Russian steel producer Severstal has announced that its Cherepovets Steel Mill, part of the Severstal Russian Steel Division, has reduced specific steelmaking energy consumption by 25 percent since the launch of its energy saving program in 1999.
In 2011 alone, Cherepovets Steel Mill reduced its energy consumption by 1.3 percent per metric ton of steel produced, year on year. Severstal stated that Cherepovets achieved reduction in energy consumption by "upgrading equipment, implementing new energy saving technologies, discarding inefficient production facilities and using modern automatic systems to control the consumption of energy resources".