Metinvest Mining and Metallurgical Group has allocated UAH 4.8 billion to help Ukraine and its citizens since the start of the full-scale war, including more than UAH 2.5 billion for the army as part of Rinat Akhmetov’s Steel Front military initiative.
According to the company’s press release on Thursday, the group remains a reliable support for the country in the fight against the enemy.
At the same time, Metinvest CEO Yuriy Ryzhenkov noted that “the war made us feel what it is like to lose the most valuable things. But it did not make us give up.”
“We have managed to rebuild our business to meet the difficult realities of today. We have established supplies of equipment and ammunition to the frontline. We organized systematic assistance to the affected civilians. And we are already making plans to rebuild Ukraine after the victory. Metinvest’s team has been, is and will remain a reliable support for the country and its people. We are ready to overcome any challenges, because we know who we are protecting and what we are fighting for,” the company’s CEO said, as quoted by the press service.
The press release states that Metinvest’s enterprises in Ukraine are under constant threat of enemy shelling. The group’s assets in Mariupol and Avdiivka have been damaged by hostilities, while Mariupol is temporarily occupied. Despite all this, the company’s enterprises operate at different levels of utilization due to security, logistics, energy, economic and other factors.
Thus, since the beginning of 2023, following the stabilization of energy supply, Metinvest has managed to gradually increase the utilization of its iron ore assets in Kryvyi Rih to at least 30% of the pre-war level and maintain its focus on the production of pellets and products with a high iron content. In the second half of 2023, GOKs’ utilization was positively affected by the reopening of the sea corridor in Ukraine.
Electricity imports since January 2023 have also ensured more stable operations and product mix flexibility at Kametstal.
In 2023, Zaporizhstal started production of hot-rolled steel products that meet the requirements of EN 10025-1 from S235-275 J0-J2 and S355 J0-J2 steel grades, which were produced at Ilyich Iron and Steel Works of Mariupol before the full-scale invasion. To this end, the company underwent a production process inspection and technical capability analysis and, as a result, received a certificate of conformity for its production control system from the international certification body Dedal.
In 2023, Metinvest’s steelmaking companies, including the joint venture, launched production of 25 new products.
Pokrovskoye Coal Group’s enterprises operate at high utilization rates, and construction of the 11th coal mining unit is underway, which is scheduled to be commissioned in 2025.
Metinvest’s priority is to take care of its employees: all of its enterprises have bomb shelters, and on June 1, 2023, the company introduced an additional bonus in Ukraine.
In the first nine months of 2023, Metinvest, including its associates and joint ventures, paid more than UAH 11 billion in taxes and fees to the budgets of all levels in Ukraine.
It is also reported that Metinvest continues to fight theft by the Russian Federation, which illegally exported more than 234,000 tons of the company’s steel products from Mariupol. In particular, 27 of the company’s enterprises have filed lawsuits with the European Court of Human Rights against Russia for damage to the group’s property in Mariupol and other territories of Ukraine since February 24, 2022.
To strengthen the defense capabilities of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the company has established systematic supplies of machinery and equipment to the frontline.
Despite the war, Metinvest plans to implement its green transformation strategy. This includes expanding the production of DR pellets, the main raw material for more environmentally friendly steelmaking using electric arc furnaces. “Metinvest aims to build a new business format where the EU market will open its borders to Ukrainian products. To make this possible in times of war, business and the government must join forces and go this way together, the press release summarizes.
“Metinvest is a vertically integrated group of steel and mining companies. The group’s enterprises are located mainly in Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Dnipro regions. The main shareholders of the holding are SCM Group (71.24%) and Smart Holding (23.76%), which jointly manage it. Metinvest Holding LLC is the management company of Metinvest Group.
More than 37 thousand Ukrainian families have received the Baby Box in 2023, the Ministry of Social Policy reports.
“Not all parents know that at the birth of a baby they can use one-time assistance from the state and receive a Baby Box. The so-called baby box is issued directly in the maternity ward. This set includes more than 90 different high-quality items and products designed to care for newborns. This year, 37,369 families received the Baby Box. Of these, 37,011 were provided immediately in maternity hospitals, and 378 at the place of residence,” the ministry’s press service said.
It is noted that most of the “Baby Packs” were distributed in Kyiv and the region (5,764), as well as in Lviv (2,677), Dnipro (2,608), Odesa (2,478), and Zhytomyr (2,065) regions.
According to the report, the cost of purchasing a baby box is UAH 6,778 for the state.
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This year, the EVA chain of perfume and cosmetics stores plans to expand its product range from 120 thousand items to 180 thousand in 2024, and will invest from UAH 1 to 1.3 billion in logistics development, the EVA press service reports.
According to Sergiy Zinchenko, Director of the Logistics Department, to implement such large-scale tasks, the company is implementing new logistics projects, including automatic personnel management using data science.
“That is, the system understands which specialists have come to work, what their productivity is, and selects the most optimal places to work in the warehouse. We plan to implement it at all our distribution centers,” says Zinchenko.
Another area of focus is the expansion and automation of storage systems. According to Zinchenko, the company plans to introduce two automated systems: AGV (Automated Guided Vehicle) and Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (AS/RS).
AGV is a system with robots that can automatically move racks. They will move towards a person, not vice versa. EVA wants to buy 20 such robots.
AS/RS are cranes that automatically collect the boxes of products necessary for order fulfillment and transfer them to the order processing area. Plans to purchase a Mini-load system
Zinchenko said that the company plans to expand its logistics real estate. Construction of another stage of 8 thousand square meters has begun in Lviv. In Odesa, the company plans to build a new facility for several phases, with the first phase covering 20 thousand square meters.
“The land plot was acquired before the start of the full-scale Russian invasion and now we have decided to unfreeze this project,” Zinchenko said.
They are also looking for a land plot or warehouses near Kyiv, not far from the existing facility in Brovary.
In general, he said, investments in the development of the logistics sector next year will amount to UAH 1 to 1.3 billion.
RUSH LLC, which manages the EVA network, 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 Insetra Holdings Limited (Cyprus, 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.
The event is organized to support fundraising for mobile hospitals for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
On February 10, 2024, for the first time in Ukraine, the
INFLUENCE TALK FORUM is the largest offline event aimed at popularizing and developing Ukrainian digital and its new promising professions.
The forum will be attended by more than 2,000 guests.
Among them are the best digital experts, influencers, entrepreneurs and veterans of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The forum speakers will explain the value of digitalization and effective mechanisms for its implementation in new professions in an accessible and comprehensive manner, based on their own experience. After all, a developed digital sphere means, first of all, more information about Ukraine in the world, the opportunity to socialize at any age and get a new promising profession, in particular for veterans of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It also means more jobs, motivation to stay in Ukraine, more taxes to the state budget and more donations to help the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
INFLUENCE TALK FORUM is a new large-scale project from the organizers of InstaTalks.
In order to support active youth, revitalize the labor market and give impetus to the development of digital in Ukraine, they were the first to successfully resume offline events in 2022 despite the blackouts.
The forum itself has another important mission – to support fundraising for military mobile hospitals, which are full-fledged hospitals on wheels and can save the lives of Ukrainian defenders and civilians directly on the front line without wasting precious time on heavy and lengthy transportation of the wounded.
Join the educational and charitable event to make the digital sphere more understandable and open up new development prospects. And mobile hospitals could save the lives of our defenders in a timely and effective manner.
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Source: Open4Business.com.ua and experts.news
