Rostselmash

Rostselmash (Russian Ростсельмаш; Rostselmash English transcription ) is the largest manufacturers of agricultural machinery in Russia and Eastern Europe. The company produces forage harvesters, combine harvesters, forage harvesters, balers, technology for the storage and processing of grain, technology for animal husbandry, technology for road construction. Rostselmash is listed on the Moscow Stock Exchange RTS. The company distributes its products in 19 countries.

History

On June 21, 1929 Rostselmash in Rostov -on-Don was founded. 1931, the first two combines were produced, they were named after Joseph Stalin Stalinez. In the same year we tested the new combine together with the competitors Oliver, Holt and Caterpillar in the Krasnodar region. Due to the success of harvesting machines they were produced in series from 1932 and took their name Stalinez -1. In 1937, Rostselmash the new harvester Stalinez - 1 prior to the trade - industrial exhibition in Paris. On 14 June 1940, the 50,000 was. Stalinez -1 produced. During the Second World War Rostselmash was forced to dismantle its assets and bring to Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan. In Tashkent, the systems were reinstalled and switched to military production. On February 14, 1943, Soviet troops liberated the hometown of Rostselmash Rostov -on-Don. The city and the factory of the company were completely destroyed. The company built its plant in Rostov-on- Don again and initially led by maintenance of tanks, tractors and other vehicles. Upon completion, the factory engineers designed a new harvesting machine Stalinez - sixth The designers of the new model were Stalin Prize winners.

The production of harvesters with the name Stalinez continued after that shown above shift of the front portion of the farm machinery factory Tula. Here sprung up in the 1950s, the series Stalinez -2, Stalinez -3 and Stalinez - fourth A resulting model of S4 is located in the Agricultural Museum Wandlitz.

In the 1950s, it ceased production gradually more and more in order to combine. 1958, the company was given the task to produce a self-propelled combine harvesters SK -3 in a short time.

In 1962, Rostselmash with the production of the next model SK- fourth The model was much more efficient than previous models. This machine has been awarded a diploma of the Leipzig Fair in 1963 and the following year she received awards in Czechoslovakia and Hungary.

In 1969, the millionth and 1984, the two millionth harvester was produced in the factory of Rostselmash.

In 2007, it was announced that Rostselmash has acquired 80 percent of the common shares of Buhler Industries of Canada. Currently, the company is also expanding Rostselmash back in the states of the former Soviet Union. Thus was the beginning of February 2010 that Rostselmash in the Ukraine, the Donetsk Oblast, plans to build a production site.

Trivia

The last leg of the torch relay before the opening of the 2014 Winter Olympics has been covered with a Rostselmash combine.