The construction of the "Exsoil" company's soy and rapeseed processing plant in the Lipetsk region is complete - comments

The construction of the "Eksoil" soy and rapeseed processing plant in the Lipetsk region has been completed, with the launch of the production line planned for early November, reports "Abireg." "Kommersant" previously reported that the plant's capacity will be 900,000 tons of soy and rapeseed per year. The main product of soy processing is soy meal, with oil being a by-product. CEO of "Eksoil" Nikolay Zhirnov told "Abireg" that with the launch of the new plant, "no more soy processing plants are needed on the Russian market." "Eksoil" began construction of the soy and rapeseed processing plant in 2019, at which time the company already had an operating sunflower processing plant from 2016 with a capacity of 2,000 tons of raw materials per day. At that time, investments in the new asset were estimated at 6.5 billion rubles. In the fall of 2024, Zhirnov told "Kommersant" that the construction of the new plant would trigger an expansion of the sowing areas for soy and rapeseed in the ...