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Severstal

January 26, 2004

JSC "Severstal" and LLC "EurazHolding" signed the contract with SMS Meer for supply of electric pipe-welding mill

On January 19, 2004 within the General Agreement framework on project implementation on construction of Large Diameter Pipes Plant JSC "Severstal" and LLC "EurazHolding" signed the contract with SMS Meer (Germany) for complete supply of Electric Pipe-Welding Mill.

Construction of the tubular mill is scheduled for early 2004 on the site of Izhorsky Pipe Mill (in Kolpino, near St.-Petersburg). The Mill capacity is 450 thousand tons of single seam welded pipes of up to 1420 mm diameter and 18 meters long with triple corrosion-resistant coating.

The company SMS Meer was the winner in the tender announced in fall 2003, for supply of the Pipe Mill Equipment. Other participants in the final stage of the tender were Haeusler (Switzerland) and NKMZ (Ukraine). The choice in favor of SMS Meer is caused by a number of essentially important technical parameters of the equipment of the project participants to allow maximum satisfaction of large diameter pipes' consumers.

As it was mentioned above, the General agreement on combining the efforts for implementation of the Large Diameter Pipes Mill project was signed by the Chairman of "Severstal" Alexei Mordashov and the president of "?urazHolding" ?lexander Abramov in June, 2003. The project implemented on parity basis, provides for construction and commissioning of the tubular mill on Izhorsky Pipe Mill site (in Kolpino near St.-Petersburg) by the end of 2005. 

According to the industrial structure of the project, the skelp for the pipes will be manufactured in Hot Strip Mill-3 of JSC "Severstal" (on a wide plate mill "5000"), located on ZAO " Izhorsky Pipe Mill" site. The slabs for the mill "5000" will be delivered both from JSC "Severstal" and from Nizhnetagilsky Iron and Steel Plant (JSC "NTMK"), which is included in the group of enterprises "?urazHolding".

The joint implementation of the project will allow to combine the opportunities of the only in Russia wide plate mill "5000" and the unique steelmaking capacities of Nizhnetagilsky Iron and Steel Plant for mutually advantageous economic benefit.

Additional information:  The rolled stock for large diameter pipes (530 mm and more) has been manufactured at JSC "Severstal" since early 1960's: the skelp produced by the mill 2800 at Hot Strip Mill-1 was delivered to Chelyabinsk Pipe Mill for manufacture of double seam pipes of up to 1220 mm diameter.
In order to satisfy tough requirements to pipe metal JSC "Severstal" was continuously improving the complete chain of manufacturing process. In 2000 this work became more active due to "Severstal's" acquisition of the heavy plate mill 5000. Within the framework of the target project "Development of standard production technology for quality skelp of strength category up to X80"  a number of problems were solved important from the point of view of expansion of deliveries to Fuel and Energy Industry. Production of the rolled stock has been developed for manufacture of single-seam pipes of 1020 mm diameter at Vyksa Steel Plant (VMZ). Industrial lots (over 20 thousand tons) of X65 category rolled stock were produced in 2002 for the manufacture of 1020 mm diameter pipes at VMZ for the international project "Azerizgas".
Besides, the basis of production technology for rolled stock category up to X80 has been  developed within the framework of the project for planned manufacture of 1420 mm pipes at Izhorsky Pipe Mill and at VMZ. 
In order to ensure commercial production of high quality skelp of category up to X80 on the "Mill 5000" the capacities of Hot Strip Mill-3 are presently being modernized: Ultrasonic Testing Unit "North-6"is being developed, cross bay with a cooling bed, turnover device and plate inspection racks is under construction. Besides, the automatic process control system "Rolling" will be introduced and cut-t-length line with cross cut shears, double side trimming shears and equipment for sample conditioning will be constructed. The company also plans to build a reheating furnace to preheat slabs. The reconstruction of the "Mill 5000" will be finished before the start-up of ITZ capacities.



26 January 2004

 

 

 

 

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