The construction of a new malt house has been begun by Sun Interbrew in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Sun Interbrew, a joint venture between Interbrew and Sun Brewing, is planning to spend for this construction about EUR 14 million, and expects to finish it in 2004. The company hopes to increase the production capacity of the malt house from 45,000 tonnes to 90,000 tonnes of malt per year.

The company is intending to fully meet malt consumption needs at all the breweries it runs in Ukraine (Rogan, Desna and Yantar). Some of the malt produced may also be sold to other Ukrainian breweries.

Sun Interbrew Ukraine is the country's biggest brewery. Its breweries produced 372m litres of beer in 2001, up 21.4% year-on-year.

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