Under the environment program Chelyabinsk Iron and Steel Works increases iron-containing sludge processing 2-fold. This will decrease industrial wastes. Manufacturing by-products contain up to 40% of iron and can replace iron ore concentrate that the company has to buy. Previously ChMK used only the current volumes of iron-ore wastes. They were scrupulously collected with the…
Chelyabinsk Iron and Steel Works has finished modernizing the 6-lane continuous casting machine in its oxygen-steelmaking shop. The modernization will improve the efficiency of the continuous cast billet machine No. 4. The reconstruction implied the previous experience from the repairs of another machine, done in July. The oxygen-steelmaking shop operates 4 continuous casting machines with…
Metalloinvest and Chelaybinsk Iron and Steel Works have signed long-term contracts for the delivery of around 1.6 million tons of iron ore raw materials and pellets. According to the contract by June 30, 2018 Mikhailovsky Mining and Processing Works will have supplied some 0.6 million tons of pellets and 1 million tons of iron ore…
Chelyabinsk Iron and Steel Works has received the certificate of compliance with TSI for two of its types of rails. The certification is one of the main conditions to supply rails to the European Union. The certificate covers 60E1 and 60E2 rail sections. These products are in demand in the EU where they are widely…
Chelyabinsk Iron and Steel Works has produced 500 thousand tons of rails since its rail-beam mill has started operating. Most of the rails – some 90% – were sent to the Russian Railways. In 2016 the Railways received 270 thousand tons of rails, this year it is planned to supply 330 thousand tons. ChMK rails…
Chelyabinsk Iron and Steel Works has finished the capital repairs of its blast furnace No. 1. According to the company statement, its blast furnace shop includes 3 furnaces with the combined capacity of 3.5 million tons of pig iron per year. In Q1 ChMK received 950.3 million rubles of net profits, up 2.3-fold YoY, having…
Chelyabinsk Iron and Steel Works has smelted the first large billet weighing 50 tons. The new technology to produce super-sized billets of special steel grades will allow ChMK to enter a new market and sell locally, as well as export. There are not many companies in the world capable of producing such billets, as the…
In June Chelyabinsk Iron and Steel Works shipped 256.5 thousand tons of metal to its customers via railroad, down by 4.5% MoM and by 5.2% YoY. Local deliveries accounted for 220 thousand tons, down by 8.7% MoM and by 4.7% YoY, while exports stood at 36.7 thousand tons, up by 32% MoM, but down by…