Drujba_Bucha

completed

The project involves investments to increase manufacturing capacity at Drujba’s sites at Plovdiv, Bulgaria (Plovdiv) and at Buchansky Zavod Skolotary (Bucha), Ukraine, as follows: - at Plovdiv, investment adding a furnace and associated forming line to increase annual capacity from 275,000 to 310,000 tons, associated infrastructure including a particulate filter and de-NOx system; new warehouse and working capital, and- at Bucha, a loan to fund renovation of two existing production lines in order to increase capacity from 52,000 to 80,000 tons/year, installation of new forming lines, installation of QC inspection and automated packing machines, new warehouse, new Information Technology/ERP systems and a particulate filter and de-NOx system. The project will also include installation of automatic cullet washing and sorting lines at Drujba’s Sofia site, and at Bucha, to increase use of external cullet, thus reducing raw material and energy use in glassmaking.The Bucha and Drujba glassworks are owned and operated by the Greek glass company Yioula.