25.04.1930 Under the order No. 115 of Bannikov A.P., Uralmashstroy manager, the technical department was reorganized into a production and technical division which included the following design groups: handling equipment, rolling equipment, metal structures and heating furnaces, which were charged with, apart from the plant construction, the development of drawings for the plant's production plan.
30.09.1931 The pattern shop received blooming mill stand and frame drawings.
09.1932 UZTM design department was set up (director - Nikolay Ivanovich Markov). It consisted of 13 specialized offices, including: blast furnace equipment (director Gruzin), metallurgical equipment (Semenko), rolling equipment (Kasatkin), press-forging equipment (Shalnev), crushing and grinding equipment (Karelyakov).
31.10.1932 The first engineering product - coke screens set - was assembled in shop No.1 and dispatched to the customer.
04.1933 Uralmashzavod started production of the first rolling mill.
07.1934 Manufacture of the first sintering plant is completed.
12.1935 The first floor charging machine for loading feed and flux into open-hearth furnaces is dispatched to the customer.
The first hydraulic hot forging press is manufactured.
The first sheet mill is manufactured.
15.07.1936 Commissioning of Chusovskoy rolling mill
12.1940 Over prewar years, Uralmash manufactured equipment for 18 blast furnaces, 10 rolling mills, around 100 presses with forces ranging from 400 to 12000 tf, various metallurgical cranes, etc.
25.03.1941 The first domestic horizontal hydraulic press with 3000 tf force is manufactured and dispatched to the customer (production plant Voroshilov, Leningrad).
Based on the designs of Uralmashzavod's design engineers the USSR's first two high-capacity 12000 tf presses for veneer production were manufactured.
04.12.1942 The USSR's and Europe's largest 1340 m3 blast furnace is commissioned at Magnitogorskiy iron and steel works, its components were manufactured at Uralmashzavod.
04.04.1945 A group of designers headed by G.L. Himich sets out to design the first soviet structural mill.
1946 Uralmashzavod started supplying equipment to Nizhnednepropetrovskiy wheel-rolling plant Karl Libkneht for a workshop under reconstruction - 2500, 3000 and 7000 tf presses. At that time it was the only USSR plant manufacturing solid-rolled wheels for the railway transport.
02.1950 A hot seamless tube rolling mill was manufactured and dispatched to the customer.
1951 A wheel-rolling plant was manufactured and dispatched to NTMK.
1952 The first Uralmash sintering plant with a sintering area of 75 m2 was commissioned at plant Petrovskiy (Ukraine). A similar plant was put into operation at Cherepovetskiy iron and steel works.
1956 The first Uralmash cold sheet rolling mill was commissioned at Magnitogorskiy iron and steel works - a five-cage mill 1200 with a yearly output of 500 000 tons of rolled products.
1959 The decree of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the Council of Ministers established NIITYAZHMASH. Areas of specialization were distributed among design divisions.
1962 The decree of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the Council of Ministers charged Uralmash with designing and manufacture of continuous casting equipment for casting steel into large ingots.
Manufacture of the first Uralmash sintering plant with a sintering area of 312 m2 is completed (for NLMK).
1964 The world's first curvilinear continuous casting machine is commissioned at Uralmashzavod. The first Uralmash automatic blooming mill-1300, with a yearly output of 5,8 million tons of rolled products, is manufactured for Chelyabinskiy iron and steel works. A similar blooming mill, with an output of 6 million tons of rolled product, is supplied to Krivorozhskiy iron and steel works (Ukraine).
1965 The first two Uralmash induration machines, with a working area of 72 m2, are commissioned at Pecheneganikel integrated works, the first two induration machines, with a working area of 108 m2, are commissioned at Sokolovsko-Sarbaiskiy ore mining and processing plant.
1966 The world's largest LD plant is set up and the first six Uralmash vertical continuous casting machines are put into operation at Novolipetskiy iron and steel works.
1968 The world's first curvilinear CCM is put into commercial operation at NTMK.
1973 A CCM manufactured under Uralmash's license, with a yearly output of 1 million tons of slabs, is commissioned at Kobe Steel plant in Kakogava (Japan).
1978 The world's first rail thermal hardening shop is put into operation at Kuznetskiy iron and steel works.
1989 A unique automated production line for manufacturing tank rollers from aluminum is put into operation at VSMPO (Verhnyaya Salda). The line comprised 4 presses with forces 1600, 6000 tf and two 2000 tf presses.
1996 Uralmash JSC becomes part of Ural machine building plants corporation (later United machine building plants JSC (OMZ)).
1998-1999 Design and sales business units are set up in Uralmash JSC, including Uralmash-Rolling equipment and Uralmash-CCM.
01.07.2001 The merger of Uralmash-Rolling equipment and Uralmash-CCM within the united sales administration of OMZ results in the creation of OMZ-Metallurgic equipment company. At the same time OMZ-Electric drive and Automation company is established.
18.12.2002 Registration of a legal entity OMZ-Metallurgical equipment and technologies Ltd. including subdivisions of OMZ-Electric drive and Automation.
10.06.2003 Due to the pull-out from OMZ, the name of the association is changed to Uralmash-Metallurgic equipment Ltd.
09.2003 As a result of change of ownership, Severstalmash Companies Group Ltd (99%) and CCM - Engineering Center Ltd. (1%), the subsidiaries of Severstal JSC, became the founders of Uralmash-Metallurgic equipment Ltd.
08.2006 Severstalmash Companies Group Ltd cancels its participation as founder of Uralmash-Metallurgic equipment Ltd. The founders of Uralmash-Metallurgic equipment Ltd. are Severstal Ltd. (99%) and Severstal-Proekt Ltd. (1%) (former company name - CCM - Engineering Center Ltd).
12.2007 In December 2007 shares of Uralmash-Metallurgic Equipment Ltd. company's chartered capital were sold as part of a number of deals. As a result of the deals, companies of the machine building corporation Uralmash - Uralmashzavod JSC, Uralmashspetstal Ltd. and Machine building concern ORMETO-YUMZ became Participants of the Association. The modified list of participants was duly registered in the Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation.
03.2008 The Association was renamed Uralmash-Engineering Ltd. Metallurgic Equipment division, after joining the Machine Building Corporation Uralmash.
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