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" For Supersprox, we could see that it was becoming very difficult to run our business in Ukraine, and we already made a decision to remove some of the production in the fall of 2024. Following that decision, the situation degraded still further and at the end of 2025 we decided that, for a company of our size with our complexities, it would be necessary to exit Ukraine completely. " During the past 10 months, we have been working towards that, by building up our Poland production. We
Ukraine and all the machines and processes were in place. We weren ' t inclined to turn everything upside down and say, ' How could we do this better if we changed everything?' But when you find yourself forced to change, then there aren ' t any barriers and we were able embrace the inescapable fact that we had to restart so challenged ourselves to find ways of going it better. " If I think about the production in terms of tonnage of machinery, I suppose we have left 250 tonnes of equipment in Ukraine, with much of
have been very lucky in that we have managed to employ some of our key staff from the Ukraine company in at our Polish factory. That has been a critical element in our decision. " I believe that without this option, we would not have been able to manage the move, and our future would look very different. Supersprox will have moved 90 % of the production, by the time you are reading this article. We are in the process of mothballing the
' increasingly difficult to run our business in Ukraine '
factory in Zhytomyr and we now have less than 10 staff there who are helping us finish up activity. " We plan to sell or scrap machine assets that we won ' t be able to move from Ukraine. Sometimes it ' s a little bit sad to sell perfectly good machines for scrap. However, some of the equipment is too big to move and, unfortunately, it doesn ' t make any sense to do so. " Instead, we have been focused on ways in which we could optimise production efficiencies and that is one of the hidden positives in such tragic situation. " We had a factory established in
' every day multiple targets are attacked '
the most complex and heavy machinery simply impractical to move. " Fortunately for the company, we have found alternative processes that are faster and consume a lot less energy than those we were using, and many of the newest processes are already better suited to automation- this is what we are focused on for Supersprox Poland factory. In Poland, we employ one-third of the number of people that worked in our Ukraine facility – as of October 2026 that is some 35 people. The saving has come mainly through the types of machines that are available these days for our relatively simple production, and the introduction of more of our own automation – for example we bought ten robots for Poland. Those Ukrainian technologists who moved with us are installing them as you read this. We would expect to have all of them operational by mid-2027. We have already seen the consumption of energy inside the Poland factory drop by almost 50 % lower compared to in Ukraine and there will be more economies and efficiencies to be explored in the coming months and years. " I would conclude by saying this. Our industry is small, and it is not an easy one. That is an advantage when situations become difficult as we are readier to adapt, readier to embrace change, and small enough to move quickly. " There is an old saying that " things are never as bad as they seem " and I have found this to be mostly true. This past 24-months has been a time to hear the negative news, recognise it as a message to pay attention and to be prepared to adapt- keeping in mind, that, in the end, it will probably not be as bad as we thought.
" So long, and thanks for all the fish."
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