Lanovetsky sugar factory

In connection with the expansion of sugar beet crops in the Lanovetsky district and an increase in its productivity, a decision was made to build a sugar factory in the district center Lanovtsy in accordance with the fifth five-year plan for the restoration and development of the national economy of the USSR . The construction of the enterprise began in 1955, by decision of the Ternopil regional committee of LKSMU, the facility received the status of a Komsomol construction project, in which 250 Komsomol members from all districts of the region took part. Together with the plant were built factory plant and plant CHP. In the autumn of 1959 the plant was put into operation. Initially, the design capacity of the enterprise provided the ability to process 2.5 thousand tons of beets per day, in the following years the capacity of the plant was increased ^[1] .

Started to work simultaneously with the plant, the plant CHP allowed to electrify a number of collective farms of the Lanovetsky district and the neighboring Shumsky district of the Ternopil region ^[1] .

In the first years, the plant produced 11–15 thousand tons of granulated sugar per year, in 1965 - 25 thousand tons ^[1] .

In 1968, the plant's CHP (and Lanovtsy in general) was connected to the Dobrotvorskaya TPP ^[1] .

In 1971, the plant produced 32.4 thousand tons of granulated sugar, and in 1972 increased the production volume and fulfilled the sugar production plan by 102% ^[1] .

As of 1973, 1,200 people worked at the plant (140 of them were communists and Komsomol members), 158 of them were members of the All-Union Society of Inventors and Innovators. The plant was among the foremost enterprises — only in the period from the beginning of 1966 to the end of 1972, the plant workers made 528 rationalization proposals, due to the introduction of which the enterprise received savings of 462 thousand rubles ^[1] .

In general, in Soviet times it was among the largest enterprises of the district center ^{[1] [2] [3]} , on its balance were social infrastructure objects (residential neighborhood, library, etc.) ^[1] .

After the declaration of independence of Ukraine, the state enterprise was transformed into an open joint-stock company . At the end of 1998, the State Property Fund of Ukraine transferred seven sugar plants of the Ternopil Oblast (including the Lanovetsky Sugar Plant) to the Kiev concern Kompleks ^[4] .

In 2013, the plant was not functioning. In 2014, the situation of the enterprise was complicated, there was a threat of closing the plant ^[5] .

In December 2016, the plant (previously owned by the T-Tsukor holding) was purchased by the German company Pfeifer & Langen ^[6] . In January 2017, local residents thwarted an attempt by new plant owners to dismantle and remove factory equipment ^[7] .