Pilot testing of new high-tech machines has been started
VORONEZH, September 19. /TASS/. Work on the reconstruction and technical re-equipment of production for the production of civilian products has been completed at the Voronezh Center for Rocket Engine Construction (VCRD). Pilot testing of new high-tech machines has begun, a representative of the press service of the center told TASS.
"The company has carried out a major reconstruction of the building, which houses a fleet of new machine tools, and purchased 23 units of modern high-tech equipment. The machines have been put into operation, they are already undergoing pilot testing of the manufacture of the corresponding product range. Including new turning and milling machining centers with a numerical control system, as part of the execution of orders from representatives of the domestic oil and gas industry, the production of a wide range of parts is being worked out: housings, plungers, flanges, covers, pipes and other products," the representative of the enterprise said.
He specified that currently the reconstruction and technical re-equipment have been completed, about 1 billion rubles have been allocated for this. In 2020, with the support of the head enterprise of the integrated structure of rocket engine construction, NPO Energomash JSC (part of the Roscosmos Group of Companies) The Voronezh Center for Rocket Engine Construction received a loan of 750 million rubles from the Industrial Development Fund, and also sent its own funds.
"For the efficient use of the new equipment, the company faces the task of ensuring its operation in a three-shift mode. For this purpose, new specialists are currently being recruited and the nomenclature of manufactured parts is being transferred from old machines to new ones. <...> The use of new modern machines will increase the production of civilian products by 2022 twice from the production level achieved in 2019," the representative of the VTSRD said.
About the center
The creation of the Voronezh Center for Rocket Engine Construction began on November 1, 2019 by combining the Design Bureau of Chemical Automation with the Voronezh Mechanical Plant. Currently, it produces engines for Soyuz, Soyuz-2-1b, Soyuz-2.1 v, Proton-M, Angara launch vehicles, and also conducts research and development work on the creation of oxygen-methane, electric rocket engines, as well as oxygen - kerosene engines for the promising medium-class launch vehicle Soyuz-5. It is planned to fully complete the work on the creation of the Voronezh Rocket Engine Building Center on the basis of VMZ and KBHA by 2027.