Enterprise Group "Gotek" launched the first stage of the innovation center
On December 7th, at JSC "Gotek North-West" (Novosaratovka village, Vsevolozhsky district, Leningrad region), which is the part of the Enterprise Group "Gotek" , was launched the first stage of an innovation center which includes an administrative building and an R&D center, part of the 4D complex Lab.
The investment project on creating an Innovation Center is being implemented as part of the company’s investment program for the development of the enterprise’s technological complex and is aimed at expanding the capabilities of finding and designing effective packaging solutions that best meet the customer’s needs. The implementation of the project is planned for 2023-2025, the planned payback period of investments is three years.
As of this date, the first stage of the project has been completed - the construction of an administrative building with an area of 1000 m2, where the main departments and creative space of the 4D Lab R&D center are located.
The Enterprise Group "Gotek" will begin implementing the second stage of the investment project in 2024. A simulation laboratory of the logistics cycle and a testing laboratory for the packaging process will be created in the innovation center. The R&D center will be equipped with unique equipment that is not found in any Russian enterprise.
The creation of an innovation center will allow the Enterprise Group "Gotek" to expand its capabilities in terms of packaging life cycle research, speed up the process of creating new packaging solutions and implementing projects.
R&D centers of 4D Lab exist at all production sites of the "Gotek" group. Separate elements of infrastructure for research, development and testing of packaging exist at the production site in Zheleznogorsk (Kursk region) and at JSC "Gotek-Center" (Novomoskovsk, Tula region). The innovation center at JSC "Gotek North-West" will be the most equipped, which will allow reproducing impacts on the packaging system at almost all stages of the life cycle, thereby minimizing the customers’ risks and shortening the period from idea to packaging launch.