The Ma’Rizhany industrial hemp processing plant (Zhytomyr Oblast) has begun a new operating season following a technical hiatus during which the company modernized its production lines, the company announced on Facebook.
“We have installed new equipment to make hemp straw processing even more efficient. This will allow us to expand the volume and range of our products—natural raw materials for construction, textiles, agriculture, and many other sectors,” the company said.
The Ma’Rizhany Industrial Park was added to the Industrial Parks Register in August 2024. In May 2025, the Ma’Rizhany Hemp Company began operations here; it is currently Ukraine’s largest facility for the primary processing of industrial hemp. The plant’s initial capacity was 14,000 tons of long fiber per year.
Earlier, Dmytro Kysilevsky, deputy chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Economic Development, noted that if hemp cultivation in the region expands to 4,000 hectares, the park plans to double its processing capacity to 20,000 tons of raw material annually.
The Ma’Rizhany Industrial Park (Zhytomyr region) plans to double its industrial hemp processing capacity, according to Dmytro Kysilevsky, deputy head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Economic Development, on Facebook.
He noted that as of early August 2025, the plant will be able to process 10,000 tons of hemp per year. Increasing the area under cultivation to 4,000 hectares will allow the plant to reach a processing capacity of 20,000 tons of raw materials per year. In the 2025 season, there will be more than 1,600 hectares of industrial crops within a 20 km radius of the park.
“The Ma’Rizhany industrial park is actively persuading farmers in the Zhytomyr region to switch from unstable and politicized grain supplies to the European Union to long-term contracts with Ukrainian customers for a new, promising, and traditional crop for Ukraine. Well, the demand for hemp fiber is growing on the world market, which is the best financial guarantee for farms that will become partners of the industrial park,” Kysilevsky said.
The MP expressed confidence that the industrial park has enough free space to accommodate the next stages of deep processing of industrial hemp.
In May 2025, the largest industrial hemp primary processing enterprise in Ukraine began operations in the Ma’Rizhany industrial park. Ma’Rizhany Hemp Company renovated an old flax factory and built a modern production facility with a capacity of 14,000 tons per year of long fiber for the textile industry. It is expected that related processing products, such as short fiber and chaff, will find application in nonwoven materials (heat and sound insulation), paper, building blocks, chipboard, and bioplastics.
As reported, IP “Ma’Ryzhany” occupies about 30 hectares, the territory of a former flax processing plant. It will be the first park in Europe for the primary processing of bast crops. It was entered in the Register of IPs in August 2024. It is planned to create more than 700 jobs.
