Vinisin, a Ukrainian-Serbian flooring joint venture based in Kalush, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, has commenced a UAH 20 million investment project to erect a warehouse for distribution of covering and related items under several brands in Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia, Vinisin’s leading process engineer reported on Friday.
Borys Pryshlyak said the warehouse will have 7,000 square meters of floor area with racks to keep taffeta covering, parquetry, wallpaper, linoleum, felt and polypropylene thread made by Vinisin, Sintelon, Tarkett Group and Enna Group. More than 50 workers will be hired to operate the distribution center, which is expected to open this fall.
“Construction of the center is a matter of Vinisin image, and certainly stems from the fierce competition on the market. The main task today is to deliver goods to clients on time… If we don’t open such a center now, somebody else will do this soon,” Mr. Pryshlyak told the LED Project.
Investors considered other locations for the distribution center, including Serbia and Russia. Vinisin’s campaign for the investment project was actively backed by the then Kalush Mayor, Roman Sushko, who participated in negotiations, both in Ukraine and in Serbia, and assisted in the prompt issue of a permit for construction. These common efforts were made in the spirit of public/private partnership, which was strengthened in the process of economic strategic planning, in which both both the Mayor and Vinisin Director Roman Vyshynsky participated as members of the Kalush Strategic Planning Committee.
Vinisin was founded in 1994 by Oriana, a Kalush-based public corporation, and Sintelon, Europe-renowned Yugoslavian maker of textile floor coverings. The joint venture manufactures 200 items of covering at a total of five million square meters a year, and is Ukraine’s only producer of high-quality taffeta and needle-punched floor covering. Vinisin also produces textile polypropylene textured thread and PVC linoleum. Investments into the enterprise total UAH 153 million, having nearly tripled over the last three years.
