The Russian steel producer Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) has announced that its plate rolling mill 5000, commissioned in July last year, is currently 100 percent booked with orders, and is expected in June to produce 100,000 mt of products, practically reaching its designed capacity (100,000-120,000 mt of plate per month).
The main consumers of MMK's plate rolling mill 5000, i.e., Russian pipe producing companies TMK's Volzhsky Pipe Plant and OMK's Vyksa Steel Works, domestic machine building companies, and boiler and shipbuilding companies, have been increasing the amounts of their purchases from month to month.
"This is very important in the current economic situation: MMK's longs production still uses only half of its capacity utilization level, as the expected surge in the domestic construction industry did not happen," reads the company's statement.
As SteelOrbis previously reported, MMK's plate rolling mill 5000 has mastered the process of high- and low-temperature rolling, as well as the rolling process for sheets of various thicknesses and widths, considering maximum demand from customers for large diameter pipes. Since February this year, the mill also produces plates of X70 strength. High quality slabs are provided to the mill from MMK's 1.6 million mt capacity continuous slab caster No. 6, commissioned at the end of the last year.