Ural Steel Metallurgical Plant

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Ural Steel Metallurgical Plant (Металлургический завод Уральская Сталь (Russian)), also known as Ural Steel JSC, Orsko-Khalilovsky Metallurgical Plant (predecessor), OHMK (predecessor), Novotroitsk Steel (predecessor), and NOSTA (predecessor), is a 1600 thousand tonnes per annum (TTPA) blast furnace (BF) and electric arc furnace (EAF) steel plant operating in Novotroitsk, Orenburg, Russia.

Location

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  • Location: 1, Zavodskaya St., Novotroitsk, Orenburg Region, Russia, 462353[1]
  • Coordinates (WGS 84): 51.214781, 58.353913 (exact)

Background

Initially, the plant was named the Orsko-Khalilovsky Metallurgical Plant (OHMK). Construction began in 1939. As with many other enterprises of that time, prison labor was used for the construction.[2] In 1955, the first crude iron was produced in the blast furnace No. 1.[2] In 1958, crude steel was first produced in the open-hearth furnace. Electric steelmaking was launched in 1981.[3] In 2013, the obsolete open-hearth production was closed.[2]

In 2019, EAF#1 and EAF#2 were modernized to use the FMF (Flexible Modular Furnace) technology, which allows for production of steel using a converter method without application of electrodes and consumption of electricity. The FMF furnace can use various raw material components (liquid and cold pig iron, hot-briquetted iron, scrap metal) with the possibility of increasing the proportion of liquid pig iron up to 85%. Among the advantages of this technology is the use of the energy from chemical reactions to melt a solid part of raw materials, which reduces energy consumption and minimizes production of waste gases.[4]

In April 2023, it was reported that the Ural Steel Metallurgical Plant was planning to increase production of steel by 2025 to 2400 TTPA as a result of upgrade of the EAF units and invest around RUB 7-10 billion into the project.[5][6]

Ownership

After the collapse of the USSR, the enterprise passed into private ownership and was renamed to the Novotroitsk Steel (NOSTA); since 2002 the plant bears its current name, "Ural Steel". In 2006-2022, the plant was part of Metalloinvest.[2]

In March 2022, Metalloinvest sold the plant to AO Zagorskii Trubnyi Zavod.[7]

BOF expansion project

In 2018, there was a proposal to build a 3000 TTPA BOF but it doesn't seem to have actualized as of March 2022; this project is still considered proposed.[8]

As of October 2023, there have not been any updates about the expansion. The project is considered to be cancelled.

Plant Details

Table 1: General Plant Details

Plant status Start date Workforce size Power source
operating[9] 1955[9] 15817[10] https://www.gem.wiki/Novotroitskaya_Ural_Steel_power_station[11][12]

Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information

Parent company Parent company PermID Owner Owner company PermID
Zagorskii Trubnyi Zavod AO [100%][13][14] 5082355818 [100%] Ural'skaya Stal' AO[13][9][15] 4297197239

Table 3: Process and Products

Steel product category Steel products Steel sector end users ISO 14001 ISO 50001 Main production equipment Detailed production equipment
crude; semi-finished; finished rolled[9] pig iron; cast round and rectangular billet; flat products[9] building and infrastructure; transport[9] 2015[16] 2019[16] blast furnace (BF) and electric arc furnace (EAF)[9] coking plant (battery #6 (began in 2014)); sinter plant; EAF (# unknown, EAF#1 (began in 1981); EAF#2 (began in 2019, modernized in 2020); EAF#3 (began in 2019, modernized in 2020))[17][18][19][15][20][9][21]

Table 4: Crude Steel Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum):

Electric arc furnace steelmaking capacity Nominal crude steel capacity (total)
1600 TTPA[22][23][15] 1600 TTPA

Table 5: Crude Iron Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum):

Blast furnace capacity Nominal iron capacity (total)
2700 TTPA[24][19][20][23] 2700 TTPA

Table 6: Upstream Products Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum)

Sinter Coke
3200 TTPA[15] 1380 TTPA[15]

Table 7: Actual Crude Steel Production by Year (thousand tonnes per annum):

Year BOF Production EAF Production OHF Production Total (all routes)
2020 1496 TTPA[25][23] 1496 TTPA[23]
2021 1500 TTPA[26][27] 1500 TTPA[26][27]

Table 8: Actual Crude Iron Production by Year (thousand tonnes per annum):

Year BF Production DRI Production Total (all routes)
2020 2302 TTPA[25][23] 2302 TTPA[23]
2021 2400 TTPA[26][27] 2400 TTPA[26][27]


Blast Furnace Details

Table 9: Blast Furnace Details:

Unit name Status Construction date Start date Stop date Current size Current capacity
1 retired[28] 1953 March 1955[28] May 2022[28] 1000 m³[15]
2 operating[17][18][19][15][20][9][21] 1958[17][18][19][15][20][9][21] 1033 m³[19][15] 760 TTPA[29][30][19][31][32]
3 operating[17][18][19][15][20][9][21] February 2021 September 2021[17][18][19][15][20][9][21] 1514 m³[32][15] 1000 TTPA[29][30][19][31][32]
4 operating[17][18][19][15][20][9][21] November 1973[17][18][19][15][20][9][21] 2000 m³[24][19][30][15] 1500 TTPA[29][30][33][19][31][34][32]

Articles and Resources

Additional data

To access additional data, including an interactive map of steel power plants, a downloadable dataset, and summary data, please visit the Global Steel Plant Tracker and Global Blast Furnace Tracker on the Global Energy Monitor website.

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