OREANDA-NEWS. OJSC Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works ("MMK" or “the Company”) produced over 526,000 tonnes of metal at its hot-rolled products Mill 2000 in January 2015 – an all-time record for monthly output since the Mill opened in 1994. The previous monthly record of over 520,000 tonnes was set in October 2014. MMK’shot-rolled products Mill 2000is one of the most impressive and state-of-art facilities in Russia. Its equipment makes it possible to produce the full range of steel grades.

Sheet width varies from 760 mm to 1,830 mm. The Mill 2000 produces the broadest range of products of any MMK plant and includes around 1,000 items. The Mill produces steel for various industries including pipes, construction, and machinery manufacturing. Shipbuilding, structural and transformer steel is also rolled here, and the Mill produces rolled products that are used in automotive sheet production. In 2014, the hot-rolled products Mill 2000 set its own all-time annual production record– nearly 6 mln tonnes of metal.