OREANDA-NEWS. In October, the Severnaya beneficiation plant at the Severstal Resurs Berezovsky Branch, Kemerovo Region, was up and running at full capacity, the Severstal press service reports. Over the past month, the mill processed the greatest quantity of raw coal since being commissioned in September 2006, and it has now reached its designed capacity of 3 million tons of coal per year.

The Severnaya beneficiation plant washes hard cooking coal, grades K and KO, taken at the Berezovskaya, Pervomaiskaya and Anzherskoye. The plant is furnished with a cutting-edge equipment. In particular, columns of floatation CoalPro that enable processing coal fractions from 0 to 0.3 mm have been employed in Russia for the first time ever.

The primary consumers of high quality coal concentrate are Severstal's Cherepovets steel Mill, as well as the Altaikoks and Novolipetsk Plants.