Rauta Group has announced that sandwich panels with Cor-Ten steel cladding can combine striking architectural aesthetics with improved energy efficiency in buildings.
As noted in the company’s press release dated March 1, 2026, in 2021, Finland’s Ruukki introduced Patina sandwich panels with mineral wool filling, where the outer cladding is made of Cor-Ten and the inner cladding is made of polymer-coated steel. It also points to the patented shape of the locks, which is designed to prevent internal corrosion at the joints.
Rauta Group emphasizes that Cor-Ten forms a protective patina and does not require painting, and the service life of Patina sandwich panels is estimated at more than 50 years.
In its examples of use, the company also claims that it is possible to save up to 30% on heating and air conditioning costs thanks to the airtightness of the panels and the increase in the energy class of the building, as well as compliance with environmental criteria, which can be taken into account during LEED and BREEAM certification.
Rauta is a leader in the Ukrainian steel construction market and a member of the European Construction Industry Association. The company provides design, manufacturing, and installation solutions in accordance with current EU standards. The company is licensed to perform construction work with medium and significant consequences (CC2, CC3). According to the Unified State Register, Andriy Ozeychuk owns 100% of the company’s authorized capital.
PJSC “Production Association ”Konty” (Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region), one of the leaders in the Ukrainian confectionery market, ended 2025 with a net loss of UAH 263.93 million, which is 2.67 times more than in 2024.
According to the company’s report in the information disclosure system of the National Securities and Stock Market Commission (NSSMC), the issue of approving the results of operations and the procedure for covering losses has been put on the agenda of the remote general meeting of shareholders scheduled for April 27. Shareholders are being offered to cover the losses for 2025 at the expense of future years’ profits.
In addition to the financial results, shareholders plan to consider a special report by the executive body on the reasons for the decrease in the company’s equity capital and approve a plan of measures to stabilize the financial condition of the enterprise.
The meeting also provides for the re-election of the supervisory board. In particular, it is planned to terminate the powers of the current members of the supervisory board, A. Dyumin, S. Kolomiets, and S. Lisenkov, with the subsequent election of a new composition by cumulative voting. The draft decision states that the members of the supervisory board will work on a pro bono basis.
According to data from the Opendatabot service, the company’s revenue in 2025 (forecast) will amount to UAH 200.01 million, which is 26.8% less than in 2024 (UAH 273.26 million). The net loss for 2024 amounted to UAH 98.58 million, which is 6.8 times less than the negative indicator for 2023 (UAH 672.16 million). The company’s debt obligations in 2024 decreased slightly to UAH 1.604 billion, compared to UAH 1.613 billion a year earlier. At the same time, the company’s assets for the reporting period decreased by 25.9% to UAH 337.68 million compared to UAH 455.86 million in 2023. Updated data is currently unavailable in the system. The company’s authorized capital is UAH 54.052 million.
PJSC “Production Association ”Konty” was founded on October 22, 1997, in Kostyantynivka, Donetsk region. It specializes in the production of cocoa, chocolate, and sugar confectionery, as well as flour confectionery and long-term storage cakes. The product range includes about 200 items, among which the key brands are Super Kontik, Bonjour KONTI, Timi, Amour, BiSKonti, and Jack.
The ultimate beneficiaries of the company are Boris and Svetlana Kolesnikov (each owning 24.99% of the shares). Other shareholders with large stakes include: Serhiy Kiy (9.99%), Vyacheslav Lyashko (9.99%), Yucher LLC (9.99%), Raisa Taktasheva (7.49%), and Tetiana Akhmetova-Aidarova (6.99%).
The state-owned enterprise “Forests of Ukraine” plans to allocate UAH 400 million to upgrade its material and technical base and firefighting infrastructure in preparation for the fire-hazardous period of 2026, the company announced on Facebook.
“This year, we are tripling our investments compared to last year. We plan to purchase 16 large Ukrainian-made fire trucks, nearly 2,000 fire hoses, about 700 backpack sprayers, and dozens of forest firefighting units. The priority is to support frontline forestries operating in conditions of the greatest military risk,” the statement said.
This year, the state-owned enterprise also plans to equip 29 new observation towers with television systems and completely renovate 18 existing ones.
In addition, plans for 2026 include the creation of 31,000 km of new mineralized strips and the maintenance of 140,000 km of existing ones. To carry out this work, the company will purchase 42 special forest plows.
At the same time, Lesy Ukrainy will retrain its personnel: more than 2,000 employees will undergo training in the Forest Firefighting Manager and Forest Firefighter programs, and in the spring, joint training with the State Emergency Service will take place in the Poltava, Cherkasy, and Lviv regions.
A separate area of work will be the expansion of the network of recreational areas for safe recreation. State Enterprise “Forests of Ukraine” plans to build 50 such facilities in areas with a high risk of fire and significant tourist traffic. The largest number of sites is planned to be created in the Sumy, Chernihiv, and Carpathian regions, as well as in the Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Odesa, and Mykolaiv regions.
Last year, the company managed to reduce the area of forest fires by half compared to 2024. State Enterprise “Forests of Ukraine” is one of the largest forest users in Europe, managing a state forest fund covering an area of 6.6 million hectares.
More than 11% of Ukrainians never visit a doctor, while almost 10% do so more than 10 times a year.
According to the results of a survey conducted by the research company Active Group and the Experts Club analytical center in early February, 41.3% visit doctors 1-2 times a year, 27.2% – 3-5 times, and 10.4% – 6-10 times.
“The group of people who do not visit doctors at all requires a separate study of the reasons, which may include financial barriers, mistrust, and psychological burnout,” said Alexander Pozniy, director and co-founder of the research company Active Group.
He drew attention to the fact that most respondents visit a doctor once or twice a year, but noted that there may be different reasons for this.
“We need to ask the question, why is this so: because our people are so healthy, or because people cannot go to the doctor or do not trust doctors. But this is a question for the medical professionals themselves,” he said.
Pozniy also noted that according to the survey results, “family doctors are accessible to the majority of the population, especially in cities,” while access to specialists, especially for rural populations and populations in small or remote communities, raises questions “primarily due to the lack of the necessary number of specialists.”
For his part, Grigory Soloninka, a member of the board of the public organization “Kyiv Regional Organization of the All-Ukrainian Medical Society” (VUO), professor of the Department of Internal and Occupational Diseases at the Kyiv Medical University, noted that “we need to return to the issue of rural medicine and, perhaps, make certain changes so that the rural population does not receive fewer services than the urban population.”
“If we take a remote village, then, perhaps, there is a problem with getting to a narrow specialist and receiving specialized medical care,” he said.
For his part, Experts Club founder Maxim Urakin noted that “medicine is part of the country’s economic stability, and when medical expenses erode family budgets, it affects consumption, savings, and people’s ability to work and recover.”
“In Ukraine, almost a quarter of the population spends up to 20% of their family budget on medicine, and one in five spends more than 20%. If we translate this into the language of economic financial analysis, then from the point of view of international methodology, the fact that a person spends more than 10% of their budget is catastrophic. In other words, we see a sign of a serious financial burden,” he said.
The study was conducted on the SunFlowerSociology online panel on a representative sample on February 11-12, 2026. The survey involved 1,000 respondents from a representative sample in all regions of Ukraine, except for the temporarily occupied territories.
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According to a survey conducted by research company Active Group and the Experts Club analytical center in early February, 28.4% of Ukrainians prefer Ukrainian medicines.
According to Alexander Pozniy, CEO and co-founder of Active Group, 33.4% of respondents more often choose imported medicines, while for 38.2% of respondents, the country of origin of the drug is irrelevant.
“For manufacturers, this means that competition is based on reputation, proven effectiveness, and stability of supply, and Ukrainian brands can strengthen their position through quality and clear communication,” said Alexander Pozniy, CEO and co-founder of Active Group.
According to Experts Club founder Maxim Urakin, “the fact that almost a third of consumers choose domestic drugs shows the importance of accessibility and trust in quality in the domestic market.”
The study was conducted on the SunFlowerSociology online panel on a representative sample on February 11-12, 2026. The survey involved 1,000 respondents from a representative sample in all regions of Ukraine, except for the temporarily occupied territories.
ACTIVE GROUP, EXPERTS CLUB, Pozniy, SOCIOLOGY, SOLONINKA, SURVEY, URAKIN
According to the results of a survey conducted by the research company Active Group and the Experts Club analytical center in early February and presented at the Interfax-Ukraine press center, 31.4% of respondents called electronic prescriptions “very convenient,” 44.1% called them “rather convenient,” 18.7% called them “rather inconvenient,” and 5.9% called them “very inconvenient.”
“Digital tools gain support when they save time and really simplify access to medicines,” said Experts Club founder Maxim Urakin.
“Negative attitudes among some users are usually associated with practical failures and varying levels of digital literacy, and this needs to be taken into account when fine-tuning the service,” said Alexander Pozniy, CEO and co-founder of Active Group.
The study was conducted on the SunFlowerSociology online panel using a representative sample on February 11-12, 2026. The survey involved 1,000 respondents from a representative sample in all regions of Ukraine, except for the temporarily occupied territories.
ACTIVE GROUP, EXPERTS CLUB, Poznyi, SOCIOLOGY, SOLONINKA, SURVEY, URAKIN, Єременко
