Azovstal has presented a project to reconstruct the blast furnace No. 3 to decrease pollution by 80%. The blast furnace will be completely reconstructed to allow it operating on the pulverized coal fuel. Thus the company will save gas and decrease environment pollution. The investments in the project will total 2 billion UAH. (Ukrainian metal)
In 2018 the Atmosphera mobile environment laboratory will be working on weekends and holidays and will increase its route. According to the city council people’s deputy and the chairman of the social protection, health protection and ecology commission Maxim Borodin, Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works and Azovstal have considerably decreased their buffer zones, thus…
Azovstal Iron and Steel Works has started the pulverized coal injection process at its blast furnace No. 2. “PCI at BF No. 4 was started according to schedule in November 2016. Construction works at BF No. 2 began in December 2016, and now the PCI process has started”, the company said. The next furnace to…
According to the Mariupol city council member Maksim Borodin, Azovstal had another chemical attack on the city. “A strong east wind carries Azovstal pollutions to the Ilyanskaya and Slobodka (city districts). I reported to the contact-center. They promised to send a mobile lab”, he posted on his Facebook page. Local citizens in their comments to…
Azovstal Iron and Steel Works has started experiencing shortage of scrap. “The situation on the scrap market is worsening, we see the shortage”, the company CEO Enver Tskitishvili said. According to him, the company has been better provided with scrap in a more complex period (June-July) because of Ukrzaliznytsia selling its stocks. “As far as…
In October the state enterprise Ukrzaliznytsia intends to increase throughput of the railroad route Kamysh-Zarya – Volnovakha to 19 pairs of cargo trains per day. Previously the route was not used for transportation, but after the military activities in Donbass started, it became the main route for iron ore raw materials delivery to Mariupol Ilyich…
Azovstal Iron and Steel Works has initiated explosion works to disassemble a blast furnace. “The blast furnace No. 3 disassembly is carried out within the reconstruction project”, the company informed. Azovstal specialists have developed a set of health, labor and fire safety rules. (Ukrainian metal)
The scheduled increase of railroad tariffs by 22.5% from October 1 will result in a significant increase of Azovstal products prime cost. “The transport component in the prime cost structure of our products is some 10-12%. That’s because we have expenses not only while shipping rolled metal, but also while bringing raw materials to the…