Elvorti Chervona Zirka

The fixed capital of the company amounted to 6 million rubles, the value of real estate was approx. 2 500 000 rub. In 1913 the Plant reached its peak and produced 38,345 agricultural machines.

English entrepreneurs Robert and Thomas Elworthy in 1874 founded a workshop in the city of Elisavetgrad (now Kirovograd) for assembling, adjusting and preparing foreign seeders for sale. The area for this workshop was rented at a nearby factory. There were 12 workers in the workshop. 

Demand for seeders was great and the Elvorti brothers began the construction of a plant for the production of horse seeders, later crushers, churns, mills and other agricultural implements. In a short time, a foundry, blacksmith, woodworking shop and other structures were built. The production of seeders at the new plant began, initially they were primitive scatter machines, and then the production of ordinary "Rossiya" seed drills was mastered.

The plant was gaining power, expanding, increasing machine output. In 1882 the Elvotri seeder received the first award at an international exhibition - a silver medal. At competitions and exhibitions for the period 1882-1911 the products of the Elvorti factory received 37 gold and silver medals, and the factory received more than 50 awards. In 1908 the Plant became one of the largest joint-stock companies in agricultural machinery production in Dnieper Ukraine at the beginning of the 20th century. Up to 300 people worked at the Elworthi factory (the official name of the company by 1922) in 1880, in 1913 - 3,500 people worked at the factory, in 1917 - more than 7 thousand people. The plant management included Thomas and Robert Elworthy (directors), as well as A. Jungman (managing director).

The company had commercial branches in the cities of Cherkasy, Nikolaev, Uman (Cherkasy region), Voznesensk (Nikolaev region), Krivoy Rog (Dnipropetrovsk region), Kakhovka (Kherson region), Rostov-on-Don, Omsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. The company had representative offices in 52 cities, London and New York.

Export volumes increased from 6% to 56.6% at the end of 2005. In 2003 the plant was renamed to Chervona Zirka.