NLMK facilities to help set up rails production at Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant

Ural’s Scientific Research Institute of Architecture and Construction has signed a contract with Minmetals Engineering Co. Ltd. (China) to jointly design 100 meter long rails production with the capacity of 1.1 Mt/y at Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant.

The project includes use of a number of innovative solutions and a complete reconstruction of rolling facilities of the Plant.

Ural’s Scientific Research Institute of Architecture and Construction is one of the biggest designing and engineering institutions in the Urals region of Russia exercising complex approach to the tasks connected with construction and servicing of buildings and structures. Since December 2007 the Institute is part of NNLMK Group.
Minmetals Engineering Co. Ltd. is a sister company of Minmetals Corp. The company carries out projects on building of coke and chemical, agglomerate, steel-making, furnace, etc. facilities worldwide.