Uralmash to fire 1,000 workers

Eight people were killed and seven people were injured in the fire accident that took place at Metallurgical Industrial Complex of Magnitogorsk on November 28, 2006. The Interdepartmental committee looked into the causes of the fire, but Chelyabinsk Region State Fire Surveillance disagreed with the committee’s report on quite a few points. According to the experts of State Fire Surveillance, some grave violations of the fire safety regulations could be observed at the Complex; the company’s executives were actually administratively prosecuted for failing to meet these requirements. Besides,

‘Uralmash Machine-Building Corporation and Uralmash Drilling Equipment are two different enterprises. The latter is not Uralmashzavod’s legal representative and is not empowered to represent the plant on the drilling equipment market. This is why Uralmashzavod cannot be held responsible for Uralmash Drilling Equipment’s performance, its terms of delivery and the quality of its products,’ the spokesperson for Uralmash Machine-Building Corporation said to UrBC. ‘Uralmash Machine-Building Corporation was set up a year ago on the basis of two large enterprises: Uralmashzavod and ORMETO-YUMZ Heavy

Uralmash Machine Building Corporation acquired Uralmash Metallurgical Machinery from Severstal. The cost of the transaction is reported to come to $15m. Uralmash Metallurgical Machinery was originally sold by United Machine Building Works (aka OMZ (Obedinennye Mashinostroitelnye Zavody, formerly United Heavy Machinery)) to Severstalmash/Severstal Group. Now, the newly bought business is going to become an integral part of Uralmash Engineering (Uralmashzavod’s daughter enterprise) that already comprises Mining Equipment Division and O&G Drilling Machinery Division. Uralmash Metallurgical

‘The setting up of a large industrial corporation by United Machine Building Works and MetalloInvest will make use of Uralmash facilities more efficient,’ Evgeniy Sergeev, General Director of United Machine Building Works (aka OMZ (Obedinennye Mashinostroitelnye Zavody, formerly United Heavy Machinery), said to UrBC. ‘The idea behind uniting Uralmashzavod and ORMETO-YUMZ Heavy Engineering Joint Stock Co. is creating a strong and competitive Russian supplier of equipment to ore mining and metallurgical enterprises in this country and abroad, which is particularly important because of Russia’s

Uralmash Machine-Building Corporation nearly completed part of the contract it signed with Mikhailovskiy ore mining and processing enterprise. The contract provides for the construction of a roast machine facility needed for the enterprise’s pellet plant. Uralmash has to provide their customer with the process procedure description and the main designing solutions. The spokesperson for the corporation reports their experts are about to complete all the design documentation for the roast machine (the facility’s biggest and most complex unit) and the balling drums. These pieces of machinery are