Machines the size of a football field: MZOR presented at INNOPROM. Belarus unique processing centers

The Moscow machine tool factory MZOR, part of Belaz-Holding, presented at the international forum INNOPROM. Belarus has its updated design and technological potential. What Minsk machine tool builders attract the largest corporations of the CIS and how to withstand competition in foreign markets, the correspondent of the agency “Minsk-Novosti” on September 30 told the Deputy head of the advertising department of JSC “MZOR” Alexander Agafonov.

- As part of the BELAZ holding, our enterprise occupies a unique niche: we not only produce heavy machines, we completely design them ourselves, Agafonov said. We are talking about heavy portal machines and machining centers weighing up to 300 tons. The capacity of this equipment allows processing parts up to 16 m long, and under certain technical conditions - up to 32 m.

The stand of the capital enterprise from the first hours of the forum attracted increased attention of representatives of heavy industry and defense complexes of the allied states. Due to the colossal dimensions of the products, it is physically impossible to bring the machines themselves to the exhibition site.

- Our machines assembled are comparable in size to a football field, so in the pavilion we demonstrate their capabilities with the help of video materials and a large catalog, which has recently grown to 100 pages. The design idea of the plant does not stand still: over the past two years we have mastered and implemented a turning function that was not the main one for us before. Among the latest achievements is the development of a new model of a six-spindle semi-automatic machine, which is now being prepared for implementation for the needs of domestic engineering, the plant representative said.

Among the key customers of Minsk machine tool builders are traditionally leaders of the Union market - the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), Russian Railways and military-industrial complex enterprises. At the same time, demand in the domestic market of the republic has also increased significantly.

- In Belarus, our main consumers are such flagships as BELAZ, MAZ, Gomselmash and MZKT. Today, the package of orders for domestic enterprises prevails - the industrial sector is now oriented to the domestic product and the potential of domestic producers. We successfully compete with Asian manufacturers, including China, due to the exclusivity of our solutions. MZOR has its own powerful design center: The Ministry of Industry forms the task for the needs of specific industries, and we quickly master and produce new, unique types of high-precision equipment, Agafonov summed up.

Photo by Denis Kulagi