The year 2026 may become more active in terms of elevator construction in Ukraine, with investment volumes potentially returning to 2021 levels, said Bohdan Poperechnyi, Director of ActiveProekt, ProAgro Group reports.
These expectations are based on the company’s strong order activity at the end of 2025 and feedback from clients. At the same time, Poperechnyi stressed that the outlook could be affected by force majeure factors such as late harvests, shelling of railway infrastructure in Sumy region, attacks on ports in Odesa region, declining grain prices, and a cold winter.
Overall, in 2025 ActiveProekt signed more than 60 contracts, about 80% of which were related to elevators. The projects included 640,000 tonnes of silo storage capacity, although only 163,000 tonnes were actually commissioned. A similar situation was observed with grain dryers: 14 out of 26 designed units were built. The company also designed modernization and expansion projects for 36 elevators, while 11 facilities were built from scratch.
Poperechnyi added that farmers cultivating 2,000 hectares or more have become increasingly active in the elevator construction market.
This trend was confirmed by Serhii Mylko, Commercial Director of Finvin Financial Company, who noted that financing demand is most often driven not by port elevators or large transshipment hubs, but by farm-level and regional facilities.
“These are usually small and medium-sized elevators with capacities of 10,000–50,000 tonnes, often designed with the option for further expansion,” Mylko said.
He added that Ukraine’s elevator sector is becoming increasingly decentralized. “Most new projects in recent years are decentralized, field-adjacent elevators rather than large export hubs. The share of farm and regional elevators in new construction consistently exceeds 50% of all projects, and this trend is expected to continue into 2026,” Mylko concluded.
As previously reported, Ukraine’s elevator storage capacity increased by 500,000 tonnes in 2025, reaching 52.67 million tonnes of simultaneous grain storage.
Source: Elevatorist.com
