KIEV, June 29 – The production of fuel bricks, granules and other types of alternative solid fuel in 2010 will grow by 50-67% to 450,000-500,000 tons, according to the Ukrainian Association of Alternative Solid Fuel Producers.

KIEV, June 25 – Knauf Insulation Ukraine Ltd. plans to build a rockwool insulation plant worth over EUR 100 million in Fastiv (Kiev region), although the company has not decided when work on the plant will start, company Director Andriy Pavlyk said.

KIEV, June 25 – Kharkiv-based Turboatom, the largest turbine equipment producer in Ukraine, and the Czech company Skoda Power have signed a protocol on cooperation in the energy engineering sector, the key direction of which would be the production of steam turbines for Indian heat power plants.

KIEV, June 25 - The share of bad credits in the total amount of loans extended by Ukrainian banks grew by 0.6 percentage points in May, to 4.89% by June 1, the National Bank of Ukraine reported.

The amount of bad credits in monetary terms in May grew by 12.5%, or UAH 4.06 billion, to UAH 36.497 billion, the NBU said.

KIEV, June 25 – The Association of Ukrainian Banks and the Ukrainian Credit-Banking Union have called on the president to veto a law banning the sale of property used as collateral.

KIEV, June 26 – The National Electricity Regulatory Commission forecast that the first auction on the access to power transmission lines for electricity exports would be held in August 2009, said NERC head Valeriy Kalchenko.

KIEV, June 29 - Ukraine??™s Anti-Monopoly Committee allowed UkrNafta, the country??™s largest crude oil producer, to buy a chain of 19 gasoline filling stations in western region of the country, the committee reported Thursday.

KIEV, June 29 - Ukraine??™s national oil and gas company Naftogaz Ukrayiny plans to spend 150 million hryvnias ($30 million) to equip 400,000 households with gas meters by the end of the year, the company said Thursday.

KIEV, June 29 - Vanco Energy Company, a U.S.-based independent oil and gas company, that is to develop offshore oil and gas fields in Ukraine, awarded the first deepwater drilling contract to of Atwood Oceanics, a newswire reported.

KIEV, June 25 ??“ From January through May AIS Corporation increased car sales by 23% in comparison with the same period of 2004, to 18,200 vehicles, the company told Interfax-Ukraine. The corporation noted this represents 16.7% of car sales in Ukraine.