Russian steelmaker NLMK Group has announced that it has supplied transformer steel to German company Siemens’ transformers plant located in the city of Voronezh, Central Russia.
Accordingly, 60,000 mt of hot rolled steel was manufactured at NLMK’s Lipetsk production site for the project, with cold rolling and laser treatment performed at NLMK's’s VIZ-Steel subsidiary in Yekaterinburg.
The products supplied by NLMK will be used to make a transformer for Burnoye Solar-2 solar power park, which is currently under construction in Kazakhstan. Together with Burnoye Solar-1, the first stage of the project, which was launched in 2015, the complex will be one of the largest solar generation facilities in Eastern Europe and the largest in Central Asia.
“We are pleased to continue active cooperation with our key partner, which we’ve been successfully developing since 2015 within large-scale energy projects. NLMK Group has many years of unique experience in manufacturing transformer steel, a leading-edge steel product. Our technology enables us to guarantee high quality and attractive pricing, which helps our customers to be ever more competitive in their markets,” stated Ilya Gushchin, NLMK’s vice president.