Karelsky Okatysh is carrying out a project to improve product quality by using lime. Investments in the project this year will amount to 550 million rubles. In particular, it was decided to modernize the MAERZ lime calcinating furnace. It was built in 1995, but never commissioned. Limestone will be delivered from the Belorucheyskoye deposit. The…
Karelsky Okatysh has added three Komatsu HD785 dump trucks to its fleet. This is the first time that this model starts operating in Severstal. The lifting capacity of each truck is 91 tons. “Previously Karelsky Okatysh used Komatsu trucks with the lifting capacity of 217 tons. The advantage of the new model is that it…
In 2019 Karelsky Okatysh, within the consolidated group of Severstal taxpayers, paid 2.18 billion rubles of profit tax to the budget of the Republic of Karelia. Payments to the consolidated budget of Karelia from Karelsky Okatysh exceeded 1.2 billion rubles, up by 100 million YoY. For the past 10 years the company has been increasing…
Karelsky Okatysh together with the coke-sinter-blast furnace manufacture of Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works developed a new product – crushed iron ore pellet. A trial batch was produced in October 2019, and all in all last year the company sold over 330 thousand tons of such pellets. The pellets are used to produce sinter at…
Karelsky Okatysh together with the Institute of the North industrial ecology problems have started choosing a method to purify quarry wastewater from the Korpangskoye deposit before discharging it to the Bezymyanniy Brook. The water will be purified with the help of a natural component – peat substrate. Main work will begin in 2020, and investments…
Karelsky Okatysh has received a very high evaluation by one of its largest consumers – Voestalpine AG. The company ships iron ore pellets to Austria. Voestalpine AG has carried out a supplier’s audit and awarded the works with the highest mark – A. The high praise is due to the improved quality of pellets and…
Karelsky Okatysh has resumed selling iron ore concentrate to Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works. This is one of the first projects carried under the Upstream program. With its help CherMK has considerably decreased buying the concentrate from the third parties. During the summer Karelsky Okatysh has shipped 357 thousand tons of concentrate to Cherepovets. 100…
Karelsky Okatysh has shut down its manufacture for 60 hours to carry out scheduled repairs. Concentrate and pellets manufacture saw the most of repairs, as they could have been carried out only when the plant was shut down, and the water used in the production was switched off. The company has replaced a transformer substation.…
