OREANDA-NEWS. August 27, 2014. NLMK Group, Russia’s leading manufacturer of steel and high value added rolled steel products, has announced its commitment to construct a modern modular dust collection system at its Lipetsk production site to treat off-gases from Blast Furnace #4.

With a capacity of 600,000 m3/h, the new system will bring residual dust content down by 30 times, to 5 mg/m3. This will reduce the annual dust emissions by 504 tonnes to reach the level of best available technologies.

Currently, gases from BF-4 are de-dusted by a previous generation dust collection system that uses the water sprinkling method.

Investment into the construction of the new dust collection system will total approximately RUB 250 million, with launch planned for the end of 2015.

This project is part of NLMK’s Environmental Programme 2020, aimed at further minimizing the Company’s environmental footprint. Total investment into NLMK Group’s environmental measures will amount to RUB 10.6 billion.

Sergey Filatov, NLMK Managing Director, said:
“NLMK’s large-scale technical upgrade programme with the implementation of innovative environmental technologies has allowed us to achieve environmental results that are unique for Russian integrated steelmakers, while at the same time doubling production volumes. The new environmental project is another step towards our goals that are set out in our recently launched Environmental Programme 2020. We strive to achieve the best global standards in terms of production efficiency, including environmental standards.”