OREANDA-NEWS. April 08, 2010. High-performance steelmaking facility with the annual capacity of over 250 thousand tons of special steels had been commissioned at Izhorskiye Zavody (St. Petersburg, Kolpino) in June 2009 with financial and organizational support from Gazprombank.

The project is aimed at the production upgrade in order to carry out the government programs, including the long-term development program at state-owned nuclear power corporation Rosatom, the Russian Federation Chemical and Petrochemical Industry Development Program, Russian Federation Energy Strategy and the General Power Facility Commissioning Program.

The steelmaking facility is a foundation of the unified production and technological chain at Izhorskiye Zavody, capable of casting unique forging ingots of up to 600 tons, forgings of up to 350 tons, forged shells for nuclear reactors and petrochemical facilities of up to 5.5 m in diameter, large two-layer and three-layer clad plates of up to 140 mm thickness and plates of up to 450 mm thickness, as well as performing final thermal processing in furnaces that have no counterparts in Russia and CIS.

Recognizing the contribution to the steelmaking facility project and many years of hard work, the President of the Russian Federation had issued a decree of 02.04.10, awarding Farid Kantserov, OMZ Group Chairman and Gazprombank Deputy Chairman with the Order of the Merit for Country of the IV Degree, and Victor Shevchenko, Izhorskiye Zavody General Director with the Order of Honour. Dmitry Martynchik, General Director of the St. Petersburg Construction Facility #326, which had built the unique facility, has also been awarded the Order of the Merit for Country of the IV Degree.