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Ukraine and Slovakia plan to develop the first joint investment project for the production of bioethanol. It will be realized at one of Ukrainian alcohol factories by the end of this year. A special working group will be created soon. This was discussed today at a meeting of the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Mykola Prysyazhnyuk with Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Slovak Republic to Ukraine Pavel Gamzhik.
In August, Russia's grain exports reached 3.4 million tonnes, including 3.0 million tonnes of wheat, IKAR said, citing preliminary data. It did not provide data for comparison. Russian wheat export prices fell in shallow-water ports last week due to weaker demand from Turkey, Russia's second-largest customer after Egypt, the Institute for Agricultural Market Studies (IKAR) said in a note.
Russia's United Grain Company (UGC) plans to invest up to U.S. $1 billion in the construction of production facilities to start deep grain processing to produce protein, amino acids and other sophisticated ingredients, used in the food processing industries. The company may start the construction of the first, $300 million plant with the production capacity of 500,000-1 million tonnes of grain in Novosibirsk or Altai regions, company CEO Svetlana Savchenko said.
German company Evonik has started construction of a large L-lysine production plant the city of Volgodonsk in the central part of Russia. The new plant is due to be operational in 2015 with an annual capacity of the feed additive Biolys of around 100,000 metric tonnes.
A large complex for the deep processing of wheat and production of lysine is planned for Tumen Oblast, central Russia, to be completed by the end of 2015, according to a press release by the regional government. The new plant will be located in the Ishim district of the region. And according to project representatives all the pre-project construction has already been completed.
The growing dynamics of grain processing products' export is observed in Ukraine, such as flour. Agrarian Policy and Food Minister Mykola Prysiazhniuk has defined this trend, the Ministry's press service told UKRINFORM about this.
MOSCOW, Mar 18 (PRIME) -- Russia's Rostov Region-based agricultural logistics company Khotunok will construct an 8 billion ruble grain processing plant as follows from regional Trade and Industry Chamber's statement seen by RIA Novosti on Monday. The capacity will stand at 250,000 tonnes of grain annually.
Two more projects are included in the List of Priority Investment Projects of Bashkortostan Republic: "A factory construction on oil grain processing by double pressing with preliminary oil seed hulling with 100 tons a day capacity" and "Reconstruction of high-quality mill from 120 tons a day to 300 tons a day". The initiator of both projects is JSC "Sibay Elevator", the press-service of the Ministry of Economic Development RB informs.
A large plant for the production of feed lysine will be commissioned in Russia. The construction work on the new facility has already started. It will have the estimated capacity of about 57,000 tonnes of lysine per year with some amount of by-products based on the deep processing of grain.
