Heavy industry news

Specialists of the Obukhov plant have developed a foundry alloy, which was named "Nevsky" and has already been successfully used in production, the press service of the Almaz-Antey concern of East Kazakhstan Region, which includes the enterprise, reports.

On February 9, a delegation of the French company Naval Group visited the PT PAL Indonesia submarine manufacturing facility in Surabaya (Indonesia).

Construction for the Brazilian Navy of the Tamandare-class multi-purpose frigate (MEKO A-100) will begin in September.

The hull-processing production of the Amur Shipbuilding Plant (ASZ, part of the USC) will process more than 8 thousand tons of sheet metal for the SSC Zvezda under the agreement between the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Combine (MMK) and the enterprise.

The wide-body long-haul passenger aircraft IL-96-400M will become a flying laboratory for testing the PD-35 engine family with thrust from 24 to 50 tons. According to TASS, the first flight of the aircraft is scheduled before the end of the year.

Today, the innovative electric steelmaking complex Interpipe Steel is 10 years old. It was on January 17, 2012 that the first melting of metal was made at the plant.

Chubais: ferrous metallurgy faces deep restructuring due to energy transition

The ferrous metallurgy is facing a deep restructuring related to the energy transition: the abandonment of coal, the restoration of iron with the help of methane and hydrogen, Anatoly Chubais, special representative of the President for relations with international organizations, said at the Gaidar Forum on Thursday.

On January 11, 2022, at the enterprise of the Italian shipbuilding association Fincantieri in Mudgiano in La Spezia, a ceremony was held to begin construction for the Italian Navy of the lead non-nuclear submarine of the new project 212NFS (construction number p.6340).

According to the International Federation of Robotics IFR, the cumulative average annual growth rate of the industrial robot market in the period 2015-2020 in Russia was 22%. TASS writes about this.

F-35 fighters will have their service life extended with the help of lasers. January 3, portal defbrief.com He reported that the first F-35B of the US Marine Corps returned to service after the laser shock treatment procedure.

The PD-35 engine, designed for the promising Russian-Chinese wide-body long-haul CR929 aircraft, will be tested in 2024. Earlier it became known that Beijing has started assembling the first sample of the new airliner.

Stealth technologies and radiation protection - what the new glass is capable of.

For many years, the glazing produced by ONPP "Technology" has been used in the aerospace industry. 

The newest MS-21-300 airliner with a wing made of polymer composites of Russian production proved to be worthy. This was stated by the head of Rostec Sergey Chemezov on Saturday, December 25.

Specialists from Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) have developed a fundamentally different coating for nuclear fuel cells. According to them, it will significantly increase their corrosion resistance and almost eliminate the risk of leaks.

One of the scientific enterprises of the Russian nuclear concern, NIKIET, within the framework of the program entitled "Development of promising low-power energy sources" and with the participation of representatives of the St. Petersburg Institute of Laser and Welding Technologies, for the first time created a mock-up of capacitive equipment for the pressure and volume compensation of a thermal carrier for a low-power nuclear reactor using additive technologies. Or, if more understandable, using 3D printing.

In Hong Kong, they created an "anti-liquid" metal. Stainless steel kills the coronavirus in three hours. The development belongs to scientists from the University of Hong Kong. The researchers adjusted the chemical composition and microstructure of steel. 10% more copper, which has antibacterial properties, was added to the "anti-liquid" material, the Izvestia TV channel reports.

The event was attended by President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, General Director of Rosatom State Corporation Alexey Likhachev, General Director of UMATEX Alexander Tyunin, General Director of JSC SEZ PPT Alabuga Timur Shagivaleev, State Duma Deputy Alexander Mazhuga, First Deputy General Director of PJSC Irkut Corporation, General Director of JSC aErocOmposite Anatoly Gaidansky, General Director of JSC ONPP Technology named after A.G. Romashin Andrey Silkin and others.

An unusual case of sabotage in the supply of steel for the production of submarines is being investigated in the United States. According to Popular Mechanics magazine, it turned out that the director of the foundry had been faking the results of steel strength tests for decades.

It is assumed that they will withstand high and low temperatures, vibrations during removal, exposure to vacuum, ionizing radiation

Roscosmos has signed a contract with JSC Composite (part of the state corporation) to develop the latest materials for new rocket technology, according to the public procurement portal.

On November 17, 2021, the IX annual Forum "Composites Without Borders" will be held in partnership with the International Industrial Exhibition INNOPROM. The event will be held in two formats in person at the Skolkovo Technopark online at the INNOPROM Online site. The event is supported by the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation. The general sponsor is the interregional cluster "Composites without Borders".