DTEK Energo’s machine builders manufactured and repaired 1.2 million units of mining equipment from January through September of this year, including 10 new tunnel boring machines and longwall shearers, as well as four electric motors, according to a press release from DTEK Energo.
During this period, they also produced 1.5 million spare parts and components.
As previously reported, over the first nine months of last year, DTEK Energo’s machine-building plants manufactured and repaired 2,500 units of mining equipment (including six new mining combines and one mine fan) and 1.8 million spare parts and components.
“Preparing for winter is a joint effort by the entire energy team. Miners, power engineers, maintenance workers, and machine builders are working as a single unit today, because the energy sector’s readiness for the most challenging period of the year depends on the coordinated efforts of everyone. Machine builders not only manufacture and repair equipment but also test new technical solutions and verify their effectiveness under real production conditions,” DTEK Energo CEO Oleksandr Fomenko is quoted as saying in the press release.
DTEK Energo ensures a closed-loop cycle of coal-fired power generation. By the end of 2025, DTEK Energo had invested 6.7 billion hryvnias in supporting Ukrainian coal mining, and over the previous three years (2022–2024)—more than 18 billion hryvnias. The funds were allocated for the development and repair of mine workings, equipping mining faces, and maintaining the mines’ production capacity.
Its machinery manufacturing assets include Korum DrMZ, which was relocated to Dnipro in 2022; the Kharkiv-based “Svitlo Shakhtarya” plant; and the Pershotravensk Repair and Mechanical Plant.
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The Corum Group (DTEK Energy) engineering company intends to launch production of a new model of roadheader for uninterrupted extraction of coal from especially hard rocks in January 2023, the company said on Facebook.
“Mechanical engineers, no matter what, continue to improve the equipment for stable operation of coal-mining enterprises. Right now, our specialists are working on the development of the RH110 roadheader with a new technical level,” the company said in a statement on Wednesday.
According to Corum, the combine weighing about 53 tons in addition to all the basic technical solutions of the RH series will be the most versatile, powerful and reliable equipment of its direction.
“In the development of the giant, machine builders use modern European components for better diagnostics of equipment parameters and operational reliability,” the report said.
Design work is currently underway.
Corum Group, a leading manufacturer of mining equipment in Ukraine, is part of the energy company DTEK Energo, an operating company responsible for coal mining and electricity generation from coal in the structure of Rinat Akhmetov’s DTEK holding.
As previously reported, as part of the relocation of Corum’s Druzhkivska Machine-Building Plant (Donetsk Region) and Svet Shakhtyora Plant (Kharkiv), production sites were created in Dnipropetrovsk, Volynsk and Khmelnytskyi Regions.
In May of this year at the combine assembly plant in Dnipropetrovsk, the company has put out its first Roadheader RH220 combine after relocation, and in July – a Roadheader of KPD series.
In October, the company announced the release of another heavy-duty roadheader KPD for destroying the rock mass in mines, hazardous for gas and dust.
