U-Met became the first enterprise in the Rostov region to complete participation in the national project "Improving labor productivity" under the leadership of the RCC.

Recall that the Regional competence center was created a year ago on the basis of the ANO "innovation Agency of the Rostov region".

    - Despite the restrictive measures taken in connection with the spread of the coronavirus, the project was implemented without failures and completed exactly on time, - commented the head of the RCC Alexander Kosterin. – Many members of the working group over the age of 65 were sent to self-isolation, so the remaining ones worked with a double load. All planned indicators for the introduction of lean technology tools have been met. Together with the working group created at the enterprise, the process of manufacturing the ceiling profile was determined as the selected flow. During six months on the stream, the process time was significantly reduced from 27,660 minutes to 4,500 minutes, and work-in-progress was almost halved. Accordingly, the output per person per shift increased from 4490 to 5400 meters. Our project has ended, but the process of improvement does not stop. By 2022, it is planned to reduce the labor intensity of the process by 35%, and the work in progress by 90%. At the same time, it is expected to increase production by 53%.

U-Met company is a manufacturer of light metal structures and metal profiles for ventilated facades under its own trademark Primet and a leading importer of galvanized steel in the South of Russia. The u-Met production complex started operating in 1999.