Zahidnyi Bug to build Ukraine’s first durum wheat processing mill

Zahidnyi Bug plans to launch a pasta production facility in September this year, followed by a durum wheat mill in October. This was announced in an interview with Latifundist.com by Volodymyr Boichuk, head of the "Mill and Pasta Plant" project.

Currently, the first phase of the pasta factory is being prepared for installation.

"In autumn last year, we changed the concept and purchased specialized equipment for milling durum wheat. This will be the first such mill in Ukraine," he said.

According to Boichuk, the original plan was to process both soft and hard wheat using a standard soft wheat mill. However, in practice, this approach significantly reduces the yield of the main product and results in up to 50% of unwanted by-products that are difficult to market.

"If you mill durum wheat on a standard soft wheat mill, you get only 15–20% of high-quality first-grade product. The rest — up to 50% — is second-grade flour, which has almost no application in Ukraine. Italians use it for pizza dough, but there is no such large market for it here. With our planned daily capacity of 80 tons (first phase), these volumes of second-grade flour would be unmanageable," Boichuk explained.

The milling equipment will be supplied from Turkey, while the pasta production line will be Italian-made.