Leningradsky Metallichesky Zavod
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Leningradsky Metallichesky Zavod (Russian: Ленинградский Металлический Завод), also known as LMZ, is the largest Russian manufacturer of power machines and turbines for electric power stations.
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[edit] History
The company was founded in 1857, in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The industry is still located on the original site, on the right bank of the Neva River, in St. Petersburg. Steam turbines has beed prodiuced here since 1907. Water turbines for various Hydropower Stations, has been produced since 1924. Since 1957, the LMZ has been also producing gas turbines.
Since 2000, LMZ is a division of the Power Machines[1] company, based in Russia.[2]
[edit] International business
10% of the world's power turbines are now built at the Leningradsky Metallichesky Zavod. The company is the fourth largest maker of power turbines in the world, after General Electric, Westinghouse, and ABB.
2,300 power turbines were produced at the LMZ plant all together, with their total installed capacity of 300,000,000 KW. Most of the turbines are working at electric power stations in Russia, as well as in all other states of the former Soviet Union.
About 700 turbines made by LMZ are now working at hundreds of electric power plants in more than 80 countries around the world.
