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NLMK’s Kaluga Minimill to Begin Installation of Production Facilities

12/30/2010 - NLMK’s Kaluga mini-mill, which is currently under construction, begun to install the main process equipment for its EAF Shop, which is being supplied by VAI Siemens.

NLMK’s Kaluga minimill has been included in the Russian Steelmaking Industry Development Strategy’s list of priority investment projects through 2020.
 
The company’s goal for the project is to establish a state-of-the-art plant for the production of a wide range of metal products for construction, including reinforcing and profile bars. The plant’s annual design capacity is 1.5 million tonnes of liquid steel and 0.9 to 1.5 million tonnes of rolled products. 
 
Construction of building structures for the main shops is scheduled for completion by the end of the year, and Stages 1&2 are to be commissioned in the first half of 2012. 
NLMK’s Kaluga mini-mill, which is currently under construction, begun to install the main process equipment for its EAF Shop, which is being supplied by VAI Siemens, Austria and is to be delivered by February 2011.

 
The EAF will feature "Ultimate", an innovative steelmaking technology as well as high specific electric power (more than 1 mWA/tonne) and a single-bucket charging practice. The twin-stand ladle furnace will allow steel to be treated in two ladles in different positions. Treated steel will be cast on an 8-strand continuous casting machine.
 
The meltshop will incorporate a gas cleaning system built with latest available technologies that will reduce emissions from the plant by at least 99%. The system will cut emissions to less than 2 kg/tonne of steel, well below the average for integrated steelmaking plants in Russia (25-35 kg/tonne) and the EU (15-18 kg/tonne).
 
The company also is planning to install closed water circuits that will prevent industrial water from being discharged into water bodies. The adoption of these process solutions and up-to-date equipment not only ensures environmental safety for the whole production chain, but will also help to ensure high performance, good energy efficiency and high product quality.  
 
Main process equipment supplies for the rolling facilities are scheduled for the first half of 2011. The light-section rolling mill is to be supplied by SMS MEER.
 
NLMK’s Long Products subsidiary consolidates companies that belonged to NLMK Group's Long Products Division. NLMK-Long Products companies make up an integrated production chain from the collection and processing of ferrous scrap to the manufacture of downstream steel products – re-bar, wire rod and metalware. NLMK-Long Products key companies include NSMMZ in the Sverdlovsk Region (EAF and long products) and UZPS (metalware). Scrap, raw materials are represented by Vtorchermet NLMK – one of the largest associations of scrap-collecting companies in Russia operating in different regions of the country.