OREANDA-NEWS. A new gas purification system has been launched in the electrical steel smelting production unit of Volzhsky Pipe Plant (VTZ), a subsidiary of Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK).

According to the press service of TMK, the new system was launched as part of a program to modernize and re-equip the production capacity of TMK subsidiaries.

The reconstruction of the gas purification system for electric steel smelting at Volzhsky Pipe Plant is one of TMK’s most important investment projects. Quad Engineering of Canada, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of industrial gas purification systems, engineered and supplied the equipment for the gas purification system. The gas conduits, electrical equipment, automation gear and water systems were assembled by Montazhspetsstroy, which acted as general contractor.

The need to reconstruct the gas purification system was due to the increased capacity of the electric smelting furnace after its modernization in 2005, as well as the intensification of the technological process.