The Kyiv cardboard and paper combine, one of Ukraine's biggest sector producers, turned out 17.7% more cardboard last year - 155,000 tonnes worth - while cardboard sales remained virtually unchanged year-to-year. Company sources tell Interfax that the combine turned out 56,6110 tonnes of paper, 7.8% more than in 2001. Overall product output last year was worth 360.71 million hryvna, a 11.5% increase (the January 16 exchange rate was 5.3329 hryvna/$1). The Kyiv plant produces coated and uncoated cardboard, chromo-ersatz and bending board, board for the flat layers of corrugated board, corrugating paper, corrugated board, tissue and toilet paper, paper napkins and towels, and also laying in cardboard boxes with multi-color printing. The controlling stock interest in the enterprise is held by a joint consortium that includes Avgust (Ukraine), Russia's Arkhangelsk Pulp and Paper Combine and Nordiks Group, Wilfried Heinzel AZ (Austria), Germany's Conrad Jacobson GmbH and Jacob Jurgensen. The association Ukrpapirprom holds 30% of the combine's stock.