The development of industrial parks in Ukraine in 2026 will include several key areas that have begun to take shape over the past three years, in particular, steady growth in the number of both registered and operating industrial parks (up to 30 registered per year, 15-20 operating), according to Valery Kirilko, CEO of the Industrial Parks of Ukraine group of companies.
As noted in the final report on the development of industrial parks provided by Kirilko, they will develop in the direction of greater specialization, innovation, and environmental friendliness.
“State support, attracting foreign investors, and developing infrastructure will make it possible to create powerful industrial clusters that will become the driving force behind the country’s economic recovery and growth,” the report says.
The report notes that at the end of 2025, there were 118 industrial parks registered in the register of industrial parks in Ukraine (in January 2026, seven parks were excluded, so now there are 111).
At the same time, during the period of wartime from 2022 to 2025, 80 IPs were registered, which is almost 70% of the total number. Last year, 27 parks were registered and eight were excluded from the register.
As reported, by the end of 2025, 37 industrial enterprises had been built or were under construction in IPs, of which 22 plants had been built and another 15 were under construction. These are enterprises in the fields of agro-processing, food production, furniture and woodworking, and mechanical engineering.
According to data provided by Kirilko, Kyiv region became the leader in terms of the number of registrations – four IPs, Zhytomyr, Odesa, and Khmelnytskyi regions have three each, and Vinnytsia, Zakarpattia, and Lviv regions have two each. Eight more regions registered one industrial park each.
“We would like to note the appearance of the first industrial park registered in the Kirovohrad region,” the article notes.
Overall, the leader in terms of the number of registered IPs is the Lviv region, which currently has 20 parks registered, followed by the Kyiv region with 15, and the Zakarpattia region with 12.
“The largest increase during the war was also demonstrated by the Lviv region with 12 parks, the Zakarpattia region with 11, and the Kyiv region with eight parks. There are still no industrial parks in three regions: Kharkiv, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia,” the report says.
Among the initiators in 2025, there were more private initiators (19) than municipal ones (8).
“Among municipal parks, it is worth noting the emergence of a new type of synergy in the creation of parks, the so-called combined industrial parks. These are municipal IPs that are created by a municipal initiator for a specific investor, who then enters as a management company and begins to develop it as an attracted developer or production “anchor” operator. Of the eight municipal parks, at least three were created on this principle,” the material notes.
The largest number of specialized industrial parks are associated with the industrial agricultural sector and food production, followed by the production of building materials, and separately among them, the production of metal structures.
“Next comes warehouse real estate, although this is not a sign of IP, but many parks have recently been registered as transshipment and storage bases with an additional industrial block. And then there are mixed parks that do not have any specialization,” the report notes.
A separate type of participant has also emerged that meets the requirements of the times: energy companies operating solar power plants, gas piston power plants, plants that convert waste into electricity and biogas, energy storage operators, and other combinations of such participants.
“In this regard, questions and problems arise when it is planned to place such electricity operators on industrial land. But gradually, practical cases are adapting the conditions for the implementation of such projects within industrial parks,” experts note.
The article reminds us that the total amount of state incentives for industrial parks in 2025 was UAH 900.681 million, and more than UAH 4 billion was financed by private business – 98% of these investments were of Ukrainian origin.
“Unfortunately, the opportunities for attracting international grants or technical assistance programs for the development of IP infrastructure are currently limited. The main reason is that international organizations and donors are focused on supporting specific enterprises or residents that already operate or plan to operate in the parks, rather than financing infrastructure projects such as communications, road construction, or railway branches,” the article states.
In addition, infrastructure investments are risky for MFIs because they have no guarantee of return.
“The only known case is the Riasne-2/M-10 Lviv Industrial Park in Lviv, which is managed by Dragon Capital. They received a loan from the EBRD for more than $24.5 million, insured against military risks by MIGA. However, these funds were used not only for infrastructure, but also for the construction of facilities for residents,” the article says.
Experts also note that today there are three main types of industrial park initiators: industrial (a private initiator creates an industrial park for its own production projects); municipal (community in the form of a local council, municipality); developer (private owner or tenant of a land plot or industrial zone).
At the same time, they note a sharp increase in private parks in relation to municipal ones—if until 2022, municipal parks accounted for about 80% of the total number, then over the past three years, the share of registered municipal parks has been 35%, and private ones, respectively, 65%.
Among the trends in the development of IPs this year, experts also mention an increasing shift from quantity to quality, increased government support and incentives, active attraction of foreign investors, and environmental friendliness.
In addition, they believe that IPs are increasingly focused on creating technology clusters, and industrial clusters, where residents complement each other, will become more widespread.
An increase in the number of network management companies specializing in IP development is also expected, and foreign management companies, especially from Europe and Asia, will begin to enter the Ukrainian market more actively.
Another important step will be the creation of the All-Ukrainian Association of Industrial Parks, and development companies will become increasingly interested in industrial parks.
