OREANDA-NEWS. October 5, 2007. NLMK has commissioned reheating furnace # 4 following its reconstruction for heating slabs before hot rolling.  The furnace, which has a capacity of 320 tonnes of steel per hour, will allow a 50% reduction in energy consumption (natural and Blast Furnace gas) decrease environmental impacts by almost 30%.

Reheating furnace # 4 is the second furnace at the production site in Lipetsk (reconstructed furnace # 5 was commissioned in 2004).  The design features provide high quality slab heating and flats production by using state-of-the-art resource-saving and environmentally friendly technologies.

The unique performance capabilities of the furnace (low steel losses and high uniformity of reheating) allow it to process products for both carbon and grain-oriented steel production. 

This project, implemented within the framework of the NLMK’s Second Phase of Technical Upgrading Programme, is worth over RUR1.5 billion