Vitebsk Cardboard and Printing Plant was created by order of the Ministry of Food Industry of the USSR No. 120 dated 07/20/1974 "On the organization of the Vitebsk Cardboard and Printing Plant as part of the All-Union Association for the Production of containers under the Ministry of Food Industry of the USSR", by reorganizing the Vitebsk makhorochny section of the Grodno Tobacco Factory.
In connection with the collapse of the USSR, by Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus No. 115 dated 03.03.1992 "On the transfer of enterprises of Union subordination to the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Belarus" and by order of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Belarus No. 46 dated 26.05.1992, Vitebsk Cardboard and Printing Plant became subordinate to the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Belarus.
On the basis of the order of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Belarus No. 279 dated September 11, 2000, the Vitebsk Cardboard and Printing Plant was renamed the Republican Unitary Production Enterprise "Vitebsk Cardboard and Printing Plant" (RUPP "Vitebsk Cardboard and Printing Plant"). In 2003, the plant was incorporated into the Republican Association "Belagroservice".
By order of the Vitebsk Regional Territorial State Property Fund No. 223 dated 15.12.2008, the Vitebsk Cardboard and Printing Plant was transformed into the Open Joint Stock Company Vitebsk Cardboard and Printing Plant, which is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Belarus.
In 2013, the company was transferred from republican subordination to regional, becoming part of the state association of food industry enterprises of the Vitebsk region "Vitebsk Food Industry".
By the decision of the regular meeting of shareholders (Minutes No. 1 dated March 30, 2016), the name was changed: Open Joint Stock Company "Vitebsk Cardboard and Printing Plant "Pokrovsky". Also in 2016, the shares of JSC "Vitebsk Cardboard and Printing Plant "Pokrovsky" were transferred to the management of the state association "Vitebsk Concern "Meat and Dairy Products".
By Order of the Economy Committee of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee No. 88-d dated 31.10.2019, JSC Vitebsk Cardboard and Printing Plant Pokrovsky was included in the state association Vitebsk Industry
JSC "Vitebsk Cardboard and Printing Plant "Pokrovsky" specializes in the production of a wide range of packaging products made of cardboard, micro-corrugated cardboard, corrugated cardboard for the food and light industry. The main consumers of the products are enterprises of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Belarus.
The plant is equipped with a fleet of printing machines, die-cutting equipment, a gluing line (gluing along the side seam, 3-point gluing (auto)). A cashing machine, a two-layer corrugated unit allow you to make durable packaging products from micro-corrugated cardboard. Additional finishing processes — varnishing, silver and gold stamping, congreve, allow you to make the packaging more attractive.
In order to expand the range of products produced by the enterprise, the gluing line for gluing the folding bottom was modernized, which allows cooperation with a significant segment of the RB market: confectionery industry enterprises (showboxes), bread processing plants (packaging for porridge), meat processing plants (packaging for chebureks, dumplings).
During the work of the plant, patents were obtained for products that have no analogues in the territory of the Republic of Belarus — packaging for oval and round cakes and a folding bottom, as well as for the manufacture of trays for confectionery with a fat-tight layer.
