Kharkiv Coke Plant
Kharkiv Coke Plant (Kharkiv CP) is the only producer of foundry coke in Ukraine. Kharkiv CP mainly operates on Ukrainian coal. It produces part of its export products on a tolling basis. The company applies wet quenching technology of coke production. Its chemical production was shut down in 2004.
Production capacity
Staff and wages
Charts and tables
Production results, thousand tons
Indicative sales structure by products in 2018
Indicative sales structure by markets in 2018
* structure of sales volumes, metric tons
Financial performance, $ million
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sales | 58.0 | 41.6 | 20.8 | 21.8 | 20.1 |
| EBITDA | 6.6 | 5.1 | 3.4 | 2.5 | 0.8 |
| EBITDA margin | 11.4% | 12.2% | 16.2% | 11.5% | 4.1% |
| Net income | 0.7 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Net income margin | 1.3% | 2.5% | 1.7% | 0.3% | 0.4% |
| CAPEX | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Key facts
2021
The Commercial Court of the Kharkiv Region ordered the Kharkiv Coke Plant to pay a fine of UAH 3.5 billion for work in 2019-2020 without a permit for polluting activities.
In December 2020, the court of first instance banned production activities at the Kharkiv Coke Plant. In 2021, the case is being considered in the court of appeal.
2020
For all 12 months. 2020 Kharkiv Coke Plant produced 4 thousand tons of coke, most of the year was idle.
2020
Kharkiv CP suffers from pressure from time to time — on the part of environmental campaigners demanding that the plant be closed as the largest environmental polluter in the city. Yet, according to the media, environmental monitoring, with the involvement of the State Environmental Inspectorate, found that the plant complies with the allowable air emission standards.
2019
Owners of the plant reportedly changed in September 2019. The right to ownership for the property complex, mortgaged to Sberbank, was re-registered in the name of the creditor. Later, the plant was leased to Novomet trading house (later renamed as Novomet Coke Plant). The tenant company is allegedly linked to Sergiy Kuziara.
2015
According to the media, in 2015, Kharkiv CP announced its plans to reconstruct three coke oven batteries and build a coke oven gas cleaning machine.
2011
The plant reported that as a result of the modernization of three coke oven batteries, its gross emissions of harmful substances into the air decreased from 1,014 tons per year in 2003 to 388 tons per year in 2011.
Sources: websites of the companies, media outlets
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