The Perfume Flakon is one of the suppliers of glass bottles for perfume producers in Russia. Enterprises of textile and light industries mostly use plastic bags to pack their products. If demand picks up and competition intensifies, cloth and shoe producers will require more packaging materials. To be more competitive with imported products, Russian producers will have to significantly improve quality and add-convenience features such as handles, measuring scopes, and nicely printed instructions. Russia produces large amount of construction materials, which often require delivery to remote places.
Transportation causes much damage and worsens quality of the materials.
Good western packaging would reduce those losses and make these products more competitive to imports. Prospects for U.S. Companies. Overall improvement of Russian economy will provide U.S. packaging equipment companies and packaging producers with enormous potential opportunities to increase export to Russia through direct sales, leasing, and investments. Many Russian companies welcome foreign investments, and some foreign companies have already invested in Russian packaging raw material companies such as paper mills. Other Russian companies such as Poligrafooformlenie, MKPG, Dozakl, Polipak, have attracted investments to renew their production facilities.