Up to 100 new jobs will be created at the enterprise with an area of more than 5,000 m². The construction works will continue until the end of 2024.

 Bila Tserkva, March 22, 2024. — Today, a commemorative capsule was laid at the construction site of the new Unilever factory. The factory will be located within the Bila Tserkva Industrial Park.

Unilever has invested €20million in the new factory, which will produce personal care products including shampoos and shower gels for brands such as Dove, Axe, TRESemmé and Clear.

Attending the ceremony, head of the Kyiv regional administration, Ruslan Kravchenko, commented: “ Industrial parks development supports the recovery of manufacturing in Kyiv region during the Russia’s war against Ukraine. The opening of new productions helps to increase the income and well-being of local communities, increase tax revenues and stimulate the development of small and medium-sized enterprises in the region. I am proud that today Kyiv region is one of the leaders in the development of industrial parks in Ukraine. We highly value our international partners and the willingness, in particular, of British business to set up a new production and make investment in our region. Representatives of the business community can be sure that we will continue to promote their development and support initiatives aimed to grow and strengthen the economy of the Kyiv region.”

The new Unilever factory will span 4.2 hectares and will have a production capacity of over 5,000 tons per year. Its construction is set to be finished towards the end of 2024.

Vasyl Bovdilov, General Manager, Unilever Ukraine, said: “Today has been an important event for expanding our business and developing the industry. The construction of the new factory shows our ambitious plans and long-term commitment to Ukraine. The new production will create up to 100 new jobs, contribute to the growth of the local FMCG market and expand Ukraine’s export opportunities.”

The factory is being built in accordance with a green and sustainable industrial ecosystem, with efficient use of water and energy resources, comfortable working conditions and minimal impact on the environment. The office premises of the factory are designed considering the needs of people with reduced mobility. A ground-based mobile shelter has been already created on the construction site, and the factory building will include an underground shelter as well.

Land management and investment attractiveness were considered while choosing the location for the facility. The industrial park located in Bila Tserkva has a site ready for construction with engineering communications and ready-made road infrastructure, which reduces the time for construction.

Vasyl Khmelnytskyi, the founder of UFuture holding, which includes the Bila Tserkva Industrial Park, added: “I am sure that the development of production is a key driver for the recovery and growth of the Ukrainian economy. The fact that even despite the war we manage to attract new investors is a positive trend, we open the way to innovation and the creation of quality jobs, supporting the economy at this critical time. In addition, I believe that this can contribute to the attraction of foreign experience and investments, which are currently needed for our country.”

Deputy Head of Kyiv State Regional Administration, Lesya Karnaukh, Mayor of Bila Tserkva, Hennadiy Dykyi, and Iryna Starenka, head of Bila Tserkva regional administration, have also visited an official groundbreaking ceremony.

Specialists in industrial real estate development of the management company of the Bila Tserkva Industrial Park assist in relocating industrial enterprises.  

Kyiv, March 28, 2022. — The heroic resistance of the Armed Forces of Ukraine gives entrepreneurs time to find an opportunity to move production to the central and western regions of the country and join the economic front of the state. This is a challenge that the rear must meet to ensure the economic and food security of our country.

Every production enterprise that wants to resume work will receive assistance from the team of the management company of the Bila Tserkva Industrial Park. We have:

1. necessary knowledge and experience in relocation of enterprises;
   2. list of available industrial sites;
   3. contact of local and international partners.

Together with the production enterprise, we will go through every step to resume its work:

1. we will find a free production and warehouse premises;
   2. we will perform work on conservation, transportation and installation of the production line at the new location;
   3. we will connect to the grid, gas, water supply and sewerage;
   4. we will adjust the work of the shop in accordance with the best practices of lean production.

You can leave a request for a consultation on the company’s relocation at the link: https://forms.gle/cc6854Av2a22FxQv7

The company started work in a turnkey industrial building with an area of over 5.6 thousand m2.

Bila Tserkva, February 1, 2022. — The Good Plastic Company, a manufacturer of decorative panels made of recycled plastic, has become is next in turn a resident of the Bila Tserkva Industrial Park.

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The Good Plastic Company became the sixth resident of the Bila Tserkva Industrial Park. The company signed a contract and started production in a new production and storage building of over 5,600 square meters in December 2021, 4 months after the first visit to the industrial park and inspection of the building, which was then under construction. The full-scale production launch is expected in April this year after the installation of all equipment. The company plans to employ more than 30 people from Bila Tserkva at the plant,” said Andriy Ropitsky, director of Bila Tserkva Industrial Park.

The main features of the unique production of The Good Plastic Company:

1. 75%of existing types of plastic can be remanufactured using their equipment;
2. 100% use of renewable energy;
3. 0 kg of CO2 emissions produced during manufacturing.

The Good Plastic Company’s panels are made from granules of previously used plastic: old appliances, disposable forks and spoons, yogurt bottles, bumpers, ocean debris, etc. The company’s mission is to contribute to solving the problem of the 400 million tonnes of plastic waste that are generated annually.

Besides Ukraine, The Good Plastic Company has production facilities in the Netherlands. It also plans to locate production facilities in the UK, USA and Asia. The Good Plastic Company works with global brands such as Nike and Adidas.

In November 2021, Ukrainian entrepreneurs Andriy Fedoriv, CEO of Fedoriv Group, and co-founders of Nova Poshta Volodymyr Popereshnyuk and Vyacheslav Klimov, became the investors of the company.

According to Fedoriv, 98% of The Good Plastic Company’s products produced in Ukraine are exported.

This year the park to have two clusters, production and logistic, with 11 entities onboard

Kyiv, January 10, 2022. — UFuture holding company, which develops the Bila Tserkva industrial park, announces changes in its configuration and the finish of the first phase of development.

In accordance with the new business strategy, the company relocate production capacities of the Plank Electrotechnic to partners, and places the German manufacturer of automotive components in its place.

The company also will sell and remove from the register of industrial parks 22 hectares of land on Levanevskoho St. 150, Bila Tserkva. The new owner plans to build a modern production facility with warehouses, engineering and transport infrastructure in this place, but will not work in the format of an industrial park.

At the beginning of 2022, there are six processing and logistic enterprises operate on the territory of Bila Tserkva Industrial Park. Five more plants will be built during the year. Thus, as part of the first phase of the industrial park, two clusters will be formed, production and logistic, with 11 entities onboard. They will form a sustainable industrial ecosystem that will ease the negative impact on the environment, reduce resource consumption and maintain decent working conditions.

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The successful development of the first phase of Bila Tserkva Industrial Park related to our model of work with potential residents. We build turnkey facilities, and then focus on providing service, support and consulting for our residents. Thanks to our model industrial companies can start production in a short time, i. e. in 3-6 months,” said Andriy Ropitsky, director of Bila Tserkva Industrial Park.

In 2022, the UFuture holding company will start the implementation of the second phase of the project in Bila Tserkva with plot of land of over 34 hectares at the corner of Ivana Kozheduba and Zakhidnyi Proizd streets. This plot will participate in the state program for the development of industrial parks.

Additional Information

UFuture is a holding company of Ukrainian entrepreneur Vasyl Khmelnytsky that integrates his business and impact-investment projects. The company has a diversified portfolio of assets in the fields of real estate, infrastructure, industry, renewable energy, pharmaceuticals, and IT. Currently, UFuture’s assets are estimated at $500 million, and the total capitalization of the businesses it invested in is up to $1 billion.

Bila Tserkva Industrial Park is UFuture’s investment project aimed at creating infrastructure and conditions for the sustainable industrial development of Ukraine.
The park offers industrial land with all the engineering infrastructure and ready-made modern production, logistics and storage facilities for rent or purchase. Knowledge and significant experience in the development of industrial real estate allow the park team to provide the client with a range of services for efficient production.

Kyiv, September 7, 2021. —Residents of the Bila Tserkva Industrial Park — production companies got important financial stimuli for their business development. The Law of Ukraine ‘On Industrial Parks’ will provide:

‣ state financing the construction of engineering and transport infrastructure to the site boundaries;

‣ compensation for the cost of connection to utilities within the industrial park;

‣ compensation of interest rates on loans for the purchase of new equipment and business activities.

You can know how to become a resident of the industrial park at the link: https://bit.ly/30hBaRU

Andriy Ropitskiy will head the industrial park from July 12, 2021.

Bila Tserkva, July 12, 2021. — Andriy Ropitskiy was appointed as the Director of Bila Tserkva Industrial Park. In his new position, he will replace Volodymyr Khmurych, who ended his long-term cooperation with the industrial park and decided to continue his career outside the UFuture holding.

Andriy Ropitskiy is well acquainted with industrial property development for production or logistics needs. Prior to the appointment, he has been holding the office of the Chief Business Development Officer of “Іndustrial Park Management” LLC for more than five years, the management company for two industrial parks, where he was in charge of the industrial park business plan implementation, profit-earning performance targets pursuing and key client partnership building.

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Bila Tserkva Industrial Park is one among the few companies, which one can name a leader within the field. Yet today, a sustainable industrial ecosystem has been setting up within the limits of the industrial park. In order to minimize any adverse impact on the environment, sustainable production facilities and infrastructure amenities were constructed and put in operation. Green and sustainable technologies and industrial process utilization by the industrial park residents are encouraged and welcomed. The managing company improves the resource utilization efficacy. The utility networks fitted with automated systems of water, gas and powers consumption monitoring are connected to the Industrial Park boundaries and routed to the resident plots.

Any and all conditions were created within the Industrial Park for production placement for the last three years. Thereby, five production companies and one transportation and logistics company became the Park residents. 11 Ha of the industry land were developed. Under the development plan, we should develop 18 Ha of the land more and engage five residents till the end of the year 2022,” said Andriy Ropitskiy, commenting on his appointment.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Andriy Ropitskiy has 14 years of experience in the banking sector and development business. He held a number of positions in international banking institutions, including the territorial manager of Structured Trade and Export Finance at UniCredit Bank Ukraine. Andrey received a higher economic education at KNEU. He is certified by the SDA Bocconi School of Management for Risk Management and the EBRD under the Trade Development Program. Andriy is a guest trainer and expert of the project ‘Foundation of Best Practices for the Development of Industrial Parks and Industrial Real Estate in Eastern Ukraine’, which is implemented with the assistance of the USAID Economic Support to Eastern Ukraine Project.

Bila Tserkva Industrial Park  is a UFuture project that creates infrastructure and provides conditions for sustainable industrial development in Ukraine. The park of more than 70 hectares offers industrial land with all the engineering infrastructure and ready-made modern production, logistics, and storage facilities for rent or purchase. As of 2021, six companies are residents of the industrial park.

UFuture is a holding company of Ukrainian entrepreneur Vasyl Khmelnytsky, which has a diversified portfolio of assets in real estate, infrastructure, industry, renewable energy, pharmaceuticals, and IT. UFuture’s assets are valued at $500 million, and the total capitalization of the businesses in which it has invested is up to $1 billion.

The company started work in a turnkey industrial building with an area of 3.2 thousand m2 after the completion of acceleration in INDAX

Bila Tserkva, June 9, 2021. — VIRASTAR, a leading Ukrainian manufacturer of goods and equipment for access to heights, has become a resident of Bila Tserkva Industrial Park. Thanks to the newly built industrial premises and modern infrastructural technological solutions, the industrial park provided the resident with a universal platform adapted for the production of the main types of VIRASTAR products: scaffolding, mobile towers, and ladders. Cooperation became possible after the VIRASTAR acceleration process in INDAX — a project of the holding company UFuture.

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By choosing ready-made solutions, the clients of the industrial park save from 9 to 12 months and reduce costs at market prices by $200-300 thousand. That’s how much time and investment is needed to get all the approvals, develop the concept and design of the plant for the company in the medium business segment,” said Andriy Ropitsky, Business Development Director of Bila Tserkva.

 

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Production is the basis of the economy, it is necessary to leave the added value in Ukraine. INDAX, first of all, focuses on those sectors where Ukrainian products can compete with Chinese and European goods. VIRASTAR scaling is such a successful case,” said Natalia Kalinkina, CEO of the INDAX production accelerator.

 

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The company manufactures products under its own national brand TM VIRASTAR. During the year we plan to increase the supply of domestic goods in the domestic and foreign markets of construction materials. The plant in Bila Tserkva will produce more than 300 products that provide access and safe working conditions at height for professionals and private users,” said Oleksiy and Serhiy Alekseenko, co-founders of VIRASTAR.

Working in an industrial park, VIRASTAR becomes a member of the construction cluster community. This will help increase the competitiveness of the manufacturer’s business, increase the training of its staff, and implementation of joint projects for the development of production infrastructure.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

UFuture is a holding company of Ukrainian entrepreneur Vasyl Khmelnytsky, which has a diversified portfolio of assets in real estate, infrastructure, industry, renewable energy, pharmaceuticals, and IT. UFuture’s assets are valued at $500 million, and the total capitalization of the businesses in which it has invested is up to $1 billion.

VIRASTAR is a company for equipment for high-altitude work, which began its activities with the import of European products and later launched the production of aluminum products and became the only manufacturer of aluminum ladders in Ukraine. Over the past year, the company has sold only new products worth up to $1 million. After accelerating INDAX, the manufacturer scaled the business, launched an innovative modernized production in the Bila Tserkva Industrial Park according to the Lean Institute Ukraine methodology, and expanded the model range. Currently, the products are sold not only in Ukraine, but also exported to Georgia and Lithuania.

Bila Tserkva Industrial Park is a UFuture project that creates infrastructure and provides conditions for sustainable industrial development in Ukraine. The park of more than 70 hectares offers industrial land with all the engineering infrastructure and ready-made modern production, logistics, and storage facilities for rent or purchase. As of 2021, six companies are residents of the industrial park.

INDAX is a system platform for support and scaling of small and medium-sized businesses in the industrial sector. Through training, mentoring, partnerships, and investment, the accelerator supports entrepreneurs who are ready to produce quality products.

On June 17, the Forum of Innovative Productions will take place on the territory of Bila Tserkva Industrial Park for owners and C-level managers of manufacturing, construction, distributing companies seeking for production launch or its expansion. The event is organized by the Kyiv International Economic Forum.

The purpose of the event is development of industrial enterprises in Ukraine through access to the ecosystem of industrial parks, accelerators, investment and partnership programs.

The Forum’s topics include, but are not limited to:

• Ukraine’s industrial strategy and contemporary challenges;
• industrial parks as drivers of economic growth;
• Made in Ukraine in global markets;
• money for development: sources, conditions, risks;
• digitalization and production efficiency;
• new business strategies at the new economics.

Speakers of the Forum:

• Vasyl Khmelnytsky, Founder of UFuture holding company;
• Taras Kachka, Deputy Minister for Development of Economy, Trade and Agriculture – Trade Representative of Ukraine;
• Volodymyr Khmurych, CEO of Bila Tserkva Industrial Park;
• Kostyantyn Efymenko, President of Biopharma biopharmaceutical company;
• Andriy Zdesenko, Founder and President of Biosphere Corporation;
• Oleg Boiaryn, Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Eurocar PrJSC;
• Stanislav Vilenskyi, Deputy Chairman of Alef Corporation Board;
• Andrii Dligach, CEO of Advanter Group;
• Serhii Komberianov, President of Lean Institute Ukraine.

The pool of invited speakers is constantly updated.

Expozone of outstanding Ukrainian producers will take place during the Forum. New products and developments of enterprises from various industries and sectors of the domestic industry will be presented.

Participation in the forum is free subject to prior registration and confirmation from the organizers. Registration at the link.

There will be a shuttle service for guests on the day of the Forum.

The Forum organizing committee will meet all quarantine requirements that will be set in Bila Tserkva as of June 17, 2021.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The purpose of the Bila Tserkva Industrial Park is creating infrastructure and conditions for the sustainable industrial development of Ukraine. The park offers industrial land with all engineering infrastructure and ready-made modern production, logistics and storage facilities for rent or purchase. Knowledge and extensive experience in real estate development allows the park team to provide the client with a range of services and services for efficient production arrangement.

The total area of the Bila Tserkva Industrial Park is more than 70 hectares. Its key difference is focus on creating of ecosystem and clusters (production, logistics, and others). This approach enables clients to establish supply chains, reduce production lead time and costs.

As of the beginning of 2021, six companies are residents of the industrial park. The industrial park belongs to UFuture projects.

Kyiv International Economic Forum — is an ongoing platform for discussion that is aimed at shaping the strategy of the economic development of Ukraine. By arranging dialogue among experts, businesses and the authorities, the KIEF forms a roadmap for development and facilitates the conversion of expert ideas into action.

In the interview for BYKVU web-based media, Volodymyr Khmurych, CEO of Bila Tserkva Industrial Park, communicated the key pandemic and quarantine consequences for processing industry.

After three years of balancing within an inch of uneasy growth of one and a half- two per cent, industrial production in Ukraine was cut by eight per cent, within the first half-year 2020. The worse performance in the real economy was merely in 2014-2015. Then, the production depressed nearly by 13%. Currently, the engineering, metallurgy and consumer industries appeared the more affected. By business interviewing results, up to 20% of the companies suspended their operations, 30% more cut production scopes and changed operation schedules. Other corona crisis effects for the industry may be conveniently classified into five trends.

Firstly, this is profit shrinkage and capital investment reduction. Under financial report data, the companies refuse from fixed assets up-grading programs and cut investments by 10-16%. Considering, how the producers acted in the earlier crisis environments, such performance, at the year end, may go down to 32-35%. The situation is complicated by the market demand decline, fall in prices for industrial products and net profit reduction. As a result, any investments into production expansion and new product release appeared out of season.

Secondly, growth of the costs for employee safety and health protection. From April 20, business came across with incidental expenditures. To secure the employee health, the companies acquire individual protection apparels and remote temperature screening systems. They carry on disinfection of production, office and warehouse premises. They plan construction site operations, in view of social distance. To diminish contact probability in municipal transport and prevent pandemic dissemination, the companies provide employee transportation to places of their work. The companies increase budgets for medical insurance services. Under particular calculations, the business expenditures for labor safety measures grew by 18-27% this year, compared to the previous year.

Thirdly, implementation of sustainable production principles. Corona crisis placed a greater producers’ focus on resource sustainability importance, raw material specific weight and waists reduction per product unit, and establishment of energy-saving production. The big business has financial and staff capacities to move to electrical energy, natural gas and water resources consumption cut. A package of measures in this direction is aimed at the product cost value reduction and support in integration into global production and marketing chains, having compensated thereby any financial losses due to lockdown. Particular food industry companies may be a perfect example of such integration, which implement energy management systems and open new outside target markets. The medium business has less own resources for a competitive product transformation and making, though it may rely upon support of, for instance, eco-industrial parks within the frame of global initiative by the United Nations Organization for industrial development.

Fourthly, security of supply chains. Ukrainian industry just enters into global supply chains, step by step, enlarging raw material export with high value added cost products. Agro-industry and pharmaceutical companies are the drivers in this area. Due to low integration level, this year supply chain failure relatively slightly affects operation of the companies. Foreign-owned companies are affected to a greater extent, companies with the national capital are affected to the less extent. Both business groups obtained crisis management case studies, which will allow to overcome economic challenges later on.

Fifthly, flow process and business process automation. The national industry appeared to be sensitive to the quarantine measures. Main part of the employees is occupied directly at production, with no feasibilities for remote working management. With the pandemic outbreak, the companies estimated digital transformation significance. By comments of metallurgic and pharmaceutical producers, establishment and utilization of resource planning systems contributed to business process efficiency maintenance in the quarantine conditions. In particular, part of the staff was able to continue working in remote mode. Essential process automation bet allowed to boost efficiency, having cut the employee participation during the whole production cycle.

This trend is just spinning up and presented at the pilot project level. Essential automation areas within the national companies are material transition by means of unmanned loaders and repeated task automation with industrial robotic computing utilization.

This is not enough to change the country economy in no time.

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A wide expansion of innovative approaches requires low-rate lending and investment resources available, so as sophisticated production systems are capital-intensive enough, as a rule. Moreover, they also require efficient human and management resources. To gain all this, time, macroeconomic and political stability are needed, and active state involvement through target support programs is required.

To provide a greater ecosystemic effect, resource interchange and risk diversification in innovative production establishment, the companies pool in clusters in the form of industrial parks, engineering parks, free economic zones etc. At the cluster level, joint operation strategic planning capacities exist for two, five, ten years, as well as risk mitigation, more rapid and efficient resource interchange.

An extended version of the interview of the CEO of Bila Tserkva Industrial Park is available by reference.

The pool of invited speakers is constantly expanded. 

During the Forum within the territory of Bila Tserkva Industrial Park, a Ukrainian manufacturer exhibition zone will operate.

Participation in the Forum is free, providing prior registration and confirmation obtaining from the hosts by reference.

The Forum will be held in compliance with the requirements of quarantine measures, which will be in force in Bila Tserkva as on October 15, 2020.

Updated on 10:35 p.m., October 13, 2020. To meet order №956 of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine dated October 13, 2020, thereby public gathering events restrictions are covered, we hereby sadly inform that the Innovative Production Forum was postponed to be held in the Spring 2021.