The German company Knauf will build a plant for the production of drywall and dry building mixtures in Borshchiv (Ternopil region), with investments in the project amounting to EUR 150 million, said Dmytro Kysylevskyi, deputy chairman of the parliamentary committee on economic development.
According to him, the design capacity of the new plant will be 30 million square meters of drywall and 320 thousand tons of dry mixes.
“This will be the second Knauf plant in Ukraine. The first one is located in Kyiv and is currently operating at full capacity – about 25 million square meters of drywall and 200 thousand tons of dry mixes. This is enough to meet the domestic demand of the Ukrainian market, but after the war, the demand will increase significantly. That is why the new plant in Borshchiv is an investment with faith in victory,” Kysylevsky wrote on his Facebook page.
Previously, Knauf also owned a plant in Soledar (Donetsk region), which was destroyed by the occupiers. The company took its employees out and employed them at the Kyiv plant, which employs 425 people in total, the MP said.
Kysylevsky noted that Knauf has officially announced that it has stopped investing and is leaving the Russian market. At the same time, in 2023, the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (NAPC) included Knauf in the now canceled list of international sponsors of war because of its continued operations in Russia.
“According to my information, they have finally left Russia. And all international companies that have not yet done so should do the same. The best way to improve your reputation after a long withdrawal from Russia is to build factories in Ukraine,” the MP emphasized.
Knauf is a leading global manufacturer of gypsum and building materials.
According to Opendatabot, by the end of 2023, Knauf’s Kyiv plant (Knauf Gypsum Kyiv LLC) increased its net revenue by 65% to UAH 3.53 billion, and its net profit by 2.6 times to UAH 1 billion.
The first two objects for which privatization auctions have been announced since the beginning of the war were the Marilovka and Kobylovolotsk distilleries of the Ukrspyrt State Enterprise in the Ternopil region, the State Property Fund reported on Monday evening.
According to it, auctions for the Kobylovolotsk plant will be held on September 19 with a starting price of UAH 25.2 million, for the Marilovka plant on September 20 at a starting price of UAH 54.3 million.
In total, in September it is planned to hold 8 auctions for the privatization of ready-made alcohol assets, as well as about 150 other objects – from movable and immovable property to non-operating plants, which will be put up before the end of 2022.
“Privatization auctions in September will be held according to new, improved procedures. Thanks to our joint work with people’s deputies and the government, colleagues from Prozorro. Sales, privatization will become an even more convenient tool for business development and will provide additional filling of the state budget in the conditions of martial law “, – the words of the acting are given in the message. head of the State Property Fund Olga Batova.
She recalled that due to legislative changes, the preparation and holding of auctions will take up to two months instead of six, payment will be made before the signing of the sale and purchase agreement to minimize risks, but new owners will receive all permits and licenses automatically.
The road service in Ternopil region and the Turkish company Onur Group have signed an agreement for the repair of 47 km of the road between Ternopil and Berezhany on the M-12 Stry-Ternopil-Kropyvnytsky-Znamyanka route.
The State Agency of Automobile Roads of Ukraine (Ukravtodor) reported on its Facebook page the work will start in the second half of March. It is planned that the vehicles will move from the village of Pidhorodne to the west. Part of the work, as noted by the winner of the tender, will be performed by a subcontractor.
“This section is the first new object of the Big Construction project in 2021 in Ternopil region. The repair of the M-12 highway is a priority of the presidential program, because together with the M-04 highway it will form a new route dedicated to the 30th anniversary of Independence. The M-30 highway will be to run from Stry (Lviv region) to Izvaryne (Luhansk region) and will be the longest in Ukraine. The total length of the road will be 1,392 km. It will symbolically “sew” the west of the country and the east, including the temporarily occupied territories captured by occupation forces, and after the victory over them, the road to this village will also be restored,” Ukravtodor said.
The agency notes that a section of the future M-30 Stry-Izvaryne highway in Ternopil region runs from the borders of Ivano-Frankivsk and Khmelnytsky regions through Ternopil. From the regional center to the border of Khmelnytsky region, it was restored in 2018. And from Ternopil through the city of Berezhany to the borders of Ivano-Frankivsk region, this road has not been repaired since the 1990s.
Onur Taahhut, founded in 1991, carries out the construction of roads, bridges, abutments, structures and road reconstruction works. The company has successfully implemented important projects in Croatia, Ukraine, Tunisia, Moldova, Oman, Equatorial Guinea and Turkmenistan. It has experience in performing construction and installation works at infrastructure facilities throughout Ukraine.
Vitagro Group through private enterprise Agrarian Company 2004 (Khmelnytsky region) plans to acquire 95.22% of the shares of PrJSC Skala-Podilsky Rozsadnyk (Skala-Podilsky seedling farm, Ternopil region).
According to a report by Agrarian Company 2004 in the information disclosure system of the National Securities and Stock Market Commission, the private company intends to acquire common registered shares of Skala-Podilsky seedling farm in the amount of 1.699 million pieces.
Vitagro unites agricultural enterprises in Khmelnytsky, Rivne, and Ternopil regions. It is engaged in the production and processing of crops, including fruits and vegetables, dairy farming, pig breeding, as well as the construction and repair of roads, production of bricks.
The land bank of Vitagro is about 60,000 hectares.
The owner of the company is Verkhovna Rada deputy Serhiy Labaziuk.
