Karelsky Okatysh is carrying out a number of projects to increase product quality. In particular, the company has assembled machinery for magnetic gravity separation. The technique will be tested in the concentrate and pellets manufacture. It is expected to increase iron content by 1.5% and decrease silicon content. Another project is to decrease pellets basicity.…
Karelsky Okatysh has completed a complex repair of its pelletizing machine No. 3 by replacing 150 meters of rails. The rails are used to transport trolleys with raw pellets to the machine. In order to free the old rails to be disassembled the company first had to remove 120 trolleys, weighing 10 tons each. The…
Until the end of the year SMC-Kolpino will produce 14 dump car sides for Karelsky Okatysh. The length of each side will be 14 meters, height – 1.3 meters and weight – over 4 tons. The sides will be produced of sheet and plates manufactured at the mill-5000 in Kolpino. SMC-Kolpino mastered the manufacture of…
Karelsky Okatysh is preparing to put into operation three new Caterpillar 777E dump trucks with the lifting capacity of 90 tons. 7 such machines are already operating at the quarries and have proven their efficiency. “Small dump trucks have a number of advantages. They are universal thanks to their compact size. Where the 220-ton machines…
Karelsky Okatysh has received a new TEM18DM locomotive. This is the second environment-friendly railroad machine at the enterprise. The locomotive will deliver cargo to the Tovarnaya station. With the 720 kW engine the locomotive can transport up to 5 thousand tons of cargo, while saving some 10% of the fuel. At present Karelsky Okatysh operates…
Karelsky Okatysh will modernize one of its main transportation lines – the K-17 conveyer, which is able to transport 3.2 thousand tons of ore per hour. “It was partially modernized in February, when an old engine was replaced with a more powerful one, which increased the speed and efficiency”, the company said. The second stage…
On March 19 the pelletizing machine of Karelsky Okatysh produced the anniversary 300-millionth ton of pellets. The first million tons was produced on March 5, 1983. The 100-millionth ton was manufactured on November 29, 1996. Another milestone – 200 million tons – was reached also in 13 years. But after that the rate grew –…
Karelsky Okatysh has performed a unique action – lifted a 670-ton excavator to repair it. For this a special lifting mechanism was used, which was designed for the company. Its lifting capacity is 1 thousand tons. “This is a unique machine. None in Russia has it”, the company repair mechanic Dmitry Yepanchin said. The use…