Uralmash-Izhora Group (OMZ) is Russia's largest heavy engineering company specialising in engineering, production, sales and service maintenance of equipment for the nuclear energy, petrochemical, oil and gas, and mining industries, producing special steels, and providing industrial services. The group has facilities in Russia and the Czech Republic.
The company's main activities include:
- design and production of equipment for nuclear power plants with pressurised water reactors (VVER), and equipment for the storage and transportation of spent nuclear fuel;
- production of metallurgical semi-products made of noncorrosive, heatproof, and cold-resistant steels;
- turnkey design, production and delivery of equipment for oil and gas, petrochemical and chemical companies;
- design, sales and complex service maintenance of high-performance excavation equipment for open-pit mining, as well as drilling and blasting equipment.
Izhorskie Zavody (Izhora Plants) merged into the OMZ Group in 1997.
Now, Izhorskie Zavodyhas the only facility in Russia and CIS that produces equipment for nuclear power plants with pressurised water reactors and Europe's largest automated metal forming system.
The group also has unique production facilities and holds the leading position in producing nuclear and petrochemical equipment, heavy mining equipment, heavy forgings, and high duty casting products made of special steels.
Izhorskie Zavody manufactures:
- semi-finished metallurgical products made of special steels for nuclear, energy, petrochemical, and mining industries;
- large-size primary circuit equipment for power units with pressurised water reactors with capacities of 440 and 1000 MWt (VVER-440 and VVER-1000);
- special equipment for the oil processing and chemical industries designed for advanced processing of carbohydrates;
- heavy mining machinery.
Izhorskie Zavodyhas manufactured over 50 VVER-440, VVER-1000, and RBMK-1000 equipment sets for nuclear power plants in Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Finland, India, China, and Iran.
Latest projects:
- equipment for two units with VVER-1000 reactors for the Tianwan NPP in China;
- equipment for a unit with a VVER-1000 reactor for the Kudankulam NPP in India;
- equipment for several Russian incomplete NPPs: the Rostov NPP, Novovoronezh NPP-2, Leningrad NPP-2, and Kalinin NPP.
Current projects:
- first-and second-stage hydrotreater units for LUKoil-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez;
- hydrocracking reactors for the new advanced oil processing complex for Taneko, Nizhnekamsk;
- reactors for a diesel oil hydrotreater unit for Naftan in Novopolotsk, Belarus.
Future projects:
- hydrodesulfurisation reactor for Taneko;
- hydrocracking reactors for Rosneft, the Tuapse Oil Processing Plant;
- hydrocracking and hydrotreater reactors in Serbia.
DSP-120 steelmaking complex
The complex includes a 120-tonne heavy duty arc furnace DSP-120, gas purifying system, lime calcination shop, automated doping material measurement system, metal scrap dryers and dryers of ferrous alloys. Apart from the construction of the complex, most of Izhora facilities were modernised and renovated.
The complex is the base of the manufacturing chain of the Izhora facility and allows manufacturing unique 600-tonne forging ingots, 500-tonne forgings, forged shells with a diameter of up to 5.5 metres for nuclear reactors and equipment for oil and gas processing, producing large two-and three-layered 450-mm overlay clad plates and slabs, and final heat treatment in unique furnaces that have no analogues either in Russia or the CIS countries.
The objective is to modernise the production in order to implement the Long-term Programme of the Rosatom state nuclear corporation, the Programme on the Development of the Chemical and Petrochemical Industry, the Russian Energy Strategy, and the General Scheme of the Location of Energy Industry Facilities.
Putting the complex into operation will contribute to increasing the production of equipment for nuclear power plants from two to four sets per year. Apart from that, this allows expanding manufacturing potential in producing reactors and other equipment for advanced processing of oil and gas to the benefit of our strategic partners: Naftan, Tatneft, LUKoil, Surgutneftegaz, Gazprom, Rosneft, NovoTEK and other. The ability to produce unique 600-tonne forging ingots will undermine foreign producers' monopoly on rotors for low speed turbines and generators.