IVANO-FRANKIVSK, July 22 – Swedish-based Electrolux is to launch the manufacture of refrigerators at its factory in Ivano-Frankivsk.

"In May Electrolux Ukraine Ltd. started the implementation of an innovative investment project for the manufacture of refrigerators with a capacity of 200,000 per annum, which will satisfy local demand and will be also for export to the CIS countries and Eastern Europe," Ihor Zvarych, the deputy chairman of Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Administration, said at a meeting of the administration's collegium on Monday.

He said 200 new jobs will be created under the project.

According to the administration, Electrolux Ukraine manufactured 64,200 automatic washing machines worth UAH 104.8 million in January-June 2013.