Ukraine’s achievements in the field of mining equipment

1. Production of mining equipment  

Ukraine produces wide assortment of mining, quarry, enrichment and transportation equipment, such as:boring machines and units, mining machines and minerals’ underground extraction complexes, tunnelling machines and complexes, mining machines and strip-mining complexes, mining-transporting machines, ventilation and compression units, elevating machines etc.

2. Largest manufacturers

‘[Kharkiv] Miner’s Light [Machine-building Plant]’ JSC [1] is one of the oldest Ukraine’s machine-building plants, specializing in production of drift scraper conveyors, loaders and cap lamps. It follows mines’ individual orders and takes mining-and-geological conditions into account when accomplishing them. The plant has been operating since 1891.

‘Company ‘Plazma’’ LLC [2] is a prominent supplier of mining, quarry, enrichment and transportation equipment, namely: mine fans, hoists, rock-loading machines, boring machine tools, perforators, conveyors, pumps etc.

‘Dnipropetrovsk Aggregate Plant’ PrJSC [3] is an enterprise with 90-years’ experience in machine-building. Since 1994 it has been producing hydro emulsion equipment for coal mines with the usage of aviation technologies. Presently the plant produces hydraulic distributors (34 types of execution), safety valves, hydraulic locks, electric hydraulic distributors, electric hydraulic blocks and others. [4]

‘Science and Industry Company VALSA-GTV’ LLC [5] is a prominent manufacturer which specializes in production of rubber technical items for mining-and-enrichment combines. Presently the enterprise manufactures more than sixty kinds of various thermal insulations. 

‘Shostka State Plant ‘Impuls’’ [6] produces equipment for extraction of ore, coal, rubble. It also produces components, hydraulic pumps, hydraulic distributors and non-standard fastenings.

‘Tehpostavka’ LLC [7] produces mining cutting and boring tools, hard alloy and powder.  

‘ANA-TEMS’ LTD [8] offers new solutions in the field of enrichment technologies, as well as minerals’ sorting and dehydration. It produces mining-and-enrichment equipment.

3. High quality of the products 

Ukrainian plants manufacture mining equipment in strict accordance with European standards’ requirements. High quality and reliability of the products are insured by engineering and technological potential of the plants, usage of newest equipment (including plasmatic and laser cutting) as well as quality management systems, certified according to DSTU ISO 9001-2009 (ISO 9001: 2008, IDT) standard (‘Dnipropetrovsk Aggregate Plant’ PrJSC), [9] ISO 9001: 2015, ISO 14001: 2015, OHSAS 18001: 2007 standards (‘Science and Industry Company VALSA-GTV’ LLC), [10] and ISO 9001-2001 standard (‘Tehpostavka’ LLC). [11]

4. Export volumes and geography  

Ukraine successfully exports its mining equipment. For instance, ‘Dnipropetrovsk Aggregate Plant’ PrJSC is the largest industrial enterprise manufacturing highly technological mining equipment, and it supplies its products to 14 countries of the world, such as: European countries, China, India just to name a few. [12] 

‘[Kharkiv] Miner’s Light [Machine-building Plant]’ JSC exports its products to Russia, Belarus, Iran, India, Estonia, China and Kazakhstan. [13] 

Products by ‘Science and Industry Company VALSA-GTV’ LLC boast a wide circle of consumers in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Turkey, West European countries, Africa and South America. [14]

According to the results of 2018 some 654 tons of machines and mechanisms for ground-, minerals- and ore- mixing, profiling, developing, levelling, ramming, compacting, extracting or boring have been sent abroad for the amount of USD5 million. The CIS countries have purchased 283.9 tons of equipment for the amount of USD3.8 million, whereas European countries have acquired 206.6 tons for USD1 million. [15]