ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih has started using a new LECO laboratory complex to quicker and more precisely analyze the quality of coal grades and correct their proportions in the charge while making coke. The optimal contents of the charge allow improving coke quality and decreasing its prime cost. The cost of the complex is 3 million…
ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih intends to reconstruct its Mirolyubovka tailing pond. The project presupposes the increase of the height of the levees first to 160 meters (first stage) and then to 165 meters (second stage). AMKR is using 3 tailing ponds. $50 million will be invested in two of them – Mirolyubovka and Obyedinennoye – in…
ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih has received a right to continue extracting ore in the mine named after Artem, as the legislative collisions have been removed. AMKR received the initial right to operate at the mine in 2007. The license was granted for two sites. In 2014 operation at one of them was suspended. In 2015-2016 the…
ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih has applied an innovative method of coke oven batteries Nos. 1-2 repair. It is based on ceramic welding of deep cracks with subsequent injection of powder mixtures to seal small cracks in the refractory brickwork of coke ovens. Such a method to reduce emissions is already being used in Europe, but in…
ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih has applied a new method to repair coke-oven batteries Nos. 1 and 2 in order to decrease pollution. The new method is based on the ceramic hard-laying of deep fissures with further inflation of powder mixes to seal smaller cracks in the refractory lining of the coking ovens. This method is already…
In January-September ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih capital expenses exceeded $282 million. Until the end of the year the investments are expected to reach $390 million. This year the company has finished the reconstruction of its small-section mill No. 250-4 having invested over $50 million. The new continuous casting machine No. 3 is undergoing hot tests, and…
Having purchased Krivorizhstal, ArcelotMittal has invested $4.4 billion in its Kriviy Rih asset, and in the nearest 5 years will invest $1.8 billion more. According to the company deputy CEO on metallurgical manufacture Alexander Ivanov, the main focus will be on the change in sinter manufacture, which accounts for some 70% of air pollution. “We…
ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih has opened its third metal warehouse in Kyiv region from where it plans to sell some 5-6 thousand tons per month. This is the company’s 11th warehouse. Earlier this year additional sales sites have appeared in Odessa and Dnipro. The capacity of the new site is 10 thousand tons of metal. It…
