Vyksa Metallurgical Plant: contacts. Pipes of the Vyksa Metallurgical Plant

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OJSC VMZ (Vyksa Metallurgical Plant) is a leader in the production of wheels for railway transport and rolled pipes. This is one of the oldest Russian industrial enterprises. Part of JSC OMK-Holding.

History of Creation

Vyksa Metallurgical Plant emerged in the iron ore region around the ancient city of Vyksa in the Nizhny Novgorod province by merging several small enterprises of the Batashev industrialists. In 1768, at the lower dam of the Spare Pond, the Lower Plant was founded, consisting of 10 wooden buildings: two of them were hammer-type, one housed eight hearths, the other four. In the rest of the buildings there were flattening machines, furnaces, a nail shop with four hammers, a sawmill. On the shore of the Lower Pond there are two wooden hammer buildings and a stone two-story building with six tongs and twelve blockheads, a smithy, a large locksmith's shop, warehouses, and a flour mill.

The Nizhne-Vyksa plant produced: iron (strip, sectional, sheet, tire, hoop), bolts, nails, wire, tools. In the late 1830s, they installedthe first puddling ovens for the production of iron in pieces by the new puddling process. In 1842, there were already 10 such ovens, each with a capacity of up to 10 pounds (96-100 kg).

By the middle of the 19th century, the Vyksa Metallurgical Plant became bankrupt. He was handed over to the German Lessing. During the reconstruction of the Lessing period in 1892, the first open-hearth furnace for the production of steel was installed, in 1894 an open-hearth shop appeared, which 20 years later already had 4 furnaces with a capacity of 12, 16, 18 and 25 tons. A new sheet rolling mill was also built. Pipe production was organized in 1907. With the outbreak of the First World War, for political reasons, the shops were transferred to the merchant Stakheev, who in 1916-1917, together with the Ministry of Railways, built two new buildings for the production of road machines.

Soviet period

After the arrival of the Bolsheviks, production began to work even more intensively. In 1923, a fork-rolling shop was opened, in 1925, a small section shop. On October 1, 1928, on the basis of the Nizhne-Vyksa, Doschatinsky and Upper Vyksa enterprises, the united Vyksa Metallurgical Plant (VMZ) was founded.

Until August 1929, V. I. Ustinov, then - V. N. Mazurin. During the years of the first five-year plans, the plant was developed and reconstructed. Open-hearth shop No. 2 was built, a small section shop was reconstructed, and a huge amount of work was done to electrify and mechanize production processes.

In 1930-1933, open-hearth shop No. 2 was erected nearby, and in 1935, pipe shop No. 2. ATthe people called these four buildings the New Plant, in the documents it was listed as an expanded NVZ. At the beginning of the 20th century, energy workshops were placed on the territory: steam power and electric.

Specialization and modernization

Since the Soviet period, JSC "Vyksa Metallurgical Plant" has maintained its leadership in the production of wheels for railway transport. Also traditional is the production of pipes. Powder metallurgy was mastered at the enterprise for the first time, and electric pipe welding shop No. 5 built in 1985 was considered the most advanced. In 1991, a technologically more advanced electric pipe welding shop (TETSTs) No. 4 was put into operation. Thanks to the ongoing cooperation with Russian Railways and joining the United Metallurgical Company, VMZ not only survived in the 90s, but also retained enviable production volumes.

In the 2000s, modernization continued. Entered:

• Anti-corrosion coating area (2000).
• Ladle-Vacuum Furnace (2004).
• Installation of local heat treatment of welded seams (2004).
• Line of single-seam long-seam pipes of large diameter for oil and gas pipelines, up to 1420 mm (2005).
• 3D pipe heat treatment shop (2007).
• New Casing Production Facility (2010).
• Metallurgical complex MKS-5000 (2011) and other projects.

CHPP-4

Electric welding shop No. 4 is the pride of the enterprise. Today, the pipes of the Vyksa Metallurgical Plant are in demand in the oil and gas industry, but theirimplementation was difficult. In February 1978, SMU-1 of the Metallurgstroy trust began pouring the foundation of CHPP-4, where it was planned to produce gas multilayer pipes obtained from thin-sheet rolled products.

In 1982, the first stage of the workshop began to produce pipes with a maximum diameter of 1420 mm, but due to the novelty of the process, multilayer pipes had a number of disadvantages. In 1987, the production was temporarily stopped, and it was decided to reconstruct the workshop using foreign technologies.

In 1992, the Vyksa Metallurgical Plant produced the first single-seam-straight-seam pipe, and then the production of products 508-1020 mm was launched, and reached production capacity. Today, products are manufactured by two independent lines using alternative technologies JCO-1420 and UOE-1020. In 1998, VMZ received a license from the Gosgortekhnadzor of the Russian Federation for the production of main pipelines.

Open-hearth shop 2

JSC "Vyksa Metallurgical Plant" is famous for its foundry. Open-hearth shop No. 2 was built from 1930 to 1933 with two furnaces of 90 tons each to provide sheet-rolling shop with metal. After the war, 2 reconstructions were carried out with an increase in the capacity of the furnaces, first to 185 tons, and then to 250 tons each. In the 70s, furnace No. 5 was built, but in 2000 it was liquidated.

The first head of the open-hearth shop No. 2 was Nesterenko S. I. - metallurgical engineer, graduate of the Yekaterinoslav (Dnepropetrovsk) Mining Institute. The first heat on furnace No. 5 was released on September 28, 1933. FROMIn 1941, armored steel was produced in the workshop on 90-ton furnaces. There was no analogue to this not only in our country, but also abroad. The workshop has always taken care of the introduction of new equipment and technology. In the 1950s, they switched to working with basic chrome-magnesite vaults instead of Dinas ones, introduced automation of the thermal regimes of furnaces, built waste heat boilers and a laboratory building.

In the 60s, they mastered a new method of express analysis of metal, installed vapor-evaporative cooling of individual parts on furnaces. In 1974, the development of the production of wheel steel began. The first melt was released on June 18 of the same year. In 1985-1990, all three furnaces were overhauled with a change in their design. In 2006, the open-hearth shop became part of the wheel-rolling complex.

Wheel rolling shop

In 1969, the Vyksa Steel Works began construction of Europe's largest workshop for the production of railway wheels. The KPTs was declared the object of the regional shock Komsomol construction. The first stage - the finishing line - was launched on 10/1/1973. Exactly one year later, the construction of the second stage was completed, which made it possible to reach the design capacities for press-rolling production (650,000 railway wheels per year) and thermomechanical processing (850,000 wheels).

Products are made from steel of our own production. The OPC equipment is highly automated and mechanized. The workshop has mastered the manufacturing process of solid-rolled wheels witha rim of increased hardness, various disk configurations and mechanical processing of all elements. The main consumers are enterprises of the Ministry of Railways of Russia. In addition, the wheels are supplied to the CIS countries, South Korea, Serbia, USA, Slovakia, Bulgaria, India, Indonesia, Vietnam. In 2006, the forging shop was merged with the open-hearth shop into a wheel-rolling complex.

Museum

1958-13-09 The executive committee of the Vyksa City Council of People's Deputies decided to establish a public historical and revolutionary museum in Vyksa. From 1958 to 1987, the expositions were located in the Palace of Culture. Lepse.

2.07.1985 the manor house of the Batashev breeders was transferred to the balance of the Vyksa plant. In January 1992, he acquired the status of the Museum of the History of JSC "VSW". Created through the efforts of enthusiastic employees, local historians, residents of Vyksa, who shared exhibits, documents on the history of the plant and the city, the Museum of the History of VSW is still at the service of society. It acquires, stores, researches, promotes and exhibits evidence of the history of the Vyksa region.

Vyksa Steel Works: contacts

• Address: 607060, Nizhny Novgorod region, Vyksa city, Batashev Brothers street, 45.
• Managing Director: Barykov Alexander Mikhailovich.
• Contact number: (800) 25-01-150.
• Fax: (83177) 37-605.
• Reception: (495) 23-17-771, extension - 3903.