CMP starts serial production of fuel-storage racks in Glazov
CMP Engineering Complex begins serial production of fuel-storage racks in Glazov after equipment upgrades with first deliveries to Egypt’s El-Dabaa power plant.
CMP Engineering Complex has begun serial production of nuclear-fuel storage racks in Glazov, Udmurtia, Russia. The first products have reached El-Dabaa in Egypt. Investment exceeded 260 million rubles, including loans of 180 million rubles from the federal Industrial Development Fund and 20 million rubles from the Udmurt Entrepreneurship Development Fund.
New equipment enabled automation and cut the manufacturing cycle fourfold, chief executive Tamara Remeshevskaya said. The move replaces individual manufacture with serial output. The 20 May 2025 announcement follows roughly ten years of rack production.
From a repair workshop to an independent manufacturer
The company became a separate enterprise on 1 October 2008. Its industrial predecessor was the repair-and-mechanical workshop created at Chepetsk Mechanical Plant in June 1948. The workshop built, installed, adjusted and repaired equipment for its parent plant. The new enterprise inherited both the workshop’s staff and its manufacturing base.
In 2017, CMP manufactured column equipment for Chepetsk Mechanical Plant’s zirconium-production modernization. The equipment was intended for a process separating zirconium and hafnium chlorides. The column was made from Hastelloy, a corrosion-resistant chromium-nickel alloy, for a high-temperature, highly aggressive environment. Welding, machining, forming and heat treatment were among the manufacturing operations involved. The company retained this project in its April 2018 historical coverage.
El-Dabaa’s construction programme
El-Dabaa is being built in Matrouh province on the Mediterranean coast, approximately 300 kilometres northwest of Cairo. The project comprises four VVER-1200 pressurized-water reactor units rated at 1,200 megawatts each. First concrete for Unit 4 was poured on 23 January 2024, bringing all four units into construction. Rosatom’s Engineering Division is the project’s general designer and general contractor.
The project’s package of contracts entered into force on 11 December 2017. Russian obligations include construction, lifetime nuclear-fuel supply, personnel training and support for operation and servicing during the first ten operating years. A separate agreement covers a storage facility and containers for spent fuel. These are the wider project arrangements described in the January 2024 project release.
Deliveries and planned destinations
CMP’s customer programme includes different stages of work:
- El-Dabaa: initial racks delivered.
- Akkuyu, Turkey: equipment supplies underway.
- Paks 2, Hungary: production started.
- Kursk 2, Leningrad 2 and Smolensk 2: domestic supply plans.
Fuel-storage racks accommodate fresh and spent reactor-fuel elements. The fund distinguishes racks for fresh assemblies from racks used in spent-fuel pools.
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