Since commissioning of its blast furnace No. 1 Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works has produced 55 million tons of pig iron. The blast furnace was blown in 1955. On August 24, 1955, the first pig iron was produced, and a new plant was born. In 2008 the blast furnace was shut down due to the…
In 2018 Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works increased electricity output by 2.8% YoY, to 4.565 billion kWh. According to Severstal Russian Steel CEO Vadim Germanov, this allowed saving some 200.4 million rubles. The share of the company’s own electricity reached 77.9% of the total consumption. (Ukrainian metal)
Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works has finished a series of capital repairs in its steel manufacture. In particular, the company has repaired continuous casting machines Nos. 1, 3 and 5, rotary kiln No. 5 and the ladle furnace No. 1. Moreover, while repairing the converter No. 2, an investment project has been carried out thanks…
Specialists have started assembling and welding the first belt of the blast furnace No. 3 jacket at Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works. Metal structures for the jacket have been produced by Vitkovice, the Czech Republic. Rolled metal for the jacket was produced at the mill-5000 in Kolpino. With the new jacket the blast furnace will…
In 2018 Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works produced 9.9 million tons of converter steel. This year output is expected to further grow due to the modernization of the converter No. 3 in November 2018. In 2019 two more converters will be modernized. (Ukrainian metal)
In 2018 Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works increased sales by 2.4% YoY, to 10.27 million tons. The company industrial port in April-November 2018 shipped 1.65 million tons of metal, up by 52.9 thousand tons. Railroad transported 10.749 million tons of metal, up by 380 thousand tons. December 2018 saw the record high volume of metal…
Severstal has chosen a contractor to carry out main works to construct a coke-oven battery No. 11 at Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works with the design capacity of 1400 thousand tons per year. The main contractor is Koksokhimmontazh (Moscow). The subcontractors are Intech (St. Petersburg) and Koksokhimmontazh-2 (Cherepovets). (Ukrainian metal)
Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works, without shutting down manufacture, is finishing assembling the coil-rewinding machine with the capacity of 650 thousand tons per year. The total cost of the project is 1.2 billion rubles. The commission of the machine is scheduled for February, and it is exCherepovets Iron and Steel Workspected to reach the design…