The initial batch of premium cheeses is scheduled to clear logistics channels and enter the Chinese market during the summer of 2026, establishing a foundation for regular, high-volume contract deliveries. EkoNiva’s primary cheese manufacturing installation, located in the Voronezh region, currently operates at a steady manufacturing clip of more than 6 tonnes of specialized cheese per day. To ensure strict quality control and raw material traceability, the plant sources its entire cheese-grade fluid milk pool exclusively from the group’s intensive corporate dairy complexes positioned in close geographical proximity.

According to EkoNiva founder and president Stefan Durr, targeting international markets represents an essential economic mechanism to offset significant volume pressures within the domestic arena. Durr notes that the Russian internal dairy sector has entered an oversaturated phase, rendering high-value cheese exports a highly promising channel for corporate margin protection. To capitalize on this structural reality, the agribusiness holding is heavily expanding its Asian footprint and wrapping up construction on a massive, specialized cheese plant in the Maslyanino district of the Novosibirsk region.

Once fully commissioned, the upcoming Novosibirsk megastructure is engineered to yield more than 35,000 tonnes of hard and semi-hard cheeses per year, providing a manifold increase to the holding’s current processing footprint. This industrial scaling builds directly on EkoNiva’s pre-existing trade relations with Chinese procurement networks, where the group has maintained a commercial presence since 2020. The company’s established export portfolio has traditionally centered on ultra-pasteurized fluid milk from its classic and professional lines, alongside specialized 10 percent fat ultra-pasteurized cream.