As a result of an enemy attack, the Kusum pharmaceutical plant in Sumy was destroyed, and one employee was killed.
“This morning, the production facility of the Kusum pharmaceutical company in Sumy was destroyed as a result of an enemy attack. Unfortunately, the attack claimed the life of company employee Yevgeny Vladimirovich Miroshnichenko, who had worked in the plant’s engineering department since 2009. ‘Kusum’ extends its sincere condolences to his family and loved ones,” the company stated on its website.
The company reports that ‘Kusum’ continues to operate.
” In addition to its production facilities in Ukraine, the company has manufacturing sites in India—in Indore and Bhiwadi. “This will allow us, in the absence of artificial regulatory barriers, to restructure our processes and work to ensure uninterrupted supplies of medicines to Ukraine,” the pharmaceutical company stated.
Over the past 25 years, China has increased its share of global automobile production approximately ninefold—from 4% in 2000 to 36% in 2025—transforming itself from a relatively small manufacturer into the world’s largest automotive hub. This was reported by the Experts Club information and analytical center, citing a study by the consulting firm Strategy Partners.
According to analysts’ estimates, around 2 million vehicles were produced in China in 2000, while by 2025 production exceeded 34 million vehicles per year. Thus, over a quarter of a century, the volume of Chinese automobile production increased approximately 17-fold.
China’s position strengthened particularly rapidly after 2010. The country not only formed the world’s largest domestic automobile market, but also created a large-scale manufacturing base covering virtually the entire value chain — from components and batteries to vehicle manufacturing and software.
One of the main factors behind the further growth of China’s automotive industry was the transition to electric vehicles and hybrid models. Chinese manufacturers gained strong positions in the new energy vehicle segment — NEV, which includes fully electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids.
At the same time, Chinese companies are actively increasing their presence abroad. China has become the world’s largest automobile exporter, while local manufacturers are expanding sales and creating their own production capacities in Europe, Asia, Latin America and other regions.
As a result, the structure of the global automobile market has also changed. While in the early 2000s it was shaped primarily by manufacturers from the United States, Japan and Western Europe, by the mid-2020s China had become the industry’s largest individual manufacturing hub.
The growth of China’s automotive industry is accompanied by the strengthening of its own national brands. BYD, Geely, Chery, SAIC, Great Wall Motor and other manufacturers are increasingly competing with European, American, Japanese and South Korean automotive groups not only in China’s domestic market but also in export markets.
China’s own battery manufacturing base has become a significant competitive advantage. Chinese companies hold leading positions in the global production of traction batteries, while the country controls a significant share of global production chains related to raw material processing and the manufacture of components for electric vehicles.
According to Strategy Partners, the transformation of China’s automotive industry demonstrates the country’s transition from a model of catching-up industrial development to technological leadership in certain segments of the industry.
If current trends continue, competition between Chinese and traditional global automakers will increasingly shift into the areas of electric vehicles, battery technologies, software, autonomous driving and production costs.
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According to the Serbian business publication Parametar, construction of the first phase of a new plant to manufacture electric motors for drones is nearing completion in the village of Kotraža near Lučani. The equipment has already been delivered, some employees have been hired and are undergoing training, and production is expected to begin in early October.
In the first phase, the plant is expected to employ about 50 people; after the completion of all three phases, the workforce will grow to 60–70 employees. Earlier reports mentioned the possibility of expanding the workforce to 150 employees. The plant’s projected production capacity is up to 40,000 motors per month.
Businessman Milenko Kostić stated that the idea to establish the production facility came from Želko Mitrović. For the small town of Dragacheva, the project is significant not only from a technological standpoint: the plant is effectively being created as a new industrial employment hub in a rural area.
Finnish industrial company REKA Group is beginning the implementation of the REKA NOVO investment project in Novoselytsia, Chernivtsi region, with a total investment volume of €5 million, the Chernivtsi Regional Military Administration reported.
The new enterprise will specialize in the production of silicone hoses for European manufacturers of trucks, special-purpose vehicles, and companies in the shipbuilding industry.
Thus, this is an export-oriented production facility being created by a foreign investor directly in Ukraine and integrated into European industrial chains.
REKA Group representatives Markku Rentto and Mika Kärkkäinen announced the start of the project during a meeting with the leadership of the Chernivtsi region and the Novoselytsia community.
According to the published data, the project has been named REKA NOVO. The total volume of capital investment will amount to €5 million. The first stage of the enterprise is expected to be launched in early 2027.
The products of the new plant will be oriented primarily toward the European market. This makes it possible to view the project not only as a direct foreign investment in Ukrainian industry, but also as a further integration of Ukrainian production sites into the supply chains of European mechanical engineering.
According to specialized investment resources, international manufacturers of heavy machinery, including Volvo and John Deere, are named among the potential consumers of the products. However, the official statement of the Chernivtsi Regional Military Administration does not identify specific customers, so the conclusion of direct contracts with these companies has not yet been publicly confirmed.
For the Chernivtsi region, the project is of particular interest against the background of the comparatively small accumulated volume of foreign direct investment. According to the Regional Military Administration, more than 400 enterprises with foreign capital operate in the region, while the total volume of attracted foreign direct investment amounts to about $19 million.
Against this background, REKA Group’s €5 million investment is a notable new industrial project for the region.
The location of the production facility in Novoselytsia also gives the investor a logistical advantage: the city is located not far from the border with Romania, which facilitates the integration of the enterprise into European production and transport chains.
The project is also indicative of a broader trend toward relocating individual production operations closer to the EU market. Ukraine’s western regions, thanks to their geographical proximity to the European Union, relatively developed industrial base, and access to the Ukrainian workforce, are gradually becoming one of the main locations for new export-oriented production facilities.
Official source: Chernivtsi Regional Military Administration — REKA NOVO investment project.
The Turkish company ASTOR Enerji A.Ş., which specializes in electrical equipment manufacturing, plans to implement a project worth up to $200 million in the Kyiv region, which will involve the production of energy storage systems and transformers, according to the Kyiv Regional Development Agency.
“The company is considering investing up to $200 million in the creation of a modern manufacturing complex in the Kyiv region. The project involves the production of energy storage systems, battery solutions, electrical equipment, and transformers,” the agency stated in a post on LinkedIn on Tuesday.
It notes that a corresponding memorandum with ASTOR Enerji A.Ş. was signed by the Kyiv Regional Military Administration with the agency’s support during the Carpathian Eight Summit.
The agency notes that for the Kyiv region, the implementation of such a project will mean the creation of new production capacity and jobs, further industrial development, the introduction of advanced technologies, and enhanced energy resilience.
It explained that it will continue to support the project through the next stages: from selecting potential investment sites and engaging with local communities to coordinating further steps with the investor.
A fully operational set of nut processing equipment is offered for sale—from initial cracking and cleaning to calibration, sorting, and drying of the kernels. The facility is equipped with everything necessary to organize a complete production cycle and may be of interest to both existing processors looking to expand their capacity and entrepreneurs considering launching a turnkey nut processing business.
The cost of the complete equipment set is $27,000.
The core of the production line is a system with a capacity of 60–80 kg per hour, costing $15,000. It includes an impact machine for cracking nuts, a small aspiration unit that removes up to 15% of impurities, a vertical conveyor, a cracking machine with millstones, a large aspiration system for primary cleaning that removes up to 80% of debris and shells, as well as two conveyor sorting tables.
The owner has extended the large conveyor table to facilitate manual sorting of the product. On the small table, nut fragments are separated from the remaining shells.
To increase productivity, the line has been supplemented with a vibrating hopper for uniform feed of raw materials, costing $1,000.
Another unit, costing $1,500, includes a vibrating hopper to separate shells from uncracked nuts and an additional large-capacity dust extraction system. Afterward, the uncracked nuts can be fed to a separate machine for re-cracking, costing $1,000.
For product sorting, the set includes a calibrator with 5 mm, 13 mm, and 19 mm openings—$1,000.
The set also includes a kernel drying unit with a capacity of up to 200 kg per load. The set includes the drying unit itself and a heat gun. The cost of the equipment is $500.
A separate advantage of the complex is a refrigeration unit costing $4,000, which has seen virtually no use and allows for the proper storage of finished kernels and the maintenance of product quality.
For waste processing, there is a machine worth $500 that grinds eggshells into a fine powder. This not only reduces the volume of production waste but also allows the eggshells to be treated as a separate product for further use or sale.
Along with the main equipment, the buyer receives a substantial set of production inventory with a total estimated value of approximately $1,500. This includes two scales, a hydraulic pallet jack, about 150 plastic crates, 40–50 pallets,two containers or devices for transferring products, bags and consumables, ties, lubricants, fasteners, cables, a spare engine for the drying cannon, a capacitor for the calibrator, tools, and other small items necessary for operation.
Additionally, the complex may include a nut dryer for nuts in the shell, valued at $1,000. It is currently located at the supplier’s orchard. This equipment also offers an additional commercial advantage: the supplier uses the dryer and, in return, sells the owner of the complex a harvest of premium-grade nuts. Thus, along with the equipment, it is potentially possible to retain the already established relationships with the raw material supplier.
If necessary, the price can be reduced to $25,500 by excluding the in-shell nut dryer and the shell crusher from the deal. The remaining equipment forms a single production line and is essential for full-scale, streamlined processing.
In fact, the buyer receives not a set of individual machines, but a ready-to-use production line: raw material feed → cracking → aspiration cleaning → re-cracking → sorting → grading → drying → storage of finished kernels.
The complex is suitable for processing your own harvest, purchasing nuts from farms and orchardists, producing kernels for wholesale and retail sales, as well as for the further development of shell processing operations.
The price of the complete complex is $27,000.
Optimized configuration: $25,500.
Main production line capacity: 60–80 kg/hour.
Kernel dryer loading capacity: up to 200 kg.
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