Ukrainian manufacturer of passive fire protection systems Kovlar Group is expanding its presence in the Moldovan market and expects to make this direction one of the first stable export channels for its products.
According to the company, it has been supplying fire protection products for engineering communications to Moldova for the past two years. Kovlar Group notes that there is virtually no domestic production of passive fire protection materials on the Moldovan market, so local partners are showing interest in Ukrainian systems.
The company specifies that regular technical meetings are held with Moldovan specialists to introduce the products, during which issues of fire protection system design, national regulatory requirements, and features of material application are discussed. According to preliminary agreements, the Moldovan side plans to purchase a significant part of Ammokote products.
The presence of Ammokote products on the Moldovan market is also confirmed by open specialized resources: in particular, the specialized platform Antikor.md features Ammokote products for fire protection of engineering communications with technical documentation and certificates.
Kovlar Group LLC was founded in 2015 in Kyiv and is the largest manufacturer of passive fire protection products in Ukraine. According to OpenDataBot, the company’s authorized capital is UAH 1.2 million, and its ultimate beneficiaries are Kostyantyn Kalafat (40%), Andrii Ozeychuk (35%), and Liubov Vakhitova (25%). The company’s revenue for 2024 amounted to UAH 91.37 million, which is twice as much as a year earlier, and its net profit was UAH 13.4 million, which is 1.7 times higher than in 2023. In the first quarter of 2025, the company’s revenue amounted to UAH 13.5 million, with a net profit of UAH 1.983 million.
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Kovlar Group LLC has invested tens of millions of hryvnia in the development, testing, and production of fire-retardant materials since 2015 and continued to invest after the start of the war, company director Konstantin Kalafat said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.
According to him, the investments were directed towards creating proprietary formulas, laboratory and fire testing, forming a research base, purchasing equipment, and scaling technologies to an industrial level, and during the war period, also towards maintaining production continuity and adapting to power outages.
He separately noted that the company regularly allocates about 20% of its profits to R&D, including laboratory equipment, testing, and technology upgrades.
Kovlar Group LLC was founded in 2015 in Kyiv and is the largest manufacturer of passive fire protection products in Ukraine. According to OpenDataBot, the company’s authorized capital is UAH 1.2 million, and the ultimate beneficiaries are Konstantin Kalafat (40%), Andrey Ozeychuk (35%), and Lyubov Vakhitova (25%). The company’s revenue for 2024 amounted to UAH 91.3705 million, which is twice as much as in 2023, and its net profit was UAH 13.4 million, which is 1.7 times more than in 2023. In the first quarter of 2025, the company’s revenue amounted to UAH 13.5 million, with a net profit of UAH 1,983,000.
Kovlar Group LLC maintains a full production cycle in Kyiv and the Kyiv region and produces an average of 500-700 tons of fire-retardant materials per year, depending on the structure of orders, said company director Konstantin Kalafat in an interview with the Interfax-Ukraine news agency.
“All of Kovlar Group’s production facilities are located in Kyiv and the Kyiv region… Annual production averages about 500-700 tons of products,” he said.
According to him, the main share of production is made up of materials for fire protection of steel structures—paints and plaster systems, as wellas solutions for concrete, wood, cable penetrations, and engineering communications, including related coatings and heat-resistant adhesives.
Kovlar Group LLC was founded in 2015 in Kyiv and is the largest manufacturer of passive fire protection products in Ukraine. According to OpenDataBot, the company’s authorized capital is UAH 1.2 million, and its ultimate beneficiaries are Kostyantyn Kalafat (40%), Andriy Ozeychuk (35%), and Lyubov Vakhitova (25%). The company’s revenue for 2024 amounted to UAH 91.3705 million, which is twice as much as in 2023, and its net profit was UAH 13.4 million, which is 1.7 times more than in 2023. In the first quarter of 2025, the company’s revenue amounted to UAH 13.5 million, and net income amounted to UAH 1 million 983 thousand.
Ukraine needs a modern national fire testing center of European standard, with an expanded material and technical base and the possibility of full integration into the European conformity assessment system, said Konstantin Kalafat, director of Kovlar Group LLC, in an exclusive interview with Interfax-Ukraine.
“European integration processes in our country have launched a mechanism for adapting national standards to EU norms and introducing technical regulations. Technical requirements for building materials are now regulated by more than 500 harmonized national standards and about 300 so-called European documents on determining acceptability. Each of them contains dozens of product indicators that the manufacturer must confirm through testing in appropriate laboratories. Unfortunately, Ukraine currently does not have a testing laboratory that could conduct a full range of tests on building materials according to these indicators,” Kalafat said.
As for individual tests of fire-resistant materials and the availability of laboratories, there are accredited testing centers in Ukraine that allow such types of certification tests to be carried out. Kovlar Group has been cooperating with one of these centers since its inception. As Kalafat emphasized, professional fire tests of fire protection are a very important component of market stability and transparency.
“That is why Ukraine today needs a modern national fire testing center of European level – with an expanded material and technical base and the possibility of full integration into the European conformity assessment system. As industry experts, we are ready to join in initiating and implementing such a project. The development of a testing base is not a matter of competition between manufacturers, but a matter of the competitiveness of the entire country and trust in Ukrainian products at the international level,” he concluded.
Kovlar Group LLC was founded in 2015 in Kyiv and is the largest manufacturer of passive fire protection products in Ukraine. According to OpenDataBot, the company’s authorized capital is UAH 1.2 million, and its ultimate beneficiaries are Kostyantyn Kalafat (40%), Andriy Ozeychuk (35%), and Lyubov Vakhitova (25%). The company’s revenue for 2024 amounted to UAH 91.3705 million, which is twice as much as in 2023, and its net profit was UAH 13.4 million, which is 1.7 times more than in 2023. In the first quarter of 2025, the company’s revenue amounted to UAH 13.5 million, and net income amounted to UAH 1 million 983 thousand.
Kovlar Group, a manufacturer of passive fire protection products in Ukraine, is studying the European market but focusing on creating products for the domestic market, said Konstantin Kalafat, director of Kovlar Group LLC, in an exclusive interview with Interfax-Ukraine.
“We are actively studying the European market and working on harmonizing technical documentation and conformity assessment procedures. As for exports, this is a challenge, because the European market for niche products such as ours is already established, and consumers prefer more stable solutions when it comes to safety, so it is difficult to find customers,” he said.
According to him, the main obstacle to rapid entry into EU markets is currently the complexity of certification procedures in the context of the war—foreign auditors and technical experts are not always able to come to Ukraine to conduct the necessary audits and technical inspections. However, entry into European markets remains part of the company’s strategic plans.
At the same time, Kovlar Group’s products are competitive in terms of quality and cost. “Fire protection is a high-tech and knowledge-intensive industry where proven characteristics are crucial. Over the past 10 years, the requirements for thin-layer fire protection coatings have doubled due to the need to ensure the stability of metal structures during a fire – from 90 to 180 minutes, and we are trying to keep up with this trend. In terms of certain parameters – system efficiency, optimal layer thickness, and stability of results – some of our solutions are on par with, and sometimes even surpass, their European counterparts,” Kalafat emphasized.
Currently, the company’s priority is the domestic market, especially given the growing demand for Ukrainian materials in connection with large-scale restoration and reconstruction programs.
“In this context, our advantage over imports is obvious: short logistics, prompt delivery, the ability to quickly respond to changes in project decisions, instantly provide technical advice, and visit sites. During wartime and the post-war period, the speed of engineering decisions and stability of supply are often critical.
We hope that with the end of military risks, the quality of the implemented projects will become an additional argument for the effective realization of the export potential of Ukrainian passive fire protection systems,” he says. Kovlar Group LLC was founded in 2015 in Kyiv and is the largest manufacturer of passive fire protection equipment in Ukraine.
According to OpenDataBot, the company’s authorized capital is UAH 1.2 million, and its ultimate beneficiaries are Kostyantyn Kalafat (40%), Andriy Ozeychuk (35%), and Lyubov Vakhitova (25%). The company’s revenue for 2024 was UAH 91.3705 million, which is twice as much as in 2023, and its net profit was UAH 13.4 million, which is 1.7 times more than in 2023. In the first quarter of 2025, the company’s revenue was UAH 13.5 million, with a net income of UAH 1,983,000.
