Success stories

Mercator Kaluga

— manufacturing and chassis installation of various attachable equipment (assembly site for road equipment)

₽ 500 mln

investment

Italy/Russia

country

Kaluga-Yug

industrial park

December 2011

Kaluga City Administration and Mercator Kaluga LLC sign a letter of intent in order to implement an investment project at the territory of Kaluga-Yug Industrial Park

May 2014

Plant of Mercator Kaluga LLC is opened

June 2016

Opening ceremony of production line for compact vacuum sweepers VCM 2020 intended for road and communal services

July 2017

New service center is opened for maintenance of the entire company model range

Mercator is a joint venture between major European corporation BUCHER-Guyer AG and its Italian subsidiary Giletta S.p.a. Company specialized in manufacturing of communal equipment for maintenance of motorways and city streets.  

Total volume of investments in Kaluga plant is RUR 500 mln.

“I must admit that we found highly qualified specialists here, who contributed to the implementation of our project and are continuing to support is. <…> Out products are used in 50 countries. The Kaluga plant fully meets international quality standards. By establishing a presence here, we are localizing are production in Russia.”

Guido Giletta, President of Giletta 

Mercator Kaluga LLC is a modern plant based on the use of European technologies for production of road, communal and transportation specialized equipment. Technology of robotized welding for such segment of equipment was first-time implemented in Russia at this plant. Main products of the plant: vacuum sweepers, multi-purpose road maintenance vehicles, refuse trucks, footpath cleaning equipment. Technologies used at the plant for production of equipment are classified as last-generation achievements of European companies in municipal machine-manufacturing. Mercator Holding has its share of more than 42% at the Russian market of multi-purpose road maintenance equipment.

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