During the first halfyear of the 2013 Integrated Iron and Steel Works “Zaporizhstal” reduced energy consumption of manufactured steel product by 6,4%.
There is the program of the Metinvest Group at Zaporizhstal which is oriented on realization energy-efficient process and implementation of total control raw material consumption and energy resources across all levels of manufacture. Improvement of index on energy consumption of manufactured steel product in the first half of the 2013 is related to the implementation set of measures on detection of energy losses and development reduction loses of cold air blast, in transit from heat and power plant to the blast furnace plant; heating mode optimization across the zones of holding furnaces; energy saving by means of setting the optimum mode of the rolling shops equipment.
Energy efficiency incensement and rational use of energy resources are among the priority tasks of Zaporizhstal. The steel plant realizes massive investment programs, which are directed to incense energy efficiency of the production.
Mr. Rostislav Shurma, CEO of Zaporizhstal, said that as a result, in June 2013, consumption of natural gas in steelmaking was reduced to 29 million per ton of founded steel, in comparison with June 2012, when it was 43,39 million per ton.