KonservPromKompleks, State Scientific-Research and Project-Design Institute

Director - Yuriy Pylypenko

In July 26,1956 there was founded the Scientific and Research Institute of Canning Industry (UkrNIIKP) according to the Decision of the Ministry Council of the USSR N 307 dated March 23, 1956 and in 1979 it was reorganized into the GNIPKI "Konservpromkompleks".
The Institute "Konservpromkompleks" is the head organization (within the frames of the Minagropolitics of Ukraine) responsible for scientific and technical providing of canning industry.
For improvement of the economical condition of the enterprise, securing the production of competitive produce, the Institute offers energy and material saving technologies and also the machinery for production of high quality canned foods.

General activity:
- elaboration of new technologies for production of baby foods, including those for medicinal and prophylactic purpose;
- elaboration of new and perfection of traditional technologies of products production based on fruit, vegetables, meat, fish and pulse, canned by different methods;
- creation of the equipment for aseptic canning in muliwall bags;
- creation of the equipment for developing the containers for production of canned foods in glass jars Type III (Twist-off);
- elaboration of new types of containers' measuring instruments for glass jars and caps Type III (Twist-off);
- creation of the processing equipment for fruit and vegetable raw materials;
- elaboration and approvement of sterilization conditions;
- implementation of project work on establishing factories and their reconstruction;
- technical assistance and supervising during organization of production;
- teaching and training of the specialists.

The Technical Committee on Standardization "Products from vegetables and fruit and equipment for their processing"(TCU-24), that was organized on the basis of the Institute, develops State DSTU and International (COST) standards, technical conditions for canned foods, containers and equipment, technical instructions, sterilization conditions for canned foods, organization and methodical documents, standards for the methods of control of the product' quality, supervising of works; makes an examination of the Normative documents developed by other institutions, including International standards, renders assistance in standardization and certification.
There is a department at the Institute that estimates quality characteristics and security of the processes and products, that makes determination of necessary characteristics in the samples of raw materials and finished products according to the applications of the enterprises, centers of standardization, metrology and certification.
Starting from 1998 the Institute cooperates with the USDA and the Economical Commission of the United Nations.

Taking into consideration more than 45 years' experience gained by the specialists of the Institute and TCU-24, the abovementioned works are implemented with the high qualification.
Doctors of science (in agriculture, medicine, economy), Candidates of technical science and biology take part in the scientific and research work. The laboratories of the Institute are equipped with the necessary instruments and machinery that secure creation of the newest technologies that have no analogy in the world. As a rule all finished developments, made by our scientists-specialists of the Institute, are protected by the authorship certificates for inventions, have novelty elements and are patented both in Ukraine and outside the country.
Our Institute is ready to cooperate and to render services to all enterprises and organizations with any form of property: both on the stage of creation of the enterprise and in the process of reconstruction and mastering new technologies. Our Institute is ready to carry out all works, starting from the scientific research and finishing with their introduction into production together with designing the factories and training the personnel.