Chusovskoy Metallurgical Plant: History, Products, Prospects

JSC "Chusovskoy Metallurgical Plant" is one of thethe oldest steelworks in the Urals. Founded in the XIX century, for a long time it was the largest profile enterprise of the country. Today CMP is the leader in the production of springs for vehicles.

Historical reference

Founded in 1879, ChusovskayaThe metallurgical plant became the pride of Russia. Equipped with the latest in equipment at that time, it annually melted millions of poods of cast iron and steel. During the civil war the enterprise suffered greatly, but the factory workers did not abandon their offspring and after the establishment of the Soviet power they restored the shops.

At the Chusovskoy Metallurgical Plant in the 30swas entrusted with a responsible mission - to arrange the production of spring steel for tractors and agricultural machinery. In appearance, this detail does not seem to be the most difficult, however, when it is manufactured, a metal with outstanding characteristics is used. For its smelting requires a high production culture, appropriate equipment and possession of the "secrets" of materials science.

In 1935 the blast furnace No. 3 was started. Its volume is 280 m³ was a record not only for the USSR. In 1936 the factory workers received the first ferrovanadium in the country. The Great Patriotic War demanded an increase in production. In 1943, for seven months, a new blast furnace was built, which allowed three times to increase cast iron smelting.

Today every second Russian carinstalled springs from ChMZ. Chusovskoy metallurgical plant, whose photo amazes the size of the production area, is part of the largest industrial group OMK (United Metallurgical Company). Production is located in the heart of the Ural Mountains, near the raw materials base and energy sources.

Chusovskyi spring

Along with metal products (rolled products andcast iron), the plant has been producing springs for motor vehicles since 1973. Today, the workshop of the CMP autopressor represents a large-scale production, in terms of the volume of products eclipsing similar enterprises in Europe.

Products of the Ural steelmakers meetrequirements imposed by both domestic and foreign standards. The Chusovoy Metallurgical Plant is certified according to ISO9001 / 2008, and directly the spring production was certified according to ISO / TS16940 in 2011.

Personnel policy is focused on attractingyouth, the upbringing of a generation of "workers of the future," capable of quickly retraining and mastering related areas of work. For them, they try to create decent working conditions, organize leisure activities, and guarantee modern medical care.

Hi-tech

An important feature of the technological processThe production of springs is a complete production cycle: from smelting of cast iron to assembly of products. ChMZ specializes in the production of rolled products from specialized steel grades. Not without reason steel stripes of the plant are used by most of the spring enterprises of the Russian Federation and the CIS.

In 2003, the Chusovoy Metallurgical Plantmastered the release of innovative springs of increased durability, obtained by technology of bulk-surface hardening. Only a few companies in the world are able to produce this product through the technology of the IPF. The new development allowed to reduce the weight of the spring by 30%, and to increase the operational durability by half - to 200,000 km. The majority of models of the automaker KamAZ is equipped with elastic elements produced using an IPF.

Modernization

Constant investments in production allowedrun mills and rolling for billets of parabolic springs, a high-tech thermal line with rapidly adjustable dies, and a new painting line. The operation of the equipment is controlled by automated computerized complexes.

Every few years the material and technical basemodernized. This allows CMP to offer consumers more than 500 names of spring products. Among the customers of the Chusovka plant are the country's largest auto-manufactures. The nomenclature for foreign cars is also being actively developed.

Chusovoy Metallurgical Plant reconstruction

Production

Today at ChMZ they produce:

Springs for trucks, trolley buses, buses, minibuses, off-road vehicles, special vehicles.
Cast iron (vanadium, complex-alloyed, refined, refined).
Ferrovanadium.
Vanadium pentoxide.
Metal rolling.
Agglomerate.

Chusovskoy Metallurgical Plant - reconstruction

The rapid growth of gas and oil production in the 2000sdemanded significant volumes of modern pipe products. The government and OMK planned a large-scale reconstruction, which envisaged the reorientation of significant capacities for the production of seamless pipes. Initially, CMP was supposed to produce up to 400,000 tons of pipe, followed by an increase in volumes to 500,000 tons per year.

The project was launched in 2012 and was supportedthe administration of the Perm region. The investment portfolio was estimated at 50 billion rubles. Organizational work was actively carried out, suppliers of equipment were determined. For the clearance of the territory part of the shops were dismantled. However, the sanctions of 2015, the weakening of the ruble, the change in the situation helped to freeze the ambitious project.