Podillya, a Vinnytsya-based construction concern, is topping off its brickyard project in the village of Kachanivka, Khmilnyk Raion, Vinnytsya Oblast, the company told LED Monitor on Monday.
The new plant, 13 million bricks annual capacity, will be the first in the oblast to produce facing bricks, Podillya states on its web site. About half of these brick are expected to meet the concern’s own demand, the rest being sold elsewhere in Ukraine.
Polina Skoruk, head of the company’s Economic Planning Department, said the project started in 2004, and was in fact completion of an uncompleted brickyard bought by the concern. After commissioning, the brickyard will put 80 new jobs on local labor market. She said the new plant is part of the Podillya’s efforts toward reconstruction and development of its production capability. A total of about UAH 12 million has been invested to this end, Ms. Skoruk reported.
Concern Podillya, which includes 15 entities, was formed in 2004 based on BMU-3, a construction enterprise. In the first half of 2006, the volume of building operations carried out by the concern exceeded respective figures from the last year’s first half by nearly 54 percent or UAH 21 million, according to web media reports.
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