Chepets Mechanical Works has developed a technology, which allows processing used graphite into products. Graphite rods are used as anodes during the zirconium and calcium electrolysis. The company accumulates over 200 tons of used graphite per year, that earlier had to be disposed of. The new technology allows extracting pure graphite and manufacturing various products…
Chepets Mechanical Works has started trial work to process wastes originated when the company produced uranium tetraftorid. This is the first project in Russia to process uranium tailings bottom sediment. The uranium tetraftorid manufacture (the first stage of uranium conversion) was shut down in 2013. Research showed that the company could now produce ammonium poliuranate…
Chepets Mechanical Works has received a Russian patent for the HighMet wire and the technique to produce it. The technique is used to produce, among other things, calcium injection wire. The technique was developed several years ago. Now the company is the only manufacturer of such wire of its own electrolytic calcium in Russia. “We…
In 2018 the titanium manufacture of Chepets Mechanical Works turns 10. The company has mastered the manufacture of 300 types of products of titanium and alloys under the program of import substitution. In particular, it can produce capillary, ribbed and extremely thin-walled seamless pipes, as well as pipes with spiral ribs for reactor machinery on…
Chepets Mechanical Works has commissioned a system of manufacturing management in the bar shop. The new information system on the basis of MES Hydra allows monitoring the rolling mills operation in real time. The data gathering has decreased from 8 hours to 5 minutes. The project will result in the digital transformation of zirconium refining.…
This year Chepets Mechanical Works intends to actively develop foreign markets by promoting its products. “We understand, that if we want to further increase revenue, we have to enter the world markets”, the company CEO Deniz Anischuk said. The company has already signed agreements on the supply of titanium products. (Ukrainian metal)
In 5 years Chepets Mechanical Works intends to increase revenue 1.7-fold, from 13.5 billion rubles in 2017 to 22.7 billion in 2022. The most prospective direction is the manufacture of titanium products. According to the experts, by 2022 the company share of the market could reach 30%, with machine-building enterprises its main customers. Last year…
Chepets Mechanical Works has for the first time in Russia started manufacturing hafnium oxide. The company own hydrometallurgical wastes of zirconium manufacture are used as raw materials. “For the first time we have obtained the refined hafnium oxide with 99% purity from our own raw materials. The technology has been developed by the specialists of…
