Signed at the ITE India Roadshow, the agreement targets India's dairy equipment, packaging, automation and ingredients suppliers — with a joint webinar and a route to DairyTech 2027, Eurasia's dairy manufacturing exhibition, as the first step
09 September, 2026, Ahmedabad, India: India's dairy equipment, packaging and processing technology manufacturers have been offered a structured route into the Russian market under a Memorandum of Understanding signed here today between ITE Group, one of the largest B2B exhibition organisers in Russia and the CIS, and NDDB Dairy Services (NDS), the professional services arm of India's National Dairy Development Board.
The MOU was signed at the Ahmedabad edition of the ITE India Roadshow, an evening briefing for Gujarat exporters on demand in the Russian and CIS markets. Signing it here is deliberate: Gujarat anchors both India's cooperative dairy sector and a dense cluster of dairy plant, processing equipment and packaging machinery manufacturers — the capability the agreement is designed to place in front of Russian buyers.
Under the MOU, ITE Group will brief Indian equipment makers, packaging and automation suppliers, ingredients producers and exporters on what Russian dairy processors are actually specifying and buying — plant and line requirements, conformity certification, service expectations and commercial terms — while NDDB Dairy Services will help identify and prepare Indian companies and technologies capable of meeting that demand.
The agreement was signed by Mr. Dmitry Zavgorodniy, Chief Executive Officer, ITE Group, and Dr. C. P. Devanand, Managing Director, NDDB Dairy Services, in the presence of Dr. Meenesh Shah, Chairman, National Dairy Development Board & NDDB Dairy Services.
Dr. Meenesh Shah, Chairman, National Dairy Development Board said, “Indian dairy's strength has always been built on cooperation. Extending that approach to international partnerships allows our producers and manufacturers to access new markets while learning from others. We welcome any engagement that widens the opportunity available to India's dairy value chain.”
Mr. Dmitry Zavgorodniy, Chief Executive Officer, ITE Group mentioned, “Russian dairy plants are re-equipping, and they are looking for suppliers who can deliver the machinery, the packaging line and the service behind it. Indian engineering is competitive on all three and largely absent from the conversation. What has been missing is not capability — it is information and presence. Working with NDDB Dairy Services gives us the most credible partner in Indian dairy to get the specifications, the buyers and the certification requirements in front of the manufacturers who can act on them.”
Dr. C. P. Devanand, Managing Director, NDDB Dairy Services noted, “India has built its dairy sector on engineering and process expertise developed for our own conditions — equipment that is robust, serviceable and cost-effective at scale. That expertise travels. Our role in this partnership is to make sure Indian companies engage with the Russian market on an informed basis, understanding the technical and certification requirements before committing resources, and to bring useful manufacturing technology back to Indian producer-owned dairies in return.”
Where the opportunity sits: plant, packaging and processing technology
DairyTech is a manufacturing exhibition, not a dairy products fair, and that is what makes it relevant to Gujarat. Its buyers are Russian dairy plants specifying processing lines, filling and packaging machinery, refrigeration, CIP and sanitation systems, quality control instrumentation, automation software and ingredients — categories in which Indian engineering competes directly on capability, price and after-sales cost.
The wider picture supports it. Indian engineering goods exports to Russia stand at roughly $90 million against approximately $2.7 billion of Russian import demand in the same category — the widest proportional gap in the bilateral relationship — while Russia has been deliberately broadening its machinery supplier base. Across the roughly 300 product lines India's Commerce Ministry has mapped, Indian exporters supply about $1.7 billion against $37.4 billion of Russian demand.