The former Tetra Pak will increase the prices of its products by 9% to 22% – Kommersant

Basic packaging will increase in price by 9%, imported lids, design and service work, by 10%, and multilayer polyethylene tabs-strips, by 22%. The company cites the weakening of the ruble exchange rate and the costs associated with importing materials imported into Russia as reasons for the price increase.

According to one of the food company representatives, the company considered the price increase for packaging systems to be excessively large. The company, on the contrary, told Kommersant that the upcoming indexation is associated with an increase in the cost of raw materials, mainly cardboard, the proportion of which in packaging can reach up to 70%, and by the end of 2024 the price increase It did not exceed 9%.

Cardboard in Russia has not risen in price in the last three years, but now the prices of polymer films, paint and sheets, which manufacturers buy abroad, are rising, the Center for Systems Solutions told the newspaper. , where a further increase in packaging is expected. prices in 2025.

The Russian dairy industry annually consumes about 32.2 billion units of packaging, of which almost a third is multilayer cardboard and a quarter is flexible polymer packaging, Soyuzmolok General Director Artem Belov noted. According to his words, the cost of processed dairy products in 2024 increased by 21%. The expert estimated that the proportion of packaging in the cost of dairy products ranges between 5% and 10%.

Packaging Systems is the largest Russian manufacturer of aseptic packaging. According to a newspaper source, the company occupies 80% of the national market. Until 2022, the company was a subsidiary of Tetra Pak in Russia, which, after the start of a special military operation, sold its business in the country to local senior management. Now the packing house is owned by Eton Investments LLC, owned by Igor Akimov and Alexander Krivolapov, Kommersant clarifies.