Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works will replace converters at its oxygen converter shop. The project is expected to be complete this year. All the equipment will be supplied by Novokramatorsk Machine-Building Works (Ukraine). NKMZ has already shipped the equipment of the converter bulk. At present the works is manufacturing the third bulk of a converter.…
MMK-Metiz quality management system has successfully passed the audit for the correspondence to ISO 9001:2015 and ISO/TS 16949:2009. According to the company statement, the system has been checked by TUV Nord Cert experts. MMK-Metiz was certified according to ISO 9001 back in 2006, and according to ISO/TS 16949 in 2007. (Ukrainian metal)
Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works is the first among Russian manufacturers of galvanized and coated rolled metal. The rating on the results of the H1 was published in the “Metallosnabzheniye i sbyt” magazine. Last year MMK also headed the rating. In mid-July the works put into operation the continuous galvanizing machine No. 3 with the…
Schneider Electric has finished modernization of the automatization and electricity supply system in the smoke exhaust department of the oxygen-converter shop of Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works. This allowed MMK to decrease electricity consumption by 36% and provide for faultless operation of the important technological site. “This is the first project of energy efficiency improvement…
In April-June MMK increased steel output by 3.8% QoQ, to 3.182 million tons. Capacities were 90% loaded. Pig iron manufacture increased by 8.7% QoQ, to 2.578 million tons. The growth has to do with the scheduled repair of blast furnace No. 10 in Q1. Sales in Q2 reached 2.882 million tons, up by 5.9% QoQ,…
On July 13 the rating agency Fitch Ratings upgraded the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works’s Long-Term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to ‘BBB-‘ from ‘BB+’ with Stable Outlook. In its press-release Fitch notes that the rating upgrade reflects MMK’s substantial deleveraging and Fitch’s view that the company’s financial profile will remain conservative, with projected leverage comfortably…
Steel output of Russia’s Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) increased by 3.8% QoQ, to 3.182 million tons in April-June, the company said in a statement July 17. In January-June, steel production rose by 0.6% YoY, to 6.248 million tons. Metal products sales fell by 3.2% YoY, to 5.605 million tons, in January-June, but increased…
PJSC Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works has completed the reconstruction of gas-purifying plants at the mill’s electric-furnace melting shop with CAPEX of more than RUB 1.3 billion. The gas purifying plants are now almost 100% efficient. Over the course of the project, two old wet gas-purification systems, No. 32 and No. 33, were replaced with…