PJSC “Lviv Regional Production Fish Factory” has opened an innovative fish processing plant in Lviv region, according to the press service of the State Agency for Land Reclamation, Fisheries and Food Programs.
According to the report, the plant’s capacity of 6,800 square meters allows it to process up to 25 tons of raw materials and produce 12.5 tons of finished products daily. Both fish from its own farms and imported raw materials are used for production.
The plant has three levels: two production floors and a technical floor where the engineering systems are located. The space is divided into four main areas: ramps for loading raw materials and shipping finished products, “wet” rooms for processing raw, salted, and smoked fish, “dry” rooms for the production of preserves and semi-finished products, and sanitary and utility rooms for personnel.
The plant has implemented international food quality and safety management systems (ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 22000), which will enable the company to not only supply the domestic market but also export its products.
Once full production capacity is reached, 283 new jobs will be created. The company currently employs 82 people. Last year, it produced 1,382 tons of products and paid UAH 6.4 million in taxes to the budget.
Plans include expanding the export line, introducing biotechnologies for waste disposal, creating a related feed production facility, and entering new international markets.
“We are honored to open the largest fish processing plant in Eastern Europe. This is not just a production facility — it is a strategic step in the development of national aquaculture. We are not only investing in processing, but also changing our approach: from farming to delivering high-quality, safe, and tasty end products to consumers. Thanks to modern technologies, we are improving recipes and striving to change the culture of fish consumption in our country,” said Taras Vysotsky, Deputy Minister of Economy, Environment, and Agriculture.
According to him, the ministry will continue to work on promoting the consumption of domestically produced fish among Ukrainians. In particular, fish continues to be purchased at auctions on the Prozorro.Prozori platform for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, penitentiary institutions, law enforcement agencies, etc.
Agroprodservice PJSC has launched a new factory for canning and manufacturing semi-finished products from vegetables in the Velykoberezovytska community (Ternopil region), according to a press release posted on the community’s Facebook page.
According to the report, the new food factory, Babusi Marusi, will produce canned vegetables, pickles, and semi-finished products from vacuum-packed vegetables.
The company already employs 26 people. The plant plans to hire a permanent staff of about 50 employees, including 10 highly qualified specialists. In the future, it plans to introduce modern production automation technologies and enter new markets, including outside Ukraine.
“The development of the enterprise will create new jobs for the community, increase local budget revenues, and make the area more attractive to investors. This will help improve the standard of living and support infrastructure development,” the company said.
PJSC “Agroprodservice” was established in 1999.
As a diversified enterprise, it operates in the Ternopil and Ivano-Frankivsk regions. It cultivates about 45,000 hectares of land. Agroprodservice owns grain elevators with a total storage capacity of 200,000 tons, a feed mill, and a seed plant.
The company is also engaged in poultry farming (2 million birds), cattle breeding (about 6,000 head, including 2,000 dairy cows) and pig breeding (60,000 head).
The ultimate beneficiaries of PAP “Agroprodservice” (Nastasiv, Ternopil region) are Tetiana Chaykivska (owns 70% of the company’s shares) — wife of People’s Deputy Ivan Chaykivsky, secretary of the Verkhovna Rada’s Agrarian Committee — and Andriy Baran (30%).
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Swiss company Nestlé has launched the first production line at its new vermicelli factory in Smolyhiv (Torchynska settlement community, Lutsk district, Volyn region), which is the result of a CHF40 million ($50 million at the current exchange rate) investment announced 30 months ago, according to a press release issued by the company on Monday. according to a company press release on Monday.
“The production capacity of the first line will enable the company to produce 5,000 tons of vermicelli by the end of 2025, with a planned increase in production with the opening of additional lines in the next two years,” the release said.
Nestlé notes that the Smolyhiv factory is the fourth factory opened in the company’s 30 years of operation in Ukraine.
“With the opening of the new factory, the company has created a European hub for food production in Ukraine in Volyn, combining the new factory in Smolyhiv with the one already operating in neighboring Torchyn,” the statement said.
According to the statement, the company is expanding its vermicelli production to meet growing demand in both Europe and Ukraine under the Maggi and Mivina brands. The new factory is an export-oriented enterprise: 75% of its products will be supplied to EU markets under the Maggi brand, which will increase foreign currency inflows to Ukraine. At the same time, 75% of the raw materials for production come from local suppliers in Ukraine, with wheat and sunflower oil being the key ingredients.
“The factory’s advantageous geographical location in western Ukraine creates ideal conditions for Nestlé to produce in Ukraine for both the local market and for export,” said Alessandro Zanelli, CEO of Nestlé in Ukraine and Southeast Europe, in a press release.
He added that the factory is a modern, digital, and fully automated production facility.
Ivan Rudnytskyi, head of the Volyn Regional State Administration, recalled that a factory producing ketchups and sauces under the Torchyn brand and a Nestlé distribution center are already operating in the region, and the launch of the new factory has created more than 300 new jobs, and that this number will increase in the near future to more than 1,500 people in the newly created production hub in Volyn.
Nestlé is one of the world’s largest food and beverage companies, operating in 187 countries. It offers a wide range of products and services for families and pets.
It has over 2,000 brands. Nestlé began operations in Ukraine in 1994 with the opening of a representative office, acquired a controlling stake in ZAT Lvivska Kondyterska Fabryka Svitloch in 1998, and has owned 100% of the company since 2018.
In May 2003, Nestlé Ukraine LLC was established in Kyiv, and at the end of that year, Nestlé became the owner of 100% of the shares of Volynholding.
In 2010, Nestlé SA acquired Technocom LLC in Kharkiv, a manufacturer of instant products under the Mivina brand. In 2012, Nestlé Business Service (NBS Europe) was established in Lviv, which is one of seven Nestlé service centers in the world and provides support services to Nestlé divisions in more than 40 countries.
Nestlé’s business in Ukraine includes the following areas: coffee and beverages, confectionery, culinary products (cold sauces, seasonings, soups, instant products), baby and special nutrition, ready-to-eat breakfasts, and pet food.
At the end of last year, Dzanelli reported that Nestlé in Ukraine had increased production by 7-8% in 2024 and expects 10% growth in 2025.
On Wednesday, tobacco manufacturer Philip Morris International officially opened a new factory in Lviv region, in which it has invested $30 million.
“The first line is already in operation. The second line is almost completed and will start operating in June… In total, five lines will be installed, 10 billion cigarettes will be produced, which will fully meet the needs of the local market of Ukraine,” said Philip Morris Ukraine (PMU) CEO Maxim Barabash at the opening of the factory.
He emphasized that the focus of the production is to cover the market demand for cigarettes.
According to Barabash, there are no plans to expand production for export or manufacture other products.
According to PMU, 250 jobs will be created at the factory. By now, the company already employs about 100 people relocated from the Kharkiv factory, which was “mothballed” on February 24, 2024, the day of the Russian invasion, and another 150 people are planned to be relocated by the end of the year.
“My dream for the future after the victory is that we have two factories. One would produce cigarettes, and the other would be in Kharkiv, working on new products that would be relevant and relevant at the time when this comes true,” Barabash summarized.
According to him, this year Philip Morris celebrates 30 years of operation in Ukraine. During this time, the company has invested about $750 million in the Ukrainian economy and is one of the largest taxpayers.
Philip Morris was spun off from Altria in 2008 and is one of the world’s largest tobacco manufacturers. The company’s revenue for 2023 increased by 10.7% compared to 2022 to $35.2 billion, and for the first quarter of 2024 – by 9.7% to $8.79 billion. The report states that Ukraine accounts for approximately 2% of total sales in physical terms and 1% in monetary terms.
In 2022, PMI reduced shipments to the Ukrainian market by 30.1% to 11.07 billion cigarettes and tobacco sticks due to the war, but in 2023 it managed to increase shipments of finished products by 8.4%, including 14.9% in the fourth quarter. Last October, the company announced that it had recovered its share of the Ukrainian market to 24% after it fell to 14% from 28.5% in the first months after Russia’s invasion.
Prior to the launch of the new factory, PMU was forced to import products from eight PMI factories outside the country and a temporary partnership with another international manufacturer in Ukraine.
In addition to cigarettes, PMI develops and manufactures smokeless products, such as systems for electrically heating tobacco, POD systems containing nicotine, and nicotine products for oral administration. Sales of smokeless products accounted for 39% of PMI’s total net revenue in the first quarter of 2024.
The international company Unilever has started construction of a new factory in Bila Tserkva, Kyiv region. Today a commemorative capsule was laid at the site of the future enterprise in the industrial park “Bila Tserkva”, the Head of Kyiv Regional State Administration Ruslan Kravchenko said on his Facebook page on Friday.
It is also reported that the amount of investment in the factory is € 20 million. Almost 100 new jobs will be created at the enterprise. The factory will produce personal care products, shampoos and shower gels, the goods will be mainly oriented for the Ukrainian market. Potentially, the enterprise will produce products for other markets in Europe.
The report notes that the total area of the site for the development is 4.2 hectares. The production capacity of the enterprise is more than 5000 tons per year. The construction of the factory is planned to be completed at the end of 2024. Erection will take place taking into account the highest environmental standards. There will be comfortable working conditions, office space is designed to meet the needs of immobile groups. A ground mobile shelter has already been arranged for safe work, and in time an underground shelter will also be built.
“The construction site of the new factory in the industrial park was not chosen by chance – there are all necessary communications and road infrastructure. The development of industrial parks supports the restoration of industry in Kyivshchyna during Russia’s war against Ukraine. The opening of new production facilities contributes to the income and well-being of local communities, increases tax revenues and stimulates the development of small and medium-sized enterprises in the region”, – said Ruslan Kravchenko.
Ruslan Kravchenko thanked the CEO of Unilever Ukraine Vasyl Bovdilov and the founder of UFuture, which includes the industrial park “Bila Tserkva”, Vasyl Khmelnitsky for the example, which “should be followed by other investors and joint efforts to develop the economic potential of Kyiv region”.
Earlier it was reported that Unilever Plc will allocate EUR20 mln for the construction of a factory in the Kiev region to produce personal care products, shampoos and shower gels under the brands Dove, Axe, TRESemmé and Clear,
Kormotech, Ukraine’s largest manufacturer of cat and dog food, will implement a number of investment projects in Ukraine and Lithuania, where it has production facilities, as part of the development of its production capacities in 2023-2024, said the company’s beneficiary Rostyslav Vovk during a Business Breakfast with Forbes Ukraine on Wednesday.
According to him, Kormotech completed a 25% expansion of the company’s factory in Lithuania in the second quarter of 2023. In addition, in the third quarter, it will put into operation a new line at a factory in Lviv region for the production of wet fodder.
“EUR8m was invested in it (the new line at the factory in Lviv region), which allowed us to expand the plant’s production capacity by 65%. If earlier its capacity was 17,000 tons (of fodder – IF-U) per year, now it will be 27,000 tons,” he said.
In addition, according to the information of the company owner, at the end of 2023 Kormotech will start construction of a new factory in Lithuania, in which it will invest more than EUR60 mln.
“This factory will have the same capacity as our two factories in Ukraine. It will be plus 40 thousand tons. We should reach the launch of the first line in the middle of 2025,” Vovk emphasized.
