St Petersburg, Russia, April 25 - Kraft Foods Inc. has started building a $100 million freeze-dried soluble coffee plant in the Leningrad region, near Russia's second-largest city St Petersburg, the company said on Tuesday.
The plant is expected to start production in 2007, with initial capacity of 5,000 tonnes of coffee per year. It will produce the Monarch, Carte Noir and Maxim brands.
The new plant will be build next to Kraft's coffee packaging factory in the region. Kraft also has a confectionery plant in the Vladimir region of central Russia.