OREANDA-NEWS. September 03, 2010. Uralmashplant signed a contract for modernization of 5000 kN stretcher for Kamensk-Uralsky metallurgical plant (KUMZ). The contract provides for modernization project development, supply of equipment (about 70 tons) and commissioning supervision. The stretcher is to be commissioned in April 2011.

The stretcher forms part of the panel and section extrusion line with 120 MN press, it is intended for stretch-straightening of solid and hollow wrought-aluminum parts with cross-section area up to 200 cm2. These sections are used in the manufacture of modern railroad cars for high-speed trains.

The modernization will allow expanding the range of products, enhancing product quality, and raising production. Thus, thanks to the modernization the length of sections produced will increase from 14 to 34 meters. The stretcher will be equipped with devices designed to eliminate buckling and control the degree of tensile strain.

At present, Uralmashplant performs another KUMZ contract for modernization of 300 MN vertical hydraulic forming press and two heating belt furnaces No. 4 and No. 5.

Kamensk-Uralsky metallurgical plant (OAO KUMZ) produces Al and Al-alloys ingots, rolled flats, sections, welded and extruded pipe, drill pipe, rods, wire, extrusions of any configuration, wheel webs for passenger cars and trucks, heat exchangers for refrigerators, painted sections and structures, corrugated plates. At present, KUMZ exports the most of its products. The Al semiproducts are supplied to 46 countries worldwide in Europe, North and South America, Asia, Africa, and Oceania.

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 development strategy of Uralmash Machine-Building Corporation is to create a state-of-the-art machine-building corporation, which will be able to fully satisfy the customers' needs for equipment.