Pologovsky oil extraction plant

An oil extraction plant in the Pologi district center was built in accordance with the ninth five-year plan for the development of the national economy of the USSR and was commissioned in 1974 ^[2] .

In general, in Soviet times, the oil extraction plant was one of the largest enterprises in the city ^{[3] [4]} .

After the independence of Ukraine, the state enterprise was transformed into an open joint-stock company , and then reorganized into a closed joint-stock company . In the future, the plant mastered the bottling of vegetable oil in plastic bottles and began selling it under the trademarks Slaviya and Smarna Kraplya.

The plant finished 2015 with a net profit of 132.378 million hryvnias ^[1] .

The plant completed the year 2018 with a net loss of 25.6 million hryvnias ^[5] .

The plant includes a preparatory workshop, an oil extraction workshop, an oil refining workshop, an oil filling workshop, an elevator for raw materials with a capacity of 75,000 tons, a grain elevator elevator for 4,500 tons, a storage area for liquid vegetable oils with a capacity of 22,000 tons, as well as several auxiliary workshops and sections ( electrical services, workshop of railway transport, workshop of automobile transport, workshop of technical maintenance of technological equipment, treatment facilities, service of instrumentation and automation).

93.39% of the plant’s shares are owned by Von Sass AG (Switzerland) ^[1] .

As of September 2016, the plant was one of the largest producers of vegetable oil in Ukraine. In addition to sunflower and soybean oil , the company sold sunflower and soybean meal for cattle feeding ^[6] .

• Pologovsky oil extraction plant // Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia. Volume 8. Kiev, “Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia”, 1982. p. 384