<p><br />

The machine building, iron and steel foundry and<br />

rolling mill plant of the Kramatorsk Metallurgical Society was<br />

arranged on the basis of the Wilhelm Fitzner and Konrad Gamper<br />

company’s mechanical and boiler plant. On 23 April 1899 the joint<br />

stock Kramatorsk Metallurgical Society was created, the machine<br />

building profile being supplemented with the metallurgical one. In<br />

1913 the Society’s basic capital was 7.2 million roubles.</p><br />

<p>Before<br />

1909, 6 steam engines, 75 electric engines and 3 dynamos (with an<br />

aggregate power of 7.5 thousand h.p.) functioned at the plant. The<br />

workers numbered 1.7 thousand persons; annual production was 7<br />

million roubles. As of 1913, 220 servicemen (including 46 engineers)<br />

and 2.8 thousand workers worked at the plant. 265 machines with an<br />

aggregate power of 22.1 thousand h.p. and 2 blast furnices functioned<br />

there; annual production was 12 million roubles. <br />

</p><br />

<p>The<br />

plant’s product range included iron constructions, cranes and<br />

lifts, winches, compressors, pumps, steam machines, steel foundry<br />

equipment, rolling machines, presses, profiled and wire iron.</p><br />

<p>On<br />

17 November 1920 the plant was nationalized and renamed as the<br />

Kramatorsk State Machine Building and Metallurgical Plant. Now it is<br />

the Starokramatorsk Machine Building Plant [http://www.skmz.dn.ua/].</p><br />

<p>Awards:<br />

in 1900 and 1910 the equipment produced by the Kramatorsk plant was<br />

awarded with the Grand Prix at an international exhibition in Paris. [http://www.skmz.dn.ua/]</p><br />

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<p>Author: Volodymyr Kulikov</p>