OMZ

OMZ Corporation

Объединенные машиностроительные заводы
Type
Traded as	MCX: OMZZ
Industry	Engineering
Headquarters	Moscow
Website	www.omz.ru

OMZ or Uralmash-Izhora Group, (Russian: Объединенные машиностроительные заводы (ОМЗ): Objedinennye Mashinostroitelnye Zavody (OMZ), literal translation: United Heavy Machinery Plants) is a large Russia-based international heavy industry and manufacturing conglomerate. OMZ manufactures a wide range of steel, custom and industrial components for nuclear power plants, petrochemical and mining operations and utilities. In particular OMZ is a manufacturer of reactor pressure vessels for the VVER type of nuclear reactors and the manufacturer of EKG open-cut mining power shovels.

As a Russian , shares in OMZ may be publicly traded subject to terms of constitutive documents and merger agreements.

OMZ was formed in 1996 in an incorporation of Ural Machine-Building Plants with ZSMK. Izhora Plants merged with OMZ in 1999 and the company was renamed OMZ (Uralmash-Izhora Group). In 2003 the company combined with Pilsen Steel and Skoda JS, the former steel and nuclear subsidiaries of Skoda Works. In 2008 CHETENG Engineering also joined. OMZ is a 50% owner of the Uralmash Machine-Building Corporation formed in a 2007 agreement with Metalloinvest.