Mechel, one of the leading Russian mining and steel groups, has announced that its service and sales subsidiary Mechel Service has commissioned an automated line to manufacture welded meshes in the town of Vidnoye, located in the Moscow region.
The new equipment includes an automated line, designed to manufacture meshes with the mesh cell size from 50 mm to 300 mm, and as feedstock will use VR-1 grade wire and cold deformed rebars of 2.8 mm-8.0 mm in diameter produced at Mechel's subsidiaries. The size of the finished products may vary from 250 mm х 1,200 mm to 2,400 mm х 6,000 mm. The line has a production capacity of up to 1,200 mt per month, depending on the feedstock characteristics and the required finished product size.
The commissioning of Mechel Service's mesh production will allow the company to expand its mix of marketable metal products and reach a new level of quality in servicing its end consumers. The procedure of certification of the product has already been completed, thus enabling Mechel Service to supply the product to the market immediately.
The main off-takers of Mechel Service's welded meshes will be the construction companies in Moscow and the Moscow region.
Mechel Service states that the high quality of its manufactured products is confirmed by the certification it has received from Mosstroycertification, Moscow's system of voluntary certification for the construction industry.