KYIV. March 9 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The International Finance Corporation (IFC) from the World Bank Group could provide EUR 20 million for its own account and up to EUR 20 million of a syndicated or mobilized financing to public joint-stock company Ukrplastic (Kyiv).
The project is intended to expand and modernize the group’s operating capacities as well as strengthen its balance sheet through re-profiling of its debt portfolio, IFC said on its website.
The IFC Board will discuss the project on May 12, 2017.
The project cost is approximately EUR 60 million.
The project sponsor is Immer Group, a leading supplier of flexible plastic packaging for consumer goods, the owner of Ukrplastic.
IFC said that Immer Group is a 100% family owned business with facilities in Kyiv, Ukraine and Ventspils, Latvia. The group is presently owned by Irina Mirochnik and her three daughters. Ukrplastic’s main facilities are located in Kyiv. The site occupies an area of 11.3 ha, housing 34 buildings with a total built-up area of 74,000 square meters.
The company developed an additional new plastic packaging and processing plant, Immer Digital located in Ventspils. This was very strategic for the company to increase its market base and supply to its customers in Europe and new markets. The plant became operational as of February 2017. This facility, includes limited operations such as digital printing, solvent-less lamination, solvent based and water based lamination and coating, pouch making, manufacturing of label and thermo-shrinkable label, whereas the main ingredients such as BOPP film are supplied from Ukrplastic’s Kyiv operations.
In addition, the company is supported by distribution warehouses used to store the product and for delivery to clients. The company currently has 15 warehouses on site in Kyiv and 11 warehouses in Russia, Europe and Ukraine.
The proposed project entails investment in development of new products, including products for the agricultural sector; refinancing of some loans coming due and investment in the company’s Latvian entity. Specific use of proceeds will be for: equipment for recuperation and reclamation of used solvents in liquid form and solvent vapors; new lamination equipment for specialty packaging; and new roto-printer, enabling higher flexibility.
Ukrplastic is the largest manufacturer of flexible plastic packaging for consumer goods in Eastern Europe.
KYIV. March 9 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The largest VAT refunds recipient in January and February 2017 were Kernel-Trade sunflower oil exporter with UAH 2.194 billion (UAH 764 million), the State Treasury Service has reported.
Mariupol Illich Steel Works and Azovstal, part of Metinvest Group, follow it with UAH 895 (UAH 382.5 million) and UAH 856.3 million (UAH 703.1 million).
Nibulon with UAH 756.9 million (UAH 694.1 million) and Evraz DMZ with UAH 731.1 million (no refunds in December).
Some UA 677 million (UAH 700 million) was refunded to Suntrade, UAH 676.9 million (UAH 2.577 billion) to ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, UAH 504 million (UAH 884.2 million to ADM Trading Ukraine, UAH 434.6 million (UAH 1.24 billion to Cargill) and UAH 302.9 million (UAH 244.1 million) to State Food-Grain Corporation.
In January-February 2017, UAH 17.01 billion of VAT wad refunded and it was 6.6% more than in January and February 2016. In January only UAH 30 million was refunded, and the sum was paid in several tranches early and late February.
In December 2016 VAT refunding totaled record-breaking UAH 15.96 billion after a decline to UAH 6.11 billion in November.
According to the State Fiscal Service, in 2016 UAH 94.3 billion of VAT was refunded in Ukraine. This was 37.9% up on 2015 and 87.8% up on 2014.
KYIV. March 7 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Another five Ukrainian enterprises engaged in food production in 2017 received the right to export their goods to the European Union, the Ministry of Agricultural Policy and Food has said.
According to a report on its website, goods will be delivered to the European market by a company producing dairy goods, a company producing poultry and three companies producing honey.
Currently talks are being held with respect to supplies of Ukrainian goods to the world markets. In particular, Ukraine provided Japan, Singapore, Korea, the United States and Canada with the information on the system of state control with the aim of getting access to the market of poultry. Talks are also being held with China on expanding the list of exporters of dairy products, as well as with respect to applying for the opening of poultry and beef markets.
In addition, talks with Jordan are at the final stage. The parties are finalizing veterinary certificates for exports of chilled/frozen beef. Ukraine and Egypt have agreed the form of veterinary certificates for exports of chilled/frozen boneless beef.
In addition, Ukraine has agreed the form of veterinary certificates for exports of poultry to Serbia, and is holding talks with the European Union on the issue of extending the list of exporters of food and feed.
KYIV. March 7 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Saint-Gobain international industrial group of companies intends to invest EUR65 million in the construction of two plants for production of construction materials in Tlumach district of Ivano-Frankivsk region.
President of the Ivano-Frankivsk Chamber of Commerce and Industry Andriy Levkovych told Interfax-Ukraine the construction of the first plant for production of construction mixtures is to be completed in the end of 2017.
The construction of the second plant, which will specialize in production of drywall, is scheduled for late 2017-early 2018.
“The company plans to create about 300 jobs. It will be a complex: production of construction mixtures, packaging, sorting, mixing, production of drywall. Both plants will be located near Khotymyr gypsum deposit,” Levkovych noted.
As reported, in 2012 Ivano-Frankivsk City Council granted 15 hectares of land in the territory of the Khryplyn industrial site to Saint-Gobain for construction of a plant for production of plasterboard.
KYIV. March 7 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Myronivsky Hliboproduct (MHP) has announced a project for building a new biogas complex at Vinnytsia poultry farm.
According to a company press release, this project will be implemented within the planned expansion of Vinnytsia poultry complex and foresees two stages. At the first stage, 460 tonnes of chicken manure per day will be processed, at the second stage this amount will double. When construction is finished in 2020, the design capacity of the complex will be 20 MW. The approximate cost of the biocomplex is about $27 million.
“This is a unique project for processing chicken manure, which will not only be the largest one in Ukraine but also in the world. And its main component is environmental friendliness,” company chairman Yuriy Kosiuk said.
According to him, the biogas complex will allow solving the problem of poultry waste utilization and production of energy for own needs.
A biogas plant with a capacity of 5 MW has been operating at Orel-Leader poultry farm, which belongs to MHP, since 2012.
Myronivsky Hliboproduct is the largest poultry producer in Ukraine. It is also engaged in production of grains, sunflower oil, and meat.
KYIV. March 7 (Interfax-Ukraine) – PJSC Keramprom (Artemivka, Donetsk region) saw net profit rise by 14.7% in 2016 as compared to 2015, to UAH 50.273 million.
According to a company report in the press on a shareholders’ meeting scheduled for April 7, its retained earnings in 2016 increased by 19.7% compared to the previous year and amounted to UAH 55.412 million.
The company’s assets increased by 7.1%, to UAH 88.015 million, while net worth rose by 15.6%, to UAH 83.816 million.
Total debtor indebtedness in 2016 decreased by 15.3% compared to 2015 and amounted to UAH 44.833 million.
The company’s current liabilities fell by 2.3 times, to UAH 4.199 million. Long-term liabilities by the end of 2015 were UAH 206,000 and there were no long-term liabilities by the end of 2016.
The company’s staff in 2016 amounted to 54 people compared with 51 people a year earlier.
Keramprom was established in 1997. It is engaged in extraction of clay and kaolin.
