KYIV, Sept 16 - The Feed-in-Premium tariff system for producers of "green" electricity will be of interest primarily to bioenergy enterprises, but the Ministry of Energy's bill on this system needs to be improved, Heorhiy Heletukha, the head of the Bioenergy Association of Ukraine (BAU), says.

KYIV, Sept 16 – In January-August, Ukrainian coke and chemical plants imported 6.14 million tons of run-of-mine coking coal and coal concentrate for coking, which is 4.5% less than in the same period last year.

KYIV, Sept 14 – Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant (NFP, Dnipropetrovsk region) in January-August this year increased its production by 20.7% compared to the same period last year, to 447,945 tons.

KYIV, Sept 16 - Some 90% of premiums collected by the insurance market of Ukraine in the first half of 2021 are concentrated in 60 insurance companies (50 - non-life and 10 life), the head of the insurance market supervision department of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), Iryna Syrenko, said at the XXI International Financial Forum in Odesa.

KYIV, Sept 16 – Austria’s Best Water Technology, or BWT, a major European water purification company, plans to invest up to EUR 5 million in the development of the infrastructure for bottling purified water in Ukraine, the company said.

KYIV, Sept 6 – Ukraine in January-August 2019 decreased exports of pig iron in natural terms by 25.8% compared to the same period in 2018, to 1.567 million tons.

KYIV, Sept 10 – Innovation DTEK, part of the DTEK Holding, does not rule out the possibility of resuming cooperation with Radar Tech, but in 2019-2020 it will focus on work with the European startup market, Chief Innovation Officer at DTEK Emanuele Volpe has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, Sept 10 – Myronivsky Hliboproduct (MHP) plans to issue 10-year $300-350 million eurobonds, which subject to market conditions.

According to a report of the agricultural holding on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) on Tuesday, the company has announced arranging meetings with fixed income investors in connection with a potential new eurobond transaction by its wholly owned subsidiary, MHP Lux S.A.

KYIV, Sept 11 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will finance the modernization of infrastructure of Ukrzaliznytsia via the purchase of eurobonds worth almost $100 million, Ukrzaliznytsia Board Chairman Yevhen Kravtsov wrote on his Facebook page late on Tuesday.

KYIV, Sept 11 – The adoption of bill No. 1210 amending the Tax Code of Ukraine dated August 30 foresees growth of the excise duty on cigarettes by 2.5 times, which would result in 2.5-3-fold growth of prices, to UAH 80-100 per package of cigarettes from January 1, 2020, Corporate Affairs at Director Philip Morris Ukraine Nataliya Bondarenko said.