Operations

Our 27sq km integrated steel-making facility is at Lipetsk, approximately 500km south of Moscow in the centre of European Russia. It comprises

  • sintering (with four agglomerators);
  • a coke plant (with four coke batteries (as at March 31 2009);
  • two blast furnace shops (containing five blast furnaces with a total volume of 11,400m3);
  • two BOF shops (comprising two converters, each with a capacity of 300 tonnes, three converters, each with a capacity of 160 tonnes);
  • nine continuous casting lines (comprising six curvilinear, one radial-curved and two vertical lines);
  • one hot-rolling mill 2000; and
  • three cold-rolling mills.

 

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Capacity and utilisation of plant, 2008

Production areaCapacity, as at 01 January 2008OutputCapacity
utilisation rate(1)

(,000 tonnes per year)

(%)

Sinterplant

14,556.0

12,836.0

88.2

Coke batteries

  4,458.1

  3795.1

85.1

  Batteries No 2-4

  1,768.0

  1,534.8

86.8

  Batteries No 5-8

  2,690.0

  2,260.3

84.0

Pig iron

  9,563.0

  8,408.0

87.9

  Blast furnace shop No 1(2)

6,647.0

  5,694.8

85.7

  Blast furnace shop No 2(3)

  2,916.0

  2,713.2

84.7

Steel

  9,529.0

  8,438.7

88.6

  BOF shop No 1

  3,889.0

  3,486.3

89.6

  BOF shop No 2

  5,640.0

  4,952.3

87.8

Rolling

  9,088.0

  8,006.8

88.1

  Hot Rolling  Plant

  5,380.0

  4,786.1

89.0

 Transformer Steel Plant

160.0

164.2

102.6

  Cold Rolling and Coating Plant

  2,900.0

   2,4920.9

86.0

    Galvanised(4)

370.0

351.6

95.0

    Pre-painted

395.0

356.0

90.1

  Dynamo Steel Plant

648.0

563.5

87.0

    Galvanised

145.0

130.4

89.9

(1) Capacity utilisation is calculated as the ratio of actual production to installed capacity.
(2) Four blast furnaces.
(3) One blast furnace.
(4) Production of hot-dip galvanizing lunit#3 is not included, this unit is being commissioned and its production capacity has not been defined yet.