Russia: NLMK Group launches new by-product fuelled facility

NLMK Group has started hot testing at its briquetting plant, a facility to manufacture metallurgical briquettes for use in blast furnace operations. The project will enable the production of feedstock from blast furnace by-products, and the recycling of previously accumulated waste. The production technology is NLMK’s in-house development. It was conceptualized by Ivan Kurunov, an…

Russia: NLMK starts repairing Rossiyanka BF

NLMK has started the scheduled repairs of the blast furnace No. 7 “Rossiyanka”. The repair will last for 14 days. It will improve the blast furnace efficiency and let NLMK start another of the Strategy 2022 projects – the reconstruction of the blast furnace No. 6. The preparation for the repair lasted for 7 months.…