Russia Begins Greenhouse Substrate Exports To Saudi Arabia

Russia’s Technonicol has begun exporting greenhouse substrates produced at the corporation’s plant in Krasny Sulin in the Rostov region to Saudi Arabia. The first batch of products included mineral wool cubes intended for germinating tomato seedlings in greenhouses. Technonicol’s products were delivered by sea from Novorossiysk to Jeddah via the Bosporus and the Suez Canal.

Igor Burakov, a general director of the Rostov Investment Development Agency, said, “Industrial products are one of the locomotives of our exports, and the Middle East is one of the priority export directions for us. Technonicol plans to increase the amount and range of export supplies from its Don plants to countries in the Middle East region. In addition to Saudi Arabia, products from the greenhouse substrate plant are already being exported to Iran.”

Technonicol’s substrate production enterprise manufactures 160,000 cubic meters of vegetative mats, seed germination plugs, and seedling cubes per year. They are used by greenhouses specializing in low-volume hydroponic technology. Shipments are made to the Volga and Southern Federal Districts, as well as for export to Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Iran, China, and Saudi Arabia.