Grand Inflatable Boats, a builder of premium leisure, yacht tender and commercial RIBs in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, recently took action to preserve production in the face of Russia’s 2022 invasion. Their answer was to continue to operate – and even expand – the Kharkiv facility, but also to create a complete duplicate of the facility much further west.

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