December 02, 2008

OMZ orders EAF for Kolpino works

It is reported that Russia’s Uralmash Izhora Group has awarded an order to SMS Demag for the supply of a 120 tonnes electric arc furnace with an annual capacity of 600,000 tonnes for the Kolpino in St Petersburg location. Commissioning is scheduled for the end of 2008.

SMS Demag supply scope comprises a 120 tonnes ARCCESS® electric arc furnace with a dust collecting facility and additives supply system. The EAF caters for a wide range of products, from structural steels to high grade steels as well as high quality rotor and reactor steel grades for nuclear power plants and for the chemical industry.

The arc furnace is being erected in the existing bays at the OMZ Special Steels works. OMZ Special Steels, a 100 % subsidiary of the OMZ Group, was established in 2002 on the premises of the Izhorskye Zavody metallurgical works.