Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works has finished reconstruction of the stove No. 2 at the blast furnace No. 5 “Severyanka”. According to the company statement, investments in the project totaled 800 million rubles ($14 million). “The reconstruction will allow increasing temperature to 1250 degrees C, improving the CherMK largest blast furnace efficiency and decreasing coke…
Severstal is increasing the rolled metal storage capacities at the industrial port of Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works by one third. The new hangar (135 x 24 x 14 m) will be made of metal frame weighing over 90 tons, over which an awing cover with double sided PVC coating will be put. With the…
Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works, one of the world’s largest integrated steel plants (a part of Severstal’s Russian Steel division), has launched the commercial operation of a digital predictive model to prevent failures at the hot rolling mill 2000 and thereby reduce its downtime. This model calculates the probability and risk of the pinion stand…
Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works has completed the assembly of the loading crane in the rolling shop. “The new crane with the lifting capacity of 50/12.5 tons will be transporting rolls. The cost of the machinery is 55 million rubles”, Severstal Russian Steel CEO Vadim Germanov said. The program to replace the cranes at CherMK…
Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works has finished the capital repairs of its blast furnace No. 1. The cost of the repairs was some 1.8 billion rubles. The work has been carried out 9 days earlier. The repair lasted for 33 days. The work prolonged the BF1 operation by at least 7 years. (Ukrainian metal)
In August the metal plating shop No. 2 of Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works produced 63 thousand tons of galvanized metal. The previous record of 60 thousand tons was set in May 2016. Last month the continuous hot alumining and continuous galvanizing mills operated at the maximum capacity. At the same time output increased because…
Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works intends to increase sales of metal to clients who pay special attention to surface quality. For this the company will modernize its metal treatment shop No. 2. Investments will total 1 billion rubles. In particular, the company plans to expand the existing shop premises and assemble a number of mills…
The blast furnace No. 5 Severyanka of Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works has produced the 120-millionth ton of pig iron. The BF was first blown in on April 12, 1986, and the first pig iron was produced on April 13. For the next 20 years Severyanka has been the largest furnace in the world and…
