Energomashspetsstal is preparing to ship the first hot metal ladle-car to Azovstal Iron and Steel Works. According to a contract signed in 2020, EMSS will produce 9 such cars. The car is intended for transportation of a ladle with hot metal from the blast furnace shop to the converter shop. The volume of the ladle…
Azovstal has again received an international certificate as an approved manufacturer of rolled sheets for shipbuilding according to LR. The document is valid till February 2024. “Without this certificate we would not be able to supply certain shipbuilding steel grades, thus the company would have lost its customers, orders and income”, Azovstal noted. (Ukrainian metal)
Until the end of November, Azovstal intends to finish the capital repair of two air heaters of the blast furnaces Nos. 3 and 4, begun in February. The cost of each repair is around $3.5 million. Such large-scale repairs are carried out once in 20-25 years. The company is also getting ready for the repair…
In 2020, due to the energy saving measures, Azovstal was able to save 1.3 million cubic meters of gas, 78 thousand tons of coke and 101.5 million kW-h of electricity. The combined effect reached $15.2 million. In particular, the company increased the usage of pulverized coal in blast furnace manufacture. The company also continued implementing…
Azovstal Iron and Steel Works has invested over 50 million UAH in the Primetals system to control metal level in the continuous casting machines crystallizers. “We constantly modernize the technological processes control and automation systems, which allows receiving high-quality products according to the customers’ requirements”, the company CEO Enver Tskitishvili said. (Ukrainian metal)
Azovstal has commissioned a new blast furnace slag car in the metal slag processing shop. Investments in the purchase amounted to 4.6 million UAH. The volume of the car is 16.5 cubic meters and weight – 65 tons. The temperature of hot slag is 1300-1400 degrees C, which results in a periodical need to replace…
Azovstal has commissioned its fire-cutting unit No. 3 after repair. The investment in the project amounted to 10 million UAH. It was impossible to repair the unit at its site in the plate-rolling shop, so it was disassembled and transferred to a contractor. The modernized unit was returned in August. Until November it was completely…
Azovstal has finished capital repair of the air compressor EK 1500 No. 8 and the air separator VRU-60 of the station No. 1 in the oxygen shop. Investments in the project amounted to 12.6 million UAH. “The scheduled revision of machinery helps us avoid downtime of the works divisions and delays in orders,” the company…