TMK Steel Technologies (TMK ST), part of Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK), has manufactured a machine frame for the first time. The massive base supports the main components of industrial equipment. The product is intended for the Seversky Pipe Plant (STZ, a TMK branch) and was made as part of inter-plant cooperation.
The machine frame, 6.5 meters long, more than 3 meters wide and weighing 45 tons, serves as a support for press shears—equipment used at STZ to cut metal blanks. The structure withstands impact loads during operation, ensuring cutting accuracy and rigidity while the press shears are in use.
To manufacture the product from rolled sheet metal between 80 and 120 mm thick, specialists at TMK Steel Technologies developed their own technology: they designed assembly tooling, mechanically processed each structural component and heat-treated the welds in the plant's furnaces. The lower part of the machine frame—the inclined section—was also reinforced.
The project was carried out through cooperation between TMK enterprises in Chelyabinsk. The engineering center of the Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant (ChTPZ, a TMK branch) prepared the design documentation, while specialists at TMK Steel Technologies completed the entire equipment manufacturing cycle.
“Expanding production to include new types of metallurgical equipment enables TMK to make more effective use of the production capacity and engineering expertise of its enterprises. The experience of manufacturing a machine frame for press shears is unique for the company. Specialists at TMK Steel Technologies developed a technology for processing components individually and assembling them using the plant's existing capacity, eliminating the need for standard machining of the assembled structure. Projects like this create additional opportunities to develop the pipeline machinery division and strengthen TMK's competitiveness,” said Evgeny Gubanov, managing director of TMK's pipeline machinery division.
TMK Steel Technologies' portfolio includes dozens of completed engineering projects for various industries, customized for specific customers. These include steel teeming ladles, a grab bucket, a steel carrier, a mixer for molten iron and a steel coil upender. TMK manufactures a machine frame for industrial equipment for the first time
