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The production of metallurgical equipment at the Novo-Kramatorsk Machine Plant (NKMZ) was originally oriented toward different types of rolling mills and auxiliary equipment. Over the last 65 years, specialists at the plant have designed, built, and placed in operation more than 100 rolling mills and other metallurgical machinery. The planned economy guaranteed the factory stable volumes of work. The list of products was strictly regulated and the responsibility for their manufacture was divided among several huge machine plants in the former USSR. The new economic conditions have upset the old order and made it necessary to find other ways to survive. Promising areas of commercial activity are being identified with allowance for the state of the market, and production is being diversified.Today, the NKMZ is devising its business strategy and planning its research in metallurgical machine construction on the basis of world trends and present standards on metallurgical production practices and equipment. Some of the directions in which the company is focusing its research:-low-cost, highly efficient reconstruction of existing shops and machinery involving the comprehensive automation of production processes and auxiliary operations, which ensures high technical-economic indices and an improvement in product quality; -ensuring the high quality, reliability, and durability of individual parts and components of equipment; -introducing continuous casting so as to obtain semifinished products whose dimensions and shape approach the dimensions and shape of the final product as closely as possible;

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