These are: universal and high-duty readers, ripper-loaders of various types, loaders and rock drill-loaders, narrow-cut cutter-loaders, scraper-type mobile conveyors, belt conveyors and coal-cutter-conveyors and crushers of various sizes.

A tendency to cut down the number of mines and concurrently to raise the coal output at the expence of a full-scale implementation of the efficient and reliable heading, coal-cutting and conveying machinery is typical for the advanced coal-mining countries.

The goal of renovating the coal industry in Ukraine is to establish a profit-gaining coal-producing sector based on the promising and steadily-operating mines. The major condition for raising efficiency in coal mining is to concentrate mining operatins at each individual mine as much as possible through the use of the high-duty full-powered facilities that can provide the breakage face coal output within 1 or 2 mln. tons/year.

It is necessary to implement an advanced "face-mine" technology at the already operating and newly-built mines. This technology provides cutting coal only in one fully-powered face with no any standby face area and spare coal-cutting machinery set being kept at the mine till the running mining complex service life completely comes to an end.To better the situation in the coal-mining sector, the Ministry of Coal-Mining of Ukraine adopted a "Program of Reforms" in which Novokramatorsky Mashinostroitelny Zavod Jt.St.Co. was assigned as the key producer of a range of the high-tech mining machinery.