JV Nibulon LLC (Nikolaev), one of the largest operators on the grain market of Ukraine, attracted EUR27 million from the Export Investment Fund of Denmark (EIFO) to increase the capacity of the Bessarabian branch in Izmail, where an elevator and a flour mill will be built, the company’s press service said on Facebook.
“We are extremely impressed by the speed of decision-making and support from Denmark in these difficult times for the Ukrainian economy. We really need more and more such positive signals so that others can emulate them,” Nibulon CFO Olga Babanina said.
According to the grain trader, the raised funds will be used to build an elevator for simultaneous storage of 118.5 thousand tons of grain and high-tech modern mill with a capacity of 750 tons per day.
This infrastructural solution will allow Nibulon to increase its export capacity up to 300,000 tons per month and supply flour to the domestic market as well as serve the interests of the food security mission of UN World Food Program via the Danube ports, the company explained.
Besides, the company added that construction of the new production facilities will allow to increase the number of jobs in the region and employ 100 specialists.
As it was informed, the financing is carried out within the framework of social program of Danish Investment Fund, created for Ukraine. The launch of the program was announced in May during the Ukrainian Investment Forum in Copenhagen.
JV Nibulon LLC was founded in 1991. Before the Russian military invasion the grain trader had 27 transshipment terminals and complexes for reception of agricultural crops, capacities for simultaneous storage of 2.25 mln tons of agro-industrial complex products, fleet of 83 vessels (including 23 tugboats) and owned Nikolaev Shipbuilding Plant.
“Nibulon” before the war worked 82 thousand hectares of land in 12 regions of Ukraine and exported agricultural products to more than 70 countries.
The grain trader exported a maximum of 5.64 million tons of agricultural products in 2021, reaching record volumes of deliveries to foreign markets in August – 0.7 million tons, in the fourth quarter – 1.88 million tons and in the second half of the year – 3.71 million tons.
Nibulon’s losses from Russia’s full-scale invasion reached $400 million. The grain trader is currently operating at 30% of its capacity and has set up a special unit to clear farmland.
Agricultural company Grain Alliance (Sweden) with assets in Ukraine has purchased and installed four diesel electric generators with a total capacity of 1.7 MW at Piryatynskyi elevator in Poltava region, which will enable the company to ensure continuous operation during prolonged power outages.
As reported on the company website on Wednesday, thanks to its own power generation the enterprise works productively despite the difficulties with electricity in Ukraine: as of the morning of November 7, the granary with the total capacity of 100 thousand tons has stored almost 20 thousand tons of corn, over 23 thousand tons of soybeans and 1.5 thousand tons of sunflower.
“We installed and connected all four generators promptly almost on the day of receipt, despite the weather or other technical conditions. The cumulative capacity produced by the new elevators is 1.7 MW. Thus, the division has ensured its energy independence in order to meet the set production objectives to the end,” Grain Alliance quotes Piryatynsky elevator director Oleksandr Gavrilenko as saying.
Silos with a total capacity of up to 100 tons of agricultural products are installed on Piryatynsky granary: six silos of 8 tons each produced by “Lubnymash”, 4 silos of 12 tons by “Option Agro Bud” and two silos of 5 tons by KMZ Industries.
In total, Grain Alliance has six granaries in Ukraine with a total capacity of over 260 thousand tons.
Before war, the agricultural holding farmed 57 thousand hectares in Kyiv, Poltava, Chernigov and Cherkassy regions, grew over 300 thousand tons of grains and oilseeds a year, and owned more than a thousand head of cattle.
The founders of Harvest Moon East LLC (Baryshevka village, Kyiv region) and BZK Grain Alliance (Sweden) created a joint company, Grain Alliance, in 2009.
Grain Capital Group of Companies has started the installation of technological equipment at a silo with a capacity of 21,500 tonnes, which it is now building on the territory of a feed mill in Ivano-Frankivsk region.
We are talking about installing a line for receiving, drying and storing grain, the company said on its Facebook page on Tuesday.
According to the agreement, in the near future the company will install transport and gravity equipment, a grain hopper with a cone bottom, a grain separator with an aspiration system, and silos with cone and flat bottoms.
As reported with reference to First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Taras Vysotsky, this season in Ukraine there may be a shortage of elevator capacities for storing 10-15 million tonnes of crops.
According to the KSE Institute, during the war, the Russian invaders damaged or completely destroyed 4 million tonnes of containers for storing agricultural products. Another part of the granaries are located in the temporarily occupied territories.
Grain Capital is a Ukrainian manufacturer and service provider in the field of storage and processing of grain, it includes Plant of Elevator Equipment and Grain Capital – Engineering. The Group operates in Eastern Europe with headquarters in Odesa.
It collaborates with a network of global partners such as Bonfanti, Westeel, Siemens, Moeller, Schneider Electric, Camozzі, Garden Denver, SEW Eurodrive, Motovario, SKF, etc.
Nyva Bila LLC (Ternopil region) plans to invest $4.7 million in the construction of an elevator in Chortkiv (Ternopil region), according to the website of Chortkiv City Council.
According to the report, the capacity of the elevator will be 40,000 tonnes of grain. It is planned to build it in 2021–2022.
The structure of the elevator will also include a granary with equipment for drying and storing grain.
“Investors need a land plot with an approximate area of 8 hectares within the Chortkiv territorial community. The territory of the Chortkiv-West industrial park is one of the likely places which investors can enter,” the report said.
According to the unified state register of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs, the ultimate beneficiaries of Nyva Bila LLC are Karel Ole Van Der Vorm and Martinus Van Der Vorm, the founders indicate Southberg Holdings LLC (Kyiv).
The Danish agricultural company Agromino with assets in Ukraine, the Russian Federation and Estonia is buying Hutiansky Elevator LLC, which belongs to Kernel, one of the largest Ukrainian agricultural groups.
According to the information on the website of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine, the agency will consider this issue on June 6.
According to the AMC, Kovyahy Grain LLC (Kharkiv region) wants to acquire an integrated property complex (elevator), which is owned by Hutiansky Elevator LLC.
According to the state register of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs, Kovyahy Grain is owned by Danish-based Agromino, and the owner of Hutiansky Elevator is Kernel-Capital, Kernel-Trade and AMC Progressive Investment Strategies, the ultimate beneficiary is Andriy Verevsky.
As reported, in May 2019 the AMC allowed Verevsky to buy an elevator of Mriya in Ternopil region.
Agromino (formerly Trigon Agri) was created in 2006. It specializes in grain and dairy production, trade in crops.
Dnipro Agro Group in 2018 increased its land bank to 50,300 hectares (16% or 7,000 hectares more), according to the company’s website.
According to the company, Dnipro Agro Group also almost doubled the capacity of elevators, to 124,000 tonnes. In addition, the company launched a pig breeding project for 1,300 animals.
According to the report, in the 2018 marketing year Dnipro Agro Group collected 69.8 tonnes of grain and 76.1 tonnes of oilseeds.
Dnipro Agro Group is a vertically integrated group of companies whose core business is production, storage and sale of grains and oilseeds.
