MMK increases slag processing capacities

Monday, 12 July 2010 12:11:07 (GMT+3)   |  
       

The Russian steel producer Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) has announced that, within the frame of its investment project for the organization of slag processing, it is constructing two new slag processing units, Amcom-2 and Amcom-3, with a capacity of 2.5 million mt per year each, which are scheduled to be commissioned by the end of 2010.

In 2009, MMK constructed the Amcom-1 slag processing unit, supplied also by US-based engineering enterprise Amcom LLC, which in early 2010 was revamped with its capacity increased up to 1.5 million mt per year. Thus, by the end of the current year, MMK will operate three new Amcom installations and one Rokson unit (commissioned in 1994 and planned to be reconstructed next year), which together will be able to process up to nine million mt of slag per year to extract up to one million mt of metal from slag, increasing the plant's self-sufficiency in raw materials, and will allow MMK to eliminate all of the steelmaking slag dumps around the plant in the next ten years.

In 2009, MMK processed nearly seven million mt of metallurgical slag and received almost half a million mt of metal-containing raw materials.


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