Nadezhda Metallurgical Plant (Serov Metallurgical Plant named after AK Serov): history, description, products

Nadezhdinsky (Serov) metallurgical plant for more than 120 years produces products and blanks from metal. Founded 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 took a second wind, a large-scale modernization allowed to switch from open-hearth coal furnaces to electric steelmaking equipment.

Plant be!

In the 90s of the XIX century the tsarist government worked out the question of laying the Siberian railway, designed to unite Central Russia and the Far East. This was decided by representatives of the noble family Polovtsov, who had great influence in the Theological District of the Middle Urals.

At the suggestion of the mining engineer Auerbach they agreed to build a metallurgical factory in the region for the production of rails, but with the condition of guaranteed sales to the state. For about a year, negotiations continued. The Siberian Road Administration undertook to purchase 5 million poods of rails. The deposit of 2.5 million rubles allowed to actually build the Serov Metallurgical Plant for state money.

Base

Finally in 1893 earthworks began to lay foundations for future buildings. For construction, a site was selected, surrounded by forests near the Kakva River, 3.5 versts from the Bogoslovsky-Sosvenskaya railway. At the same time, a large number of housing and hozpostroek was built. By the end of the winter of 1894, in the middle of the taiga, a whole town grew up, later named Serov.

The designing of the enterprise was carried out by a whole group of outstanding engineers of the time: AA Auerbach was responsible for the general concept of structures, FF Shtark calculated metal structures, AV Nikitin (manager of the Sosvinsky plant) and RR Tonkov designed blast furnaces, open-hearth furnaces The site and rolling mill was developed by AI Meshchersky.

The ceremony of laying the new production took place on May 29, 1894, the first pood of metal was smelted on January 19, 1896, and the first production-rails-was received on March 3 of the same year. Actually, from this moment the history of Serov Metallurgical Plant begins. By the way, the company was named in honor of the wife of state adviser AA Polovtsov - Nadezhda Mikhailovna.

Pre-revolutionary development

The Polovtsovs undertook the construction of a new enterprise with great scope. At the time of construction, it was the most advanced and productive in the Urals. The equipment was purchased from European suppliers from Belgium, France, Germany. Already in the autumn of 1896 the first part of the contract for the delivery of 500,000 poods of rails was completed.

In addition to the rail section, shops for the production of high-quality and roofing iron, refractory products and shell blanks worked. High-quality ore (with iron content up to 60% and the presence of manganese, improving the properties of metals) was supplied from a neighboring mine, called Auerbachovsky. 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 work, the enterprise began to experience financial difficulties. By this time, the Serov settlement numbered about 10,000 inhabitants, more than 2,100 people worked on the plant itself. Debt on wages 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, in the new rolling mills, powerful 350 mm and 450 mm mills were installed. The rolling of a crook and a variety of iron began. By 1911, there were 6 open-hearth and 7 blast furnaces operating at the Serov Metallurgical Plant. The number of employees has risen to 4000. Only rails here produced up to 70% of the total volume of all Ural enterprises.

The beginning of the First World confused production plans. Instead of rails began to make barbed wire, shells, blanks for guns. Evacuated equipment from 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 impending turmoil predetermined the further development of the enterprise.

In the name of the revolution

On December 7, 1917, the new government nationalized production. Since the autumn of 1919, the restoration of workshops damaged 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 for the smelting of high-quality and specialized steels. Local steelworkers were the first in the world to set up shoes for tractor caterpillars. The assortment has replenished:

• Blanks of various sizes of square and round shapes, obtained by rolling.
• Rolled by calibration, obtained by the method of cold drawing with the subsequent turning-grinding processing.
• Steel drilling hollows.
• Steel ball bearings.

By 1937, up to 70% of the output was high-quality rolled products (previously this figure barely reached 5%).

40th years

In the prewar period, the plant continued to improve its metallurgical technologies. In 1940-41, the smelting of steels of anticorrosive and natural alloying with a vanadium concentration of 0.7% was mastered. The production of new types of cast iron: copper and vanadium.

The Great Patriotic War became the catalyst for the introduction of new methods of casting. For 4 years, the production increased by 1.7 times, the factory workers learned how to smear about 100 new grades of high-quality alloyed steel, so necessary for the defense industry, power engineering, and machine building. Again, "for the first time in the world" technologies have been developed for smelting ferrochromium and ferrosilicon.

Let there be peace

After the war, the Serovskiy metallurgical plant was repeatedly upgraded and increased its capacity. In 1946 they built an agglomeration factory, installed a second belt of a cast-iron machine. In 1960, introduced a lowering substation, which connected the enterprise with the Unified Energy System of the USSR.

Since 1975, the plant has been supplying domestic auto and airline enterprises with special alloys and steels for the production of cars and trucks, military self-propelled machinery, and aircraft. The main consumers were the Ministry of Aviation Industry and the Volga Automobile Plant. Also this year, metallurgists in an emergency order established the production of hollow steels for oil and gas equipment previously purchased abroad.

In the 1980s, much attention was paid to the so-called diversification of production. The Soviet government instructed the factory workers to produce scarce consumer goods, which did not quite correspond to the profile of the plant. More useful for the enterprise was the commissioning in 1985 of a scrap metal recycling facility.

In the early 90's the plant was incorporated. In 2000, he moved under the management of UMMC-Holding, which allowed to find funds for a large-scale reconstruction. A revolutionary event was the commissioning of an 80-ton electric steel-making complex, which allowed the abandonment of ecologically harmful and technologically obsolete open-hearth furnaces.

Serov Metallurgical Plant: Products

Today the enterprise 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:

• Steels alloyed.
• Pig iron is redundant.
• Prokata (with special, calibrated, high-quality).
• Blanks tube, square, axial.
• Blum.
• Iron vitriol.

In 2016, at the initiative of the administration, the Serov Metallurgical Plant was renamed Nadezhdinsky with the formulation: "In order to maintain historical justice".