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Metinvest Produces Rebars with Negative Tolerance
Nov. 26, 2010 Metinvest claims to be the first in Ukraine to produce rebars with negative tolerance according to DSTU 3760-2006 standard. The first lot with enhanced quality rebars from Makeevka Iron and Steel Works (MMZ) was recently delivered to customers.
Danieli equipment allows real-time quality control of all products in terms of the profile geometry, avoiding sampling procedure. Measurement of the dimensions can be performed up to 50 times per second.
Dmitry Nikolayenko, interim Sales Director of Steel and Rolled Products Division of Metinvest Group, noted that introduction of the new equipment is an important step because it allows weighing the running meter of rebars and producing negative tolerance rebars, if requested by the customers.
MMZ is equipped with medium sections mill-390 and wire mill-150. Wire mill-150 produces wire rod from 5.5 to 12.5 mm. Design capacity of the mill is up to 800,000 tonnes per annum.
Medium sections mill-390 was commissioned in July 2009. It allows production of the whole range of rebars (diameters of 8 to 40 mm) up to А500 strength class. If alloyed steels are used, up to Ат800 is possible, which are in demand in construction sectors and bridge building: structural rounds (diameter 10 to 14 mm), hexagons (14 to 26, 30, 32, 36 to 42, 46, and 48 mm), squares (14 to 26 and 30 mm), and angles (25, 32, 35, 40 ,45, 50, and 63 mm). Design capacity of the mill is 720,000 tonnes of finished rolled products per annum.
In April 2010, MMZ was certified as compliant with EN ISO 9001-2005 standard in the field of sections and shaped products manufacturing. Rebars quality (А500С class) from mill-390 of MMZ is fully compliant with DSTU 3760:2006.
Metinvest is an international vertically integrated mining and metallurgical group of companies. Production facilities of Metinvest Group enterprises satisfy their own demand for raw materials, liquid steel, and semi-finished products, and enable them to be a key supplier for major Ukrainian and European companies as well as Asian companies. The shareholders of Metinvest Group are SCM Group (75%) and Smart Holding (25%).