Evraz NTMK has produced a batch of R50 OT350 rails for Rusal to develop the infrastructure of bauxites deposits in Guinea – Compagnie des Bauxites de Kindia. According to the company statement, the rails will be used to repair railroad connecting the company to the Konakri seaport. Africa is one of the target regions for…
Prime Minister of Kazakhstan was briefed on the process automation system at EvrazKaspianStal, which allowed increased production volume and ensured high quality. The metallurgical plant is an innovative project implemented jointly with Russian partners. Company’s technical equipment and level automation meet the requirements of the Fourth Industrial Revolution “Industrialization 4.0” concept. The plant processes and…
The rail-beam shop of Evraz ZSMK has initiated a project to start producing new lengths of rails and increase R65 100-meter rails output. Investments will total 168 million rubles. The shop will see the construction of the second rail line, after which ZSMK will be able to produce European rails 60E1 and 54E1 with the…
Evraz dispatched a batch of nodules produced at Kachkanarsk Mining and Processing Works to US Steel Kosice, the biggest steel mill in Slovakia. The nodules fully meet the customer’s requirements in chemical composition and physical properties. The content of iron in the nodules is above 60%; such high strength and solidity characteristics allow producing high…
Russian Railroads will provide a 6.6% discount to the tariff for export transportation from the Zapadno-Sibirskaya and Sverdlovskaya railroads. The discount is valid through December 31, and is applied to the transportation of coal, iron ore and metal to and from stations, near which 2 Evraz works are situated: ZSMK and NTMK. (Ukrainian metal)
In 2017 Evraz will supply some 700 thousand tons of rails, including 240 thousand tons of 100-meter rails to the Russian Railroads. The delivery of longer rails will increase by 60% YoY. Rails at the order of the Russian Railways are produced at Evraz ZSMK and NTMK. In January-March they have already supplied the railways…
The second oxygen-converter shop of Evraz ZSMK has started assembling the new 320-ton converter. The project cost is 1.2 billion rubles. Converter No. 5 has been working at Evraz ZSMK for some 12 years. The replacement of the converter will decrease air pollution by 30%. The steel-smelting complex of Evraz ZSMK includes 5 converters and…
The Federal Antimonopoly Service has stopped investigation in Mechel, Severstal and Evraz alleged increase of rebars prices. Last summer constructors and machine-builders applied to FAS as to the drastic increase in metal prices, in particular, of rebars (by 34-103% from December 2015 till May 2016). The service started investigating the matter in July 2016, suspecting…