PJSC Novokramatorsk Machine-Building Plant (NKMZ, Kramatorsk, Donetsk region) will pay dividends to shareholders totaling UAH 223.314 million in the period from May 29 to November 1 this year at the rate of UAH 1 thousand per share (par value UAH 400).
According to a publication in the NSSMC’s information disclosure system, the decision to pay dividends was made by the company’s general shareholders’ meeting on April 28, and the supervisory board on May 5.
According to the NSSMC, as of the fourth quarter of 2024, the company’s president, Georgiy Skudar, owns more than 8.97% of NKMZ shares, while Galina Savenko and Elena Yakovleva, respectively, own almost 33.586% and 33.63% (according to media reports, Skudar’s daughters – IF-U). Since December 2023, the Supervisory Board of NKMZ has been chaired by the company’s Vice President Dmytro Skudar.
As reported, the shareholders allocated the entire net profit of UAH 36.33 million received in 2024, as well as part of the previously unused profit in the amount of UAH 186.98 million, to pay dividends.
According to the company, retained earnings as of the beginning of this year exceeded UAH 2.34 billion.
According to the company, NKMZ’s net income in 2024 increased by 3.2 times year-on-year to UAH 1 billion 146 million, including exports to Europe and Asia worth UAH 941.3 million (82%).
In 2024, Slovakia, Lithuania, Egypt and Luxembourg were added to the list of NKMZ’s largest importing countries along with Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan (where exports decreased 12.3 times over the year) and India (where exports increased 31 times). Deliveries in Ukraine increased 5.2 times to UAH 204.6 million.
In 2023, the plant suffered a loss of UAH 856.93 million.
As reported, NKMZ, whose facilities were forced to be mothballed with the start of Russia’s full-scale military invasion of Ukraine, began to partially resume operations on October 1, 2023.
Last year, the workers were forced to stand idle from January 29 to March 1 “due to irregular production and economic activities, lack of centralized heating of production units and saving of fuel and energy resources.”
NKMZ is a city-forming enterprise in Kramatorsk and the largest in Ukraine for the production of rolling, metallurgical, forging and pressing, hydraulic, mining, lifting and transport, hydraulic and railway equipment.
As of the beginning of 2023, the average number of its employees exceeded 7.2 thousand, and as of the beginning of 2025, it was 5.660 thousand.
