OREANDA-NEWS. Lloyd’s Register has granted new certificates to Severstal’s integrated iron and steel plant at Cherepovets The certificates, which run to 2010, allow the plant to produce normal and high strength steel up to 12 mm, 40 mm and 50-70 mm in thickness in its sheet rolling shops LPTs-2, LPTs-1, and LPTs-3.

The certificates were issued following a plant audit and the expiry of the previous certificates received in 2004. In the course of the audit an Lloyd’s inspector checked the production of the above types of steel throughout the entire process flow. The audit encompassed the whole spectrum of procedures for making products in the steel-melting and rolling-mill shops – from incoming materials control to the issuance of certificates for rolled metal products.

Lloyd’s Register certificates enable the plant to bid for steel contract on a number of potentially interesting projects. In 2007, along with Lloyd’s Register certificates, Severstal’s Cherepovets plant was also approved by several other standards agencies, namely: Det Norske Veritas, Germanischer Lloyd, and Bureau Veritas. All were for the production of steel for the shipbuilding industry.