Is There A Bathroom Factory In Ukraine?

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The Ukrainian porcelain-making tradition originated in Volynia at the end of the 18th century. By the middle of the 19th century, small porcelain factories emerged with the entry of large multinational porcelain companies. Information about them is usually extremely scarce.

Poland’s close proximity to the Ukraine has made its history no less complicated than Russia’s. In the 18th century, many wealthy Poles owned property in Volynia. By the 19th century Poles were still the main customers of Ukrainian porcelain and faience factories, and their products were stored in warehouses in Moscow, Warsaw and other cities and sold in stores there. Thus traces of Ukrainian manufacture are abundant in Polish museums and private collections.

The ratio of locally produced sanitary ware to imported products in the Ukrainian sanitary ware market is about 6:4. The two leading Ukrainian sanitary ware companies are both foreign-owned. Auk þess, a number of them are concentrated in Slavuta, in the north of Khmelnytskyi region. Industry is a key element of the region’s growth, with more than 100 companies operating in the town.

JSC “Slavuta plant “Budfarfor” – one of the largest factories in Eastern Europe, which earlier focused on porcelain and later on the production of sanitary ware.

LLC “Aqua-Rodos” – a leading manufacturer of furniture in Ukraine.

LLC “Sanservis” specializes in the production of bathroom furniture. Over the years of its activity, the company has established close partnerships with the network of hypermarkets, wholesale bases, retail stores throughout Ukraine.

LLC “Yuventa” produces modern bathroom furniture.

Meðal þeirra, the Slavuta factory “Budfarfor” must be mentioned in connection with the Ukrainian sanitary ceramics industry. The factory was established in 1909. The first batch of sanitary porcelain was produced in 1910.

Í 1922, the factory was nationalized, og inn 1946, the so-called pouring method was introduced for the first time in the Soviet Union, which doubled the production. In the 1960s, the factory underwent an intensive technical renovation; glazing technology was introduced. Í 1975, the plant was fully converted to porcelain products and became a leading producer of sanitary ceramics in the USSR, with an annual output of 1.7 million pieces. Frá 1944 til 1956 it was part of the Ministry of Industrial Building Materials of the USSR.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, it became one of the few factories in Ukraine to remain in operation, and later came under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Building Materials of Ukraine.

Í október 2006, an agreement was signed with the Finnish company Sanitec Group Corporation to set up a joint venture for further modernization of the enterprise, bæta gæði vöru, hönnun og stækkun. Samkvæmt greiningaraðilum, hlut Slavuta “Budfarfor” in the Ukrainian market in 2007 was 30%.

Samkvæmt gögnum, Geberit entered the Ukrainian market in the second half of 2004. Í 2015, Geberit completed the acquisition of 99% af hlutabréfum Sanitec Group. Geberit has been able to localize its development by taking over Sanitec’s Ukrainian assets. Í 2017, Geberit monopolized the main flushing systems market in Ukraine. Í 2019, Geberit invested in a large modern production site and logistics center near the former state-owned sanitary ware plant. Eins og er, it is one of the largest manufacturers of sanitary ware in Ukraine.

Samkvæmt viðtali við Oleksiy Rakov, Forstjóri Geberit Trading LLC, birt í úkraínskum blöðum í 2020, it can be learned that Geberit currently has two factories in Ukraine, with products at the low-end, mid-range and high-end. One of the sanitary ceramics factory has an annual capacity of about 3.5 million pieces. Það hefur jarðgangaofn af 147 metra í Sacmi.

Samkvæmt fréttum febrúar sl 7, gamla Budfarfor verksmiðjan hefur verið einkavædd. Uppboðið verður haldið í mars 4. It includes 38 eignasamstæður með samtals flatarmáli 82,929.1 fermetrar.

Auk þess, another large bathroom company in the Ukrainian market is Cersanit Invest LLC, which is also a Polish holding company, specializing in tiles and sanitary ware, located in the city of Kielce in southeastern Ukraine. Flísaverksmiðja fyrirtækisins í nýju borginni Volensky hefur um það bil u.þ.b 12 milljón fermetra. It is worth noting that the largest shareholder of the company is Polish Michał Sołowow, a resident of Kielce, Úkraína.

Reprinted with permission from Kitchen & Bath News

References

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Петрякова Ф.С. Украинский художественный фарфор (конец XVIII-начало ХХ ст.). – К., “Наукова думка”, 1985