OREANDA-NEWS. On September 25, 2014 in the city of Yekaterinburg, on the territory of the plant of Uralhimmash OJSC they commissioned RAW 160/200 radial-axial ring-rolling mill.

RAW 160/(200) - 160/(200) - 3000/(630) mill is manufactured by SMS Meer (Germany) and designed for the production of rings and disks using various types of steel, and also copper, aluminum, nickel and titanium alloys. This equipment will allow decreasing significantly the ring steel intensity (by 15-20%), reducing steel treatment costs (by 40 - 50 %), and increasing the production capacity (5-fold to 10-fold). For comparison: when rolling a ring 1700 mm in diameter on the existing press, labor costs are ЎЦ 20 minutes, for RAW 160 the time of rolling of the similar ring is 1 minute 30 seconds.

The important advantage of this equipment is the high level of occupational safety, as any contact of the person with the heated metal is excluded during the operation at the new equipment. The working process also excludes such hazardous factors influencing a human body, as radiant energy from the hot blank and increased noise level. The production process is carried out fully from the mill control unit, which is located in the premise equipped with an air conditioning and ventilation systems.

Open Joint-Stock Company United Heavy Machinery Plants (Uralmash-Izhora Group) is one of the top companies in the heavy machine-building industry specializing in engineering, manufacturing, sales and servicing of equipment for nuclear energy sector, petrochemical and oil & gas industries, mining and in special steel making and the provision of industrial services. OMZ manufacturing facilities are located in Russia and the Czech Republic. The group is controlled by Gasprombank (Open Jont-Stock Company).