Amurstal steel plant
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Amurstal (Амурсталь (Russian)) is an electric steel plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Khabarovsk Territory, Russia.[1]
Location
The map below shows the location of the steel plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Khabarovsk Territory, Russia.
Background
Scrap metal shortages
The Amurstal steel plant faced scrap metal shortages in late 2019, leading the plant to shut down.[2] In April 2020, amid further scrap metal shortages during Covid-19, Amurstal announced that it would began sourcing HBI from Lebedinsky GOK to supplement scrap metal shortage.[3]
Plant Details
- Parent company: Metalloinvest[4]
- Owner: Torex, LLC[5]
- Alternative plant names: Amurmetall (predecessor)
- Other language plant name: Амурсталь (Russian)
- Location: Vagonnaya Ulitsa 30, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Khabarovsk Territory, Russia, 681000[1]
- GPS Coordinates: 50.563131, 136.976362 (exact)
- Plant status: operating[6]
- Start year: 1942 (age 77–78)[5]
- Production capacities (thousand tonnes per annum):
- Crude steel: 2000[6]
- Steel product category: long[7]
- Steel products: billet, wire rod, rebar, hexagonal bar, wire, round bar[7]
- Steelmaking process: electric[8]
- Primary steel production equipment: 125-tonne electric arc furnace (EAF) (2007)[5]
Articles and resources
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Contact, Amurstal, Retrieved on: Jun. 12, 2020
- ↑ Russia's Amurstal under risk of stoppage, Steel Orbis, Nov. 29, 2019, Retrieved on: Jun. 12, 2020
- ↑ Russia's Amurstal to partly compensate for scrap shortage by HBI usage, Steel Orbis, Nov. 29, 2019, Retrieved on: Jun. 12, 2020
- ↑ About, NPVP Torex, LLC, Retrieved on: Jun. 12, 2020
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 History, Amurstal, Retrieved on: Jun. 12, 2020
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Amurstal, Amurstal, Retrieved on: Jun. 12, 2020
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Products, Amurstal, Retrieved on: Jun. 12, 2020
- ↑ Electric Melting Shop, Amurstal, Retrieved on: Jun. 12, 2020
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