Nestle Purina PetCare annnounced plans to invest more than US$48 million to double the production of wet petfood at its manufacturing site in Russia.

The money will be used to add production lines at Nestle's petfood manufacturing facility in Vorsino, Russia. Company officials say the investment will double wet petfood manufacturing capacities within the next three years, as well as to produce the entire Purina range of petfood products sold in Russia and exported to other Commonwealth of Independent States countries.