ICL will expand the electronics factory by more than double
The ICL printed board and electronics plant in the Republic of Tatarstan will increase by 13 thousand square meters. m, adding 8 thousand square meters to existing. m two additional workshops. The company does not disclose the goals of increasing production and investments, but market participants estimate the cost of such an expansion of 10 billion rubles. At the same time, experts emphasize that the already constructed capacities in the Russian Federation are undergoes, so the expansion will be successful only if the lines are transferred to contract production.
The domestic manufacturer of electronics and computing equipment ICL intends to expand its plant more than doubled, about this at the ICL Partner Connect conference was announced at the end of April by the CEO of the company Yevgeny Stepanov. According to him, the company intends to build two additional buildings for the production of computer equipment and electronics, as well as ensure the entrance control workshop on the territory of the Innopolis special economic zone with a total area of 13 thousand square meters. m.
In 2023, the ICL launched a motherboard production plant with a total area of 8 thousand square meters. m, for this, Chinese equipment was purchased. The plant allows you to produce up to 1 million boards per year, TADVISER reported. The company refused to tell Kommersant the details of the project, including the timing of the launch, investment and the purpose of expansion.
According to Spark-Interfax, Aisiel Techno LLC was registered in January 2016 in the Republic of Tatarstan. The revenue of the LLC for 2024 amounted to 13.7 billion rubles, net profit – 792 million rubles. The co -owners of the legal entity are hidden. As Vedomosti reported in the summer of 2024, ICL laptops became one of the most popular among Russians together with FPlus, Dexp, Digma, Echips, Osio and IRBIS, the aggregate share of the companies amounted to 12.9% of the market in pieces. In total, at that time, 180 thousand domestic laptops were sold in the Russian Federation, 53% more indicators of the same period of 2023.
Scaling is made to increase the production volumes of electronic modules to expand the product line, admits the representative of the FPLUS electronics manufacturer. “But, most likely, technological redistributions are added to ensure the production of final products of the full cycle,” he says, adding that potential directions can be in the field of large-sized printed circuit boards of the 6–7th class of accuracy, as well as the development of corps production and matrices for IPS (technology for creating displays) or OLED monitors.
3.9 million
The laptops were sold in Russia in 2024, according to M. Video-Eldorado.
According to the representative of FPLUS, the area of new workshops declared ICL, taking into account third -party costs and investments in equipment, can cost a company of 10 billion rubles. Each surface installation line with concomitant equipment can cost from 50 million rubles. In a simple performance of up to 500 million rubles – “in the topovoy”, adds the interlocutor “Kommersant” in the electronics market.
Another interlocutor of Kommersant among the manufacturers of electronics doubts the prospects of expanding the plant in Tatarstan as a whole. According to him, Yadro and Aquarius factories currently operating in the Russian Federation are enough to ensure all demand for computer equipment. “But Russian factories have a large period of downtime – about three quarters, so in the case of ICL it can be assumed that the company intends to give lines to the production of other brands,” he says. In Yadro and Aquarius, they refused to comment.
As Kommersant reported at the end of February, the lack of abuse of capacities in the Russian Federation only in the production of tablets and mobile phones reaches 80% (See “Kommersant” from February 21). Later, the deputy head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Vasily Shpak, announced the load of only 10% of the capacities in the Russian Federation of this segment.
