It is reported that Ukrainian steel producer Industrial Union of Donbass within 2008 to 2012 its total volume of units of emissions reduction is planned to amount to 25.5 million tonnes of ?O2 following the modernization of hazardous production facilities of its steelmaking subsidiaries within the framework of the Kyoto protocol.

Accordingly, within this scope, ISD has established a program of six projects which includes:

1. Technical retooling and modernization of its Alchevsk Iron and Steel Works

2. Phasing out the generation of electric power from fossil fuels due to the commissioning of a gas-turbine plant at Alchevsk

3. Implementation of a new system of heat recovery at its Alchevsk Coking Plant

4. Reconstruction of its Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Works named after F. Dzerzhinsky based on the construction of two continuous casting machines and two ladle-furnaces

5. Technical modernization of agglomerating blast furnace production at Alchevsk plant

6. Technical modernization of agglomerating blast furnace production at DMKD plant.

(Sourced from SteelOrbis)
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