The steel has been processed at an argon purge unit, a complex steel processing unit and a steel circulating vacuum unit. At this stage, the technological team No. 3 was replaced by the technological team No. 2 under the leadership of the shift supervisor Vladislav Savin. At 23.31 the jubilee ton was casted on the continuous casting machine # 2. CCM master - Ivan Ryazhev, casting master - Artem Kondrashev.
“The production of 80 million tons of steel is a significant milestone in the history of OEMK and the electric arc furnace. It took the metallurgists 35 years to achieve this important production indicator, - noted the managing director of OEMK Sergey Shishkovets. - Behind this figure is the work of the veterans of the enterprise, who have established the production process from scratch, and those who have worked conscientiously all these years. I thank every worker of the ESPC and other divisions of the plant for their well-coordinated work. "
In 2018, OEMK produced 3,435 thousand tons of steel. Unique consumer properties ensured stable demand for OEMK products in the markets of Russia, the CIS and far abroad. Metal products are exported to Germany, France, Poland, Slovakia, Italy, Turkey, Egypt and many other countries. The OEMK long products are used in the manufacture of products for the world's leading foreign automotive concerns: Volkswagen, Volvo, Groupe PSA, Mercedes-Benz, Renault. The main consumers of OEMK steel products in the Russian market are the enterprises of the automotive, machine-building, pipe, hardware and bearing industries: AVTOVAZ, KAMAZ, Severstal-Metiz, MMK-Metiz, Pervouralsk Novotrubny Plant, Belebeevsky Avtonormal Plant, Izhora Pipe-Rolling Plant, EPK Volzhsky EPK Saratov.
