Väike-Laatsi Industrial Park

Väike-Laatsi is a 65 hectare industrial park in the town of Valga. The park is big enough to provide a suitable production area for ambitious businesses.

The plots in the industrial park are registered as state- and privately owned property and the park’s detailed plan was completed in 2007. Main access roads to the area were reconstructed and illuminated in 2020. Now there are also communications like water, sewage, electricity, internet and heat.

The water and sewage lines have been updated, connection points are available for operating companies. There is a substation very close to the park and connection points are located near the businesses. Also, there is guaranteed electricity for all newcomers. Heating is local and there is no central heating line in the park.

Broadband internet cable is located directly on the border of the property, i.e. by Saviaugu street. The strength of the location of Väike-Laats is the presence of a railway (Valga-Võru direction). Currently, there is no branch road, but it is possible to build it on the land. The infrastructure within the industrial park is being developed.

Businesses operating in the industrial park have different fields of activity: trailer production, road construction, metal industry, wood industry (mainly new and tidy industrial buildings).

Valga municipality is an area with strong industrial potential and its advantage is being situated on Estonia’s Southern border, together with the railway and road network.

South-East Estonia is a region with sustainable forestry, agriculture, organic food and tourism direction, where competence in the field has accumulated over the years. Investors with green investment ideas and responsible plans for the development of business services in the region are welcome here.

Investment target groups:

• Wood service sector (design and product development centres, training courses, logistics management etc.) and sustainable forestry. The wood industry has a wood competence centre and an ecosystem
• green economy and bioeconomy (bioenergetics)
• food service sector (development of products, marketing, training courses, cooking, post-processing etc.), including organic production and clean food
• remote work centre network
• recreation sector
• transport and logistics sector (electric car network and caravan network)

Advantages of South-East Estonia industrial area development

Border location – South-East Estonia borders the Republic of Latvia to the south and the Russian Federation to the east and is therefore suitable for cross-border business. International transport corridors pass through the region.

Strong wood and furniture production sector and successful food producers and metal workers – South-East Estonia has tens of mid-sized woodworking and furniture production companies. A considerable part of their produce goes to export and it gives the greater part of the manufacturing industry sales revenue. In total there are more than 6000 manufacturing industry employees in the area.

Qualified workforce preparation and support services – there are 3 different vocational training institutions with circa 2000 students (Võrumaa Vocational Education centre, Vocational Education Centre of Valgamaa, Räpina School of Horticulture). Near Võrumaa Vocational Education centre is located the local woodworking and furniture production competence centre named Tsenter. There are county development centres in all county centres that offer support to both starting and operating companies.

Good natural and living environment and strong regional identity – South-East Estonia’s safe living environment with beautiful nature together with all the necessary primary services makes for a good place for newcomers.