ORMETO-YUMZ Heavy Engineering Joint Stock Co. (part of Uralmash Machine-Building Corporation) is to deliver a sintering machine (sintering area 408 square meters) for Visakhapatnam Steel Plant in India at the end of 2008.

The corporation’s press officer reports the Indian sintering plant is expected to produce 456 tons of agglomerate every hour; the launch has been scheduled for June 2009. This is the first time any enterprise based in Russia or the CIS is going to design and produce a sintering machine of such capacity. The machine is based on a number of totally new technological solutions and has been virtually designed from scratch, as all the earlier versions simply don’t fit the new needs. Some parts are to be made of unconventional materials like special steels and polymeric compounds. Apart from the machine, the supplier is to deliver the accompanying equipment like the pelletizer and the single-roll crusher.

‘This is a very promising project in many ways. For one, it improves our position on India’s metallurgical machinery market. After we meet our contractual obligations and launch the machine successfully, we can hope for more contracts in the near future,’ says ORMETO-YUMZ’s chief engineer Sergey Kamantsev.