China´s Fuyao Glass Industry Group has launched a €300 million plant in Kaluga, Russia.

The capacity of the first line is 1 million sets of automotive glass a year and is set to triple over the next two years, Fuyao Glass Rus managing director Chen Chuqing said at a Vedomosti conference Autoevolution-2013 in Kaluga.

Fuyao Glass Industry Group president Cao Dewang said the company may consider the option of producing float glass in Russia in the future too.

About two-thirds of the glass that Fuyao produces in Russia will be distributed to Europe, with the remaining third sold domestically, Dewang said.

He added that the company´s main customer in Russia is the Volkswagen (VW) group, which also has a plant in Kaluga.

Construction of the site began two years ago. Fuyao is the world´s second largest automotive glass manufacturer after Japan´s Asahi Glass Co.