PJSC «Svet Shakhtyora» is a structural unit of CORUM GROUP Company, producing equipment for mining industry: scraper conveyors and reloaders, cleaning and tunneling combines, mine substations, mine crushers, safety hydraulic clutches, head explosion proof battery lights, and methane analyzers.Products are operated at different mining and climatic conditions in coal, shale and potassium mines. Products are certified in keeping with the requirements of DSTU ISO 90010-2001.Mr. Kovalchuk, your company has been successfully developing during the last three years. It increases the output of mining equipment, where welded structures make up a considerable proportion. Under the conditions, when the market of independent Ukraine has declined, how can you explain intensive development of your company?Yes, indeed, internal market of mining equipment in Ukraine is limited, and the share of sales in the internal market has decreased. The issue of entering foreign markets became more acute, so that individual approach to each order, promptness of its fulfillment and constant communication with users are becoming ever more important. Despite all the difficulties, we increased the range of products manufactured by our company; mastered production of cleaning and tunneling combines, and stable-hole complexes. We also started manufacturing products, earlier untypical for us, namely explosion-proof transformer substations. We are working in the field of high-potential developing plow dredging that will allow us even more expanding the niche occupied by us in mining equipment manufacturing.During 2017, our plant manufactured 17 conveyors of different type, 15 cleaning and tunneling combines, 50 transformer substations, a large volume of spare parts for mining equipment; export accounted for 18 % of product output.Quality, reliability and safety of our products are confirmed by the respective certificates that make them competitive in supplying both the domestic and foreign markets. Reconstruction of production facilities has been performed under your leadership. What has been done to ensure manufacturing competitive products?One of major investments into the equipment of «Svet Shakhtyora» plant in 2014-2017 was purchase of wire EDM machine tool Mitsubishi MV2400S+ and processing center DOOSAN DBC160 (South Korea) with Fanuk 31i-B control system (Japan). The cost of introduction of

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