will provide opportunity to cover very diverse customer audience. The purpose of the project is to create a qualitative fast food place at affordable prices. A team of professional has been already formed and is ready to put in practice the most audacious ideas.

Construction of modern interactive national historic and cultural complex / school of bakers and millers, tourist complex with art objects, agricultural tourism and interactive involvement of visitors in bakery process, local farmers’ market (Tarusa town, 46 ha landplot).
Creating major Russian information and theme internet portal dedicated to bread and baking at the site www.родинахлеба.рф, with possibility to organize webinars to train in baking, to evaluate quality of baked products and to collect data for ratings of millers, bakers and baked products in Russia. Search tool should be incorporated to enable users to find bakers, millers and baked products using geo-location (single Russian database).  The Portal will provide incentives for visiting Homeland of Bread complex in Tarusa.

Guild of Russian Millers and Bakers should be created on the basis of Kaluga Region to represent interests of all small and medium businesses in milling and baking; currently, All-Russia Guild of Russian Millers and Bakers represent interests of only major bakery plants, interest of millers, small and medium bakers are not taken into account and are not given any incentives in the industry, they are not considered as part of agriculture, as they are processing businesses. It will be possible to prepare uniform incentivizing plan through the Guild to develop artisan baking in Russia taking experience Of France, Spain and Italy as an example. 

Construction materials’ production. Application of dry  greenfield technology. Process equipment supplier - FLSmidth (Denmark), a world-leading company. Annual capacity – up to 3,5 million t of concrete.

A new unique technology for continuous non-autoclaved technical grade plaster production has been developed and a relevant patent has been obtained. The cost of production is similar to that of construction grade plaster.

The new technology will result in discontinuing older processes for technical and construction plaster production. Apart from that, high-strength construction and technical grade plaster will be able to replace concrete in certain applications.

Plaster has a number of important advantages as compared to concrete. For instance, power costs associated with plaster production are 4-5-fold lower as compared to similar costs for concreate production. Furthermore, plaster setting takes minutes, while concrete setting takes a day.

The application of inexpensive fast-setting plaster in construction will significantly change the industry.

A business concept for application of plaster in construction industry has been developed. Plaster is viewed as a main construction material for production of pre-fabricated large blocks.

The project provides for large-scale replication of production process both in Russia and abroad.

The project provides for launching of  food pectin fiber production of sugar sand production scraps. In the course of sugar production from sugar beet sugar-free beet pectin fiber is generated as production waste.   The fiber is used as a raw material for production of pectin  (Е440 additive) and food fibers. There are no pectin-producing plants in Russia, thus all pectin and food fibers used in Russia are of foreign origin.  

 Production process in brief: Dry beet pulp (pectin fibers) is purchased at sugar plants (RUR 5-7/kg). Dirt is removed by water, fibers are whitened (whitening degree similar to wheat), dried, milled  (grinding fineness < 100 μm) and packed in valve bags. Cost of production – RUR 50/kg. Currently food  fibers are sold at RUR. 120-180/kg, depending on fiber quality. 
Fibers are used in all sectors of food industry, including production of milk, confectionery products, bread, meat uncooked food, juice, etc. Fiber content in finished products – up to 25%.  All food plants use fibers.   
Soy fiber (US$ 4/kg) is the main competitor. The only Russian plant producing food fibers is Uzlovaya Milk Plant (Tula Region). It has a capacity of 20 t per day.   

Competitive advantages as compared to soy fibers:
1) Moisture-retaining capacity of soy fiber is 5 (pectin fiber – 15).  
2) The cost of soy fiber – US$ 4/kg, pectin fiber – RUR 120/kg.  

Competitive advantages as compared Uzlovaya Milk Plant products: Uzlovaya Milk Plant  fiber whiteness – 75 units, Agrokomservis OOO fiber - 85 units. Whiteness is the second key quality parameter in terms of importance following moisture retaining capacity.   

Arranging for joint productions of ArtFacade thermal panels, façade facing tiles, roofing slabs, and leave-in-place forms.

The purpose of the project is to create a network of facilities to produce ArtFacade products within the Eco System Project of TechnoNIKOL and ArtFacade Group.

ArtFacade creates production shops in 5 Russian regions where TechnoNIKOL plants producing XPS extrusion polystyrene foam are located, manufactures required equipment, fine-tunes the technology, and launches these facilities.

TechnoNIKOL provides aid and assistance in sale of the produced products using its own distribution network, and provides relevant technical support.

The total value of the project is RUB 100 mln, including the creation of 5 production shops and their full-scale development. To implement this project, it is required to manufacture a semi-automated line to produce 10 mm thick façade facing tiles with special inserts having a capacity of 8,000-10,000 m²/month for producing ArtFacade façade thermal systems.

The project involves creation of a laboratory for cloning and reproduction of planting material and a factory for manufacturing of disposable tableware. Manufacturing will support import substitution. According to statistics, import of disposable tableware is currently valued at USD 3 billion per year. Our products will be twice as cheap and better in quality then analogues.

Type of project: new construction based on an existing property complex.

The competitive advantage of the project is in the use of advanced cellulose material - harvesting of Miscanthus giganteus that allows considerable reduction of product cost.

Street lighting management in smart city.

Key idea: installation of a new device at street lighting sources, having the following functions:

1. At night time it is to respond to movements near the lighting source  in automated mode
2. It changes the lighting source mode of operation increasing/decreasing its brightness in automated mode.

Protection of power lines, transport and other facilities against ice and snow.
Ice and snow are identified in an automatic mode and removed by vibration generators.

Protection of people, including equipment operators against blinding by powerful lighting sources.  
The system is to increase awareness of drivers, and pilots through radio exchange between transportation means being in dangerously close proximity. 

Investments: US$1,000,000 (stage I – US$700,000, stage II – US$300,000).