PrJSC Volodymyr-Volynsky Poultry Farm (Volyn region) will invest EUR 38 million in the construction of a new poultry processing facility, which will allow doubling production, director general of the company Alina Sych has said. According to her, the capacity of the new workshop will be 13,500 broilers per hour. Construction is to be completed in a year or two. The company will produce goods under the Epikur brand at this facility: poultry grown without antibiotics and growth stimulation.
“The monthly increase in the sales of Epikur poultry is about 43%. We grow 4.6 million birds. As the demand for our products is growing, we start building new facilities to raise production. Within the total production by the factory, the share of Epikur is more than 30%, the rest is grown according to the standard technology,” Sych told Interfax-Ukraine.
According to her, the company plans to use most of the new capacity for the production of the Epikur brand. The company sells products under this brand in the retail networks of Auchan, Metro, Furshet, Novus, Fora, Velyka Kishenya, MegaMarket and others, now it is entering the Silpo network.
“The priority for us is the development of the Epikur brand in Ukraine. The export share of the company is insignificant: about 5-6%. Now we deliver Halal-certified products to the countries of the Middle East and Africa under Al Dalal chicken and Delika trademarks. The new workshop will increase production and allow passing all the required certification for exporting goods to Europe,” the director general of the company said.
In addition, Volodymyr-Volynsky Poultry Farm actively implements alternative energy projects.
“We have switched 70% of heating to solid fuel boilers burning wood; we heat the water for the processing plant by burning feathers as waste. We also have a project to produce straw briquettes for heating,” Sych said.
“We are not developing biogas technology, since, synchronously with the new workshop, we are launching the production of bone meal, and all waste will be sent there. This flour is the basis for feed. The cost of this project is EUR 3.8 million,” she added.
PrJSC Volodymyr-Volynsky Poultry Farm is a Ukrainian-Dutch enterprise, part of the Openmind group of companies. The factory’s infrastructure includes 100 poultry farms, a processing workshop and a feed mill with a capacity of 10,000 tonnes per month.
The company produces chicken under the Epikur brand without antibiotics and growth stimulation, as well as chicken under the Chebaturochka trademark. It has seven branches in Volodymyr-Volynsky, Lviv, Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Kharkiv and Odesa.
In 2017, the share of the poultry farm was about 6% of the Ukrainian market.
The founder and CEO of Openmind is Oleksiy Kovalenko.
