Grand opening Ceremony

The ceremony of opening Potato processing plant by LLC Agrofirma KRiMM was held today. The grand ceremony was attended by Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation Ivan Lebedev, Governor of the Tyumen Region Alexander Moor, agricultural adviser to the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in RF Meeuwes Brauwer, director of the agricultural department of the Tyumen region Vladimir Cheymetov, head of the apparatus of the Potato Union Tatyana Gubina, deputies of regional Duma and numerous guests of the event.

The potato processing plant of Agrofirma «KRiMM» is a unique project that has no analogues in Russian Federation. There will be produced 15 000 tones of the processed potato annually from specially selected potato varieties with excellent taste quality which are used both for production needs and in retail, both in HoReCa and B2B sectors.

Pasteurized «Half-Cooked» potato with natural additives (with 60 days shelf-life), as well as fresh peeled «Fresh Cut» potato (with 9 days shelf-life), are innovative products for the Russian market. The plant is equipped with high-technique production line of Dutch company «KIREMKO» which is well-known leader in the producing machines and technologies for potatoes and vegetables processing. The maximum capacity of the plant is processing over 30 000 tones of raw potato per year.