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DISA, FOMET, OTTO JUNKER – AN ADVANCED FOUNDRY INVESTMENT IN THE UKRAINE

Issued at 2016-04-25



Machinery and Casting Tradition since 1874

The city of Kirovograd is known for its industry in agricultural machinery and hydraulic machines from the company Chervona Zirka. The foundry tradition had already started in 1874, when the British brothers Robert and Thomas Elvorti began their business based on an existing German foundry. From 1922, the enterprise developed into one of the biggest producers of agricultural machines in the former USSR as “Red Star”. Now the company Chervona Zirka is the leading manufacturer in the Ukraine and the CIS . The Metalyt foundry is their own casting supplier.

The New Foundry - A Brave Decision with a Perspective in Quality Castings

The company managers had been thinking about a new foundry since 2006. Their main target was the requirement in quality castings to strengthen their leading position in the CIS Countries. They were not satisfied with the quality they got for the agricultural production and even more for the hydraulic products, so the consequently the decision was to invest in a new own foundry with a state of the art equipment. Almost all approved European suppliers were part of the considerations until the investors board decided to engage the Danish DISA as prime contractor, FOMET and Otto Junker.

Despite political and economical challenges they followed up the agreed investment in total of approx. 
€ 12.000.000. As the responsible managers told us, DISA was the company which guaranteed the turnkey factory together with the Italian supplier for automatic pouring FOMET and the German Otto Junker for melting. The Ukrainian management follows the Kaizen approach and this was implemented in the installations.

Scope of Supply

  • Match 24/28
  • Quick Match Plate Changer (QCM)
  • Automatic Mould Handling (AMH) 60 min
  • Sand Supply Unit (SSU) 3000
  • Core Setter (CSE)
  • Cyclone, vessel
  • Cooling Drum (CDR)
  • SCR
  • Conveyors
  • TM 240-90 mixer
  • Sand Multicontroller (SMC)
  • Various Sandplant Equipment
  • Shotblast ROTO-Jet
  • Filter
  • DISA Core 10 EP

Pouring Furnace:  FOMET PRV 3 tons 200 kW “Auto Pour” Pressure Pouring by FOMET
Melting Furnace:  MTFGe 5.000/3.000kW/250Hz – DUOCONTROL by Otto Junker

Outlook and next Steps

For DISA this is the first sale of a MATCH in the CIS countries and the first sale in the Ukraine since 1970. The investors` plans even contain the next steps, based on a vertical moulding.
Now Metalyt should be able to produce its own quality castings for the agricultural and the hydraulic sector. Furthermore, they will increasingly become a more recommended supplier of castings in the CIS countries, Eastern Europe, ASEAN and elsewhere.

During the Great Opening with investors, and honorable guests from the government, the industry, associations and operators, the Metalyt General Manager Gennadiy Danylchuk, investor chairman Pavel Shtutman and Flemming Jensen, Vice-President from DISA, thanked all participates for their powerful and intelligent engagement.


Source: Foundry Planet



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