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ООО Liteks (Rybinsk Press Manufacturing Plant) is a Russian engineering company producing equipment for the printing industry. It is located in Rybinsk, by the side of the Volga river, in Zacheremushniy disrict. The plant was founded in 1915. In 1931 the first Soviet printing machine "Pioner" was produced. In 2006 the plant was renamed into OOO Liteks.

The company produced offset web-printing machines for the production of newspapers, books, magazines, pneumatic units for printing offices.

History
In 1915, during World War I, Railway Car Building Works "Feniks" was evacuated from Riga to Rybinsk. In 1918 it was named "Proletariy". However, in 1921 the equipment of the Railway Car Building Works "Feniks" was returned to Riga, and the work of the plant "Proletariy" was put on hold.

In 1917, the company "Torgovyy dom Aleynikov. Averin i K" began construction of a plant near the railway station for producing of all kinds of fittings: water-supply fittings, steam-water fittings and transmissions. In 1918 the plant was called "Armatrans". Construction of the main building of the plant was started in 1919 and continued in the following years.

From September 1919 to 1920, the plant has refurbished locomotives, and then has been handed over to the department of the Rybinsk Council of National Economy.

In September 1922, it was joined by the agricultural machinery plant. After that the plant was named "Metallist". It produced agricultural machinery and tools.

In 1926, due to poor sanitary conditions and lack of space, expanding the plant, so it was decided to expand the plant and to use the location of the former plant "Proletariy".

In 1931, the government decided to start production of printing machines in the USSR. Therefore, funds were allocated for the reconstruction of the plant to produce flat-bed printing machines and rotary machines. On July 22, 1931 the first Soviet flat-bed printing machine "Pioner-1" was released. It laid the foundation of the domestic printing machine production. From January 4, 1932 the plant was called Rybinsk Plant of Printing Machine Production named in honor of G. G. Yagoda.

With the beginning of the World War II, the plant switched to the production of mortars. Due to the systematic, ahead-of-schedule fulfillment of orders the plant was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour, as well as the Order of Lenin. After the World War II, the production of printing equipment was resumed.

Due to the growth of tax debts and unpaid wages, at the end of 2005 the bankruptcy procedure was launched. As a result, it was acquired by Moscow investors and was named OOO LIteks. Production of printing equipment was resumed. However, after a while financial problems arose again, and in 2014 the company ceased to exist. On its basis new company OOO "Liteyno-mekhanicheskiy zavod" was established.

Production
Currently, the company specializes in manufacturing of cast sections:


 * made of grey and high-strength cast iron by using casting in disposable green sand molds and cold hardening mixtures;
 * made of carbon steels by using hot investment casting.

The casting is used for printing production, hydraulic machines and hydraulic valves.

Publications

 * Smirnov G. P., Sovetskoye poligraficheskoye mashinostroyeniye, "Poligrafiya" (Советское полиграфическое машиностроение, «Полиграфия» (Soviet printing machine production, "Poligraphy"))
 * Nemirovskiy E. L., Sozdaniye sovetskogo poligraficheskogo mashinostroyeniya (Создание советского полиграфического машиностроения (Development of Soviet printing machine production))