Russian steelmaker MMK has announced that two of its largest blast furnaces set new records for monthly volumes of pig iron in April. Blast furnace No. 9 produced 157,490 mt of pig iron in April, beating its previous monthly record of 153,526 mt, set in July 2013. Blast furnace No. 10 also set its own record last month, with pig iron output of 156,549 mt, up from the previous maximum of 154,421 mt in October 2015.
During more than 50 years of operations, blast furnace No. 9 has produced approximately 80 million mt of pig iron.