Equipment

LLC “SGM” gradually implements its strategy of renovation and increases its spread of construction machinery. In 2010 over 200 units of new machines and devices for total amount of 1 bln. rubles were put to work at the facilities. The Company’s machine spread increased by 7% and at the moment it has over 3500 units of different equipment. Work sites received bulldozers, pipelayers, excavators, welding and technological units, cranes, dump trucks, pipe string truck-trains produced by major international and Russian manufactures such as CHETRA (Russia), URALAZ (Russia), Komatsu (Japan), Caterpillar (USA).

New types of equipment such as automated welding units CRC-EVANS (USA), unit for horizontal auger drilling Barbco (USA), pipe benders Superior 48-60 (Italy) and aspread for clearing forest areas which includes harvesting equipment John Deere (USA) and mulching machine RAYCO (USA) for clearing from afforestation the right-of-way of a gas pipeline under construction. The new equipment is used at the construction projects of Bovanenkovo – Ukhta and Pochinki – Gryazovets trunk gas pipeline

The scale of the Company’s projects and their vast geography require a complex approach to the matters related to mechanization. For lowering the operating expenses for equipment maintenance in SGGroup of Companies there is a centralized procedure of procurement of spare parts, fuels and lubricants (GSM) from the manufacturing plants and their representative of fices. On the basis of affiliated subsidiary companies (ASC) there were arranged consignment warehouses of spare parts and GSM, which significantly reduced the time of standby of equipment due to maintenance, as well as production and technical centers for conducting complete overhaul and maintenance of construction equipment and vehicles

In 2010 there was completed the first stage of implementing a system of monitoring the construction equipment operationbased on GLONASS: technical requirements were identified, the services supplier was found, pilot equipment testing was performed. Optimization of equipment and device operation at the construction sites and lowering the costs of operation will be the result of implementing this system

To increase the efficiency of works related to machine use and to maintain high skills among our personel we regularly arrange training and certificationfor operators of construction machines in the centers for training and certification of the equipment manufactures, as well as in our own centers that have all the necessary training equipment where we invite specialists of the manufacturing plant