VMK Red October steel plant

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VMK Red October steel plant (Волгоградский металлургический комбинат "Красный Октябрь" (Russian)), also known as Volgograd Steel Works; Korporatsiya Krasny Oktyabr, AO, is an electric arc furnace (EAF) steel plant operating in Volgograd, Russia.

Location

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  • Location: Prospekt Imeni V.I. Lenina, 110, Volgograd, Volgograd Oblast, Russia, 400007
  • Coordinates (WGS 84): 48.754025, 44.561004 (exact)

Background

The plant was founded in 1897 under the name "Ural-Volga"; in 1898 the first open-hearth furnace was launched.[1] The enterprise included 9 open-hearth furnaces, sheet rolling, mechanical, foundry shops and other divisions. In 1922, the plant was renamed to "Red October". In the 1930s, a new open-hearth shop was added. In 1949, steel was produced in an electric arc furnace for the first time. After the collapse of the USSR, Red October steel plant changed several owners, survived the arbitration management procedure of 1998-1999 and bankruptcy in 2018.[2] The open-hearth shop does not appear to operate any more at this time.[3]

Ownership

In June 2023, the assets of the VMK Red October steel plant were was sold at a public auction for 2.52 billion rubles to AO Krasny Oktyabr Corporation. This marked the third auction for the sale of the plant's property complex, which had been declared bankrupt in November 2018. The first two auctions were reported as unsuccessful.[4]

Plant Details

Table 1: General Plant Details

Plant status Start date Workforce size
Operating[5] 1898[6] 3000[7]

Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information

Parent company Parent company GEM ID Owner Owner company GEM ID
RSL Group, AO [100.0%] E100000131158 [100%] Krasnyi Oktyabr' Corporation AO[6] E100000131046

Table 3: Process and Products

Steel product category Steel products Steel sector end users ISO 14001 Main production equipment Detailed production equipment
crude; semi-finished; finished rolled[5] ingots; blooms; round bars; hot-rolled square section; hot-rolled round section; hot-rolled sheet metal; tube billet; cold-rolled sheet metal[5] transport; energy; tools and machinery[8] 2023[9][10] EAF[11][12] EAF shop # 2 with 2 EAFs and EAF shop #3 with unknown number of EAFs.[11][12]

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

*Please see our Frequently Asked Questions page for an explanation of the different capacity operating statuses.
Capacity operating status* Electric arc furnace steelmaking capacity Nominal crude steel capacity (total)
operating 500 TTPA[12][12][12] 500 TTPA[12][12][12]

Table 5: Actual Crude Steel Production by Year (thousand tonnes per annum)

Year EAF Production Total (all routes)
2020 213 TTPA[13] 213 TTPA[13]
2021 >0 TTPA >0 TTPA
2022

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References

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  2. "Металлургический комбинат «Красный Октябрь»". Metallobazy.ru. Jun 9, 2020. Retrieved Apr 6, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. "Производство стали (Steel Production)". Vmzko.ru. Retrieved Feb 1, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. "«Красный Октябрь» в Волгограде продали за 2,5 млрд (Russian)". Новости Волгограда. June 22, 2023. Retrieved October 20, 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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  11. 11.0 11.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20220124092325/https://www.steelorbis.com/steel-companies/company/volgogradsteelworksredoctober/. Archived from the original on 24 January 2022. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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  13. 13.0 13.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20220228214413/https://expertsouth.ru/news/volgogradskiy-krasnyy-oktyabr-pereshel-v-nadezhnye-ruki-dmitriya-pumpyanskogo/. Archived from the original on 28 February 2022. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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