A ceremony of laying the foundation stone for the construction of the Sarstedt medical equipment plant took place in St. Petersburg at the Marino Industrial Park.
Press release
22/07/ 2019
The project is implemented within the framework of a memorandum on joint activities concluded between St. Petersburg, VTB Bank and Sarstedt.
The ceremony was attended by the Deputy President – Chairman of the Board of VTB – Bank Denis Bortnikov, Governor of St. Petersburg – Alexander Beglov, Chairman of the Board of Sarstedt – Juergen Sarstedt and other officials.
The memorandum was concluded at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in 2018. Under the agreement, Sarstedt acquired a land plot of 4 hectares in the Marino industrial park. The investor received permission to build the plant in June 2019.
“We are interested in creating high-tech industries in St. Petersburg, because these are, above all, highly paid jobs for our residents,” governor Alexander Beglov at a solemn ceremony.
The products of the new enterprise will be supplied to medical institutions in St. Petersburg and other regions of the Russian Federation. The plant plans to create 50 high-performance jobs. The amount of investment in the project from Sarstedt will be more than 1.5 billion rubles.
Denis Bortnikov, Deputy President – Chairman of the Board of VTB, said: “As a financial partner of the Marino industrial park, we strive to provide businesses with comfortable conditions for accelerated development. The construction of an industrial complex will open up new opportunities for the Sarstedt company and will serve as a good recommendation of the industrial park for other foreign investors. ”
The head of the board of Sarstedt, Jürgen Sarstedt, stressed: “By investing 21.1 million euros in the construction of this production, we invest in the city of St. Petersburg and in Russian industry. The completion of the construction of a new industrial complex with an area of more than 9 thousand square meters is scheduled for May 2020. We want to build a new plant in Marino in less than one year. These rather high rates reflect the dynamics with which the business development of our family company in Russia has been going on since 1991 ”.
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Maryino Industrial Park is an organized industrial zone with centralized management for the location of modern industrial enterprises. Located on an area of 130 hectares in St. Petersburg. The project is being implemented with the support of the Government of St. Petersburg and VTB Bank. The development of the project is engaged in JSC VTB Development.
The following companies are located on the territory of Marino: Teknos (Finnish manufacturer of paints and varnishes), DIPO plant (Russian-French manufacturer of automotive components), the logistics complex of the Admiral-Terminal-SV group. In 2018-2019, agreements were reached on localizing the production of the German company Sarstedt and the Turkish manufacturer of welding materials Magmaweld.
Sarstedt is one of the world’s leading suppliers of laboratory and medical equipment. The company develops, manufactures and markets equipment and consumables for medical and scientific purposes. The company, founded in 1961, is constantly growing, and currently its staff has about 2,600 employees.
The Sarstedt group includes 33 sales companies, as well as 13 manufacturing facilities in Europe, North America and Australia. The company is headquartered in Numbrecht, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The Russian division of the company was opened in 1991.