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The machine building, iron and steel foundry and

rolling mill plant of the Kramatorsk Metallurgical Society was

arranged on the basis of the Wilhelm Fitzner and Konrad Gamper

company’s mechanical and boiler plant. On 23 April 1899 the joint

stock Kramatorsk Metallurgical Society was created, the machine

building profile being supplemented with the metallurgical one. In

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

<p>Before

1909, 6 steam engines, 75 electric engines and 3 dynamos (with an

aggregate power of 7.5 thousand h.p.) functioned at the plant. The

workers numbered 1.7 thousand persons; annual production was 7

million roubles. As of 1913, 220 servicemen (including 46 engineers)

and 2.8 thousand workers worked at the plant. 265 machines with an

aggregate power of 22.1 thousand h.p. and 2 blast furnices functioned

there; annual production was 12 million roubles.

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<p>The

plant’s product range included iron constructions, cranes and

lifts, winches, compressors, pumps, steam machines, steel foundry

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

<p>On

17 November 1920 the plant was nationalized and renamed as the

Kramatorsk State Machine Building and Metallurgical Plant. Now it is

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

<p>Awards:

in 1900 and 1910 the equipment produced by the Kramatorsk plant was

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

<p><i>Author: Volodymyr Kulikov</i></p>