Leading Ukrainian agribusiness Nibulon has increased grain storage and handling capacity at its AK Vradiivskyi and Kolosivskyi elevator complexes in Ukraine.
Nibulon’s director for Elevators Operations Valerii Reutsoi said the capacities of both facilities would be increased to receive late grain crops.
At AK Vradiivskyi, a second trans-shipment line had doubled capacity and changed the receipts and shipments scheme, the company said on 30 September.
The facility’s unloading capacity had increased from 50-80 tonnes/hour to 150-180 tonnes/hour.
In addition, the second truck loading point had been re-equipped, the company said. Improvements included an increase in the size of the loading pit and the installation of an automatic control system on the new equipment.
Meanwhile, two new 40-tonne capacity silos at Kolosivskyi Elevator were speeding up grain loading onto trucks, Nibulon said.
With a land bank of over 76,000 ha, Nibulon is one of Ukraine’s largest grain and oilseed growers and traders and is active in wheat, corn, barley, sunflower, soyabean, rapeseed and sorghum.
As well as grain and oilseed processing, its activities also include logistics, storage and shipment.
It runs its own fleet, has a total grain storage capacity of 2.25M tonnes and operates a network of 27 trans-shipment terminals and grain and oilseeds complexes in the country.
Founded in 1991 by Oleksiy Vadaturskyy, who was also vice president of the Ukrainian Grain Association, Nibulon produces more than 300,000 tonnes/year of grain and oilseeds, mostly for export to 75 countries, from a planted area of 51,908 ha.
Vadaturskyy turned Nibulon into a major player in the global grain industry but was killed during Russian aerial bombardment of the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv, along with his wife Raisa.
In November 2022, Nibulon announced that Andriy Vadaturskyy had succeeded his late father as the company’s CEO.
