September 07, 2008

Construction of steel mill at OMK Vyksa nearing completion

It is reported that construction of a steelmaking and rolling facility is proceeding to completion in the Vyksa District of Russia.

As per report pipe manufacturers from the OMK’s Vyksa Steel Works put great hopes on the new production the facility commissioning will enable to provide pipe welding shops of Vyksa Steel Works and Almetyevsk Pipe Plant with high quality hot rolled coiled stock for manufacture of small and medium diameter pipes.

Vyksa Steel Works will be the first in Russia to manufacture hot rolled coils from thin slabs caster technology. The capacity of facility’s first stage will be 1.2 million tonnes of coils per year.

Mr Konstantin Pityul of Vyksa Steel said that "The project is complicated and unique in terms of its implementation period and the technologies used. In former times, construction of such facilities in our country took up to five years, it has been constructed less than for three years. I think it'll be right to say that the facility has already been constructed. At present time, they are carrying out cold tests of the equipment at the plant's workshops."

The international team engaged includes the general contractor Turkish ÑÀÌÀ Endustri, the supplier of equipment Danieli, dozens of Russian companies and of course, OMK specialists.