History of plant
The Ural Compressor Plant was founded in 1933 as an enterprise of road-building machinery "Obldormash". During World War II the plant was engaged in production of mortar weapons: mortar БМ-82 and rocket mortar ВМ-13 "Katyusha". In accordance with the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on February 17, 1946 the defense industry plant No.760 was reorganized into The Ural Compressor Plant.
- The history of compressor building started before the plant has acquired its present name.
During World War II the plant produced airfield compressor stations АКС-2.
After the war in accordance with the order of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR The Ural Compressor Plant was engaged in manufacture of airfield compressor stations for filling of aviation systems with compressed air, oxygen and carbonic acid. On the basis of station АКС-2 a compressor station АКС-8 was designed with pressure of 230 kgf/cm2, which was awarded Gold Medal, Grand Prix at the World Exhibition in Brussels in 1959.
During the Soviet period approximately 85%of the plant output had been supplied to enterprises of defense industry: universal mobile compressor stations, marine compressors and diaphragm-type compressors for refueling systems of spacecrafts.
In the eighties the plant started conversion of manufacture. During a short period of time the plant started to produce compressors for power engineering, mobile compressor stations for oil and gas industry and finished works on creation of standard diaphragm-type compressors with pressure ranging from 10 kgf/cm2 to 1000 kgf/cm2. That period was also marked with manufacture of reciprocating expanders.
- As a result of technical re-equipment and production of new product range (the total amount of items was approaching 3000 units)in the eighties the plant turned into a powerful machine-building enterprise with 2400 employees.
In the nineties The Ural Compressor Plant continued conversion and the product mix had been enlarged significantly. These are mobile compressor stations and mobile nitrogen stations used at oil-and gas-field construction. Stationary compressors are widely used as components of drilling rigs and gas-filling compressor stations, etc. The plant still occupies a prominent place in supply of compressor equipment for the defense industry of the country. In 2002 the enterprise got a license of the Russian Aircraft and Cosmic Agency to produce aircraft equipment. In 2004 the enterprise quality management system was certified in the Military Register.
In 2004 the enterprise quality management system was certified in conformity with the requirements of ISO 9001:2000.
Today 607 people work at the plant.
The main consumers are: oil and gas industry, power engineering, chemistry, petro chemistry, medicine.