In January-September 2024, DTEK Energy’s machine builders manufactured and repaired 982 units of mining equipment, including 10 new tunnelling and shearers, and provided miners with 758,000 spare parts and components, the company said in a press release on Friday.
“Power engineers have been continuing to restore the power plant 24/7 for many months. Miners are mining coal and maintaining sufficient fuel supplies at thermal power plants, and machine builders are helping them with this by providing the necessary equipment. The key thing for everyone is to restore capacities as soon as possible and to improve the reliability of Ukrainian thermal power plants during the winter,” said DTEK Energy CEO Oleksandr Fomenko, as quoted in the document.
According to the energy holding, thanks to the support of machine builders in equipment, the company’s miners have commissioned 16 new coal faces in the first nine months of this year and plan to commission another 9 by the end of the year.
DTEK Energy’s investments in Ukrainian coal mining are expected to reach about UAH 7.7 billion in 2024.
As reported, in 2023, the company’s investments in Ukrainian coal mining amounted to about UAH 7 billion, which is almost twice as much as in 2022.
“DTEK Energy provides a closed cycle of electricity generation from coal. As of January 2022, the company’s installed capacity in thermal generation amounted to 13.3 GW. The company has established a full production cycle in coal mining: coal mining and enrichment, mechanical engineering, and maintenance of mine equipment.
Currently, most of DTEK Group’s thermal generation facilities have been destroyed as a result of Russian attacks.
“Corum Druzhkovka Machine-Building Plant (Corum DrMZ), a part of Corum Group (DTEK Energy), will repair three roadheaders for DTEK Energy miners in the first quarter of 2025, the company said.
“We have already received three new orders for the repair of KPD-22 roadheaders for Ternovskaya, Samarskaya and Geroyev Kosmosa mines,” the company’s Facebook page says.
The plant also reports that by the end of this year, it will complete the overhaul of two shearers for Belozerskaya mine and one for Zapadno-Donbasskaya mine.
“Corum DrMZ, relocated to Dnipro in 2022, manufactured 46 units of mining equipment in July this year to order for DTEK Energy mines, including a skip, a reloader, six suspension devices and 38 loading trolleys. The company also produced 20 unified wheelsets and 72.9 thousand spare parts and components.
According to Opendatabot, in 2023, the plant earned UAH 500 million in net profit, compared to a loss of UAH 453 million a year earlier, with net income increasing 2.7 times to UAH 1 billion 530 million.
Corum Group is a leading manufacturer of mining equipment in Ukraine. It is a part of DTEK Energy, the operating company responsible for coal mining and coal-fired power generation within Rinat Akhmetov’s DTEK energy holding.
In January-July, the machine builders produced, among other things, 9 new roadheaders and shearers.
“In January 2024, DTEK Energy produced the first two shearers for Ukrainian mines – a tunneling machine and a shearer.
“It is important that factory workers do not lose momentum in the difficult conditions of war and continue to contribute to the common cause… This year, the miners’ task remains unchanged – despite the war, to maintain coal production at the maximum and sufficient level,” Ildar Saleev, the company’s CEO, wrote on his Facebook page on Tuesday.
According to him, in addition to shearers, the energy holding’s machine builders also manufactured and repaired 90 units of mining equipment, as well as 67,000 parts and components in January.
As reported earlier, DTEK’s machine builders manufactured 15 new roadheaders and shearers and 1.1 million spare parts for Ukrainian coal miners in 2023.
“DTEK Energy ensures a closed cycle of electricity generation from coal. The installed capacity of thermal power generation amounted to 13.3 GW as of January 2022. The company has established a full production cycle in coal mining: coal mining and enrichment, machine building and maintenance of mine equipment.
