Kaliningrad Package Factory (KTK) is the number one Russian producer of metal containers and packaging. KTK supplies more than 20% of Russia’s can market.
The factory has maintained its dominant position for the past five years. It is also the country’s largest exporter of cans, with a share of over 60% of Russia’s total can exports.
Traditionally, metal cans account for the highest proportion of our production volume. We sell to the leading fish and meat processing companies in Kaliningrad Region and other parts of Russia, and we have formed stable, long-term business relationships with many of them.
In addition, our firm produces canned meat and fish under our own brand, Sokhranim traditsii (Preserving Traditions). The plant has a production capacity of 10 million cans of food per month. Our specialists place great importance on adhering to traditional methods and recipes. The calibre of our raw materials, the very latest imported equipment, progressive technologies, a modern laboratory, and strict quality control of the end product mean that we can produce competitive and high-quality goods. Our merchandise has long been in high demand in many parts of Russia.
We like to preserve the best of our heritage. While adopting modern technologies and the latest equipment, we remain true to the traditions of quality and the work ethic established more than half a century ago.
Investments in the Future
The history of metal can production goes back more than 100 years. However, we use only the latest technology and materials in our production process.
We use tin plate made by European manufacturers in accordance with the EN 10202 standard and tin produced by Russia’s leading factories in accordance with GOST 13345-85. For tin plate varnishing and lithography, we use only European materials, which can be used for canning a full range of meat, fish, fruit, and vegetables. All our metal containers are made of raw and finished materials authorized for contact with food products by Russia’s healthcare agencies and the Federal Service on Customers’ Rights Protection and Human Well-Being Surveillance.
Kaliningrad Package Factory’s production facilities are fitted with modern, reliable, high-productivity equipment made by leading European companies.
To produce welded composite cans, we use Soudronic (Switzerland) lines; to produce lids and bases we use Karges Hammer (Germany), Cevolani (Italy), and Cantec (Germany) high-speed presses; for production of seamless metal cans and their ends, and for EOE83 and EOE99 easy-open lids, we use Alfons Haar (Germany) presses; for coating tin plate using a system for drying coated materials with gas, we use modern KBA MetalPrint (Germany) lines, and for packing metal containers onto pallets of different formats, we use Clevertech (Italy) automated palletizers. KBA MetalPrint's four-colour printing machine, MetalStar-2 (Germany), ensures high-quality lithographic production on can lids and cases. Modern pre-print preparation technology from AGFA Graphics (Belgium) allows us to significantly reduce printing time.
COMPANY'S MISSION
Our combine - a well-deserved enterprise with vast experience and a long history - not only produces high-quality metal packaging and produces canned products according to traditional recipes. Every year the consumer value of our products grows and contributes to the development and prosperity of the enterprise in the interests of shareholders, employees, partners and customers.
TARGET
Take the leading positions in branch, to be ahead of competitors on quality, equipment, innovations to keep authority and recognition of consumers.
POLICY OF THE FACTORY
Quality. The factorye's activities are inextricably linked with the concept of quality, meet the requirements of the international standard. The products of the enterprise should not only comply with officially established norms, but also exceed consumer expectations, both in Russia and abroad.
Innovation. The main condition for the continuous development of the enterprise is the introduction of the latest equipment, the use of the latest technologies, the optimization of production and logistics.
Efficiency. The factory has a powerful production and technical base, a considerable intellectual property and a commercially profitable enterprise, which ensures positive dynamics of economic indicators and financial stability.
Legality. The enterprise carries out commercial activities in full compliance with the laws of the Russian Federation, it is absolutely legal and transparent for both the founders and any inspection bodies.
Professionalism. The personnel of the factory is a source of strength, intellectual potential and corporate culture. The concern of the enterprise about specialists is expressed in providing optimal working conditions, opportunities for training, improving skills, personal and career growth, implementing an effective system of motivation for each employee, creating an atmosphere of trust, respect and mutual assistance in the team.
A responsibility. A good name enterprise is a resource that every employee of an enterprise should value, not only at work, but also outside the workplace. It consists of punctual fulfillment of obligations to suppliers and consumers, each of which, in fact, is a partner of the plant.
The management of OJSC "Kaliningrad Package Factory" undertakes obligations to ensure the implementation of this Policy and calls on the whole team of the enterprise.
October 5, 1950. The Council of Ministers of the USSR adopted a special resolution on the construction of a plant in Kaliningrad for the production of filled barrel containers. Construction of the plant began in the same quarter.
March 12, 1952. The plant produced its first products.
1953. The Technical Quality Control Department was established.
1954. In accordance with a decision of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet and the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR, the cooperage and container plant was merged with the wooden packaging plant.
1955. A non-staff standardization bureau and a permanent product quality control commission were established.
1956. A cardboard workshop for the production of cardboard boxes and inserts began operations.
1957. The cooperage and container plant merged with the tin can manufacturing plant. In addition to the main workshops — cooperage, woodworking, packaging repair, and cardboard production — the lacquer printing and tin can workshops were added. From this moment, the enterprise became known as the "Kaliningrad Packaging Combine."
1958. An automatic varnishing line was installed and commissioned, and automatic presses for manufacturing one-piece stamped tin cans were put into operation. A photo reproduction department began operating, supplying printing plates for the lacquer printing and cardboard workshops.
1959. The combine developed a comprehensive quality management system based on the standards system of the Yaroslavl Motor Plant. The system included the standard "Internal Plant Certification of Product Quality" and a special regulation on moral and financial incentives for workshops whose products would receive the plant's Quality Mark. This became one of the first quality management systems in the Soviet Union.
1960. Equipment for manufacturing a new type of polyethylene packaging began operations.
1961. Wastewater treatment facilities were commissioned.
1962. A new printing and varnishing line was installed.
1963. The cooperage and woodworking workshops ceased operations.
1964. A line for the production of assembled metal cans was commissioned.
2001–2003. Production lines for assembled cans and lids with diameters of 83.4 mm, as well as a high-speed line for assembled cans with a diameter of 99 mm, were commissioned.
2004. A quality management system compliant with the international standards DIN EN ISO 9001:2000 and the national standard GOST R ISO 9001-2000 was developed, implemented, and certified.
2005. A high-speed tin sheet varnishing line equipped with a convection drying system and an environmentally friendly lacquer vapor incineration system was commissioned.
2006. An automatic pallet packaging line for cans was commissioned.
2011–2014. A second tin sheet varnishing line with a capacity of up to 7,000 sheets per hour, equipped with a convection drying system and an environmentally friendly lacquer vapor incineration system, was commissioned. An automatic tin coil slitting line was also launched. The enterprise implemented a full-cycle production process for metal packaging sets — from tin coil to finished can and lid. This significantly reduced production costs and increased the combine's productivity. Digital prepress equipment and a high-speed four-color printing machine were commissioned. Production of assembled 99 mm cans with a necked-in bottom began. A branch plant for the production of tin food cans with diameters of 72.8 mm and 83.4 mm was established in the city of Rudnya, Smolensk Region.
2015. An automatic production line for 70 mm lids and a third tin varnishing line equipped with convection drying technology and an environmentally friendly lacquer vapor incineration system were commissioned.
2016. The production site in Rudnya, Smolensk Region, became a full-fledged branch of the combine outside the Kaliningrad Region. This decision simplified logistics for delivering finished products to other regions of Russia. Investments totaling nearly 700 million rubles enabled production capacity to reach 15 million tin containers.
2017. The combine began production of a new technologically advanced product — a one-piece drawn rectangular can of the ¼ Club type.
2018. The first easy-open lid production line for 83 mm and 99 mm diameters — a new competitive product type — was commissioned.
2019. A comprehensive reconstruction of the enterprise's power supply system was completed, along with modernization of internal infrastructure and auxiliary facilities. The production complex site and access roads at the Rudnya branch were also improved.
2020–2022. As part of a large-scale investment project, the lacquer printing production and tin varnishing line were modernized, and a continuous lacquer coating thickness monitoring system was installed. The transformer substation ensuring energy security and energy efficiency of production processes was upgraded. A sound-insulated climate chamber for the conversion press of the easy-open lid production line was installed, significantly reducing noise and vibration levels in the production workshop. The company laboratory was equipped with additional new equipment.
2024. A new production line for 73 mm easy-open lids was commissioned, increasing production capacity to 40 million lids per month. The combine also opened a representative office in Krasnodar.
2025. Renovation of the Hansa drawn can production equipment was completed, and a modern DRD (Draw-ReDraw) production line equipped with double-draw technology was commissioned. This significantly increased the combine's production capacity for Hansa drawn cans. A production line for Hansa easy-open lids — rectangular in shape with rounded sides — was commissioned. Construction of a 10,000 sq. m production complex in Rudnya was completed.
