The Russian steel producer Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) has announced that its plate rolling mill 5000 has produced 1.048 million mt of hot rolled steel products in the first 11 months of this year, with 117,900 mt produced in November.
Accordingly, MMK's plate rolling mill 5000, commissioned in July 2009, has this year reached its designed capacity (100,000-120,000 mt of plate per month), and in September produced its first one millionth mt of products since its commissioning.
"Mill 5000 strengthened the company's position in the steel product supply market for Russian pipe producing companies and helped to take part in such major oil and gas pipeline projects as Sakhalin-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok, Bovanenkovo-Ukhta, Baltic Pipeline System-2 (BPS-2) and Eastern Siberia Pacific Ocean phase-2 (ESPO-2)," reads the company's statement.
The plate rolling mill 5000 is the key element in the creation of a complete cycle for plate production at MMK, which also include the secondary steel treatment unit and the continuous slab caster No. 6.