Leninska Kuznya
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| Privately held company | |
| Industry | shipbuilding, arms industry |
| Founded | 1862 (as "Donat, Lipkowski & Co")[1] |
| Founder | Donat Fedir Hryhorovych |
| Headquarters | Kiev, Ukraine |
| Owner | Petro Poroshenko |
Number of employees | 1,260[2] |
| Parent | Ukrprominvest |
There are actually three shipyards located in Mykolaiv: Black Sea Shipyard, Okean Shipyard, and 61 Communards.
Leninska Kuznia (Ukrainian: "Ленінська кузня") is a ship building and armament company in Kiev, Ukraine. Although situated on the Dnieper River and presently concentrated on river ships, the company is able to produce & repair small sea vessels (both civil and naval), as well as various military equipment.
The Leninska Kuznya is indirectly controlled by Ukrainian businessman and politician Petro Poroshenko.
Main production facilities of the company are situated on the Rybalskyi Island in Kiev since 1928.[3] The shipyard specializes in shipbuilding, ship machines building, and propeller production.[4] In the field of shipbuilding, the plant specializes in building medium fishing vessels, industrial ships and vessels of technical fleet, self-propelled and non-self-propelled barges.[4] Machine building includes steam and hot-water automated boiler units, plate freezing apparatuses, and incinerators.[4] Propeller production includes controllable-pitch propeller (CPP), blades, and lines of shafting.[4]
History
It was founded in 1862 by production engineer Donat Fedir Hryhorovych as a Joint Stock Company. It was mainly a mechanical plant and made different metal structures. For a short period of time (1889-1924), the plant was named "Kiev Machine-Building Plant" and in 1924, it was renamed to Leninska Kuznia. In 1928, by the Decree of Supreme Soviet Union Leninska Kuznia was made into a shipyard. In 1995, the company completed a change in ownership and open-type joint Stock Company was set up named Leninska Kuznia Plant. The machine building sector still constitutes a high percentage in general scope of production. In the USSR the powerful major shipbuilding plants were located on rivers within the country.For example, in Nizhny Novgorod, Khabarovsk, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Zelenodolsk and other cities.
About 40 years ago it was decided to develop in Kiev, at the " Leninska Kuznya " powerful shipbuilding .
Over the years, the factory has repeatedly upgraded and constantly expanding range of manufactured products.
Petro Poroshenko and Igor V. Kononenko are beneficiaries of the factory.[4]
Today
High requirements for the plant have increased the technical level, personal training, organization of production, as a result the plant " Leninsa Kuznya " is not lost among the giants of the domestic shipbuilding near the sea - Mikolaiv, Kherson and Kerch.
The technical potential of the plant allowed to build ships and vessels of almost any purpose with dimensions that maximize throughput using the opportunity of locks and bridges on the Dnipro. "Leninska Kuznya" Plant built difficult vessels.
The plant has significant experience in building of freezer trawlers, tankers, anti-submarine ships, research and exploration vessels.
The high technological level of production contributed to the recognition of high international prestige factory whose products are exported to Finland, Bulgaria, Turkey, Romania, Vietnam, India, Senegal, Iraq, Indonesia, Mozambique, Egypt and other countries.
Highly qualified staff has extensive experience, providing manufacturing engineering products of any complexity.
The company is constantly visiting delegations and individual businessmen from around the world, allowing you to expand business contacts.
Effective credit policy of the company, the ability to work with large credit institutions, the implementation period of construction vehicles led to the fact that in recent years, most customers hulls of vessels - foreign customers.
Boats at the plant " Leninska Kuznya " built under the supervision of world-famous companies :
See also
References
- ↑ 1862. Kiev calendar.
- ↑ Ukrprominvest Concern - Ukrprominvest Concern (Kiev, Ukraine)
- ↑ Leninska Kuznya Plant Joint Stock Co
- 1 2 3 4 5 Bart Finzel and Jelena Kmezic, Privatization of Ukrainian Shipyards (2002), Catholic University of Brussels, 11th Conference of the International Association for the Economics of Participation (IAFEP)
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