Kopeysk Machine-Building plant (russian: Копейский машиностроительный завод) is Russia's largest manufacturer of

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equipment and

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, situated in

Kopeysk Kopeysk (russian: Копе́йск) is a city in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located southeast of Chelyabinsk. Population: The population growth between 2002 and 2010 was caused by the annexation of surrounding settlements. History Prior to 1 ...

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. Its products have been sold in over 30 countries.

History

The company was founded in under the name of State All-Union Machine-Building Plant after

Sergei Kirov Sergei Mironovich Kirov ( né Kostrikov; 27 March 1886 – 1 December 1934) was a Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary whose assassination led to the first Great Purge. Kirov was an early revolutionary in the Russian Empire and mem ...

. The basis of this company, Gorlovka Engineering Plant in

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, was evacuated as a result of

Operation Barbarossa Operation Barbarossa (german: link=no, Unternehmen Barbarossa; ) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during the Second World War. The operation, code-named afte ...

just as the Kopeysk Mine Repair Plant. Its production started on November 28 1941 and consisted of the manufacture of goods for the needs of the war against Nazi Germany. In 1942, the company was redesigned for civilian needs; especially production of mining equipment, logging machines, pumps and fans. In 1943, the company developed “Kopeyskaya Pulsating Power-1”, a new Coal Cutter. It was awarded the Stalin Prize as result. In 1948, it assembled the first Walking Excavator (ESH-1) in the Soviet Union. In 1950, the plant's products were exported to

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and China. In 1976 the company was decorated with an

Order of the Red Banner of Labour The Order of the Red Banner of Labour (russian: Орден Трудового Красного Знамени, translit=Orden Trudovogo Krasnogo Znameni) was an order of the Soviet Union established to honour great deeds and services to the ...

In the 90s, the company was reorganized into a joint stock company. Also in this period, a new machine was developed for loading potash ores and salt - K-500. From 2004 to 2010, the plant underwent a re-equipment. In 2006, the Kopeysk Machine-Building Plant was thanked by the President of the Russian Federation. In 2008, the KP21-02 roadheader and the Ural-20R roadheader were developed at the plant. the KP21 roadheader family are modern tunneling machines and they are all equipped with

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to ensure safety at work roadheaders in mines prone to sudden outbursts of coal and gas.

Quality Management

“Kopeysk Machine-Building plant” operates under the QMS. Thus it has got the

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International Standard and TÜV in design and production of mining equipment, communal services equipment, forging and foundry blanks for machine.

Products

The company produces

mining Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef, or placer deposit. The exploitation of these deposits for raw material is based on the economic ...

equipment,

metallurgy Metallurgy is a domain of materials science and engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their inter-metallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are known as alloys. Metallurgy encompasses both the sci ...

equipment,

Underground mining Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef, or placer deposit. The exploitation of these deposits for raw material is based on the economic via ...

equipment, and ore crushers. *

Roadheader A roadheader, also called a boom-type roadheader, road header machine, road header or just header machine, is a piece of excavating equipment consisting of a boom-mounted cutting head, a loading device usually involving a conveyor, and a crawler t ...

: PK-3M, PK-10, KP330, KP220, KP220K, KP150, KP21-150, KP21, 1GPKS * Trencher: 2086.31, 2086.51, AT, ATM * Loader : 2PNB2B, MPK3, MPK3B, KALIY-4500 * Mine Drilling rig: UBSH-210A *Coal Cutter: URAL-33M *Heading-and-Wining Machines: URAL-10R, URAL-20R-11, URAL-20R-12, URAL-61A, URAL-60S *Shuttle mine car: V17K

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External links

Official website
Manufacturing companies established in 1941