The Biosphere Corporation, a leading manufacturer and distributor of household and hygienic products in Ukraine and the CIS, has started accepting a line for production of diapers in Italy and plans to start their production in Ukraine early 2020, the founder and CEO of the corporation Andriy Zdesenko has said.
“We plan to become number one manufacturer of private brands of diapers in Ukraine and several of our private labels,” he told Interfax-Ukraine on December 28.
Zdesenko said that on December 18-19 the first stage of equipment acceptance took place, and its final acceptance will be in Italy on January 13-17, after which the equipment will be installed at the production site in Dnipro.
Commenting on the unsuccessful attempts in the past of other domestic entrepreneurs to arrange the production of diapers in Ukraine, the founder of Biosphere noted the complexity of production technology and high competition in the market.
“But now there is confidence that we have gained enough expertise and brand recognition for the Biosphere. We also invited a specialist from Canada to lead this production, so we are ready to seriously compete with Western brands,” Zdesenko said.
The Biosphere Corporation has been operating in Ukraine for over 20 years. Its products are presented in about 20 markets in Europe and Asia. The product portfolio includes more than 2,000 items.
Natural gas production in Ukraine fell 0.8% year-on-year in January-November 2019, to 18.916 billion cubic meters (bcm), the Energy and Environment Protection Ministry has told Interfax-Ukraine.
Naftogaz group enterprises lowered gas output by 2.2%, to 14.722 bcm: Ukrgazvydobuvannia produced 13.653 bcm of gas, down 2.9%, Ukrnafta produced 1.062 bcm, up 8.1%, and Chornomornaftogaz produced 6.5 million cubic meters (mcm), down 10.3%.
Other producers boosted gas output by 4.4%, to 4.194 bcm in the 11 months. The biggest of them were Naftogazvydobuvannia with 1.509 bcm, Ukrnaftoburinnia with 670.03 mcm, and ESKO-Pivnich, which produced 486.59 mcm.
According to information on the website of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, on December 27 the document was returned with the signature of the president.
As reported, the Verkhovna Rada adopted as a whole bill No. 2240 on settling the issue of amber extraction, which provides for the introduction of uniform exploration permits with the right to produce amber for a period of five years on plots of up to 10 hectares through ProZorro electronic auctions.
This decision was supported by 279 MPs with the quorum being 226 votes.
According to the bill, access to amber deposits will be regulated by establishing the right of land easements and defining separate Article 971 of the Land Code for exploration and mining on disturbed lands.
In addition, the document introduces criminal liability for illegal mining and administrative liability for violation of mining requirements, as well as toughens liability for non-compliance with land reclamation requirements and the obligation to compensate for losses incurred.
Sugar production in Ukraine as of December 17, 2019 amounted to 1.375 million tonnes.
According to the Ukrtsukor National Association of Sugar Producers, in the 2019/2020 season some 31 sugar plants were operating. To date, they have processed 9.11 million tonnes of sugar beets.
As reported, the sugar season in Ukraine started on September 1.
Sugar production in the 2018/2019 season decreased by 15% compared with the previous agricultural year, to 1.82 million tonnes.
Milk production in Ukraine in January-November 2019 decreased by 3.7% compared to the same period in 2018, to 9.08 million tonnes. According to the State Statistics Service, in January-November 2019, farmers produced 3.05 million tonnes of meat (live weight), which is 5.8% more than in the same period of 2018.
Egg production grew by 3.5%, to 15.51 billion units.
Electricity production by all power plants of state enterprise Energoatom in January-November 2019 decreased by 2.2% (by 1.656 billion kWh) compared to the same period of the previous year, to 74.889 billion kWh.
According to the press service of the company, the plan for the production of electricity for the specified period in 2019 was overfulfilled by 1.4%.
The share of Energoatom in the overall structure of electricity production in the country amounted to 53.6%, which is 0.2 percentage points more than in January-November 2018.
The power plants of the state enterprise for the reporting period supplied 70.34 billion kWh, which is 2.3% less than a year earlier.
The volume of capital investments for the 11 months amounted to UAH 12.094 billion against UAH 10.069 billion. in January-November 2019, financing of capital investments totaled UAH 12.957 billion against UAH 10.798 billion.
During the reporting period, the company transferred UAH 12.328 billion to the budgets of all levels, insurance payments amounted to UAH 2.343 billion.
Some 12 violations were recorded in the operation of Ukrainian nuclear power plants for the 11 months of 2019 against 20 violations for the 11 months of 2018.
