January 18, 2022
PAO Severstal, one of the world’s leading steel producers,
announces that Yakovlevsky Mining and Processing plant (part of PAO Severstal)
has launched a new loading and storage complex in test mode. This is the final
stage of the project, the plant’s largest investment project of the past year.
The Company invested approximately RUB 1.7 billion in the project’s
development.
The loading and storage complex has been designed to
automate the transport and shipment of finished products, as well as for
storing ore reserves. The complex has a total area of 7,500 m2, and
includes a heated warehouse for dry ore, two conveyor galleries and facilities
for loading the ore into railway wagons.
Denis Golubnichy, Head of Yakovlevsky Mining and Processing
plant, commented:
“The installation of the new loading and storage complex,
a major investment project worth around RUB 1.7 billion, will enable us to move
away from using vehicles while shipping our products and establish a completely
closed process, greatly reducing the levels of dust emitted at the
plant.
The complex will also benefit our overall efficiency
levels. Thanks to the logistics optimisation and guaranteed process continuity
of the complex, we will be able to increase the total volumes of ore shipped
from 3 to 5 million tons per year.”
The launch of the loading and storage complex is the second
stage in the construction of a single node for storing and shipping products.
Last year, Severstal commissioned a drying complex to reduce the levels of
moisture contained in the ore, preventing it from freezing in winter when it is
shipped to northern regions, in particular to the mine’s key client, the
Cherepovets Steel Mill.
