Ukraine: In the first five months of MY Ukrainian malt production increased by 27.5 % year-on-year

For the five months of market year 2005/2006 Ukraine malt production increased by 27.5% year-on-year from 115.1 thousand metric tonnes in July-November 2004 to 146.8 thousand tonnes in July-November 2005.

In November 2005 Ukraine has registered a slight decrease in malt production volumes versus the previous month. According to the statistical data, in November Ukrainian maltsters produced 32,3 thousand tonnes of malt, that is by 3% less than in October 2005.

In comparison with November 2004, the production volume increased by 6.1 thousand tonnes (+ 23%), according to APK-Inform reports and Ukrainian Goskomstat.

The leading Ukrainian malt manufactures are: Kharkov based company Malteurop with a malt output of 8,300 tonnes in November 2005; OAO Slavutsky Malting plant, which produced about 6.900 metric tonnes of malt in November 2005; Chernigov based unit of Malteurop Ukraine with 3,600 tonnes; Berdichevsky Malting plant with 4,000 tonnes and ZAO Obolon Brewery with 4,000 tonnes.

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