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Metso to Supply Scrap Metal Shredder for Vyksa Steel Works

08/18/2011 - Metso will deliver a metal shredder plant to the Russian Vyksa Steel Works to process clean and dense shredded ferrous scrap from all kinds of miscellaneous scrap and car bodies.

Metso will deliver a metal shredder plant to the Russian Vyksa Steel Works to process clean and dense shredded ferrous scrap from all kinds of miscellaneous scrap and car bodies. The shredder plant also includes a ferrous and nonferrous processing line with an annual capacity of up to 1 million tonnes.
 
The delivery of the Metso plant to Vyksa Steel Works is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2012.
 
The shredder plant is a 7500-kW Metso Shredder Plant, ZZ 300 x 300. The technology enables Vyksa Steel Works to produce high-quality, pure raw material for manufacturing its steel products.
 
Producing steel from clean shredded scrap instead of iron ore can save more than 70% of the energy needed for the steelmaking process, according to Metso, and it can reduce pollutants by 86%.
  
Vyksa Steel Works is one of Russia's oldest metallurgical centers, being established in 1757. It became part of United Metallurgical Co. (OMK) in 1999 and is a leader in Russia’s pipe and railroad wheel market. The potential pipe production capacity of Vyksa Steel Works is more than 2 million tonnes of pipes per year.
 
Metso is a leading technology supplier of equipment for metal shredding technology. It claims to have supplied around 30% of the world’s metal scrap processing capacity equipment, and annually over 150 million tonnes of metal scrap is processed through Metso equipment. The company has about 29,000 employees in more than 50 countries.