Lozova Forging-Mechanical Plant (LKMZ)
Lozova Forging-Mechanical Plant (LKMZ) is the largest press forging facility in Ukraine and CIS countries. Since 2002 it is a part of the UPEC Industrial Group.
LKMZ specializes in high-volume production of about 500 forgings; installed capacity is up to 180 thousand tons of forgings per year.
The main consumers of forgings – manufacturers of tractors, enterprises in automobile, agricultural machinery building and rail transport industries. Applying of the unique technology makes it possible to produce forgings of complex shape with a high level of precision and reduced steel consumption, such as:
- Hot forging of hollow and solid stubs and flanged hubs;
- Stamping of crankshafts followed by wringing of crank pins;
- Cross-wedge rolling of solid and hollow forgings such as stepped shafts and gear shafts;
- Rolling of ring profile forgings out of forged blanks.