OREANDA-NEWS. September 21, 2012. In sheet-rolling mill “1700” of PJSC "ILYICH IRON & STEEL WORKS" inside the group of Metivest a large-scale 47 hour basic repair of the heating furnace № 5 has been finished. The amount of investments for the planned renewing of equipment has put up 13 million grivnas.

During the capital repair a firebrick lining was fully changed, metalware was renewed, skid rails, horizontal-tube coils and the contours of the technological unit were reconstructed. Besides a repair of the baffle of the furnace and the concave crown was done. A replacement of gas sealing armature and burners has been finished. And also an assembly and disassembling of candle piping was performed.

The renewing o f the technological unit was done with the help of the rebuild service of PJSC "ILYICH IRON & STEEL WORKS". The biggest amount of work were done by the specialists from the shops: " blast furnace repair", the repair of metallurgical furnaces, CY " Energy repair" -1.

A timely made basic repair of the heating furnace №5 has allowed us to shorten the time of heating of metal and to improve the quality of the feedstock by the help of even heating of the slabs in cross-section, underlined Vladimyr Boyko, the general director of the PJSC "ILYICH IRON & STEEL WORKS". All in all we reduced gas consumption and thus we improved the economical rate of the work of the combinat.