Vyksa Metallurgical Plant: contacts. Pipes of Vyksa Steel Works

JSC "VMZ" (Vyksa Metallurgical Plant) is the leader in the production of wheels for railway transport and pipe rolling. This is one of the oldest Russian industrial enterprises. He is a member of OMK-Holding.

History of creation

Vyksa Steel Works appeared in the iron ore district around the ancient city of Vyksa in the Nizhny Novgorod province by merging several small enterprises of the Batashevs' industrialists. In 1768, at the lower dam of the Reserve Pond, the Lower Plant was founded, consisting of 10 wooden hulls: two of them hammer, one housed eight horns, the other - four. In the remaining buildings there were crimping machines, furnaces, nailing with four hammers, a sawmill. On the bank of the Lower Pond there are two wooden hammers and a stone two-story building with six mites and twelve boobies, a smithy, a large plumbing shop, warehouses, a milling mill.

At the Nizhne-Vyksunsky plant they produced: iron (strip, sort, sheet, tire, hoop), crochets, nails, wire, tools. In the late 1830s, the first puddling furnaces for the production of iron in pieces were installed by a new puddling method. In 1842, such furnaces were already 10, the capacity of each was up to 10 poods (96-100 kg).

By the middle of the XIX century Vyksa Steel Works became bankrupt. He was given to the German Lessing. In the reconstruction of the Lessing period in 1892 the first open-hearth furnace for the production of steel was installed, in 1894 the open-hearth furnace shop appeared, which in 20 years had already four furnaces with a capacity of 12, 16, 18 and 25 tons. A new sheet rolling mill was also built. In 1907, pipe production was organized. With the outbreak of the First World War, the shop was handed over to the merchant Staheev for political reasons, who in 1916-1917, together with the Ministry of Railways, built two new hulls for the production of road machines.

The Soviet period

After the arrival of Bolsheviks, the production earned even more intensity. In 1923 a forklift shop was opened, in 1925 - a small-grade shop. 1.10.1928 on the basis of Nizhne-Vyksunsky, Doschatinsky and Verkhne-Vyksa enterprises, the joint Vyksa Metallurgical Plant (VSW) was founded.

Until August 1929 the director of VSW was V.I. Ustinov, then - VN. Mazurin. During the first five-year plans the plant developed and was reconstructed. The open-hearth shop No. 2 was built, a small-scale shop was reconstructed, and a huge amount of work was done to electrify and mechanize production processes.

In 1930-1933 near the open-hearth shop number 2 and in 1935 - pipe № 2. In the people these four buildings were called the New Plant, in the documents it was listed as an enlarged NWZ. In the early twentieth century on the territory there were energy shops: steam power and electric.

Specialization and modernization

Since the Soviet period, JSC "Vyksunsky Metallurgical Plant" maintains leadership in the production of wheels for railway transport. Also traditional is the production of pipes. At the enterprise for the first time powder metallurgy was mastered , and the pipe-electric welding shop No. 5 erected in 1985 was considered to be the most advanced one. In 1991, the technologically advanced pipe-and-electric welding shop No. 4 was commissioned. Thanks to the ongoing cooperation with Russian Railways and joining the United Metallurgical Company, VMZ not only survived in the 90s, but also preserved enviable production volumes.

In the 2000s, modernization continued. The following were introduced:

• A site for application of anticorrosive coatings (2000).
• Bucket-vacuum furnace (2004).
• Installation of local heat treatment of welded joints (2004).
• Line of single-seam-pseudo-welded large diameter pipes for gas and oil pipelines, up to 1420 mm (2005).
• The shop for bulk heat treatment of pipes (2007).
• New casing production complex (2010).
• Metallurgical complex MKS-5000 (2011) and other projects.

CHPP-4

Pipe electric welding shop No. 4 is the pride of the enterprise. Today the pipes of Vyksa Metallurgical Plant are in demand in the oil and gas industry, however, their implementation has been difficult. In February 1978, SMU-1 trust "Metallurgstroy" began pouring the foundation of the CHPP-4, where it was planned to produce gas-conducting multilayer pipes obtained from thin-sheet steel.

In 1982, the first stage of the workshop began production of pipes with a maximum diameter of 1420 mm, but because of the novelty of the process technology, multilayer pipes had a number of drawbacks. In 1987, the issue was temporarily discontinued, and the workshop was decided to be reconstructed using foreign technologies.

In 1992, Vyksunsky Metallurgical Plant produced the first one-seam-stub pipe, and then the production of 508-1020 mm products was launched, and it went into streaming capacity. Today, the products are manufactured by two independent lines on alternative technologies JCO-1420 and UOE-1020. VMZ in 1998 received a license from the Gosgortechnadzor of the Russian Federation for the production of trunk pipelines.

Marten Shop No.2

Vyksa Metallurgical Plant OJSC is famous for foundry production. Marten's shop No. 2 was built from 1930 to 1933 with two furnaces of 90 tons each to provide a sheet rolling shop with metal. After the war, 2 reconstructions were carried out with an increase in the capacity of the furnaces to 185 tons, and then to 250 tons each. In the 70's built furnace number 5, but in 2000 it was eliminated.

The first head of open-hearth shop No. 2 was Nesterenko SI. - engineer-metallurgist, graduate of Ekaterinoslav (Dnepropetrovsk) Mining Institute. The first melting on the No. 5 furnace was released on September 28, 1933. Since 1941, the shop produces armored steel on 90-ton furnaces. An analogue to this was not only in our country, but also abroad. The shop always cared about the introduction of new technology and technology. In the 1950s we moved to work with the main chromium-magnesite vaults instead of dynastic ones, introduced the automation of furnace thermal modes, built waste heat boilers and laboratory and household buildings.

In the 60's they mastered a new method of express analysis of metal, installed steam-vaporizing cooling of individual parts on furnaces. In 1974, the production of wheeled steel began. The first melting was released on June 18 of the same year. In 1985-1990, major repairs were carried out for all three furnaces with a change in their design. In 2006, the open-hearth shop became part of the wheel-rolling complex.

Wheel shop

In 1969, the Vyksa Steel Works started the construction of the largest railway wheel manufacturing plant in Europe. The CPC was declared an object of the regional strike Komsomol construction. The first line - the finishing line - was launched on 10/01/1973. Exactly a year later the construction of the second stage was completed, which allowed to achieve design capacity for press rolling (650,000 railway wheels per year) and thermomechanical processing (850,000 wheels).

The products are made of steel of own production. Equipment KPTS highly automated and mechanized. The workshop mastered the technical process of manufacturing solid-rolled wheels with a rim of increased hardness, a different disk configuration and machining of all elements. The main consumers are enterprises of the Ministry of Railways of Russia. In addition, the wheels are delivered to the CIS countries, South Korea, Serbia, the USA, Slovakia, Bulgaria, India, Indonesia, Vietnam. In 2006, the CPC was integrated with the open-hearth shop into a wheel-rolling complex.

The Museum

On September 13, 1958, the executive committee of the Vyksa City Council of People's Deputies adopted a decision to establish a public historical and revolutionary museum in Vyksa. From 1958 to 1987, the exposition was located in the Palace of Culture. Lepse.

On 2.07.1985 the owner's house of the Batashevs' factory owners was transferred to the balance of the Vyksa plant. In January 1992, it acquired the status of the History Museum of OAO "VMZ". Created by the efforts of employees-enthusiasts, local historians, residents of Vyksa, who shared exhibits, documents on the history of the plant and the city, the Museum of History VSW still stands at the service of society. He acquires, stores, explores, promotes and exhibits evidence of the history of the Vyksa region.

Vyksa Steel Works: contacts

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