The employees of Izhstal have celebrated the 50th anniversary of the arc-furnace shop.
The first pile in the construction of the shop was laid in March 1964. On December 14, 1968 the first arc-furnace produced the first steel. The construction of the shop was completed in 1976.
In 1996 the shop commissioned the vacuum-oxygen decarbonization machine, which enabled it to produce stainless steel with extremely low carbon content.
In 2008-2010 the shop was completely modernized.
The shop employs over 600 people and produces more than 1000 grades of steel and alloys. Last year the shop produced 316 thousand tons of steel, up by 21% YoY. (Ukrainian metal)
