Vyksa Steel Works Orders Metso Shredder Plant

Russian company seeks production efficiencies with new purchase.

Russia-based Vyksa Steel Works  has ordered a Metso shredder plant. Metso will deliver to the company, a part of Moscow-based United Metallurgical Co., a ZZ300x300 system.

Metso says the shredder technology is capable of saving more than 70 percent of the energy needed for the steelmaking process. The system also significantly reduces the pollutants, according to the company. The 7,500-kilowatt (10,000-horsepower) shredder plant is designed to process clean and dense shredded ferrous scrap from all grades of miscellaneous scrap and automobile bodies. The shredder plant includes a ferrous and nonferrous processing line with a potential annual capacity of 1million metric tons.

“The main target of this project is optimization of expenses for scrap procurement due to deep processing of all kind of scrap," Oleg Fedotov, the head of OMK Steel Works, says. "The in-feed shredded material will have higher density, which makes extra charging of electric arc furnace during melting process dispensable. All this will save time and as a result will increase our production capacity."

Fedotov adds, “When choosing the supplier, the world leading position of Metso was taken into consideration. In its 90-year history of recycling machinery, Metso has implemented dozens of similar projects in the world.”

The delivery of Metso’s shredder plant will be completed in the second quarter of 2012.

Vyksa Steel Works is one of Russia's oldest metallurgical centers. The company was established in 1757 and became part of OMK in 1999.