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NLMK Prepares to Launch New Ladle Furnace
02/23/2012 - Novolipetsk, NLMK’s main production site in Lipetsk, has started hot tests at its new 2 million tonnes/year ladle furnace.
Novolipetsk, NLMK’s main production site in Lipetsk, has started hot tests at its new 2 million tonnes/year ladle furnace.
Novolipetsk will use the new ladle furnace for the secondary treatment of steel prior to continuous casting. Secondary refining will enable the company to improve quality by reducing the amount of non-metallic inclusions, as well as achieving ultra-low sulfur content (as low as 0.001%) in its steel. The ladle furnace also features an advanced fume extraction and gas cleaning system that will help to ensure top quality cleaning from process gases and dust.
The new ladle furnace also will enable the company to expand its product mix as it will now produce high-quality steel for the automotive industry, construction, the manufacture of white goods, and electrical engineering.
The company started up a similar facility last year. Together, the two ladle furnaces represent a cost of about RUR2.6 bn.
The new ladle furnace also will enable the company to expand its product mix as it will now produce high-quality steel for the automotive industry, construction, the manufacture of white goods, and electrical engineering.
The company started up a similar facility last year. Together, the two ladle furnaces represent a cost of about RUR2.6 bn.
The project was carried out together with Siemens VAI as part of Stage II of NLMK’s Technical Upgrade Program. The new ladle furnace will be the fourth of its kind commissioned in Lipetsk, including two 4 million tonnes/year ladle furnaces that were launched in 2010. The newest furnace brings total ladle furnace capacity at the Lipetsk site to 12 million tonnes/year.
The new ladle furnaces at NLMK's main production site in Lipetsk are part of the BOF Shop secondary metallurgy complex, along with ten ladle metallurgy furnaces and two RH vacuum degassers of 400,000 tonnes/year and 4 million tonnes/year capacity, respectively.
The new ladle furnaces at NLMK's main production site in Lipetsk are part of the BOF Shop secondary metallurgy complex, along with ten ladle metallurgy furnaces and two RH vacuum degassers of 400,000 tonnes/year and 4 million tonnes/year capacity, respectively.
