The first mentions about «Odessa cannery» appeared in the press in 1919 after the process of nationalization of the private food factory and reequipping of military barracks in Alley Vodoprovodnii had been completed. At all times of its existence the factory has played an important role in national and international industry. For example, halva was distributed all across the territory of the former Soviet Union particularly from Odessa cannery. What’s more, such products as canned goods and tomato paste were exported to the USA and Germany as early as 1936!
The cannery has one of the strongest technological bases in Ukraine. Our enterprise has come to the complete production cycle on many types of products - from cultivating vegetables on fields and transportation to producing of packages and containers and manufacturing. The main and most important resource of our success is a sufficient cadre of qualified personnel that first being young specialists develops experience at the factory after graduation from universities and then shares knowledge with next generations.
Nowadays the quality of our production has been confirmed with certificates of the UkrSEPROSystem for its products. Our conservation of fisheries has been certified by the Hazard Analysis of Critical Control Points (HACCP) and products are produced based on standards of GOST, DSTU and TU.
The cannery has a few product lines.
The fist one is the production of halva (in assortment packages from 30g to 5kg), different canned vegetables, tomato paste, squash and eggplant caviar, various kinds of beans, production of packages and containers.
The second product line is the production of Corn and Green peas in tin cans of our own manufacture and also euro-cans CSR and Twist-off. Furthermore, Corn and Green peas are frozen at the factory at temperature -40°С for the further implementation. It should be noted that in our production only Corn of ‘super sweet sorts’ and farm-fresh Green peas have been used.
Another product line is juice industry that includes processing of fruits and tomatoes for the further use in the production of scalded juice and nectars. It let us save all the vitamins and microelements. This line also produces sauces, ketchups, tomato paste in heat-reisistant Doi-Pack bags.
Special importance attaches to our Fish processing complex. It’s a comparatively new department of the factory that is being developed actively. We produce more than 20 kind of fish cans including Naturally Smoked Sprats and Sprats Paste. In 2012 our Fish processing complex became one of the three best Fish processing complexes of Ukraine.
Each department has its own separated certified laboratory that keeps monitoring raw materials before processing and storing and pay attention to the quality of completed manufactures. So be assured – we are responsible for the quality of the products that we produce!
Every housewife in any part of Ukraine and abroad should have no fear that our products are natural and don’t contain any chemicals. It affects flavours directly and a close proximity to raw materials reduces the supply chain exponentially. From the fields to your dinner table our production goes through several phases of preparing washing, chopping and thermal treatment. Modern equipment and well-established processes help to save all useful vitamins, minerals and microelements that our fertile ground graces vegetables with. So our production can be recommended for people who care about their health and children.
The production of the factory is presented by 3 trademarks: ТМ «ГОСПОДАРОЧКА», ТМ «Союз-Агро» и ТМ «Союз морей».