HISTORY OF THE COMPANY |
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1928, April 4
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A conceptual design of NKMZ was approved at the plenary session of the State Project Institute. |
1929, April October 8
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S. Ordzhonikidze, the people's commissar of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspection, arrived at Kramatorsk to chose the site of the future plant. Laying of the plant foundation-stone took place. |
1931-1934
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13 shops of the first phase of the project were put into operation. |
1934, September 17 September 28 |
S. Ordzhonikidze, the people's commissar of heavy industry, signed the order No.1240 on entering NKMZ in the list of operating enterprises. The official commissioning of the plant took place.
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1936, December
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The Europe 's largest 1100-mm slab mill for Zaporozhstal was built. |
1938, May 1
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The Krimean Bridge across the Moskva River made at NKMZ was commissioned. |
1939-1940
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Grab bucket cranes for Kuznetskstroy, ore mills, gantry cranes for the Moskva-Volga canal and tubbings for the Metro (Moscow) were manufactured. |
1941, October
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The plant was evacuated to the cities of Orsk, Elektrostal and Yurga. |
1943, September 6
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The city of Kramatorsk was liberated from Nazis. |
1943, February August 28 September
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NKMZ started manufacturing the equipment needed for rehabilitation of the industrial enterprises in Donbass region. The first 4-meter dia drum mine winder was manufactured after liberating the city of Kramatorsk from Nazis. The first phase of the plant rehabilitation was completed. |
1945, July
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The plant was awarded the Order of Lenin for outstanding service in the development of heavy industry. |
1946
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The first postwar 1000-mm blooming mill for Zakavkazsky Steel Plant was made. The first turbine shaft for Dneproges Hydro was forged. |
1947
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The first USSR 's bicylinder-tapered drum electric mine winder was made. Over 2500 tons of equipment for Zaporozhstal rehabilitation were supplied. |
1948, November
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The first 3-cub.metre bucket dragline was manufactured. |
1950
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The first ЭШ -4/40 and ЭПП -15 draglines were manufactured. |
1951 February 23
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The first 1200 and 2000-ton-force horizontal forging machines and a 1300-ton stationary mixer were made. Manufacture of special-purpose series-produced machines was initiated based on the No.6 machine shop facilities. |
1952 February
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The first home-made 1500-ton forging press was put into service. |
1953
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The first 2500-ton power-operated forging press was made. A specialized tube mill for rolling 75 to 350-mm dia round billets was manufactured. |
1954-1956
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A 1700-mm wide strip continous hot rolling mill at "Nova Huta" (Poland) and a 2000-mm 4-h reversing hot aluminium-alloyed sheet and strip mill at Harbin Steel Plant (China) were built and put into service. |
1957-1958
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Heavy ingot vacuum casting was initiated and brought to a commercial level. А ЭШ -6/60 walking dragline was made. |
1959-1960
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The unique 8000-ton-force press was built. A super-powered 75000-ton-force press was built. A 1700-mm wide strip semicontinuous hot rolling mill at "Dunaivarosh" Steel Plant (Hungary) was put into operation. The largest ЭВГ -35/65 crawler-mounted stripping shovel was built. A 2500-mm wide strip continuous hot rolling mill was commissioned at Magnitogorsky Steel Plant. |
1961, April 12
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The space ship "Vostok" piloted by Yu.A. Gagarin was launched. Ground-based equipment for servicing and launching the space ship was made at NKMZ. A 1700-mm wide strip continuous hot rolling mill was put into operation at Ilyich Steel Plant (Mariupol, Ukraine). |
1962, January
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The new 1150-mm slabbing mill was erected at Ilyich Steel Plant (Mariupol, Ukraine). |
1963, April
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A No.1 3000 cub.metre/hour bucket-wheel excavator made at NKMZ was completely assembled and installed in the Shevchenkovsky open pit of "Nikopolmarganets" trust. The new high-powered 2300/1700-mm combined hot rolling mill was commissioned at Chelyabinsky Steel Plant. |
1964, September 19
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Novokramatorsky Mashinostroitelny Zavod was named after Vladimir Ilyich Lenin by the order of the Council of Ministers of Ukraine. |
1967
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ЭШ 10/70А walking draglines were made. |
1968, August
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The first 5000-cub.metre/hour ore-mining and conveying complex for Morozovsky opencast colliery ("Alekxandriaugol" trust, Kirovograd region) was manufactured. |
1969, August 30
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The world's largest 2000-mm wide srip continuous hot rolling mill at Novolipetsky Steel Plant was commissioned. |
1970, September 23
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The Europe 's largest 2500-mm cold rolling mill for Magnitogorsky Steel Plant was built. |
1971, January 22 November
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The plant was awarded the Order of the Banner of the October Revolution for the fulfilment of the 5-year plant quota ahead of time and implementation of the new high-duty metallurgical and mining equipment. The first 5000-cub.metre/hour mining complex for "Bogutyr" opencast colliery ("Ekibastuzugol" trust, Kazakhstan) was manufactured.
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1975, December 12
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The Europe 's largest 2 000-mm wide strip hot rolling mill was put into service at Cherepovetsky Steel Plant. |
1976, May
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The South-East Asia 's largest 2000-mm wide strip hot rolling mill was commissioned at Bokaro Steel Plant (India). A 65000-ton-force hydraulic stamping press was put into service in France . |
August 12
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The plant was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour for outstanding service in the development and manufacture of the new machinery. |
1980, September
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The world's first 2000-mm wide strip rolling mill of over 6000 000 tons of sheets per year for Novolipetsky Steel Plant was designed and implemented. |
1981, March
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First heat in a new 200-ton electroslag remelting furnace was performed. |
1982, February
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A 10000 ton-force press in the No.2 press and forging shop was modified into AKK 10/20 automated forging complex. |
1984, September 12
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The plant was awarded the Order of the Friendship of Peoples for the valuable contribution to implementation of the advanced heavy machinery. |
1985, April
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The unique hydraulic drive with the cylinder rod stroke of 14,8 metres was manufactured for Vietnam for the first in the world's practice. |
1986, July
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The unique hydraulic drive with the stepping cylinder capable to move the gate at a distance up to 50 metres was first made at NKMZ for Nurekskaya Hydro. A unique transportring and setting complex for transportation, setup and servicing of the "Buran" space shuttle was designed at NKMZ.
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19 88, November 15
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"Energia" carrier rocket with "Buran" space shuttle was launched. The transporting and setting complex for the "Energia – Buran" space system was developed and manufactured at NKMZ.
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1990, November 12
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The corporate body of NKMZ entered into an agreement with the Ministry of Heavy Industry of the USSR for leasing the government property. |
1991
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The unique МБ -56/29 coal-pulverizing mill with the capacity of 75 tons/hour was designed at NKMZ. |
1993,
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Implementation of the combined casting and in-line rolling techniques as the new advanced power-saving, efficient and environmentally – safe technologies was started at NKMZ. "TÜV NORD" auditing and certifying society (Germany) issued the quality certificate for mill rolls made at NKMZ. These rolls are highly competitive in the world market along with the rolls from Western Europe and Japan . L.M. Kravchuk, President of Ukraine, visited the plant. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine authorized to transfer NKMZ to private possession (Decree No. 1157-p).
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1994, January 12 April 1
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The conference of the workers at NKMZ approved the agreement on constitution of the joint – stock company. The statute of the joint – stock company was oficially registered in the city executive committee. |
1995
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Production of the unique П -110 all-purpose high – duty boom – type heading machine was started. The Type KKC-55 specialized short – wheelbase highly – manoevrable self – propelled crane was designed and manufactured. |
1996
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Production of the railway cranes was initiated. The Type КС -7Ж 71 80-ton railway crane with the collapsible boom was made. |
1997
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The unique ladle furnace facility enabling to intensify steelmaking was manufactured. The equipment for completing the 2000-mm hot rolling mill installed at "Ekostahl" (Germany) was supplied in cooperation with "Schloemann Siemag" and "Mannesmann Demag". |
1998
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The unique 400-ton three-roll sheet bending machine was first made for Khartsyzsky Tube Plant. |
| 1999 | |
September 23 September 24 October |
The CC machine casting bow for "Ekostahl" (Germany) was shipped. Georgy M.Skudar, Chairman of the Board, General Director of NKMZ JSC was one of the first in Ukraine decorated with the Order of the State and the President's "Hero of Ukraine" decoration. The Banner of Honour No.1 of the Ukrainian Committee of the Industrial Policy was presented to NKMZ. Leonid D. Kuchma, President of Ukraine, visited the plant. NKMZ won the tender for construction of the 1-st phase of the CC machine project at Enakievsky Steel Plant including the turn-key supplies of the ladle furnace facility and billet caster in acute competition with the reputed foreign manufacturers.
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| 2000 | |
January February 15 June 2 |
A set of equipment for the billet caster at LTV STEEL (USA) was shipped. B. Pation, President of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, visited the plant. Members of the International Trade Club visited NKMZ.
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| 2001 | |
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The Type УКД -200 cutter-loader developed in collaboration with the specialists from Dongyprouglemash Research and Project Institute was presented among the series-produced machined. This machine features the service life and capacity 2.5 and 1.5 times as high as compared to similar machines respectively. Seven ingots of 120 to 170 tons each were cast at NKMZ by using the unique proportioning technique on the ladle refining facility. These ingots surpass the analogous ingots cast in Ukraine and the CIS in terms of their quality. NKMZ JSC acquired the major shareholder holding in order to protect the rights of their employees. In the EAF shop the third commercial molten metal surfacing plant was tested when hard-facing 1300 to 1600-mm dia backup rolls. The ladle furnace facility and the billet caster for Enakievsky Steel Plant were designed, manufactured and supplied as a complete set. "Polus", a large gold-extracting company (Krasnoyarsk region, Russian), obtained the first bullion using a new technology based on application of the new ДШЗ -1000/320-A crusher designed and manufactured at NKMZ. This crusher is capable to operate at extreme low temperatures.
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December
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The key slab caster processing equipment for Novolipetsky Steel Plant was shipped. At the "All-Rissia Mark. Quality Mark of the 21-st century" Exhibition 4 products made at NKMZ were given the Gold Quality Mark trophey. These are: mill rolls, ДШЗ -500 and ДШЗ -1000 screw-and-gear crushers, 4.5-m dia mine winders and ЭКГ -5Н crawler-mounted stripping shovel. In 2001, the key engineering and economical performance demonstrated a 1.9-fold growth as against that of 2000.
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| 2002 | ||
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Georgy M. Skudar, Chairman of the Board, General Director of NKMZ JSC was elected the people's deputy of Ukraine .
The unique mud pump with the capacity of 9000 cub. metre/hour for Poltavsky Ore-Dressing Mill was manufactured. This pump features better reliability and higher power compared to similar pumping plants. NKMZ's shareholders elected Georgy M. Skudar, people's deputy of Ukraine, the President of NKMZ JSC. V.A. Pankov became Chairman of the Board and General Director of NKMZ JSC. A high-powered plate straightening machine which out-performs similar machines in the CIS, was made and supplied for the 5000-mm retrofitted mill at "Severstal" JSC (Russia). The unique billet caster designed and manufactured within the shortest possible time in collaboration with "Voest Alpine" (Austria) and "NLMK" (Russia) was put into service. A ladle furnace facility made at NKMZ was hot-started in the oxygen-converter shop at Enakievsky Steel Plant. NKMZ received three Quality Certificates issued by "Germa-Nischer Lloyd" (Germany), "Lloyd's Register Shipping Company" (Great Britain) and "Det Norske Veritas" (Norway). NKMZ was officially recognized as the shipbuilding products manufacturer. A conference of the Ukrainian Committee of the Industrial Policy was held at NKMZ. The continuous casting module made up of the ladle furnace facility and the Ukraine 's first billet caster was commissioned at Enakievsky Steel Plant. Based on results of attesting products at the International "National Glory" Exhibition within the frame of the second stage of the "Russian Mark. Quality Mark" Program, mill rolls, screw-and-gear crushers and ЭКТ -5Н crawler – mounted stripping shovel made at NKMZ were given "Russian Mark" tropheys. Gold tropheys given to NKMZ’s car retarders, travelling gantry cranes and ЭШ-15/80 walking dragline (with its versions). Georgy M.Skudar, President of NKMZ JSC, was decorated with the Russian "National Glory" order No.007 for outstanding achievements within the area of Russian economic progress, implementation of the advanced manufacturing technologies and support in production of high-grade products. G.M. Skudar became the first non-Russian citizen decorated with this order.
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| 2003 | |
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A 75000-ton press was commissioned at Verkhnesaldynsky steel Plant after its control system has been retrofitted through the use of equipment made at NKMZ. The contract for supply the billet caster equipment within the second phase of the CCmachine project at Enakievsky Steel Plant was signed. The equipment supplied included a ladle furnace facility and a 6-strand billet caster. The Type УКД 400 cutter-loader for working 1.25 to 2.5-metre thick coal seams was designed in cooperation with Dongyprouglemash Project Institute. The equipment of 185 tons in weight was designed and manufactured within the program of updating the 2840-mm aluminium strip hot rolling mill at Kamensk – Uralsky Steel Plant (Sverdlovsk region, Russia). The contracts for manufacture and supply of the pilot backup and work mill rolls for Nucor Steel (Indiana, USA) and Lone Star Steel (Texas, USA) were signed. The equipment for the feed cooling and inspection at Severstal JSC (Russia) of 2.652 tons in total weight was completely shipped. Twin edge-trimming shears of a unique design weighing 700 tons were manufactured and shipped for the 5.000-mm plate mill at Severstal JSC. NKMZ won the tender, in which SMS, Fuchs Systemtechnic (Germany) and Danieli (Italy) participated, for manufacture of the ladle furnace facility and steam ejector pump-operated vacuum ladle degasser at Vyksunsky Steel Plant (Russia). A contract was made for supply of the press-related equipment to be installed in the wheel rolling shop at Nizhne-Tagylsky Steel Plant (Russia). The mill train comprises three presses of 5,5 and 9 MN in force and 100 pcs/hr in capacity. The Ukraine ’s first СБШС-250Н drilling rig designed by NKMZ and Orkis (Zholtye Vody, Ukraine) was presented at Central Ore-Dressing Mill (Ukraine). A contract for supply of the 1000 000-ton capacity slab caster in collaboration with VAI (Austria) for Ilyich Steel Plant (Mariupol, Ukraine) was signed. A П-110 header with the serial No. 100 was shipped to Bielorechenskaya mine (Luganskugol trust). "All-Russia Mark" gold tropheys were given to the heat treatment furnaces of a recent generation, billet caster and dense medium transfer pump. NKMZ resumed manufacture of 40B6 mobile towers for C-300 antimissile defence complexes. The type НК 140 railway car retarder was made in Ukraine for the first time. In 2003, the plant quality management system was certified for compliance with ISO 9001: 2000 requirements by TUV NORD CERT (Germany).
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Shipment of the up-to-date equipment for retrofitting the small section and wire mill at Nizhneserginsky Steel and Metalware Plant (Russia) was started. Shipment of the unique rotor shafts for 13 wind-power stations in Northern Europe was completed. An acceptance certificate was signed to testify commissioning of the semi-finished rolled stock shielding system for the 1700-mm mill at Ilyich Steel Plant (Mariupol, Ukraine). A contract for manufacture of two billet casters in collaboration with VAI (Austria) was signed. Billet casters were intended for Azovstal Steel Plant (Ukraine). The first unique slime drying plant for "Polus 1C Ltd." (Kurakhovo, Ukraine) was shipped. NKMZ started manufacturing the hot-galvanized rolled stock with polymeric coating for Severstal Steel Plant (Russia) in collaboration with SMS Demag (Germany). Up-to-date railway wheel production line equipment manufactured in cooperation with SMS Emuco (Germany) was shipped to Nizhnetagylsky Steel Plant (Russia). |
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June 9
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A trial startup of the ladle furnace facility was performed at Vyksunsky Steel Plant (Russia). |
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August
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Designing of the unique 7.000-ton crank-type hot stamping press for Mexico was started. |
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September
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2-nd continuous casting line was put into operation at Enakievsky Steel Plant (Ukraine). |
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September 26
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Leonid D. Kuchma, President of Ukraine, visited NKMZ. Yu.N. Belobrov, Chief Design Engineer of the Metallurgical Equipment Dept., was given the title of a Hero of Ukraine. |
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December
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A contract for supply of the process equipment within the scope of over 6.000 tons for Alchevsky Steel Plant (Ukraine) was signed. The equipment was intended for the retrofitted 2800-mm plate mill. A contract for updating the 100-ton electric arc furnace at Uzbeksky Steel Plant (Bekabad) was signed.
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Performance of the contract for engineering and supply of the equipment intended to fundamentally retrofit the 2800-mm plate mill at Alchevsky Steel plant was started. Amount of the contract: $62.000.000. Tentative weight of supplies: 6.000 tons. The first batch of linings for waste nuclear fuel containers was manufactured and shipped to Zaporozhskaya nuclear power station (Energodar, Ukraine).
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A large contract signed with Esro Staal (the Netherlands) in 2004 for manufacture and supply of 220 rotor shafts for 1.5 MW wind-power stations was completely performed. The first batch of the up-to-date continuous casting equipment including the ladle furnace facility and radically retrofitted two-strand billet caster was shipped to Omutninsky Steel Plant (Kirovsk region, Russia). A collective agreement to the amount of 365.000.000 UAH for 2005 was approved which is 63.000.000 UAH as high as that of 2004. This was deemed to properly maintain the social status of NKMZ`s employees. G.M. Skudar, President of NKMZ JSC, was decorated with the decoration of honor No.1 “For promotion of social partnership” approved by the Federation of the Ukrainian Trade Unions.
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At Vyksunsky Steel plant (Nizhegorodsk region, Russia) large-diameter single-seam gas and oil pipe-making line was commissioned for the first time in Russia . The line was completed with the sheet preparation systems manufactured at NKMZ.
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June |
The cutter-loader fitted with the roof bolting setting facility was designed for the first time in Ukraine in collaboration with “Dalmann Haniel Mining Systems” (Germany). This cutter-loader provides better safety for the miners and enables to speed up powered driving operations.
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A service center for servicing NKMZ ¢ s mining machines was opened in Kuzbass (Russia). A contract for servicing mining machines with “Rosmin”, a leading mining company in Russia, was signed. NKMZ won the tender, in which reputed specialized companies from Austria, Italy and Czech Republic took part, for supply of the ladle furnace facility at “Energomashspetsstal” (Kramatorsk, Ukraine).
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A belt-type mobile reversing conveyor with the capacity of up to 4,000 tons of mineral resources per hour was designed and made to order of Kachkanarsky Ore-Dressing Mill (“Vanadiy”, Russia). Fullilment of a large trilateral contract with participation of VAI (Austria) was started. According to this contract NKMZ will design, manufacture and supply over 55000 of the up-to-date equipment required for radical retrofitting of the two double-strand slab casters made by Uralmash at Novolipetsky Steel Plant (NLMK) within 33 months.
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A double-strand billet caster-related equipment was completely shipped to “Casting and Rolling State Unitary Plant” (Moscow, Russia). Two slab casters engineered at NKMZ were put into operation at “Azovstal” Steel Plant (Mariupol, Ukraine). A basically new set of equipment designed for implementation of advanced forging techniques, which meet the requirements of the European standards, was commissioned in the press and forging shop No.2 at NKMZ.
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An up-to-date KC-7Ж 71 highly-automated railway crane was shipped to Almalyksky Ore-Dressing Mill, one of the largest mills in Uzbekistan . A 16/20/32-ton gantry crane made by NKMZ in collaboration with “Kranbau Eberswalde” (Germany) was put into service in Feodosia.
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The equipment designed for radical updating of the 100-ton electric arc furnace at Uzbeksky Steel Works (Bekabad) was shipped. Upon commissioning of updated ДСП -100 electric arc furnace at “Uzmetkombinat”, NKMZ will complete data on a closed-loop steelmaking process and will have complete reference lists on all present-day steelmaking plants and facilities. NKMZ became the first company in the post-Soviet states in implementation of modern galvanized and polymer-coated rolled product lines at “Severstal” Steel Plant (Cherepovets, Vologodsk, Russia). NKMZ was the first among 40 exhibitors at the international “All-Russia Mark. Quality Mark of the 21-st century” Exhibition (Moscow) to gain the Top Quality Product Manufacturer Certificate. NKMZ was over again certified as the company manufacturing top quality products.
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| 2006 | |
| January | In the course of the 5000-mm plate mill overhaul at “Severstal” (Saint Petersburg) the specialists from “NKMZ” guided by S.A. Amalitsky, a project engineer, carried out the unique production operation: they machined the 4-h stand housings only with the partial dismounting of its bottom part. Such an innovation enabled to considerably save the time of the mill repairs.
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| January 31 | Three special-purpose ambulance cars were given to Kramatorsk first aid station.
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| February | The low-temperature refrigerating equipment was purchased for Kramatorsk blood transfusion station by the supervisory board’s decision. NKMZ was granted two diplomas “For the development and supply” of the top-quality mining machinery for the Russian enterprises” and “For the development and supply of the open-cast mining equipment for the Russian enterprises at the international forum – exhibition “Mineral resources and mining in Russia” held at the All–Russian Exhibition Center (Moscow). Over 200 Russian and foreign companies, enterprises and organizations took part in this exhibition.
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| February 7 | Mr. Pierre Compagnion, a commercial and trade counsellor of the Embassy of France in Ukraine, visited NKMZ. The guest was stricken by the scale of renewing the equipment at NKMZ.
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| February 16-18 | The scientific and practical seminar “Current problems of the personnel management at the enterprises: development, motivation, experience and principles”, in which the representatives from France, Germany, Russia, industrial enterprises, educational institutions and the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine participated, was held. The seminar took place within the framework of the French-Ukrainian program on management of the human resources carried out by Pierre Mendes France University of social sciences (Grenoble, France) and Donetsk National Technical University .
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| February 24 | A conference took place at NKMZ at which the results of fulfillment of the collective agreement of 2005 were discussed and the new agreement between the company management and the employees was concludes. The cost of the collective agreement in 2006 amounted to 465 million hryvnas.
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| March | In collaboration with AI (Austria) radical retrofitting of the two slab casters at Novolipetsk Steel Plant (Russia) was started by using VAI’s basic engineering. The results of the competition on the innovation activities of the young workers in 2005 were summed up. 155 persons from 40 subdivisions of the company took part in this competition, 211 rationalization proposals and 14 inventor’s applications were filed and 170 rationalization proposals were introduced in production. The 100-th HK-114 car retarder was skipped to Byelorussia since 1997. Today, car retarders made at NKMZ are in service on the railways of Byelorussia, Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine .
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| April 4 | A conference of the share holders took place at “NKMZ”. G.M. Skudar the people’s deputy of Ukraine, was reelected the President of the joint-stock company. I.N. Varaksina, the head of the legal office, was elected the Chairman of the supervisory board.
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| April 11 | Presentation of the “Sokol – Ukraina” gantry crane manufactured by “NKMZ” in collaboration with “Kranbau Eberswalde” (Germany) took place at Feodosia trade port.
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| April 18 | By the order of V.A. Pankov, Director General, a new roll and power generating equipment production sector was initiated. The special design and process bureau, marketing and contracts bureau, roll and power-generating equipment laboratory, roll and power-generating equipment bureau, planning and dispatch group and No.3 and No.5 machine shops were included in the structure of this production sector.
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| April 28 | Based on the results of the “Mining World Russia” international exhibition (Moscow), “NKMZ” was granted a certificate with the special statement “For the development and supplies of the top-quality mining equipment”.
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| May | Nine products made at NKMZ were given the Gold Quality Trophy based on the results of the 15-th International “All-Russian Mark (the 3rd millennium) exhibition. Eight of these products were given the Quality Mark for the first time. The products include the “Sokol - Ukraina full-revolving gantry crane, automated forging complexes up to 100 MN in force, belt conveyors with the capacity up to 7,000 cub. meters/hr, П -110 and П -110-01 heading machines, УКД 200 narrow-cut cutter-loader, flying drum shears and the sheet straightening machine. The ladle furnace facility was granted the Gold Quality Mark again.
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| May 23-24 | The 3-rd Scientific and Technical Conference on the issues of the continuous casting and secondary steelmaking was held at “NKMZ”. About 80 prominent scientists and leading specialists of the country working in this branch took part in the conference.
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| May 26 | NKMZ participated in the 4-th International specialized exhibition “Hoisting and Conveying Machinery and Technologies-2006” (Moscow). “NKMZ” was granted a special diploma “For the development and supplies of the modern hoisting and conveying machinery to the Russian market”. NKMZ took part in the “Metallurgy-Casting machines-2006” international fair (Moscow). Over 300 exhibitors from 25 countries participated in this fair. NKMZwas the only company decorated with the diploma “For exhibition of a wide range of the metallurgical and rolling-mill equipment”.
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| June. | G.M. Skudar, President of NKMZ JSC was recognized the winner of the Russian competition “Manager of the year- 2005” in the “International cooperation. The best foreign partner” nomination. Vadym Getman’s National Economy University (Kiev) became the fifth higher educational institution with which“NKMZ made the contract. NKMZ started supplies of the ladle furnace facility and chamber-type degasser for “EMSS” (Kramatorsk).
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| June 21 | Three employees from NKMZ were chosen the best ones by the results of the 3-rd “Young worker - 2006” regional competition. |
| July | G.M. Skudar, doctor of economics and V.A. Pankov, doctor of economics were accepted the members of the International Union of Economists. G.M. Skudar, President of NKMZ JSC, was elected the full member (academician) of the International Academy of Management The new П -110-01M Heading machine designed in collaboration with Karboautomatica (Poland) was assembled at NKMZ JSC NKMZ started modernization of the 2000-mm continuous wide strip hot rolling mill at Magnitogorsk Steel Plant in order to roll skelps for tube products.
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| August | NKMZ supplied three modern ore-grinding mills for the “Polus” gold-mining company (Krasnoyarsk region, Russia). Today, 5 ore-grinding mills made at NKMZ are in operation at the gold-mining plants of this company. These machines demonstrate excellent capacity ratings. A “Partnership for the sake of competitiveness” memorandum was signed by the International Institute of Management (Kiev), NKMZ and the Council of Competitiveness of Ukraine. |
| September | At “Enakyevo Steel Plant” record figures of steel production for the recent 13 years were achieved by using the secondary steelmaking and continuous casting equipment made by NKMZ. The first five million tons of cast billets were produced through the use of NKMZ's equipment. NKMZ was granted the diploma “For the development and supplies of the top-quality machines” at the 9-th “Coal/Mining- 2006” International specialized exhibition. The new П -110-01M Heading machine was also granted such a diploma. NKMZ was granted the diploma “For the development and supplies of the high-duty metallurgical equipment” at the 48-th International Machine building exhibition (Brno, Czech Republic).
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| October | The 4-th "Metal Forum, Ukraine-2006" meeting of the metal producers, metal traders and metal users was held in Kiev . For the first time NKMZ took part in the "Metal-Progress" competition and became the winner in "The best new product of the year in the machine-building metallurgical equipment sector". NKMZ was granted the diploma and the memorable trophey. NKMZ started modernization of the vertical continuous casting machine, manufactured by UZTM at "Novolipetsk" Steel Plant which will enable to increase its capacity threefold. The youth association at NKMZ celebrated the 15-year anniversary. "Development of the young labourers' movement" international conference was held at NKMZ on October 26-29. Young workers and youth leaders from the 5 CIS countries participated in the conference.
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| November | NKMZ was granted the diploma of the 11-th Ukrainian Quality Competition held within the framework of the 15-th International "The days of quality in Kiev-2006" Forum in the nomination of "Large enterprises". The company was also given the EFQM "Acknowledgment of Perfection in Europe " certificate. Such a high appraisal was received by the large heavy machine-building plant for the first time in Ukraine . It was especially noted that such a large heavy machinery producing plant of the individual production was audited with excellent results at the first attempt. NKMZ shipped the Type 3P-1000 bucket wheel loader for the Russia 's largest ore concentration mill in Lebedin. The results of the sanitary measures taken at NKMZ were summed up. About 11.700 workers had their rest at the health centers, in boarding houses and rest houses in the cities of Ukraine for the 5 months of the recreation season. A cup and six diplomas for the best designs of the new industrial production equipment in the CIS were received by the specialists from NKMZ at the 7-th conference of CAD/PLM users in Russia and the CIS (Moscow). The problems of the modern CASD system development and project data base control were considered. Two slab transfer devices were shipped to "Severstal" Steel Plant. At the 6-th International Specialized Exhibition this device was granted a special diploma and a gold medal. The unique conveying and finishing line included in the slab caster equipment was erected at "Ilyich" Steel Plant (Mariupol).
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| November 7 | A 3000-mm plate mill (the former 2800-mm plate mill) was commissioned at “Alchevsk Steel Plant” after radical retrofitting carried out by NKMZ.
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| November 14-16 | The "New technologies of the crane building repairs and maintenance of gantry cranes" scientific and technological seminar was held at NKMZ. The institute of post-graduate education of the top managers of the Ministry of water transport and communications of Ukraine (Odessa) was the co-organizer of this seminar. Leading specialists from the nine largest ports of Ukraine including Sevastopol, Izmail, Southern and Feodosia ports participated in the seminar.
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| December 1 | A slab caster designed at "NKMZ" in collaboration with VAI (Austria) and "Ilyich" Steel Plant (Mariupol) was commissioned at this steel plant. V.F. Yanukovich, Prime-minister of Ukraine, was present during commissioning.
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| December | The 6-th "National Glory" Exhibition and "All-Russian Mark (the 3-rd millennium) Quality mark of the 21-st century" (Moscow) took place. 21 products made at "NKMZ" were given the Platinum Quality Trophies. Such products as slab casters, torpedo cars, special traveling cranes, belt conveyors, automated forging complexes with force up to 100 MN, full-revolving gantry cranes, the Type 3 РГ bucket wheel excavator, heading machines of the П -110-04 and П -110-01 types, УКД -200 breakage machines, sheet straighteners and flying drum shears were given the Platinum trophy for the first time. For the other 9 kinds of products Platinum trophies given earlier were reconfirmed. These are: billet casters, ladle furnace facilities, mill rolls, heat treatment furnaces,4,5-meter and 6-meter diameter mine winders, gantry cranes, ЭШ 15/80 walking draglines, П -110 heading machines and railway car retarders. NKMZ was decorated with the order of "National glory" for great services in manufacture of the top-quality products and implementation of the advanced technologies at the "All-Russian Mark (3-rd millennium) Quality mark of the 21-st century" (Moscow). 236 million hryvnas were allotted for modernization and retrofit projects. 35 new machine tools were purchased and 8 machines were modernized this year. Over 11 million hryvnas were allotted by NKMZ for charitable purposes. 1560 thousand hryvnas for the city hospitals, 396 thousand hryvnas for the schools, 935 thousand hryvnas for the persons who took part in the war actions, 315 thousand hryvnas for the veterans, 7 million hryvnas for the non-working pensioners and 914 thousand hryvnas for the other pensioners were granted. Total – 11 216 mln. hryvnas. Steel structure production sector was organized at the plant by the order of V.A. Pankov, Director General. The welding department, the shop No.16 and steel structure fabrication shop were included in the structure of this production sector.
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| December 25 | A ladle furnace facility and a billet caster were put info service at "Omutninsk Steel Works” (Russia).
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| 2007 | |
January |
The 2-nd stage of the 2840-mm hot mill reconstruction at Kamenets-Uralsky Steel Plant (Russia) commenced.
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January, 10 |
NKMZ became the partner of "Energo-Prom" consortium in production of the power generating equipment for Russia.
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March, 16 |
A 561,2 mln. UAH collective agreement for 2007 was concluded being by 20,6 per cent higher in price compared to the collective agreement in 2006. The terms of this collective agreement will enable the plant refurbishment to be carried out and extensive social programs implemented in a proper way.
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May, 25 |
NKMZ participated in the 5-th international "MinTech-2007" Exhibition of the Equipment and Technologies in Ore and Mining, Metallurgical and Coal-Mining Industries, Ust-Kamenogorsk (Russia).
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June |
Shipments of the equipment required for a fundamental reconstruction of the 100-ton electric arc furnace at Uzmetkombinat (Bekabad, Uzbekistan) were completed.
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July, 13 |
The largest contract for supplies of the equipment required for drastic modernization of the 2500-mm continuous wide strip hot mill at Magnitogorsk Steel Plant (Russia) was signed.
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August |
NKMZ made a large contract for supplies of 6 pieces of the ore mills for gold-mining company Polus (Russia).
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September |
A 70/90-MN (7,000‑9,000 tf) hydraulic forging press was put in service at Changwong Steel Plant (South Korea) to produce propeller shaft forgings, rings, plates, bands, plates etc. This was the first Ukrainian machine of such type in Changwong.
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October |
Based on the results of the All-Ukrainian "Metal-Progress" contest held within the frame of the 5-th "Metal-Forum, Ukraine-2007" International Exhibition, Kiev, the ТЛС3000-mm plate mill made at NKMZ and shipped to Alchevsk Steel Plant was acknowledged the prize-winner in "The best new product of the year" nomination.
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| 2008 | |
January |
588mln. UAH was intended to be invested in the technical upgrading of the works.
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January
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Implementation of a large contract for supplies of 8 pieces of the unique МШЦ 5500´8400 ore –grinding mills for gold-mining company Polus, (Russian Federation) commenced. |
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One-of-a-kind ЗР – 1000 bucket-wheel reclaimer was put into the pilot and commercial operation at Lebedin mining and concentration mill, the largest mill in Russia. |
January |
The unique reduction gearbox intended for the reconstruction of the main line drive of 2240-mm aluminium rolling mill was shipped to Kamensk-Uralsk steel plant (Russia).
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February |
625 mln. UAH was invested in the performance of the yearly collective agreement.
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March |
NKMZ was awarded the Gold Mercury prize. A two-strand slab caster No.6 was commissioned at NLMK in collaboration with SIEMENS-VAI. NKMZ was acknowledged the prize-winner of the "Person of the year" rating contest ("Charity-maker of the year" nomination) launched by the "Vostochny Proekt" weekly. Two 16-ton capacity grab cranes were shipped to Alchevsk Steel Plant. NKMZ became the winner of the city contest entitled "The best employer of the year" (nomination of enterprises with the number of employees over 500,000). NKMZ was chosen as the prize-winner in "The best employer for people wanting supplementary social safeguards" nomination
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April |
G.S. Sukov, Chairman of the Board, General Director of NKMZ, was acknowledged the prizewinner of the Russian contest entitled "The best manager of 2007" in the "International cooperation" nomination. Within the tight schedule the unique reconstruction of the hydraulic screwdown for 5000-mm plate mill at Severstal JSC (Kolpino, Leningrad reg.) was carried out. After the fundamental reconstruction, one of the largest presses in the world with the capacity of 75 000 t was put into operation at Samara steel plant (Russian division of Alcoa transnational corporation). While operating in automatic mode, the press is able to produce heavy forgings of aluminium and its alloys with the accuracy up to ±1mm. For Krasnoslobodsky RUP PO Belaruskalij mine (Soligorsk, Minsk region) the second mine winder of БЦК type was shipped.
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May |
Two П110-01 road headers were dispatched to Raspadskaya mine (Russia). The road headers of the specific design were engineered to drive workings with the minimum roof rock out-of-stream dilution. Six product samples from NKMZ were awarded the Quality Mark of the 21-st Century at the 19-th International All-Russian Mark (the 3-rd Millenium) Exhibition (Contest). For Lebedinsk mining and concentration mill (Russia) the most powerful in CIS MMC-9350x3100 ore grinding mill was manufactured. NKMZ allotted over 410,000 UAH to purchase a 222-square meter house and the electrical house-hold appliances for the family of the Pysmennysh raising 10 minors. The road header that is unrivalled among those produced in CIS as to the parameters and technical equipment was shipped to Rovenkiantratsit mine management. П110-01M road header was manufactured with the involvement of the Polish company Karboavtomatika. The last of the four ore-grinding mills with the new capabilities ordered by Stoilensky mining and concentration mill (Russia) was shipped to them. The construction of the cultural and health and fitness complex of sanatorium “Gornoye solntse” in Alupka was completed. One of the most beautiful buildings on the Black sea coast was constructed.
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June |
The bridge grab crane with 32 t capacity and 60 m bridge span was shipped to Novosibirsk heat power plant.
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July 8 |
The inspection board of Magnitogorsk integrated iron and steel works under the supervision of S.A. Lebedev accepted the first 1500 t of the equipment intended for 2500-mm hot-rolling mill reconstruction.
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July |
A contract for the reconstruction of ПНШС 2300/1700-mm semi-continuous wide strip hot mill at Mechel Steel Plant (Chelyabinsk, Russia) was signed. Designs implemented in this mill were considered to be the world’s best.
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August 2 |
The first heat from ДСП-50 electric are furnace put in service in the open-hearth plant was effected
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August |
The tenth in succession and the first in the course of the years of independence press-forging machine was shipped to China. The hydraulic forging press with the capacity of 70/90 MN was manufactured to order and with the involvement of HBE company (South Korea)
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November |
The IV-th stage of Skoda machine-tools improvement with the participation of the manufacturer completed. The 29 improved Skoda NC boring machine-tools were put into operation in the basic machine shops since 2001.
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December |
For the first time in CIS, NKMZ started the construction of TSPT – Ruda complex equipment with the use of the unique high angle conveyor (КНК). It was manufactured to the order of Navoisky mining and metallurgical integrated works (Uzbekistan). The capacity of КНК is 3500 t/hr, the lifting height – 270m with the total length of about one kilometre. |