Mechel’s BMK Produces 5 Millionth Tonne of Wire Products

Russian steel maker Mechel’s Beloretsk Iron & Steel Works high-strength wire workshop is celebrating its 60th anniversary. Over the years, 5 million tonnes of steel products have been manufactured. In the 50-60s of the 20th century, it became necessary to master new building technologies and materials. Reinforced concrete became the basis of all construction at that time. Then a new type of hardware was needed, high-strength wire, from which a steel frame for reinforced concrete structures is made. No construction is complete without reinforced slabs and blocks, and reinforcement is also used in sleepers and supports.And at BMK they began to build a new high-strength wire workshop TsVP No 16, which was put into operation in 1962. For the first time in the country, high-strength wire of round and periodic profile for reinforced concrete products was manufactured in it. A year later, a batch of strands of high-strength wire was twisted in the rope department of TsVP No 16. In 1965, the workshop reached its design capacity of 50 thousand tons of products per year.Today, the high-strength wire workshop produces products for reinforced concrete structures and sleepers, spring wire for machine builders and ordinary quality wire for the construction industry. Currently, the shop employs more than 200 people. In 2021, about 100,000 tonnes of finished products are producedIn 2018, two state-of-the-art descaling lines and a new wastewater treatment plant were installed here. This year, four new high-performance drawing mills were launched. This allowed the workshop to reach a new quality level of product output, as well as significantly reduce the volume of wastewater

Mechel’s BMK Produces 5 Millionth Tonne of Wire Products

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