Kernel, a large agroholding in Ukraine, seeks to invest $130 million in construction of an oilseed crushing plant in Khmelnytsky region. The company said in a press release that the commissioning of the plant was scheduled for 2020. The installed processing capacity of the plant will be 1 million tons of sunflower seeds per year.…
Iranian investors are keen to launch a meat-processing project in eastern Kazakhstan. Akim (governor) of the region Danial Akhmetov met with top management of the Kazakh-Iranian company Agro Portal LLP in order to discuss all aspects of the new project and its launch in the nearest future. The new meat-processing enterprise will be built on…
While Estonia’s modern eastern border with Russia was initially planned to be completed by 2018 or 2019 at the latest, currently even test sections of the border have not yet been finished. Last November, then-Minister of the Interior Hanno Pevkur (Reform) said that the Estonian government had set the ambitious goal of building the new…
The President Almazbek Atambayev took the issue of building schools in Bishkek under his personal control. He stated this at a meeting with the activists and the public of the capital, the Information Policy Department of the Presidential Administration of the Kyrgyz Republic reported. According to it, Almazbek Atambayev noted that the time when the…
Chinese investors intend to build a noodle factory in Kazakhstan. Most likely, it will be erected in the food belt of Astana. The project cost approximates $47 million. The factory’s capacity will be 700 MT of noodle a day with a prospective expansion to 1000 MT. With regard to the grain quality, the Kazakh vice-minister…
Compared to July, the level of construction costs in Latvia grew by 0.1% in August. Maintenance and operational costs of machinery and equipment rose by 0.4%, labor remuneration of workers decreased by 0.1%, whereas prices of building materials did not change significantly. Compared to August 2016, construction costs increased by 2.3%. Labor remuneration of workers…
TIU (Canada) plans to invest EUR 94 million in the construction of five solar power plants in Ukraine, the company’s press service has reported. The company intends in autumn this year to complete the construction of the first station worth EUR 14 million with a capacity of 10.5 MW in the territory of Nikopol Ferroalloys…