October 29 is the date when ULBA Metallurgical Plant JSC celebrates its 65th Anniversary. October 29, 1949 was the starting point when they released their first product as Thorium Oxalate. Today Ulba Metallurgical Plant is a unique enterprise with its products well known all over the world.
In its jubilee speech addressed to Ulba Metallurgical Plant employees Mr. Nurlan Kapparov, the Chairman of the NAC Kazatomprom Board, noted its role in making important decisions a republican nuclear industry makes:
– Working as a part of Kazatomprom, now the plant is encouraged to play an important role in building a company possessing maximum number of nuclear fuel cycle links. Ulba Metallurgical Plant acts as a reliable representative of Kazakhstan in the international markets of high-tech products of Uranium, Beryllium and Tantalum. All that activity requires great knowledge and experience, deep competence appropriate for ULBA employees.
In his appeal to the plant’s veterans and employees Mr. Yuriy Shakhvorostov, Board Chairman noted:
– Ulba’s strong position and its ability to resist any difficulties – properties appropriate to the veterans, help today’s employees in making the way in the new economical environment. The plant is continuously working on the long-terms projects and keeping high quality of products and expanding its range.
All productions meet the jubilee date with the performed production tasks. Uranium production increased its volumes of the processed chemical concentrates of natural Uranium. Fuel pellets were produced and shipped to Chinese customers. It is a continuous business to process Uranium containing materials supplied by the Japanese companies. Beryllium production significantly increased Aluminum-Beryllium master alloy output. For the nearest future they intend starting to supply a new kind of products as Copper-Beryllium alloy as granules to Chinese market. Tantalum production made a supply of Tantalum powder of metallurgical grade to US customers. A procedure was established for the production of Tantalum and Niobium strip modified with Yttrium and commercial supplies were made to foreign partners. A procedure was developed and tested for the production of high pure Niobium of superconducting grade.
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