Salt production in Zakarpattia resumed after a year and a half break

On November 7, Kation Invest resumed rock salt production at the Tereblya deposit in Zakarpattia region. The company's director Sergey Kondratiev told Nadra.Info.

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"On Friday, we started producing our product - technical salt for industrial processing. We received a positive certificate from the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection. Next week we are waiting for "DerzhdorNDI" State Research Institute laboratory to record the salt production from the Tereblyansky mine, take samples for analysis and issue a certificate of conformity," said Kondratiev.

According to him, Kation Invest has already signed five contracts with road services for the supply of salt in Zakarpattia region, as well as in Lviv and Zhytomyr regions.

Salt production at the Tereblya deposit in Zakarpattia region began in late July 2023. The first salt produced at the Tereblya deposit was handed over by local authorities to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on August 2, when he came to Zakarpattia for a coordination meeting.

In 2024, Kation Invest planned to produce about 60,000 tons of technical salt, and in 2026 it was going to reach its design capacity (450,000 tons per year) and start producing edible salt.

But in the early spring of 2024, Kation Invest stopped salt production in Zakarpattia due to a corporate conflict .

In September 2025, it became known that two creditors of (Publishing House Center for Financial Information LLC and Zakarpattia Mining Company LLC) had filed bankruptcy petitions against Kation Invest LLC. The court did not satisfy any of them.

• on May 25, 2022, the state-owned enterprise Artemsil , which met 100% of the country's needs, stopped working due to hostilities in Donetsk region. It is now located in the territory temporarily occupied by Russia.
• Due to problems with the launch of production in Zakarpattia, Ukraine has to import salt even from Africa .
• Kation Invest is actually the only rock salt producer in Ukraine. Salt is extracted from brines by evaporation at the State Enterprise "Saltworks Drohobych" in Lviv region.
• In July 2025, the company announced the resumption of salt production in Ivano-Frankivsk region .