Nadezhdinsky (Serov) Metallurgical Worksmore than 120 years produces products and blanks of metal. Based for the production of rails, over the years it has grown into a large combine with a wide range of products. After entering the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company, the company gained a second wind, a large-scale modernization allowed to switch from open-hearth coal furnaces to electric furnace equipment.
The plant will be!
В 90-х годах XIX века царским правительством был The issue of laying the Siberian railway, designed to unite Central Russia and the Far East, has been worked out. Representatives of the noble family Polovtsov, who had a great influence in the Theological District of the Middle Urals, decided to take advantage of this.
По предложению горного инженера Ауэрбаха они agreed to build a metallurgical factory in the region for the production of rails, but with the condition of a guaranteed sale of products to the state. About a year negotiations lasted. Management of the Siberian road has pledged to purchase 5 million pounds of rails. A deposit of 2.5 million rubles actually allowed the Serov Metallurgical Plant to be rebuilt for state money.
Base
Finally, in 1893, excavation work began onlaying the foundations of future buildings. For the construction, we chose a site surrounded by forests near the Kakva River, 3.5 miles from the Theological-Sosvensk railway. At the same time a large number of housing and outbuildings were built. By the end of the winter of 1894, an entire town grew up in the middle of the taiga, later called Serov.
The enterprise was engaged in designing the wholea group of outstanding engineers of his time: A. A. Auerbach was responsible for the general concept of structures, F. F. Stark counted on metal structures, A. V. Nikitin (ruler of the Sosvinsky Plant) and R. R. Tonkov designed blast furnaces, open-hearth section and rolling mill developed A.I. Meshchersky.
Церемония закладки нового производства состоялась On May 29, 1894, the first pood of metal was smelted on January 19, 1896, and the first product — rails — was obtained on March 3 of the same year. Actually, from this moment begins the history of the Serov Metallurgical Plant. By the way, the company was named after the wife of the state adviser A. A. Polovtsov - Nadezhda Mikhailovna.
Pre-revolutionary development
Polovtsov in a big way took up the arrangementnew enterprise. At the time of construction it was the most advanced and productive in the Urals. Equipment purchased from European suppliers from Belgium, France, Germany. In the fall of 1896, the first part of the contract for the supply of 500,000 pounds of rails was executed.
Помимо рельсового участка работали цеха по the manufacture of varietal and roofing iron, refractory products and shell blanks. High-grade ore (with an iron content of up to 60% and the presence of manganese, which improves the properties of metals) was supplied from a nearby mine, called Auerbach. Later, the development of other mines began - all of them with the Serov Metallurgical Plant were connected by a narrow-gauge railway.
Growth difficulties
After 4 years of operation, the company beganhave financial difficulties. By this time, the village of Serov numbered about 10,000 inhabitants; more than 2,100 people worked at the production itself. Wage arrears caused sharp discontent of workers, by 1905 a revolutionary circle was formed, a wave of strikes swept.
However, the work of the plant continued.In 1906, powerful 350-mm and 450-mm mills were installed in the new rolling mill. Started rolling billet and iron varietal. By 1911, 6 open-hearth and 7 blast furnaces operated at the Serov Metallurgical Plant. The number of employees increased to 4,000. Rails here alone produced up to 70% of the total volume of all Ural enterprises.
The beginning of the First World Confused Productionplans Instead of rails they began to make barbed wire, shells, blanks for tools. The evacuated equipment of the Riga Mechanical Plant allowed to increase production capacity. The construction of its own power plant at 7,500 kW promised promising prospects, but the resulting distemper predetermined the further development of the enterprise.
In the name of the revolution
December 7, 1917 new governmentnationalized production. Since the autumn of 1919, the restoration of workshops that had suffered in the civil war began. In 1930, the Serov Metallurgical Plant named after Serov was reoriented from the manufacture of rails and low-grade products to the smelting of high-quality and specialized steels. Local steelmakers were the first in the world to set up rolling shoes for tractor tracks. The range has replenished:
- Billets of various sizes, square and round shapes, obtained by rolling.
- Rolling gauge, obtained by the method of cold drawing, followed by turning and grinding processing.
- Steels boring hollow.
- Steel ball-bearing.
By 1937, up to 70% of production was high-quality steel (previously, this figure barely reached 5%).
40s
В предвоенное время завод продолжал improve metallurgical technologies. In the years 1940-41 mastered the production of anti-corrosion and natural-alloyed steel with a vanadium concentration of 0.7%. Production of new types of cast iron has been launched: copper and vanadium.
Great Patriotic War became a catalystintroducing new casting methods. For 4 years, production has increased by 1.7 times, the factory workers have learned to smelt about 100 new grades of high quality alloy steels, so necessary for the defense industry, energy, engineering. Again, “for the first time in the world”, technologies for smelting ferrochrome and ferrosilicon have been developed.
May there be peace
После войны металлургический завод «Серовский» repeatedly subjected to modernization, increased capacity. In 1946, an sinter plant was built, and a second cast iron casting machine was installed. In 1960 they introduced a substation substation connecting the company with the Unified Energy System of the USSR.
Since 1975, the plant has been supplying domestic autoand airlines special alloys and steel for the production of cars and trucks, military self-propelled vehicles, aircraft. The main consumers were the Ministry of Aviation Industry and the Volga Automobile Plant. Also this year, metallurgists urgently launched the production of hollow steels for oil and gas equipment, previously purchased abroad.
In the 1980s, much attention was paid tocalled diversification of production. The Soviet government ordered the factory workers to produce scarce consumer goods, which did not quite match the profile of the plant. The commissioning of a scrap metal processing complex in 1985 became more useful for the company.
In the early 90s the plant was incorporated.In 2000, he came under the management of UMMC-Holding, which made it possible to raise funds for large-scale reconstruction. A revolutionary event was the introduction of an 80-ton electric steel-smelting complex, which made it possible to abandon environmentally harmful and technologically outdated open-hearth furnaces.
Serov Metallurgical Plant: products
Today, the company continues to produce the widest range of products. Consumers are offered 320 types of steel, more than 400 types of rolled products. The main directions are release:
- Steel alloyed.
- Pig iron.
- Rolled (with special finishing, calibrated, varietal).
- Pipe, square, axial blanks.
- Blum.
- Iron sulfate.
In 2016, at the initiative of the administration, the Serov Metallurgical Plant was renamed Nadezhdinsky with the wording: “In order to observe historical justice.”
