Carlsberg Group has invested EUR 12 million (USD 14 million) in a new high-speed canning line at its Lviv brewery, strengthening local beer production despite the continuing war. The line can fill 40,000 cans per hour, or about 11 cans per second, and will raise the brewery’s productivity by 38%.
The new installation covers 1,000 square meters, consists of eight machines and gives the Lviv site three production formats: keg, PET and cans. Andriy Sadovyi, mayor of Lviv, put the investment at UAH 610 million (USD 15.25 million) and said the line could add 30% to output, with maximum hourly capacity equal to 20,000 liters.
For Carlsberg, the move is more than a technical upgrade. Jacob Aarup-Andersen, CEO of Carlsberg Group, said Ukraine had been strategically important long before the war and that continued investment was intended not only to preserve operations but also to support economic resilience.
Since the start of the war, Carlsberg Group says it has invested UAH 4.5 billion (USD 102 million) in Ukraine and plans further annual investments of UAH 1 billion to UAH 1.5 billion (USD 23 million to USD 34 million) over the next three years.
Carlsberg Ukraine operates breweries in Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv and Lviv and is described by the group as the largest Danish business in Ukraine. The company employs more than 1,400 full-time staff and says it supports over 20,000 additional jobs in agriculture, trade, logistics and hospitality.
The Lviv brewery, described as Ukraine’s first industrial brewery, produces brands including Lvivske, Robert Doms, Carlsberg, Tuborg, Kronenbourg 1664, Arsenal, Kvas Taras, Somersby, Guinness, Seth&Riley’s Garage, Warsteiner and Grimbergen.
