History of company

The blast furnace gave out the first heat, the plant began the production of low-grade iron and metal products. As the plant developed, the village also developed, which in the 19th century became the center of the Lysva factory district.

Sheet-rolling production was opened at the plant.

The owner of the plant was Count Pyotr Pavlovich Shuvalov, who gave the enterprise the family emblem - a unicorn. The image of this mythical animal became the brand name of the plant and served as a guarantor of the high quality of Lysva sheet iron both in Russia and abroad

The owner of the Lysva mining district was a closed joint-stock company, in which 504 out of 1546 shares belonged to Pavel Petrovich Shuvalov.
Count Pavel Shuvalov undertook the revival of the plant and the improvement of the material situation of the workers, carried out a radical reconstruction of the Lysva plant. Highly qualified specialists were invited to rebuild the enterprise, new technologies were introduced. Projects of factory buildings in Lysva were created by the "first engineer of the Russian Empire" Vladimir Shukhov. The obsolete puddling was replaced by open-hearth furnaces, a railway line was built from the station Lysva (Kalino) to the Lysva plant, a small power plant was built.
At the direction of P. Shuvalov, two colleges for 700 children and two schools were built in the Lysva plant. Peasants and artisans were given land, for which up to 11,500 acres of land were sold to the population, part of it with forests, at low prices and on preferential terms.

Thanks to the construction of a railway line connecting Lysva with the Kalino station of the Gornozavodskaya railway, the plant, which by that time was producing iron from imported cast iron, received wide access to the country's markets.

The number of workers at the plant increased dramatically, reaching a mark of 2340 people; in 1914, more than six thousand people worked at the LMZ.

The production of enamelware began.

On April 5, 1926, by the decision of the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, Lysva was given the status of a town.
During the Great Patriotic War, the plant was the only enterprise in the country producing soldier's helmets (SSH-40 steel helmets). In total, over 10 million of these helmets were made during the war years. The plant also produced steel front protectors, gas mask filters, shells and air bombs, bowlers, thermoses and much more.
For the successful fulfillment of the tasks of the State Defense Committee, the plant (during the war years - Plant No. 700 of the People's Commissariat of Ferrous Metallurgy) was awarded the Order of Lenin in 1942 and the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree in 1945.

By 1929, the Lysva plant produced 43% of chrome-plated tin from the entire USSR production.

For the first time in the USSR, the plant mastered the production of automobile sheets.
The plant constantly developed and grew. New working hands were required, which led to an increase in the population of the working settlement of Lysva. People came to work at LMZ not only from neighboring districts, but also from nearby regions. Population growth spurred the construction of residential buildings. Polyclinics, schools, kindergartens, shops appeared.

In the 1960s, a large-scale reconstruction was underway at the plant, which provided for the creation of new production facilities. Among others, in 1971, the construction of a complex for the production of cold rolled sheet metal and sheet metal with protective coatings began.
It was decided to build a workshop on the swampy soil of the village with the specifical name Sakhalin. Gradually, most of the village was demolished, and workers were settled in the resettled barracks. Over time, these buildings disappeared.
Especially for the construction of the workshop, a separate construction trust was created, which consisted of several construction and installation departments, for the performance of certain types of work, the enterprises Stalkonstruktsiya, Metallurgmontazh, Elektromontazh and others were created.
The nature of the soil required non-trivial solutions from the builders, the use of advanced technologies and changes to the project. For example, due to the proximity of groundwater, the buildings of the workshop and auxiliary departments had to be made two-story, although initially they were all planned to be one floor.
A lot of adjustments had to be made to the project according to the requirements of the suppliers of the main equipment - Skoda-export (Czechoslovakia)

Construction has been delayed. Only after the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev criticized the pace of construction of the production that the country needed so much at the plenum of the CPSU Central Committee in October 1977, construction began at an accelerated pace.

The start of the new production took place on December 20, 1979.

By the mid-1980s, the shop was producing more than one hundred thousand tons of chrome-plated and varnished tin a year, as well as at least 70 thousand tons of electrolytically galvanized rolled products with polymer coatings.
With the commissioning of the coating shop of the Lysva Metallurgical Plant, the shortage of canning tin was eliminated in the USSR. Producers of canned food from the Far East to Moldova, from Kazakhstan to the Baltic States and Kuban received high-quality containers for their products.

Rolled products with polymer coatings were used in construction for the production of profiled sheeting. The autosheet was delivered to the Volga Automobile Plant. It was for AvtoVAZ that in 1998 LMZ began to produce rolled products with protective coatings for the VAZ-2110 family of cars with a width of up to 1100 mm.

In 2001–2003 electrolytic galvanizing units were reconstructed to meet the needs of AvtoVAZ, and the production of electrogalvanized automobile sheets with a width of up to 1600 mm was started.

In 2007, lines for applying protective coatings were modernized, the production capacity of electro-galvanized automotive sheets was increased to 170 thousand tons per year and rolled products with polymer coatings to 120 thousand tons per year.

In 2008, a strip slitting unit by FAGOR (Spain), a zinc coating passivation plant by CMI (Belgium) and a tension leveller by Sundwig (Germany) were launched.

In 2009, LMZ launched equipment for applying the final paint coating by CMI (Belgium).

In 2013, the plant launched a project for the construction of a sheet-rolling complex.

A plant for phosphating electro-galvanized sheet metal produced by CMI (Belgium) was put into operation.

A polymer coating line with Print technology was put into operation.
The start of line operation in the teleconference mode was made by the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev. Manufacturer of equipment is Danieli (Italy).

In December 2017, the Lysva Metallurgical Plant became part of the MMK Group.