17:27 04.03.2022

Textile plant of Textile-Contact Group almost destroyed by fire after shelling of Chernihiv – owner

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During the shelling of Chernihiv by the Russians, a new textile factory of the Textile-Contact group of companies, investments in which exceeded $3.5 million, almost burned down, the owner of the group, Oleksandr Sokolovsky, has said.

"Today, our new textile factory is on fire, which we launched a couple of years ago in Chernihiv from scratch. We looked for funds wherever possible, brought the production of fabrics to 400,000 linear meters per month. 70 people worked. And today it and the neighboring the area is being shelled by orcs, stupidly hitting with Grad missile launchers at the neighboring residential area and industrial zone," he wrote on Facebook on Friday.

Sokolovsky wrote that after the first night and morning hits by Grad missile launchers, the remaining employees, who had been waiting for the raids of those days in a bomb shelter, began to put out the fire and almost extinguished it.

"But a couple of hours ago, the shelling intensified, more shells flew in, all the people escaped and evacuated, and the factory seems to be going down," he wrote.

At the same time, the owner of the company recalled that in 2014 the group lost a large textile factory in Donetsk.

Textile-Contact, one of the largest trade and production groups in the light industry market of Ukraine, was founded in 1995.

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