The plant owned by Firtash in Crimea has changed its owner
The Crimean Soda Plant, part of the business empire of Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash, has changed shareholders.
The head of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Sergei Aksenov, announced this today at a meeting on problematic issues of the Northern Crimea.
“The shareholder at the Crimean Soda Plant has changed,” he noted. – The new shareholders have serious intentions to increase production. I want to assure the residents of Krasnoperekopsk and Armyansk that the plant will operate, there are no layoffs and no plans are in the offing.”
The day before, the company's press service announced plans to increase production by 10%. This is due to the replacement of the packaging complex. The first stage of modernization cost shareholders 1,7 billion rubles, and in the next three years investment investments will amount to 3 billion rubles.
Earlier in the media there was information about the transfer of part of the shares of the Crimean Soda Plant to the Moscow Chemical Investments LLC, which is related to businessman Yuri Kovalchuk.
The products of the soda plant - technical soda ash and baking soda - are supplied both for export and to the domestic market of Russia.
Firtash's Crimean plant has changed hands.