OREANDA-NEWS. February 14, 2011.  Vladimir Production Association Tochmash starts up installation of new equipment for processing of the gas centrifuge machine housings produced by Excel Csepel Machine Tools Ltd., a Hungarian company.

As Tochmash representatives reported, the equipment was being installed by the specialists of the Hungarian company majoring in small-scale and exclusive manufacture of industrial machines and automated lines. According to the engineering order, Hungarian specialists developed a project of one of the automatic line modules for the processing of the gas centrifuge machine housings of the eighth and ninth generations.

Contract with Excel Csepel Machine Tools Ltd. of 52 M rubles cost (1.7 USD M) was concluded at the end of 2008. Automated line for production of the gas centrifuge machine housings consists of 3 modules. At the first one mechanic processing of the tube is performed, at the second – automated welding of the details, included into the housing unit, at the third – a final mechanical treatment of the gas centrifuge machine housing.

Contract with Excel Csepel Machine Tools Ltd. provides production and supply of the third module including four modules of high accuracy. In November, 2010 Tochmash received the equipment and now is starting its installation. After the module start-up all the process of the gas centrifuge machine housing processing will be automated – by means of a robot. Only goods loading and unloading will be performed manually. New equipment installation and commissioning works will last till the middle of March. According to P. Pavlukhin, Tochmash production supervisor No. 4, after the module start-up the staff will be freed, the efficiency and the quality of the production will improve.