An UAV has attacked a Severstal steel plant in Cherepovets, Russia. An explosion was heard in the city. Local Telegram channels reported that in the early morning of March 7 there was an explosion at the plant, heard by many citizens. The Severstal press service at first said there was a “technological accident at blast…
Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works is mastering the manufacture of galvanized plates of high-strength steel grades. This product is in demand from European and domestic manufacturers of metal structures. Since April 2019, CherMK has been operating a continuous hot-dip galvanizing machine No. 4, which produces cold-rolled galvanized sheet, as well as hot-rolled etched galvanized sheet…
Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works has modernized the capacities of the converter No. 2 in the converter steel shop. Machinery was supplied by Danieli Corus V.B., the Netherlands. New machinery will allow improving the converter efficiency, decreasing ferroalloys usage and the smelting time by 30 seconds. Until the end of the year the company intends…
In 2020, Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works will continue its large-scale infrastructure modernization program and will spend some 4.5 billion rubles on it. “The program is planned for 10 years. This year we intend to carry out 25 projects. The main are the replacement of lifting mechanisms, fire systems, conveyers and transformers, as well as…
In 2019, Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works repaired 21.28 km of railroads and 70 switches. The company spent 505 million rubles on the work. This year, some 515 million rubles will be spent on the repair of 16 km of railroads and replacement of 91 switches. CherMK also plans to buy 7 new TEM-9 locomotives.…
In 2019 Severstal with the help of large investment projects, in particular, the national project Ecologiya, decreased air pollution at Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works almost by 23 thousand tons, or by 7.7%. Investments in the project totaled 5.8 billion rubles. The project consisted of 15 stages with the expected pollution decrease of over 30…
Severstal is finishing the pre-heating assembly of the coke-oven battery No. 11 with the technology of charge tramping at Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works. The cost of the investment project amounts to 33 billion rubles. The technology will allow processing low-value coal grades from Vorkutaugol without losing quality indexes. Thus the company will not only…
In 2019 Severstal invested 1.1 billion rubles in labor safety at Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works. In particular, the group has reconstructed premises in order to improve working condition and decrease risk of injuries. The reconstruction mostly concerned ventilation systems, conditioning, replacement of old lighting system and the assembly of railings. All in all there…
