“Poninkivska Cardboard and Paper Mill-Ukraine (PCPM-Ukraine, Khmelnytsky region), a major Ukrainian corrugated cardboard producer, increased its corrugated packaging output by 22% in January-May 2024 compared to the same period in 2023, to almost 39 million square meters.
According to Ukrpapir Association statistics provided to Interfax-Ukraine, the plant is now one of the top three producers of corrugated packaging after Kyiv Cardboard and Paper Mill and Trypillia Packaging Plant.
Over the five months, the company also increased production of containerboard by 6.7% to 30.9 thousand tons, and produced 1.6 times more paper – 0.42 thousand tons versus 0.26 thousand tons a year earlier.
In monetary terms, in January-May, PCBF-Ukraine produced products worth UAH 1 billion 064 million (+14.2%).
As reported with reference to the data collected by the association from the main enterprises of the industry, the production of paper and cardboard in Ukraine increased by 6.1% compared to the same period in 2023 – up to 240.4 thousand tons, cardboard boxes – by 21.4%, to 237.7 million square meters.
Poninkivska Paper Mill (formerly Poninkiv Cardboard and Paper Mill), once the largest producer of school notebooks, now has one main production line – paper and cardboard, producing mainly corrugated cardboard and corrugated packaging, as well as wrapping and waste paper.
The plant is part of the United Cardboard Company-Ukraine (UCC, Lutsk) owned by businessman Mykola Lobov, whose production assets include, among others, Lutsk KBF-Ukraine (Volyn region), which produced 26.6 thousand tons of various cardboard (16.4% more) and 19.3 million square meters of corrugated boxes in five months (according to UkrPapir).
As reported, in 2023, PCBF-Ukraine produced products worth almost UAH 2 billion 450 million, up 3% year-on-year. Net profit increased 2.7 times to UAH 27 million.
