Condition of enterprises in machine-building branch in 2004-2007, in particular amount of marketed industrial products, import and export of this products, financial results from usual activity before taxation of machine-building enterprises has been studied. Advantages and stages of the integration strategy for getting out of crisis of analyzed enterprises have been described. A list of machine building enterprises of the western areas of the Ukraine, which can be included into integrated association, has been offered. 

machine-building, condition of enterprises, crisis, strategy, strategy of integration, integration association