Starting December 15, Ukrzaliznytsia JSC (UZ) will launch a daily direct train between Kyiv and Budapest.
“Starting December 15, we will launch a daily direct train Kyiv – Budapest. Train No. 9/10 on this route will be another – already the 20th – international train of Ukrzaliznytsia,” the UZ press service said on Telegram on Thursday.
The train will run in standard sleeping cars: compartment (4 seats) and suite (2 seats).
“A lot of diplomatic work preceded the appointment of this flight, so that wide cars in the amount of at least eight per flight could deliver Ukrainians from/to the Hungarian capital. It is here that the Ferenc Liszt Airport is located, the largest airport in the region, many of whose flights are now synchronized with the Ukrainian train,” the press service quoted Oleksandr Pertsovsky, Chairman of the Board of UZ, as saying.
The train will depart from Kyiv at 10:16 and arrive in Budapest at 06:00. In the opposite direction: departure from Budapest at 22:40, arrival in Kyiv at 19:11. The cost of a ticket in a compartment carriage is approximately UAH 3 thousand.
In January-October of this year, Izmail Pulp and Cardboard Mill (Izmail Pulp and Cardboard Mill, Odesa region) produced 13.5 million square meters of cardboard boxes, up 13% over the same period in 2023, according to statistics from UkrPapir Association.
According to the statistics provided to Interfax-Ukraine, the plant also slightly (by 0.7%) increased its output of corrugated cardboard components (containerboard and corrugated paper) to 7.3 thousand tons during this period.
In particular, in October, the ICCC increased the production of corrugated packaging by 18.3% by October 2023 and by a quarter by September this year – up to 1.45 million square meters.
In monetary terms, in January-October, the ICCC increased its production by 6% to UAH 220.4 million.
As reported with reference to the association’s data from the main industry enterprises, in January-October, paper and cardboard production in Ukraine increased by 2.8% compared to the same period in 2023 – to almost 496 thousand tons, cardboard boxes – by 15.1%, to 490 million square meters.
Izmail Pulp and Paper Mill produces corrugated cardboard, corrugated containers and cardboard packaging. The main raw material is waste paper.
According to UkrPapir, in 2023, the plant increased its production by 7.5% compared to 2022, to UAH 253.5 million, and increased its output of corrugated packaging by 27% to 14.9 million square meters, and containerboard by 13.7% to 8.4 thousand tons.
The main consumers of the company’s products are located in Mykolaiv, Odesa, Dnipro, Kyiv, Vinnytsia and Kharkiv regions, including Shabo, Odeskokonditer, Promtekhtorg, and OKZ.
Bloomi LLC (Odesa), a manufacturer of sanitary and hygienic paper products under the Snow Panda brand, produced products worth UAH 330.3 million in January-October, up 10.3% compared to the same period in 2023.
According to statistics provided by UkrPapir Association to Interfax-Ukraine, in physical terms, in particular, the production of toilet paper increased by 14.2% to 42.1 million rolls.
As reported, over the past 10 months, Ukraine’s major sanitary paper producers produced a total of 533.34 million rolls of paper, up 6.3% year-on-year.
Bloomi, which was registered in 2014, produces pulp-based sanitary products (toilet paper, napkins, towels) from imported base paper. The products are manufactured at the facilities of Omega Brokers PE, one of the leading Ukrainian manufacturers of detergents, disinfectants and sanitary products.
In 2023, the company almost doubled its production volume by 2022 to UAH 367.3 million.
The company is co-owned equally (25% each) by four Odesa-based entrepreneurs.
A store of the Ukrainian franchise Multi Cook, created by the co-founder of the Galya Baluvana chain of stores, will open in the center of the Slovak capital Bratislava on November 24, the Multi Cook press service reports.
According to the new franchisee, Yuriy Porokhnavets, Slovak law requires that premises for the production and sale of semi-finished products meet the same standards as restaurants. The other day, the Slovak sanitary and epidemiological service signed all the documents that allow opening a Multi Cook convenience store.
It is noted that along with the Multi Cook brand, another direction is developing abroad – Multibar. This is a new network of establishments that will offer ready-to-eat meals for visitors to take away and on-site. One of the first franchisees to open this format will be in Warsaw.
The Porokhnavets family plans to become the first Multibar franchisee in Bratislava.
As reported, the franchise of the Ukrainian chain of convenience stores Galya Baluvana under the Multi Cook brand has been developing since 2022. So far, it is represented by more than 250 stores in 25 countries. According to co-founder Volodymyr Matviychuk, Slovenia will be the 26th country where the franchise will be introduced, followed by Sweden and Switzerland.
Galya Baluvana was founded in 2019 in Lutsk. As of August 2024, the chain had more than 950 stores and 172 franchisees. Since 2023, the company has stopped adding new partners to the general Galya Baluwana network, and only franchisees that were included earlier can open new outlets.
According to Opendatabot, Volodymyr Matviychuk and Oleksandr Teliga are the owners of the chain’s development company, Cooking at Home LLC (Lutsk).
Northern Iron Ore Enrichment Plant (Pivdennyi GOK, Kryvyi Rih, Dnipro Oblast), part of Metinvest Group, has carried out a set of repairs to its LURGI 552 V roasting machine in the pelletizing shop No. 2, spending about UAH 10 million for this purpose.
According to the plant, despite the ongoing war, the company is preparing to fulfill its plans to produce iron ore in 2025 by carrying out scheduled and maintenance repairs of equipment.
It is also specified that during the quarterly overhaul of the LURGI 552B roasting machine, the specialists replaced the refractory lining of the furnace and water cooling elements. The specialists also inspected the equipment in various areas.
It is specified that the repairs will ensure the machine’s productivity of 460 tons of high-quality pellets. The repair was carried out by teams from the service department of the Northern GOK, a number of contractors and Zaporozhogneupor,
“Metinvest is a vertically integrated group of steel and mining companies. The Group’s enterprises are located primarily in Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Dnipro regions.
Metinvest’s major shareholders are SCM Group (71.25%) and Smart Holding (23.75%), which jointly manage the company. Metinvest Holding LLC is the management company of Metinvest Group.
