Tail LLC (Lviv region), one of the leaders in the production of metal roofing and corrugated sheets, has invested €10 million in the construction of an oil refinery, according to Maksym Kozytskyi, head of the Lviv Regional Military Administration (OVA).
“This facility represents investments that remain in Ukraine and strengthen our economy. For Lviv region, this means new jobs, taxes paid to the local budget, and a contribution to the development of the region’s economy,” he wrote on Telegram after visiting the enterprise together with Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko.
The head of government clarified that the owners of the enterprise, Yuriy Shkvark and Andriy Tsymbalyak, decided to diversify and try their hand at agricultural processing during the war.
“All the equipment at the plant is Ukrainian: TAN refining and PET Pet Technologies line from Chernihiv, TEFF boiler room from Odesa, Nadiya bottling line from Cherkasy, AKIM containers and filling unit from Dnipro, Lubnimash silos from Lubny. From Ukrainian entrepreneurs like them, who ensure our economic stability with their energy, labor, inventions, and investments,” Svyrydenko wrote on Telegram.
She added that Lviv entrepreneurs are currently building another plant in Kremenchuk.
Tail LLC was founded in 2009 in the Lviv region. It specializes in the production of steel roofing materials for exterior decoration of houses, facade work, and industrial complexes. The company’s product range includes more than 15 types of products, which are manufactured on 25 production lines.
According to data from Opendatabot, in 2024, Tile LLC increased its revenue by 19.6% to UAH 820.51 million, reduced its net profit by 1.9 times to UAH 10.16 million, increased its debt obligations by 1.6 times, to UAH 427.76 million, assets by 1.4 times, to UAH 550.51 million, and the number of employees by 19, to 204.
The beneficiaries of the enterprise are Andriy Tsymbalyak and Yuriy Shkvark.
A.V. Export Import LLC (Chortkiv, Ternopil region), whose main specialization is currently the production of oil and animal fats, has begun construction of a vegetable oil refinery in the Chortkiv-West industrial park, according to Chortkiv Mayor Volodymyr Shmatko.
“Finally, construction has begun on the first industrial enterprise in our Chortkiv-West industrial park. Six years of work by the team, COVID, a major war, but investors chose Chortkiv! Thank you to the team for such a wonderful result,” he wrote on Facebook on Tuesday.
According to the materials attached to the post, A.V. Export Import plans to build a sunflower oil refining and deodorization plant with a capacity of 50 tons per day in the first stage in 2025, employing 39 people.
The second stage in 2026 involves the construction of an oil bottling plant with a capacity of 54,000 bottles per day and the employment of 38 workers, and the third stage in 2028 involves the construction of a sunflower seed reception and processing plant with a capacity of 150 tons of seeds per day, employing 56 workers.
IP “Chortkiv-West,” registered in October 2019, was established on a land plot of 87.7 hectares, with a declared term of operation of 30 years.
In the summer of the same year, Shmatko presented the concept of the park and announced the readiness of an investor (whom he did not name) to create an agricultural processing enterprise there, investing about $700 million.
According to the Chortkiv City Council, in November 2024, a memorandum was signed between the city council, the managing company IP “Chortkiv West” – KP “Local Economic Development Agency” and “A.V. Export Import,” which was the first step towards the construction of the enterprise.
A.V. Export Import LLC was established in 2017, and according to opendatabot, in October 2024, it changed its main activity from wholesale trade in food products to the production of oil and animal fats. The authorized capital is UAH 20,000.
Currently, the company is owned by Bulgarian citizen Daria Lupashko-Gurevich (50%), residents Andriy Snizhko (25%), and company director Valery Yureskul (25%).
In 2024, the company increased its net income by 4.7 times compared to 2023, to UAH 256.5 million, with a net profit of UAH 4.55 million (UAH 0.58 million), and in the first half of this year, income exceeded UAH 204 million, with a net profit of UAH 5 million.
A.V. Export Import, Chortkiv-West, CONSTRUCTION, FACTORY, oil refining
