August 20th 2026
Odesa region to get Ukraine’s newest corn starch plant.
Biostarch Technologies LLC plans to build a deep corn-processing complex in the village of Zelenohirske, Podilsk district, Odesa region, with a capacity to handle 600 tons of corn per day, or roughly 198,000 tons per year. The company disclosed the project in Ukraine’s unified environmental impact assessment registry.
The plant will sit within an existing industrial park with road and rail access. Its facilities will cover the full production chain: receiving, cleaning, drying, and storing grain, then processing, drying, and packaging the finished product.
Corn starch will be the main product, with projected annual output of 139,320 tons, or about 422 tons a day. The complex will also produce gluten (27 tons daily), corn germ (40 tons daily), dry extract (23 tons daily), and pelleted feed made from processing byproducts (76 tons daily). Grain storage will run through a granary with a simultaneous capacity of 36,400 tons and an annual throughput matching the plant’s intake of 198,000 tons.
Production will rely on wet-milling technology: corn is soaked for 36 to 60 hours in a sodium metabisulfite solution before being ground, after which starch, gluten, germ, fiber and extract are separated and processed individually.
Biostarch Technologies is owned in equal 50% shares by Cyprus-registered Mosdale Ltd and JSC PARS, a closed non-diversified venture corporate investment fund. Its ultimate beneficial owners, Pavlo Kapelka and Gennadiy Plyhach, each hold a 28% stake and are registered in Jurmala, Latvia.
Projects like this matter for Ukraine’s agricultural sector because they shift export structure toward higher-value-added goods rather than raw grain. Ukraine’s Economy Ministry has said it expects industrial parks to become a growth engine for GDP, citing global benchmarks showing a single hectare of industrial park space can generate $7M to $10M in annual revenue.
Source: https://agroportal.ua/en/news/novosti-kompanii/na-odeshchini-planuyut-zbuduvati-zavod-z-virobnictva-kukurudzyanogo-krohmalyu