OREANDA-NEWS. January 29, 2010. Bekabad-based Uzmetkombinat plant by results of 2009 increased production of steel by 6.2% to 716,400 tons. Production of rolled steel grew by 5.7% to 687,100 tons including long products by 8.3% to 545,600 tons.

Increase of production is explained by modernization carried out at the works. During 2009 there was realized a program of production capacities modernization of total cost around million including million for modernization of rolling capacities for long products. The suppliers of equipment were Swiss ENCE GmbH and Russian ASK.

Ukrainian Agbor Engineering Ltd made reconstruction of pump-accumulator station of electric arc furnace DSP 100 UMK with replacement of regulator of power and arc. Realization of the project with cost of million enabled to increase production capacity of the furnace by 60,000 tons annually.

Financing of modernization programs was made in account of its own funds, Steel Guru reported.