Russian steelmaker NLMK has announced that it has held a ceremony on July 23 to mark the opening of NLMK Kaluga, its next-generation EAF mill located in the Kaluga region near Moscow.
The launch of NLMK Kaluga will help tackle the shortage of long product production capacity currently facing the Central Federal District of Russia, and provide domestically manufactured high-quality and in-demand steel products to the construction sector in Moscow, the Moscow region, and the wider region, NLMK stated.
NLMK Kaluga's steelmaking and long product production capacities are 1.5 million mt and 900,000 mt per annum, respectively. The plant is fully self-sufficient in raw materials, with ferrous scrap being supplied by NLMK Group's scrap processing units.
The plant will play an important environmental role in waste management and the recycling of secondary resources in the region, according to the NLMK statement.