A BIT OF CHRONOLOGY

1896

Historical way of our enterprise began from the 15th of November (the 28th of November of new style), 1896 when the Edit of His Imperial Majesty, All-Russian Autocrat Nikolay II, confirmed the activity conditions in Russia of the Belgian joint stock company "Sumy Machine-Building Shops (anonymous company)". The first Director became A.I.Berounsky, of the Belgian citizenship. The founders of joint stock company, besides foreign companions, were the famous Ukrainian owners of sugar-refineries P.I.Kharitonenko, N.A.Suhanov, L.E.Kening, A.A.Gebinder and other businessmen. As the founders' project the joint stock company should manufacture and repair equipment for sugar-refineries, Donbas mines, railways. The main workshops of the plant - foundry, machine, boiler, forge, pattern, copper-cable - were built by the late 1896.

1897

The enterprise manufactured the first lot of simple products. The plant mainly performed repairs of sugar-refineries equipment. Semaphors for railways and frogs for switches were manufactured. 350 people worked at the plant.

1900 - 1902

Evaporators, filtering and beet presses for sugar refineries were launched into production.

1908

The first Ukraine's steam engine was made.

1910 - 1912

The design group was formed at the enterprise. As to its projects (developments) the plant manufactured ceiling construction for Kiev covered market, iron construction for Nikolayev theatre, constructions for Tashkent railway depot etc. In 1912 the name was changed into “Sumy machine-building plants”. In that year the production of centrifugal pumps of high and low pressure was organized. 700 people worked at the plant.

1914

Changeover to military output accomplished; blasting caps shop was built; equipment for gunpowder factories was launched into production.

1922

Reconstruction after Civil War was finished at the plant. Enterprise produced steam boilers, centrifugal pumps, steam hoists, frames for railway bridges, equipment for sugar-refineries.

1927

Steam horizontal machine with two cylinders, three-stage centrifugal pump were launched into production.

1928

The enterprise was recalled into “Sumy Machine-Building Plant named after M.V. Frunze”.

1929

Electric arc welding was mastered for the first time in Ukraine.

1930 - 1931

The enterprise was specialized in manufacture of chemical and oil extraction equipment. Pump-compressor, foundry, and tool shops were built.

1933

Ukraine's first 10,000 cu.m/h piston compressor was manufactured.

1935

The first specialized shop for centrifuge manufacture was built.

1936

Nickel and chrome nickel steel welding method was mastered. Welded chemical equipment using these steels was launched into production.

1937 - 1940

The unique superpower 850 atm.ammonia synthesis compressor was manufactured. At that time similar equipment was not manufactured by any West European company. Suspended centrifugal with sediment handle discharge and belt drive, steam cracking-machine, apparatus for sugar industry was produced.

1941 - 1944

The plant was evacuated to Tambov, Chirchik, Chelyabinsk, Kemerovo. Wartime manufacture.

1946 - 1948

Reconstruction of production capabilities. The enterprise gradually increased products manufacturing. The first postwar samples of vacuum filters were made. Centrifugal pumps for sugar industry were launched into production again.

1950 - 1959

Equipment for the nuclear industry was manufactured; fulfilling commissions under space exploration programs. The output of more than 35 new machines and devices for the chemical industry, including a five-stage compressor, automatic centrifuges, rotary vacuum pumps was mastered. The enterprise emerged on the world market. Ukraine's first opposite compressor, all kinds of world's existing centrifuges were launched into production.

1960

Ukraine's first heavy-duty opposite compressors were mastered.

1965

Production of centrifuges with mechanical discharge and vacuum drum dryers was mastered.

1969 - 1975

New types of units, machines and equipment, including equipment for weak nitric acid, ethylene production, were mastered. Ukraine's first shipment of complete mineral fertilizers, ethylene, and helium production lines and units was effected.

1976

Sumy Machine-Building Science-and-Production Association was set up including the Frunze Machine-Building Plant, Heavy Compressor Machine-Building Plant, Special Design Bureau for Chemical Equipment and Construction Department.

1976 - 1977

Serial output of advanced gas-transfer plants GPA-C-6,3 driven by aircraft type gas turbine of 6300kW power of block-container modification.

1980

Nuclear power machine-building plant was attached to the Association.

1981

GCN-195M-type main circulating pumps and pumps for nuclear power stations' secondary circuit were launched into production

1982

New more powerful gas-transfer plants GPA-C-16 driven by aircraft type gas turbine of 16000kW power of block-container modification were launched into production.

1985

The All-Union Science-Design-and-Development Institute for Compressor Machine-Building and Sumy Branch of the Special Design Bureau for Heavy Chemical Technical Engineering was attached to the Association. The enterprise was named "Sumy Frunze Machine-Building Science-and-Production Association"

1987

Automobile gas-filling compressor stations and automobile gas-fueling stations were launched into serial output.

1988

The Association ordered and the Italian firm Danieli built the plant manufacturing drill collars and kellys for the oil and gas industries.

1994

The Association was reorganized to a public joint stock company.

1990 - 2000

Structural reforms in existing production sectors, expanding assortment.

1997

The Certificate of Approval was granted, confirming the correspondence of the quality system valid in JSC "Sumy Frunze NPO" to the International Standard ISO 9001.

1999

The pipeline valves manufacture was mastered, they are in comply with requirements of the International Standard API-6D.

2000

After sale by auction of the last state block of shares, the privatization process has been completed.

2000 - 2002

Expansion of manufactured products nomenclature list. Restruction of the Company. Production potentialities were increased. New industrial projects, namely argon-oxygen sector, production sector for industrial-rubber items and electric welded stainless pipe production mill, power electric station EGTU-16 have been commissioned.