OREANDA-NEWS. October 30, 2007. IA European and Asian News – Construction of a slag processing unit has started at the JSC “Zlatoust Metallurgical Plant”, as the EAN agency was told  at the plant press service. The investment value of the project will be over 40 mln RR with a payback period of 1.5 years.

The slag processing site appeared at the plant in 2006. At present only electric furnace steelmaking waste is processed (3.5 t per month). The new equipment will be able to process the waste of electric furnace accumulated at the enterprise, including the slag that will be produced by the new Zlatoust electrometallurgical plant. Up to 95% of metal will be extracted from the slag. It is planned to sell the by-products – refractories and three-fraction broken slag.

The project has passed environmental impact assessment. At the slag processing site there is an ongoing process of metalware installation and foundation laying, electricity supply has been arranged, and part of the equipment – a hydrohammer and a bulldozer - was purchased. The slag processing plant is to be put into operation in the autumn of 2008. European and Asian news.