A survey conducted by the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) has found that nearly half of Russian companies continue to experience a shortage of domestically produced machinery and equipment used in production, with levels of unmet demand remaining largely unchanged from a year earlier.
The organization surveyed 90 Russian legal entities, of which 61.1% are engaged in manufacturing. Among the respondents, 42.7% were large enterprises with annual revenue exceeding 15 billion rubles, while 28.1% reported annual revenue between 2 billion and 15 billion rubles, and 29.2% represented small and medium-sized businesses.
According to the results, 44.7% of companies indicated a high need for import substitution of machinery and equipment, while 7.1% described the need as critical. The category “machines and equipment” remained the leading segment in terms of deficit of domestic analogues, the survey showed.
Components and assemblies also in high demand
The second-highest demand for domestic substitutes was recorded in the category of components and assemblies. Some 37.8% of companies reported a high need for replacing foreign components, and for 7.3% of organizations solving this task was described as vital.
Russian suppliers currently meet about 75% of demand for materials, raw materials, software and industrial services, according to the survey. However, markets for components and assemblies, as well as machinery and equipment, remain more reliant on purchases from abroad. In the component segment, 28.9% of supplies come from manufacturers in so-called friendly countries, while on the machinery and equipment market the share of such imports reaches 40.3%.
The fresh indicators almost exactly match the results of a similar survey conducted in May 2025, according to the RSPP data. The persistence of the deficit suggests that import substitution efforts in key industrial categories have stalled over the past year.
