Successful cancer treatment is impossible without the combined efforts of a surgeon, pathologist, oncologist and geneticist. That is why this year CSD LAB has teamed up with OncoHub and the National Cancer Institute to hold the 4th Annual Oncology Congress “UpToDate 4.0 + Molecular Meetings” together.
During the congress, you will be able not only to participate in Molecular Meetings and learn about the latest advances in pathology and oncogenetics, but also to get acquainted with innovative methods of treating cancer.
Scientific areas of the Congress:
– Oncology in wartime;
– The role of molecular diagnostics in clinical decision-making;
– Treatment of breast tumors;
– Treatment of gastric and esophageal tumors;
– Oncoloproctology;
– Treatment of tumors of the hepatopancreatic-biliary zone and retroperitoneal space;
– Oncogynecology;
– Oncourology;
– Onco-orthopedics and skin tumors;
– Lung cancer;
– Transplantation in oncology;
– Treatment of head tumors.
Detailed program and registration by the link: https://oncohub-uptodate.com
Join the event on November 23-24, 2023 at the CEC “Parkovy” (Kyiv) to develop the future of oncology medicine in Ukraine together!
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Starting November 1, Ukrzaliznytsia (UZ) will change the average speed of its own grain hoppers to increase their competitiveness in the freight market, Valery Tkachev, deputy director of UZ’s commercial operations department, said at a meeting with grain market participants on Thursday.
Thus, the following speeds will be applied to grain carriers moving towards port stations: 111 km/day for carload shipments (the current rate is 50 km/day), and 253 km/day for route shipments (against the current 138 km/day).
The movement of grain carriers towards the western border crossings will also accelerate. It will increase from 50 to 61 km/day for group shipments and from 50 to 187 km/day for route shipments.
The average speeds of grain carriers in domestic traffic and imports have been revised. For freight shipments, the figure will be 57 km/day compared to the current 50 km/day, and for route shipments – 128 km/day (currently 118 km/day).
These changes are expected to increase UZ’s competitive advantage in the grain transportation market.
PJSC Ukrnafta and the American Petroleum Institute (API) have signed a memorandum of understanding, according to which the company will have access to API standards agreed by the global industry community.
“Our experts will take part in meetings and working groups focused on developing and discussing top international practices. API and Ukrnafta will be able to jointly organize standardization, training, certification and safety events,” the company said in a press release on Friday.
According to the document, citing Ukrnafta CEO Serhiy Koretsky, this is the most strategic step for the national oil industry in many years of its existence.
“The Ukrainian oil and gas industry has a glorious history, strong experience and great development prospects. However, we have long been dependent on Soviet, Russian and Belarusian equipment. The API Memorandum should change this for good,” the CEO said.
The signed agreement confirms the commitment of both parties to strengthen Ukraine’s energy independence and its move away from Russian standards, equipment and operations.
According to the press release, quoting API Senior Vice President of Global Industry Services Anchal Liddar, API, as the world’s premier standard-setting organization for the natural gas and oil industries, is honored to begin a new cooperative relationship with Ukrnafta.
“This alliance reinforces our shared vision of strengthening Ukraine’s energy infrastructure and independence based on our world-class standards,” said Liddar.
For his part, according to the Ukrnafta CEO, the memorandum actually opens the door to the future for the company.
“We will be able to exchange information about annual programs, plans for the development of standards and best practices, which will allow us to understand how the world will develop and what Ukrnafta needs to do to be on the same page with the benchmarks that drive progress in the oil and gas industry,” Koretsky explained.
It is noted that the memorandum of understanding with API will allow Ukrnafta to significantly increase its efficiency and attract the best examples of world technologies to the development of the Ukrainian oil industry.
“This is one of the key projects of the company’s transformation in the coming years, which will allow Ukraine to gain the desired energy independence,” the press release says.
API was established in 1919. Since then, the organization has developed more than 800 standards to improve operational and environmental safety, efficiency, and sustainability.
Currently, API represents all segments of the American oil and gas industry. About 600 members of the organization produce, process and distribute most of the energy in the United States and participate in the API Energy Excellence® program, which accelerates progress in environmental and safety protection through the introduction of new technologies and transparent reporting.
The chain of perfumery and cosmetics stores EVA plans to open up to 60 new stores in 2024, with estimated investments in this area amounting to about UAH 200 million.
The company’s press service told Interfax-Ukraine that the focus will remain on the development of the EVA.UA online platform.
By the end of 2024, the company plans to complete the construction of a new warehouse in Lviv, and in 2025, a large-scale logistics center in Odesa.
“We are planning to make them (logistics warehouses – IF-U) automated – with robots. We are still finalizing the necessary investments, but we already see that they will amount to billions of hryvnias. We continue to invest in the EVA business despite the war. Because we believe in Ukraine’s victory and that the country will be restored and people will return home,” the press service quoted Olga Shevchenko, Executive Director of RUSH LLC, as saying.
According to the release, since the beginning of the year, EVA has opened 31 new stores and reopened 29, including nine new stores and five reopened stores in the third quarter. As of the end of the third quarter, the chain has 1,035 operating outlets.
New stores are opened mainly in the Women’s Energy concept, which the chain presented last year in Vinnytsia. There are more than 30 such EVAs in total.
According to Viktor Serednyi, COO of RUSH LLC, there is also a gradual rebranding of existing facilities that need to be updated, but a complete rebranding of the entire chain is not yet in the cards.
“The cost of re-equipping one store to fit the new concept is about UAH 3 million. Opening a completely new store can cost from UAH 5 to 10 million, depending on the size,” he said.
By the end of the year, the company plans to open 26 new EVAs. In particular, a new flagship EVA beauty lab is to appear in the Respublika shopping center. This format will offer more cosmetics and perfumes, a dermatology center, professional hair care series and an expanded category of premium brands.
RUSH LLC, which manages the EVA chain, was founded in 2002. It has 52 own trademarks (OTMs), which are represented by household goods, perfumes, cosmetics, jewelry, personal care products, accessories, underwear and children’s products. In 2022, the share of FMCG sales in physical terms was 30.6%. The company employs about 13.4 thousand people.
According to Opendatabot, the owner of RUSH LLC is Korsolyushyn LLC (100%), and the company’s ultimate beneficiaries are Ukrainian businessmen Ruslan Shostak and Valeriy Kiptyk.
According to RUSH’s financial results, its net profit in 2022 increased by 16.7% to UAH 973.8 million, while the value of its assets decreased by 2.5% to UAH 10.3 billion. The EVA network’s turnover in 2022 decreased by 7% year-on-year to UAH 15.7 billion.
Over the past 25 years, Ukraine has increased its total oilseed processing capacity by 9.2 times, from 2.6 million tons to 24 million tons, and significantly increased the production of raw materials, said Stepan Kapshuk, CEO of the Ukroliyaprom Association, at the XXI International Conference Fat&Oil Industry-2023.
As reported on the website of the Agrarian and Industrial Reforms, citing Kapshuk, Ukraine’s sunflower processing capacity is currently about 18 million tons, and rapeseed and soybean – 2 million tons.
Sunflower production has increased from 2.26 million tons in 1998 to a projected 14 million tons in 2023. This year’s rapeseed production is expected to reach 4.1 million tons against 0.13 million tons in 2000, and soybeans – 4.7 million tons against 0.06 million tons, respectively.
Mr. Kapshuk said that over the past 25 years, 70 new processing plants have been built in Ukraine, including 40 large ones, as well as 16 vegetable oil transshipment terminals. The industry has attracted investments worth more than $4 billion.
In 2023/2024 marketing year, Ukrainian oilseed processing companies will be able to process 15.6 mln tons of oilseeds, including 13.5 mln tons of sunflower, 1.5 mln tons of soybeans and 600 thsd tonnes of rapeseed. At the same time, sunflower oil production is expected to reach 6 million tons, soybean oil – 0.3 million tons, and rapeseed oil – 0.25 million tons, according to Ukroliyaprom.
Sukhaya Balka mine (Kryvyi Rih, Dnipro region), part of Aleksandr Yaroslavsky’s DCH Group, has commissioned a new block with 45,000 tonnes of iron ore reserves at Frunze mine.
According to a report in DCH Steel’s corporate newspaper on Thursday, the new production unit involved modern self-propelled equipment such as drilling rigs and a loader. The use of the equipment in the production process will help reduce costs and increase efficiency.
It is specified that the block is located at the minus 1200 m horizon of the Druzhba deposit. Its reserves amount to 45 thousand tons of raw materials with a high iron content of 62.9%. Blocks 51-57 are being developed using self-propelled equipment.
The miners plan to develop the industrial unit by the end of the year.
As reported, the deposit at Frunze mine was developed by open pit mining. Frunze has been mined by open pit since 1885. The mine was built in 1962. The design ore quality is 61.88% iron content.
Sukha Balka mine is one of the leading mining companies in Ukraine. It produces iron ore by underground mining. The mine includes Yubileynaya and Frunze mines.
DCH Group acquired the mine from Evraz Group in May 2017.
