Ukraine: Malt production in January 2005 increased by 35% year-on-year

In January 2006 Ukraine produced about 35.1 thousand tonnes of malt, a 1% increase compared to December 2005. Compared to January 2005 malt production increased by 35% (+9.1 thousand tonnes), according to APK-Inform reports and Ukrainian Goskomstate.

The leading Ukrainian malt manufactures are: Kharkov based company, Malteurop, with a malt output of 9,300 metric tonnes in January 2006; OAO Slavutsky Malting plant, which produced about 7,200 metric tonnes of malt; Chernigov based unit of Malteurop Ukraine with 4,300 tonnes; Berdichevsky Malting plant and ZAO Obolon Brewery produced more than 4,000 tonnes every.

By the end of January 2006 about 65,200 tonnes of malt were registered in the stocks of Ukrainian malting companies.

For the first 7 months of market year 2005/2006 Ukraine malt production increased by 30.1% year-on-year from 166.4 thousand tonnes in July 2004-January 2005 to 216.5 thousand tonnes in July 2005-January 2006.

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