OREANDA-NEWS. March 30, 2011. OJSC SUEK and Omega Minerals international group held a commissioning ceremony of a new processing plant of ash and slag residuals for coal-fired power plants located in Belovo, Kemerovo Region.

The plant will perform integrated conversion of residuals of OJSC Kuzbassenergo thermal stations into high-quality fine hollow fillers and related products. The plant is set up to manufacture 7 basic grades and 3 special-purpose grades of products for various industries that are used, among other things, during well drilling, in foundry practice, in manufacture of refractory and paintwork materials, syntactic foam and light concrete. The products are targeted at consumers in Russia, CIS countries, USA, Asian and Pacific states.

"This plant is unique in many respects, as it has integrated a whole range of innovative solutions. This is the first full-cycle enterprise in Russia to perform both recovery of thermal power residuals from all available storage tanks and multistage bulk conversion of residuals into a wide range of the products of the international quality and manufacture of own products based on hollow fillers. This is the first plant to manufacture products of this quality in Russia and CIS and it ranks first among EC states in terms of its capacities", - says Anna Belova, Member of the Board of OJSC SUEK, Director General of the SUEK Center for New and Innovative Technologies.

The plant has been built from scratch in the industrial area of Belovskaya SDPP. Design capacity of the plant start-up facilities amounts to 10 th. tons of finished products p.a. and may be increased to 18 th. tons p.a. over the next two years.

Total volume of partners' investments into the project as of its launch date has amounted to 120 mln. roubles. The plant will provide jobs to up to 60 people, and after full capacity has been attained - up to 100 people. The plant is completely environmentally friendly; it produces no waste and uses no chemicals. In pursuance of the Resolution of the Board of Kemerovo Oblast Administration, Kemerovo branch of LLC  SUEK Specialty Minerals has been awarded a status of a resident of Kuzbas Technological Cluster.