Severstal to Reduce Emissions at Cherepovets Steel Mill
10/18/2011 - ОАО Severstal launched a major environmental project aimed at reducing atmospheric emissions at the Cherepovets Steel Mill. It signed an agreement with Siemens VAI Metals Technologies to supply and install a sophisticated system for capturing emissions from plant converters, to be installed over the next four years.
ОАО Severstal launched a major environmental project aimed at reducing atmospheric emissions at the Cherepovets Steel Mill, part of the Severstal Russian Steel division.
Severstal signed an agreement with Siemens VAI Metals Technologies to supply and install a sophisticated system for capturing emissions from plant converters. The system will be installed over the next four years alongside the Cherepovets Steel Mill’s existing converter process and will include, among other things, new bag filters, smoke exhausts, a compressor station, a package transformer and distribution substation, an automated process control system, and a dust removal system.
Severstal plans to invest up to 3 billion rubles ($US 96 million) over the course of the project.
Alexander Grubman, CEO of Severstal Russian Steel, said: “We are initiating this project to reduce the Cherepovets Steel Mill’s atmospheric emission levels and ensure we meet leading international standards. This project and investment demonstrates our commitment to delivering on our company-wide goal of reducing any negative impact on the environment from our operations.”
In 2010, the Cherepovets Steel Mill invested more than 610 million rubles ($US 21 million dollars) in environmental sustainability projects, with double that level of investment targeted in 2011. A total of 14 new environmental projects and initiatives have been introduced so far in 2011, of which half are aimed at reducing harmful atmospheric emissions with the other half aimed at reducing water pollution.
ОАО Severstal is one of the world’s leading vertically integrated steel and mining companies, with assets in Russia and other CIS countries, the U.S., Europe and Africa. Severstal’s crude steel production in 2010 reached 14.7 million tonnes.
