Starting from 2020 Mauro Longobardo will become the new CEO of ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih, he has previously chaired ArcelorMittal Tubular Products Jubail. Paramjit Kahlon, current CEO of ArcelorMittal CIS, will work until the end of 2019, and then he will leave the Group. The corporation thanked Mr. Kahlon for his contribution to the development of…
ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih will continue the environmental modernization of its converter shop. The company has signed a contract with Danieli Corus (the Netherlands) for the reconstruction of gas cleaning installations of converters Nos. 1-3. Updating gas cleaning of all six converters is one of the key environmental projects of the plant, the total cost of…
ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih has installed new equipment to control air quality at two stations. In late November the company purchased 4 GA-100 gas analyzers for 770 thousand UAH. They allow for quick and quality data processing. After tests in December the equipment will be put into operation. This year AMKR has also finished implementing automated…
Dniepropetrovsk region will create a group to monitory environment at ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih, the main polluter in the region. The group will control the company management fulfilling its obligations to improve environment. The management promised to create a schedule to determine the amount of funds, which would be spent on environment programs. The group will…
ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih has started using a new LECO laboratory complex to quicker and more precisely analyze the quality of coal grades and correct their proportions in the charge while making coke. The optimal contents of the charge allow improving coke quality and decreasing its prime cost. The cost of the complex is 3 million…
ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih intends to reconstruct its Mirolyubovka tailing pond. The project presupposes the increase of the height of the levees first to 160 meters (first stage) and then to 165 meters (second stage). AMKR is using 3 tailing ponds. $50 million will be invested in two of them – Mirolyubovka and Obyedinennoye – in…
ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih has received a right to continue extracting ore in the mine named after Artem, as the legislative collisions have been removed. AMKR received the initial right to operate at the mine in 2007. The license was granted for two sites. In 2014 operation at one of them was suspended. In 2015-2016 the…
ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih has applied an innovative method of coke oven batteries Nos. 1-2 repair. It is based on ceramic welding of deep cracks with subsequent injection of powder mixtures to seal small cracks in the refractory brickwork of coke ovens. Such a method to reduce emissions is already being used in Europe, but in…
