OREANDA-NEWS. March 22, 2010. Uralmash Machine-Building Corporation has dispatched spare parts for 20 t horizontal press: to Alkoa SMZ (Samara). This includes two column structures and container carrier. The total weight of the equipment shipped is about 100 t.

Metallurgical equipment division, Uralmash-Engineering Ltd has designed the equipment and Uralmashplant has manufactured it.

Uralmashplant horizontal press has demonstrated perfect performance with no severe failures over the past 50 years. When a certain number of basic parts turned to fail Uralmashplant was entrusted to manufacture spare parts. After the reconstruction it is planned to use the press for production of aircraft panels and plates.

Alkoa SMZ Close Corporation is the largest Russian manufacturer of aluminum semi-finished products. The plant produces a wide range of rolled-plate, pressed and forged-and-stamped products from various types of aluminum alloys. The production conforms to the international and national standard requirements. Enterprises of aerospace, sheep-building, packing, oil-and-gas industries as well as transportation equipment companies are among Alkoa SMZ clients.

Uralmash Machine-Building Corporation is one of the leaders in the Russian market of metallurgical, mining, oil- and gas-producing industrial equipment, as well as the equipment for construction-materials industry and power industry. The corporation was established on a parity basis when United Heavy Machinery JSC merged with Uralmashplant-based UK Metalloinvest (Yekaterinburg), ORMETO-YUMZ (Orsk) and number of engineering subdivisions united into Uralmash-Engineering Ltd.