In January Lebedinsky Mining and Processing Works produced the 750-millonth ton of iron ore concentrate with the iron content of 69.5%. The first ton was produced in November 1972, when the first stage of the processing factory was commissioned. At that time its capacity was 7.5 million tons of ore per year. The 700-millionth ton…
Lebedinsky GOK is carrying out a major project to reconstruct gas-purification system. Instead of scrubbers the company starts using electric filters. This is considered the most efficient method of gas purification by the company. The first filter was assembled in December 2018. At present another filter is being constructed at the charge preparation site to…
Lebedinsky Mining and Processing Works has successfully passed the audit of its quality management system and has once again confirmed its correspondence to the international standard. The audit has been carried out by the experts of the British Standards Institution. They noted that all the departments inspected demonstrated the highest level of participation in the…
In 2020 Lebedinsky Mining and Processing Works will be switched to operation under tax monitoring. This will be the first Metalloinvest enterprise to start using the advanced format of cooperation with tax services. The enterprise is one of the largest taxpayers in Belgorod region – last year it paid over 21.4 billion rubles of taxes…
Lebedinsky Mining and Processing Works has passed a re-certification audit of the industrial and labor safety management system for the correspondence to the requirements of ISO 45001:2018. The audit was carried out on September 9-13 by the specialists of the British Standards Institution. Following the inspection the specialists recommended certifying the Lebedinsky GOK safety system…
Lebedinsky Mining and Processing Works, a part of Metalloinvest, has produced the 40-millionth ton of hot-briquetted iron. It took the plant 20 years to reach the milestone. Metalloinvest occupies over 50% of the global HBI market. In 2018 it sold 4.5 million tons of the product. (Ukrainian metal)
Lebedinsky Mining and Processing Works has put into operation a new excavator with improved capacity with the ladle volume of 20 cubic meters. This is the third machine of the kind operating at LGOK. It takes the excavator 3 minutes to fully load a 220-ton BelAZ. The weight of the machine is over 700 tons.…
Lebedinsky Mining and Processing Works, a part of Metalloinvest, has received three new BelAZ trucks with the lifting capacity of 220 tons. The dump trucks have been purchased under an investment program to renew machinery and increase the manufacturing efficiency. LGOK now has 11 such trucks. (Ukrainian metal)