- I had a wonderful dream…
- Why “had”?
- It wandered away!
Nowadays a recently profitable and perspective factory bears huge losses. The production level is winding down, mass layoffs are in process. There is a question occurred to ex-employees’ minds: - was it possible to avoid all of this? And my answer is: - it was.
Talking about the factory I would like to remind of its history first. Uralmash started his heavy engineering construction in 1933. Generally it specialized in production blast-furnace and steelmaking machinery, excavators and hydraulic presses. Then people had great planes and expectations about the manufactory. To achieve a high level of production quality Uralmash was provided with the most modern equipment from such known companies as Wagner, Krigar, Sheppar. There was a special educational institution arranged under the factory for preparing high-skilled professionals to operate the equipment.
A lot changed from that time. Nowadays Uralmash is a loss-making living out its final days manufactory. Technical equipment and adjacent structures are worn-out in service, production buildings came to critical condition.
Lack of manufactory modernization leads to the marketability loss, capacities reduction and total bankruptcy. According to accounting reports the factory activity losses in 2013 amounted to 3.05 bln. rub. Moreover the sum is constantly increasing.
To improve such critical condition and save Uralmash factory specialists worked out a strategy of industrial area development. The main idea of it was to turn the manufactory into a compact economic and effective production with equipment qualifying the modern standards. The strategy was to be achieved by means of financial recourses got from inefficient industrial area sale. For instance, about 90 hectares of such area are occupied by constructions built in 30s of the latest century, which now are inappropriate for manufacturing activity.
According to the strategy of Uralmash industrial area development it was planned to release the area of 1,5 million square meters for residential and 500 thousands square meters for commercial construction. A part of residential and commercial buildings sales-profit was planned to allocate for building such social objects as the Hockey Academy and Water Sports Palace. The strategy realization could be a solution not only for a number of the factory tasks, but for social ones as well. Among them is job creation and housing construction rate increasing within “Affordable Housing” national project.
Nevertheless, in spite of the obvious advantage, the leaders of Uralmash factory couldn’t arrive at a common view and make a positive decision about industrial area development strategy realization. A beautiful and realizable dream of Uralmash factory died. So, the employees have nothing left but wait for their turn to be fired. And we have nothing to do, but watch how a recently profitable manufactory with its powerful capacities is falling into decay.
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