Zaporizhstal has commenced SKD assembly of blast furnace No. 3 right on the BF reconstruction site. All metal structures to be assembled on the new foundation weigh about 5,000 tons. To date, the plant has installed one of the six furnace shell blocks previously put together on a preparation site. Specialists have built a new…
Zaporizhstal has completed half of all the works at the blast furnace No. 3 reconstruction. “The equator has been passed. All the disassembly has been finished, the foundation is ready. We have already assembled the first block of the new BF weighing 240 tons. With just one sweep of the crane!” the company CEO Rostislav…
In 2016, Zaporizhstal paid a record UAH 3.2 billion in taxes (up by 28% YoY) to the national budget of Ukraine. In 2015, the company paid UAH 2.5 billion in taxes. Tax payments of Zaporizhstal to local budgets increased by 66% (by UAH 255 million), to UAH 640 million in 2016 against UAH 385 million…
Zaporizhstal was the first in Ukraine to get an eco-loan valued at $1 million for the construction of the gas-purifying system within the cooperation with the Ministry of ecology and natural resources and the state-run Ukrgazbank. According to the company statement, the money will be used to disassemble the outdated machinery and assemble a new…
Zaporizhstal is finally going to replace its open-hearth shop with the new oxygen-converter shop. The city of Zaporozhye has been waiting for 20 years for the project to be implemented. Now the manufacturing process will be cleaner and safer. The construction of the new shop will decrease pollution 2-fold. (Ukrainian metal)
Zaporizhstal has completed the disassembly at the blast furnace No. 3 reconstruction site. The total weight of the structures disassembled exceeded 12 thousand tons. “In 60 days we have completely disassembled the structures of the old furnace and freed the site to start construction”, Zaporizhstal CEO Rostislav Shurma said. Investments in the project amounted to…
In December 2016 Zaporizhstal produced 264.6 thousand tons of pig iron, 305.4 thousand tons of steel and 267.4 thousand tons of rolled metal, all down by 25.2%, 13.5% and 11.9% YoY respectively. In January-December 2016 the output totaled 3600.2 thousand tons of pig iron, 3890.7 thousand tons of steel and 3367.9 thousand tons of rolled…
Robert Reisetbauer, a member of the supervisory board and the vice-president of the PriMetals Technology (Austria), has chaired a round table on the steel smelting reconstruction and the construction of the hot-rolled coils production complex at Zaporizhstal. He believes that the environment technologies applied at the project will meet the best practices. “We would use…