The Ukrainian agricultural machinery manufacturer General Machines is preparing for the official opening of its second plant, located in Cherkasy. The company decided to launch the new facility against the backdrop of near-full capacity at its first production site in Zaporizhzhia. In recent years, the company has consistently modernized its production, updated technological processes, and strengthened its quality control system, including under the conditions of full-scale war.
The new plant will specialize in the production of deep cultivators, cultivators, and heavy disc harrows. The new site is planned to produce large-scale machinery with working widths of up to 20 meters, designed for farms operating high-horsepower tractors. According to the company’s CEO, Vitalii Dovhyi, over the past two years the R&D team has been developing a new line of machines in this class, and serial production required larger production spaces and appropriate crane capacity.
Investments in the Cherkasy plant exceed 100 million UAH, with the majority of funds allocated to modern equipment and production infrastructure. The company chose a long-term lease model for the premises, allowing it to focus resources on technology, process modernization, and expansion of production capabilities. Once it reaches planned output levels, the plant will be able to produce goods worth approximately 400 million UAH annually.
Currently, about 20% of General Machines’ equipment is already exported to European countries. At the same time, further growth in exports has been limited by a lack of available production capacity. The launch of the second plant is expected to increase total production volumes, expand the presence of Ukrainian machinery in the large-scale equipment segment, and strengthen competition with imported manufacturers.
An additional support factor for Ukrainian machinery manufacturing remains the state “Made in Ukraine” policy. The program, which partially compensates 15% of the cost of Ukrainian industrial machinery and equipment excluding VAT, has been in effect since September 2024 and applies to products with a localization level of at least 40%. According to preliminary government estimates, the combined effect of programs under this policy contributed 0.95 percentage points to GDP growth in 2025.
