The Mechanobr Mining Group

   In 1916 on the territory of the St. Petersburg Mining Institute a station for the mechanical processing of minerals was created and a small company in charge of its operation was formed. Later, this company became the foundation of the State Institute for the Mechanical Processing of Mineral Resources ("Mechanobr"), created in 1920. The Mechanobr Institute became the first Russian engineering company to develop technologies of enrichment for various types of mineral ores, to create ore processing machinery, to plan the construction of ore enrichment plants. In 1985 Mechanobr was transformed into the Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Complex (ISTC) and given the task of organizing and co-ordinating the necessary research, experimental and design projects on the territory of the U.S.S.R. During that time period, more that 30 institutes, construction agencies and production companies, higher education facilities and plants have merged with Mechanobr, among these such well-known plants as the Uralmash, the Novokramatorsky Factory and many others. Over those years, the Institute has been playing the main role in designing the country's ore enrichment facilities, while at the same time working with foreign partners. It created technologies for the refinement and desintegration of natural and artificial materials, for their separation and enrichment. 25 countries of the world operate ore enrichment complexes and factories designed by Mechanobr and equipped with its machinery. The largest among them is the Erdenet Complex in Mongolia, that is constantly being modernized by the efforts of Mechanobr's specialists. There exist also a number of plants built by Mechanobr in Iran, Bulgaria, Cuba, and other countries. During the 1980's and 90's licenses to build Mechanobr-designed machines were sold to Japanese and U.S. companies. In 1992-93 on the basis of the Mechanobr Institute the Mechanobr Mining Group was formed. The Group is a merger of organizations created as joint stock companies. The majority of Mechanobr's companies' stocks is held by working or retired Mechanobr employees, and also non-governmental partner companies. Companies that are members of the group have the ability to develop technology for the processing of any type of mineral resources, to design and equip plants with any possible volume of production. Responding to modern demands, the Mechanobr Group works with artificial materials and industrial waste materials, transforming them into useful products. Mechanobr's technologies' reliability and effectiveness is rooted in the high qualification of its engineering staff and its 80-year tradition of serving the mining community.
   In mid 1990's, in the process of privatization, the Institute has been turned into a holding company with several filial firms, with different specializations. One of them, called Mechanobr Technology, has joined together the Institute's specialists in the areas of machinery design, technologies of desintegration, classification, separation and the engineering of complex technological lines.
   Thus a comglomerate of scientists and engineers capable of realizing and increasing the Institute's technological potential was created. Besides its works in the mining industry, Mechanobr Technology is oriented towards other fields, including new technologies of producing construction materials and the processing of technogenic resources, and also towards solving ecological problems. As a result of analyzing industry-related ecological problems and conducting marketing procedures, Mechanobr Technology was able to attract the attention of construction engineers and ecologians to its projects. With the use of its specialized vibration grinders, factories for the production of high- quality gravel were created. In addition to this, units for recycling used cable and electronics waste products were designed and put into use. Other units were created for recycling old building materials, such as ferro-concrete, for recycling old car tyres into raw latex, and for various other waste materials. These factories and recycling units were equipped with Mechanobr's technical innovations, such as vibration and conic inertion grinders, sieves, magnetic and electric separators, gravitation and flotation machines, and auxhiliary equipment. The high quality of Mechanobr Technology's machinery made it possible to sell various new licenses and equipment to the U.S., Japan, Austria, Australia, France, China, Finland, Italy and many other countries. This provides evidence of Mechanobr Technology's worldwide reputation. In recent years the volume of Mechanobr's production has been growing rapidly, and this allows it to invest in new developments in order to preserve its global renown. Mechanobr Technology's workers have authored more than 700 inventions, 65 among these have international licenses. More than 30 major directions of technological research and more than 50 equipment models are both favourable factors in the the company's development prospects. It is also important that at least half of its technology surpasses world standards of quality. All of this is evidenced by the ever-growing interest to the company among both domestic and international customers.

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