Zaporizhstal invested around UAH 3 million in modernization and reconstruction of the scrap yard. The enterprise has purchased two new modern mobile reloaderes of German company Terex Fuchs for upgrading of scrap loading and processing efficiency.
The program of systematic modernization and reconstruction of capacities is realized at the works on permanent basis, the production equipment is updated. New mobile reloaderes MHL 340 D and MHL 350 will replace obsolete overhead gantry cranes. New machines correspond to high European standards, they are more economic and have high rate of productivity. Cabins of reloaders are equipped with the modern electronic equipment.
This modernization will allow to double volumes of scrap processing for the open hearth furnace shop of the Works, reduce demurrage of cars and lower operating costs, expenses on machinery maintenance and repair. It will enable the enterprise to lower production cost as a whole.
Mr. Rostislav Shurma, director general of Zaporizhstal, said that “Increase of production efficiency, quality of the produced product and decrease in its production cost are at present the primary goals for industrial complex”. (SteelGuru)