08 April 2016, 12:56
New foundry Metalit private joint-stock company was presented in Kirovohrad. It will be part of the Chervona Zirka plant's holding. According to the report, the total amount of investments in the enterprise has made up UAH 120 million and a total of 190 people have been employed there.
The foundry does not have any analogues in Ukraine in terms of the technologies used there. The new enterprise will allow processing of scrap metal into pig iron, and use of pig iron in the production of commodities for the sectors of railway, farm machine building, automobile manufacture, etc. "There are other similar enterprises in Ukraine, however, the those have either stopped such a production or failed to develop it," holding director Pavlo Shtutman said.
Taking floor at the meeting, the Chairperson of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship Viktor Halasiuk assured that the Committee was working over the introduction of the mechanisms to support domestic industry, in particular, to provide cheapened loans, stimulate the access to foreign markets, create conditions for modernization, to fiscally stimulate new producers. According to the parliamentarian, a number of respective draft laws has already been submitted for consideration of the Ukrainian Parliament and some of them have even been adopted in first reading.
"One of the upcoming tasks is to develop powerful energy, agricultural and transport engineering sectors. The sector must be provided with domestic metal, and Ukrainian scrap metal must not be exported abroad," Halasiuk said having assured that the relevant Committee would assist in achieving that goals.
At the end of the event, its participants had an opportunity to visit foundry workshops, see its equipment and study the technology and stages of production.