Total has officially opened its new state-of-the-art lubricants oil blending plant, strategically located in the Kaluga region of the Russian Federation.
This blending and production plant will allow Total to localise the production of its top-tier lubricants for the Russian market. With an investment equivalent to $50m, this facility has been designed to produce initially 40,000 tonnes of automotive and industrial lubricants per year, with a scale-up option to bring this capacity up to 70,000 tonnes per year.
The plant is equipped with a fully automated blending system and ultramodern filling lines. Covering an area of 7 hectares of the Vorsino industrial park in the Kaluga Region, this facility opens less than two years after the start of construction. Its operations are creating 50 new working positions onsite.
“As illustrated by our commitment to major LNG projects in the Arctic, Russia has become a key country for Total. In addition to our upstream activities, Russia is also one of the highest priority development markets for our Marketing & Services and downstream products, especially lubricants” underlined Patrick Pouyanné, Chairman and CEO of Total.
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16th October 2018
