Mechel, one of the leading Russian mining and steel groups, has announced that its subsidiary Beloretsk Metallurgical Plant has started commercial production of new steel ropes manufactured from plastically drafted strands of 25-57 mm in diameter.
Accordingly, the main advantages of Beloretsk's new steel ropes with plastically drafted strands is high structural density and tensile strength, durability of wires in strands and strands in ropes, low wearing of sheaves and reels due to bigger area of contact with the rope's bearing surface. The lifetime of the new product is 1.5 times longer compared to conventional ropes. Such ropes are designed for mining, oil and gas producing plants, machine building and fishing companies.
The first lots of steel ropes were shipped to Mechel's subsidiaries Korshunov Mining Plant and Southern Kuzbass, where their quality received positive feedback.