KIEV, Aug. 16 – Luhanskteplovoz, the owner of which is Russia's Transmashholding, switched earlier this month from the four-day work week it has had since 2010 to five days.

KIEV, Aug. 16 - The consumer sentiment index in Ukraine worsened by 3 points compared to June, to 81.1 points, according to a monthly survey conducted by GfK Ukraine.

KIEV, Aug. 17 – South Korea’s LG International has filed a claim against a Ukrainian polyethylene tube producer – Ukrpolymerconstruction Trade House LLC - to collect UAH 967.8 million from the Ukrainian company, international law firm Integrites reported.

KIEV, Aug. 18 – Ukraine's Antimonopoly Committee has permitted Metinvest B.V. (the Netherlands), a holding company of Ukraine's largest metallurgical Metinvest holding, to acquire public joint-stock company Mariupol-based Illich steel mill and private joint-stock company Illich-Steel.

KIEV, Aug. 18 – Ukraine's GDP growth in 2010 could be over 4%, while the official cabinet forecast says that the country's economic growth would be 3.7% this year, Ihor Shumylo, the executive director for economic issues at the NBU, said at a briefing on Wednesday.

KIEV, Aug. 19 - The share of bad loans in the portfolios of Ukrainian banks grew by 0.7 percentage points in July, to 11.5%, the National Bank of Ukraine reported.

KIEV, Aug. 17 - Ukraine reduced electricity output 15.3%, to 97.476 billion kilowatt-hours in January-July compared to the same period of 2008, the Fuel and Energy Ministry announed.

Ukraine's nuclear power plants (NPP) reduced electricity output 11.8% to 47.499 billion kWh in the seven months, thermal power plants (TPP) and combined heat and power plants (CHP) reduced output 21.4% to 38.401 billion kWh.

KIEV, Aug, 19 - Ukraine will announce its position on the possible restructuring of the debt of national oil and gas producer Naftogaz Ukrayiny by the end of this week, acting Finance Minister Ihor Umansky said.

KIEV, Aug. 19 – Karpatnaftokhim Ltd. (Kalush, Ivano-Frankivsk region) has installed four polymerization tanks at a new PVC production facility, which is under construction now.

The polymerization tanks, which are one of the key compounds of the new facility, were installed on August 14-17.

KIEV, Aug. 19 – The government plans to sell controlling stakes in all 14 power distributing companies before the end of the year, Dmytro Parfemenko, an acting head of the State Property Fund, said Wednesday.