By 2022, the company was steadily supplying the market with quality products, supporting hundreds of jobs and paying millions of hryvnias in taxes. Thanks to the modernization of production in 2021, the company achieved record production volumes and made a significant contribution to the implementation of the state programs "Great Construction" and "Great Restoration". At the beginning of the full-scale war: - 239 Ukrainians worked, now 43 - Annual output was 500-800 thousand tons of crushed stone, there is no production in 2024… What happened? Due to personal sanctions against the founder of the Group, the license was suspended, but by the decision of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy renewed the permit in the summer of 2024 and allowed to work The Zaporizhzhia Regional State Administration must issue a permit for the explosion, but numerous applications from the summer of 2024 have been ignored. The enterprise does not operate without such a permit. Explosions are part of the production process for converting rock into crushed stone Why are local authorities doing this to an enterprise that creates jobs in the frontline zone and at the beginning of the war provided the Armed Forces of Ukraine with products for defense facilities - read in an interview with Natalia Ivanyuk, director of “Smart Granit” Natalia Ivanyuk: We are grateful to the President, but why are they not allowing us to work again? ‣ NADRA.info https://nadra.info/2025/03/natalia-ivanyuk-we-are-grateful-to-the-president-but-why-are-government-officials-not-letting-us-work-again/