How sanctions have changed food packaging in Russia

The bright packaging of consumer goods is becoming a rarity due to the lack of cardboard and paint against the backdrop of sanctions. RBC shows, Photo: Mikhail Grebenshchikov / RBC Russian manufacturers of consumer goods faced the need to change packaging this spring - in April, the EU, as part of the fifth round of sanctions, banned the import of printing ink, paper, cardboard, film, and printing machines to RUSSIA. These materials for the printing industry, which are used for the production of packaging, were imported to Russia from abroad Photo: Mikhail Grebenshchikov / RBC The largest manufacturer of food packaging, the Russian company of the Swedish Tetra Pak (part of the Swiss group Tetra Laval), also had problems. In April, it became known that Tetra Pak stopped supplying Russian manufacturers with packaging for national products - kefir and fermented baked MILK.sanctionsEU, the Russian Tetra Pak plant was cut off from these deliveries. The parent company Tetra Pak asked the Swedish authorities to exclude these goods from sanctions, explaining this with humanitarian considerations, but was refused Photo: Mikhail Grebenshchikov / RBC The Russian authorities, in response, began an experiment to create "domestic Tetra Pak" - analogues for imported packaging.