The volume of commercial output of Kyiv Cardboard and Paper Mill (Kyiv KPK, Obukhiv, Kyiv region), Ukraine’s industry leader in this indicator, amounted to almost UAH 7 billion 984 million in 2024, up 5.5% from 2023, according to statistics from Ukrpapir Association.
According to the statistics provided toInterfax-Ukraine, in physical terms, the plant’s production of corrugated boxes is almost the same as last year’s figure of 228.27 million square meters, which is consistently the best in the industry.
Cardboard production decreased by 5.4% to 156 thousand tons, including production of containerboard by 6.3% to 126.5 thousand tons and boxboard by 1.4% to 29.6 thousand tons.
The production of base paper for sanitary and hygiene products increased by 5.8% to 48.4 thousand tons, and the output of toilet paper in rolls increased by 4.7% to 271.8 million units.
The plant is a stable leader in the production of toilet paper in Ukraine: in 2024, the industry’s main enterprises produced a total of 640.4 million rolls, which is 4.5% more than in 2023.
According to the Association’s data obtained from the main industry enterprises, last year in Ukraine the production of cardboard boxes increased by 12.3% to 590.1 million square meters, paper and cardboard by 3.1% to 601 thousand tons by 2023 (in particular, cardboard production decreased by 0.7% to 463.5 thousand tons, paper production increased by 18.2% to 137.5 thousand tons).
At the same time, the association states that compared to pre-war 2021, the production of corrugated boxes decreased by 21.8%, cardboard – by 37%, and paper – by 14.8%.
Kyiv PDA is the parent company of the eponymous group of companies, one of the largest cardboard and paper products producers in Europe with a staff of more than 2,500 people.
It has, among other things, a 240,000-tonne-per-year cardboard production facility and a 355 million-square-meter corrugated packaging plant, as well as a production facility for the production of base paper and finished products with an annual capacity of 70,000 tons of base paper.
According to the company, last year it paid UAH 1.5 billion in taxes to the budgets, including UAH 1.3 billion to the state budget and UAH 0.205 billion to the local budget.
The Group of companies also includes five procurement enterprises (waste paper and recyclables collection), Palm Mill Print LLC in Kyiv (production of cardboard, flexible, flexo packaging and printing of periodicals) and the transport company Avtospetstrans-KPK.
As reported, in 2023, the plant produced products worth UAH 7 billion 568 million, up 1.8% year-on-year.
