12th Feb 2009 13:15
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OJSC Novolipetsk Steel
12 February 2009
Press-release
12 February, 2009
NLMK restarts blast furnace
NLMK announces today that it has put at normal operational capacity Blast Furnace (BF) #3 at its main production site in Lipetsk. The furnace has a maximum production capacity of 1.3 million tonnes of pig iron per year. BF#3 was idled for a general overhaul in October 2008.
As part of the 100-day overhaul of the 2000 m3 unit, the furnace shell and refrigerators were partially renovated and the refractory was fully replaced. The overhaul cost was RUR65 million.
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