PRODUCTION  POTENTIALITIES

JSC "Sumy Frunze NPO", unique by its production potentialities, has available the most up-to-date equipment.

The Company comprises the following specialized production sectors:
• Chemical equipment;
• Gas transfer turbocompressor units and compressors;
• Pumps including equipment for nuclear power stations;
• Machine-building;
• Procurement department;
• Construction department;

Subsidiaries:
• Drill collars and kellys works;;
• Trading company including consumer goods production.

Consumers of  more than 40 countries worldwide  know JSC "Sumy Frunze NPO" as a responsible business partner.

High technical level of equipment being created is achieved due to high qualification of engineering personnel, usage of the latest achievements in science and technology, as well as thanks to long years close cooperation with scientists from more than 20 academic and research institutes.

To manufacture sophisticated equipment and to provide its high quality and reliability the Company has available up-to-date unique machinery.

The Metallurgical department is equipped with automated metallurgical complex with steel continuous casting plant and vacuum oxygen decarburization, providing the castings production from high alloyed and stainless steel grades with weight up to 18 t and blooms making with section up to 500 mm. There is the workshop manufacturing cold-rolled, electric welded and bimetallic pipes.

The forging complex is equipped with the automated press of 2000 t force, the forging presses of 1500 t force, the ring-rolling machine for castings production of diameter up to 4000 mm, the shaft heat-treatment furnaces. Automated high-speed radial forging machine provides bars production.

The following unique machinery is used in procurement production sector:
• Messer Grischeim computer-controlled gas-cutting plant for sophisticated configuration carbon steel blanks;
• Trumatic 300 plasma coordinate cutting machine made by the Company "Trumpf" for cutting stainless steel parts of sophisticated configuration, including segments of centrifuge screws, and for cutting ports;
• Set of equipment including a flanger making diameter 1,800 - 4,000 mm elliptic and box bottoms and flanging conic bottoms with set radius and 40 mm thick walls;
• Asano Seiki profile-iron bending machines for making flanges by cold bending strips;
• Hausler molding-iron-profile-bending machines for making coil pipes, optical compensators and semipipes jackets are made with diameter 800 - 3,000 mm, and coils are made of pipes with diameter 25 - 159 mm;
• Unit for pipes finning with HFC heating.

The Company has available up-to-date metal-working machinery numbering over 3500 units, including 155 NC machine-tools and 23 automated machining centers. This machinery is of high process accuracy and made by leading machine-tool companies including "Waldrich-Siegen", "Max-Muller", "Innse", "Thylenhaus", "Dorries", "Forest", "Pfauter", "Berardi", "Hofler", "Lorenz", "Kolb", "Safob" and others.

The following unique equipment are operated at the Company:
• NC machine - tools and machining centers for handling the parts weighted to 100 t of sophisticated configuration;
• There is a thermoconstant shop for sophisticated important units manufacturing;
• Schneck balancing machines for rotors and other parts with maximum diameter 2,100 mm weight up to 7,000 kg;
• Schneck vacuum chambers for overspeed tests of compressor impellers and other parts.

Automated welding Deuma machines with manipulators of load-lifting capacity to 100 t, electron-beam welding machines providing welding metals and alloys on Ti basis with thickness up to 150 mm, machines for electric slag welding by wire electrode with welded metal thickness from 25 up to 300 mm and electric slag welding by consumable tip with welded material thickness from 120 up to 350 mm and joint length up to 800 mm, automated Arcosarc welding machines, vacuum soldering, plasma arc cutting and welding, metal gas thermal and vacuum hardening are widely used in welding works.

New technological processes are mastered and developed, among them:
• gas-and-thermal and plasma plating;
• procedure of bimetallic finned pipes made by cross screw knurling;
• pipes cold bending using digital-controlled machines;
• pipes bending heated by r.f. current using "Schaefer" NC-machines, with minimum bend radius equal 1.5 pipe’s diameter and maximum dimensions 530 x 50 mm;
• "Kruger" robot complex for shield structures contact welding as well as complexes of IGM Company for shielding gases electric-arc welding;
• electric slag welding of spherical bottoms from plate with metal thickness from 40 up to 80 mm;
• electric slag welding of casings end joints with wall thickness 120, 170 mm;
• mechanized submerged welding of oil and gas refining equipment casings and shut-off valves for gas pipelines with metal thickness up to 100 mm;
• fabrication of welded pipes made of 18-10 type steels.