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History JSC UMP
Uranium history
| 1952 - |
Board of Ministers of Soviet Union decided to create the Uranium raw material conversion production at "Ulba Metallurgical Plant" |
| 1954 - |
commissioning of shop complex for natural Uranium concentrates conversion into U3O8 rebuilding of Uranium production shops, development of Uranium tetrafluoride production from natural raw material and by-products |
| 1968 - |
creation of heat-generating elements fuel cores production for transport reactors based on Uranium-Beryllium compound |
| 1973 - |
development of Uranium dioxide of nuclear purity ceramic grade of low enrichments (1.6-4.4% U235) from Uranium hexafluoride |
| 1978 - |
"Ulba Metallurgical Plant" became the first in the Soviet Union plant beginning the serial production of fuel pellets from Uranium hexafluoride for a new generation reactors VVER-1000 |
| 1985 - |
development of Uranium dioxide of nuclear purity ceramic grade from reprocessed raw material (Uranylnitrate) |
| 1994 - |
development and implementation of process for fuel pellets with burn-out absorber additions as Gadolinium oxide for VVER-1000 reactors |
| 1997 - |
development of natural U3O8 production from chemical concentrate of Kazakhstani deposits |
| 1998 - |
first in Kazakhstan certification of Quality Assurance System of Uranium production for compliance with International standards of ISO-9002 Series |
| 2000 - |
development of fuel pellets with burn-out absorber additions as Erbium oxide production for RBMK-1000 reactors |
Beryllium history
| 1950 - |
The Ministry of Metallurgical Industry approved the design task
for (BeOH)2 commercial production |
| 1951 - |
start-up of the experimental shop division for (BeOH)2 and BeO
production |
| 1952 - |
first (BeOH)2 and BeO samples produced |
| 1955 - |
construction of Beryllium metal cast production started |
| 1956 - |
start-up of pure BeO production site |
| 1958 - |
partial commissioning of shop 6 (ceramic production) |
| 1961 - |
Beryllium metal production site construction completed |
| 1963 - |
creation of Be metal products site |
| 1966 - |
first metal produced by powder metallurgy method |
| 1971 - |
powder production site commissioned (Building 662) |
| 1973 - |
Beryllium under pressure processing site commissioned
(Building 602) |
| 1990 - |
accident at the Beryllium production (Building 662). Full
conservation of the Beryllium production started |
| 2000 - |
Beryllium metal production started-up
Quality assurance system at the Beryllium production was
certified in accordance with ISO-9002 |
| 2001 - |
Hydrometallurgy production for technical grade (BeOH)2 restored
Creation of Beryllium Copper production. |
Tantalum history
| 1950 - |
according to the Decree of Ministry of Metallurgical Industry
there has been decided to create the production of Tantalum metal and its products in the Ulba Metallurgical Plant. |
| 1951 - |
the first products output - Potassium Fluorotantalate |
| 1952 - |
the production of Potassium Niobate is created |
| 1959 - |
the start of the works on the production of Tantalum powders by Sodium thermic method |
| 1960 - |
the start of the production of Tantalum powder by Sodium reduction from Potassium Fluorotantalate
mastering the extractive technology of digestion and separation of Tantalum and Niobium |
| 1961 - |
the implementation of the extractive technology of Tantalum digestion
the start of mastering ingot production by vacuum-arc melting
the first Tantalum metal moulds are produced
mastering of sheet rolling
the start of the Tantalum capacitor powders manufacturing for
the production of electrolytic capacitors |
| 1964 - |
the production of the first Tantalum ingots of high purity by the
electron-beam melting method, the trial roll lots production |
| 1965 - |
the start of Tantalum wire production |
| 1966 - |
commissioning of the capacitor powders de-hydrating facility |
| 1967 - |
the creation of foil production site and the start of mastering
Tantalum foil production for capacitors |
| 1980 - |
the creation of experimental facility for Tantalum reduction
(LUV-1) and in 1982 - experimental and commercial facility
D-450 for the production of powders for high voltage capacitors |
| 1997 - |
the creation of Niobium Hydroxide, Niobium Pentoxide and
the Ferroniobium production |
| 2000 г - |
two types of Tantalum products - Tantalum powders of capacitor grade of fragment type and Low Si Ferroniobium - were awarded with the diplomas and golden medals of the Kazakhstan Republic Exhibition "Astana-Expo-2000" (Astana, October'2000 as the Goods of 21st Century |
| 2001 - |
Quality system of the Tantalum production was certified in accordance with the international standard ISO-9002. |
| 2001 - |
The first trial samples of capacitor grade Tantalum powder with 32,000CV/g were produced |
| 2002 - |
The commercial production of Niobium and its alloys for metallurgy and electronics commenced |
| 2002 - |
New types of products, such as Yttrium refined Tantalum, TaW, NbZr and NbTi, were produced |
| 2003 - |
Environmental Management System was certified for compliance with ISO 14001:1996 |
| 2003 - |
Quality Management System was certified for compliance with ISO 9001:2000 |
| 2003 - |
Production of Tantalum ingot with dia.250mm and Ta contained at 99.97% commenced |
| 2003 - |
HF acid production started to use Fluorite originated from the Kazakhstani "Karadzhal" mine |
Hydrofluoric acid. Background.
| 1951 - 1947 |
According to the decision Resolution of the Minister of Non-Ferrous Metallurgy the design works on Hydrofluoric Acid production site were initiated by the institute "HydroAluminum". |
| 1951 - |
Finished product output: 20% HF acid. |
| 1952 - |
the site moved to the production of 40% HF acid of high purity for the needs of the Uranium production. |
| 1960-63 - |
Transfer to electrical heated furnaces. |
| 1972-74 - |
The first line of new building 30A was put into operation. |
| 1999 - |
License for experimental mining of the Karadzhal fluorspar deposit (East-Kazakhstan region). The problem of supplying HF production with raw material was solved. |
| 2000 - |
Fluorspar processing complex was put into operation at the Trial Lead Plant. |
| 2001 - |
The problem of utilization of solid wastes was solved. |
TOO Mashzavod history
| 1972 - |
By virtue of the Medium Machinery Ministry decision, the stop valves, end items and accessories production for atomic power industry is created at the UMP |
| 1976 - |
The APS accessories production is transformed into a independent division |
| 1986 - |
In the frames or conversion, the consumer goods production was established |
| 1991 - |
The shop was transformed into Machine building plant, being part of the "UMP"JSC |
| 1996 - |
Machine building plant was transformed into TOO "Mashzavod"
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