TOMSK, Feb 7 – RIA Tomsk. Tomsk pharmaceutical company LLC "Artlife" plans to launch a plant for the production of medical gelatin in the village of Kaltai of the Tomsk region in the autumn of 2019, the deputy governor for investment policy Yuri Gurdin told journalists on Thursday.
Earlier it was reported that in 2012 "Artlife" together with the Kemerovo Institute of Food Science and Technology won a grant from the Ministry of Education and Science to develop technology and organize the production of pharmaceutical gelatin for capsules. To accommodate the production the "Artlife" company built a production and warehouse complex in Kaltai. Start of production was planned for 2017.
"The postponement of the start of production in the production and warehouse complex in the village of Kaltai is associated with the need to install additional special equipment. <...> A full start of production is expected in the third quarter of 2019", – the deputy governor said. He added that the volume of investments in the project will amount to 800 million rubles.
"The organization is a recipient of state support in the form of subsidies for the payment of interest rates and fees for technological connection to the power grids", – Gurdin noted.Tomsk pharmaceutical "Artlife" company works since 1998. The company produces more than 30 brands of products – food, cosmetic lines, bioactive complexes. The company is represented in 400 cities of the Russian Federation, Germany, India, Bulgaria, Serbia, Ukraine and even more than in 20 countries of the world.