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NLMK’s Long Steel Division Re-launches EAF No. 1
Jan. 25, 2012 NSMMZ, NLMK’s Urals-based Long Steel Division steelmaking facility, has successfully re-launched Electric Arc Furnace No. 1 at its Revda steelmaking facility.
Located in the Sverdlovk Region, NSMMZ combines three production sites: EAF steelmaking in Revda with an annual capacity of 2.2 million tonnes, long steel manufacturing in Nizhniye Sergi, and wire rod production in Berezovsky.
Relaunch of NSMMZ’s EAF No. 1, which has an annual capacity of 1.1 million tonnes, follows repairs to a transformer at the plant that have been underway since mid-2011. Repairs, worth a total of RUR22 million, were undertaken by a local engineering company. The equipment has passed all required high voltage tests.
Currently both NSMMZ’s EAFs are running as planned under the company’s production program.
NLMK Long Products, one of the largest long steel and hardware manufacturers in the Russian market, is NLMK’s subsidiary, consolidating NLMK’s Long Products Division since December 2009. NLMK Long Products key companies are: NSMMZ (combining EAF steelmaking and long steel manufacturing) and UZPS (hardware) located in the Sverdlovsk Region. The Kaluga EAF Minimill, with an annual capacity of up to 1.55 million tonnes of liquid steel and 1.5 million tonnes of long products is currently under construction. The company’s raw material division is represented by Vtorchermet NLMK, one of Russia’s leading scrap collecting businesses, present in various regions around the country.