Manufacturing & Supply Chain

County Cavan-based Kingspan Group, the world leader in high-performance insulation and building envelopes, has been granted permission to begin work on its €280 million building materials manufacturing campus near the city of Lviv in Ukraine. Kingspan first announced it was investing in building a new facility in Ukraine in June 2022, which marked the first major investment announced by a Western business since the  full scale invasion  began.

With the first building permit granted by the State Inspection of Architecture and Urban Planning (DIAM), work will now begin on preparing the site for the first phase of construction. A significant portion of the campus is expected to be built within five years and once complete the campus will support over 700 jobs, providing a significant contribution to the local economy.

The new campus will be a low carbon facility, powered  by  low carbon solutions including renewable energy, and will manufacture advanced insulation, as well as other building material products and district heating solutions. The building technology deployed combined with the materials produced at the campus, will play an important role in Ukraine’s reconstruction effort and help meet the rapidly growing demand for energy efficient buildings and facilities in Central and Eastern Europe. These technologies are central to the urgent effort to decarbonise the global built environment, which is responsible for 39 per cent of all energy-related carbon emissions.

Kingspan’s Ukraine Project Director Mike Stenson said: “We’re thrilled to get the greenlight to begin work on the site, which marks a hugely important milestone for us. We were among the first Western businesses to announce plans to invest in Ukraine since the full scale invasion, and we have been fully committed ever since. Working closely with officials  local to the site  and Ukraine’s Ministry of Economy and Ukraine Invest  we’re very excited for our vision at this stage to become a reality.”

Kingspan acquired the site from Sparrow Capital, supported by CBRE, and has been working closely with project partners including international architecture, engineering, and consulting firms such as  Delta Group, Gleeds, AVR development  and law firm Baker McKenzie as well as local authorities  at the site location  and Ukraine’s Ministry of Economy together with Ukraine Invest.

The Kingspan Group operates in more than 80 countries, with over 273 manufacturing facilities around the world and employs over 27,000 people globally. Through organic growth and acquisition, it has established itself as a global force for advanced building technologies and energy efficient solutions that enable low carbon buildings.