The guests were given a tour of the plant, which included a visit to the mechanical and galvanic shops, stations, Assembly and commissioning of equipment design Bureau. Members of the delegation discussed with the management of the plant conditions and options for further cooperation.

"Our Cuban colleagues are interested in supply of Russian high-tech equipment for bottling of fruit juices and puree in the carton-type purpac, doypack packages, and PET containers. We, for our part, are ready to produce for them such equipment and integrate it into existing production in Cuba. This is not our first meeting, in the fall we visited Cuba, met and invited colleagues to look at our production from the inside," said Anatoly Petrov, Vice-President of TAURAS-FENIX.

According to the Association "Rosspetsmash", factories of food processing machinery produced in Russia for 10 months of current year production to 11.5 billion rubles, which is 6% higher than the same period last year. This above average growth rates that domestic plants have shown in recent years.

For the first 10 months of this year, the largest increase has demonstrated the following segments: a 52% increase in the volume of production of equipment for the sugar industry, 22% - equipment for processing meat or poultry, 15% increase in the volume of production of equipment for treatment and processing of milk.

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Cooperation of agricultural enterprises of Cuba and the Russian machine-building companies has become possible thanks to the program for restoration and development of the citrus industry in the region, which was adopted by the Government of the Republic of Cuba and the active assistance of the Department of agricultural, food processing and road construction machinery of the Ministry of industry and trade.