Vitagro to increase grain storage capacity in Khmelnytsky region by 26 thousand tons

The Vitagro Group of Companies is completing the construction of two new silos with a total capacity of 11 thousand tons of one-time storage at the elevator in the Izyaslav district of the Khmelnytsky region and is preparing a site for storing grain in sleeves for 15 thousand tons, the company's press service reports.

According to the information, the total capacity of the elevator will increase to 66 thousand tons of one-time storage. The final completion of work on storing the new harvest is planned for the beginning of summer 2025.

“We started implementing the project in the fall of 2024. During the same period, we contracted equipment and developed a construction plan. About UAH 153 million will be spent on the first stage of the project. As part of the capacity increase, we will not only expand the storage volume, but also add another working tower, which will allow us to simultaneously receive two different crops and simultaneously load grain into rail and road transport. The loading speed will increase from 1,400 tons per day to 2,300 tons per day,” said Alexander Kulygin, Director of the Grain Storage Department of the Vitagro Group of Companies.

Vitagro noted that they began developing the elevator business in 2017 with the construction of an elevator in the village of Zakupne, Kamyanets-Podilskyi district, Khmelnytskyi region. Currently, the group owns five elevators in the Khmelnytskyi and Rivne regions with a total capacity of 385 tons of one-time storage. The largest of them is located in Zakupne, its current capacity is 106 thousand tons.

The Vitagro Group of Companies is one of the largest industrial groups in Ukraine, with assets in the agricultural, energy, processing, construction and chemical industries. It was founded and has been operating since 1998. It owns enterprises in the Khmelnytskyi, Rivne, Volyn, Ivano-Frankivsk and Kyiv regions. It cultivates about 90 thousand hectares of land and is also involved in animal husbandry, gardening, renewable energy, the production of fertilizers and compound feed, construction and the production of building materials. During the period of full-scale invasion, the group built and commissioned five processing plants. Vitagro's head office is located in Khmelnytskyi.

According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs, the ultimate beneficiary of Vitagro is People's Deputy Serhiy Labazyuk (parliamentary faction “For the Future”).