Until the end of November, Azovstal intends to finish the capital repair of two air heaters of the blast furnaces Nos. 3 and 4, begun in February. The cost of each repair is around $3.5 million. Such large-scale repairs are carried out once in 20-25 years. The company is also getting ready for the repair…
In 2020, due to the energy saving measures, Azovstal was able to save 1.3 million cubic meters of gas, 78 thousand tons of coke and 101.5 million kW-h of electricity. The combined effect reached $15.2 million. In particular, the company increased the usage of pulverized coal in blast furnace manufacture. The company also continued implementing…
Azovstal Iron and Steel Works has invested over 50 million UAH in the Primetals system to control metal level in the continuous casting machines crystallizers. “We constantly modernize the technological processes control and automation systems, which allows receiving high-quality products according to the customers’ requirements”, the company CEO Enver Tskitishvili said. (Ukrainian metal)
Azovstal has commissioned a new blast furnace slag car in the metal slag processing shop. Investments in the purchase amounted to 4.6 million UAH. The volume of the car is 16.5 cubic meters and weight – 65 tons. The temperature of hot slag is 1300-1400 degrees C, which results in a periodical need to replace…
Azovstal has commissioned its fire-cutting unit No. 3 after repair. The investment in the project amounted to 10 million UAH. It was impossible to repair the unit at its site in the plate-rolling shop, so it was disassembled and transferred to a contractor. The modernized unit was returned in August. Until November it was completely…
Azovstal has finished capital repair of the air compressor EK 1500 No. 8 and the air separator VRU-60 of the station No. 1 in the oxygen shop. Investments in the project amounted to 12.6 million UAH. “The scheduled revision of machinery helps us avoid downtime of the works divisions and delays in orders,” the company…
Azovstal has invested 96 million UAH in the capital repair of its converter No. 2. The repair started in mid-September. The company began preparing a month earlier. Each day around 7 units of machinery and over 100 contractor workers are operating at the site. The repair is to be finished within 45 days. (Ukrainian metal)
According to recent data, metallurgical plant Azovstal (Mariupol, Donetsk region), a member of Metinvest Group, in January-August increased production of general rolled metals by 3.6% YoY, to 2.66 million tons. A representative of the enterprise said that during this period steel production increased by 3.2%, to 2.82 million tons, and cast iron by 8.3%, to…
