TPT March 2022

T E CHNOLOG Y

Severstal and Fives collaborate to launch ‘Spark’ at Russian mill

The construction of the first reheating furnace is the beginning of a major upgrade of furnace facilities at Mill 2000

2000. Our goal is to increase the productivity and energy efficiency of the equipment

RUSSIAN steel producer, Severstal, and international engineering group, Fives, have launched a reheating furnace at the Cherepovets Steel Mill in Russia. Furnace Number 2, symbolically named ‘Spark’ following a tender within Severstal Russian Steel, is the first of three slab-heating furnaces launched within amajor upgrade program covering furnace facilities at Mill 2000, which produces 65 per cent of Cherepovets Steel Mill’s output. Severstal placed an order for two high-performance Stein Digit@l Furnace ® from Fives in 2019 to replace existing reheating furnaces Number 1 and Number 2, and for a third one in 2021. “The construction of the first reheating furnace is the beginning of a major upgrade of furnace facilities of Mill

department, “Dismantling the old equipment and erecting a new furnace in the frame of existing production was a large and complex project. Despite difficult conditions related to the pandemic and global logistics challenges, the international team completed this project in a record-breaking 11 months, thanks to collaboration and commitment to a single goal.” added:

while reducing production costs. This furnace is completely innovative – it has a different heating concept, on/ off burners, and a different level of automation control. “Its productivity is twice as high as any of the existing furnaces at Mill 2000: 400 tons per hour for cold slab charging and 500 tons per hour for hot slab charging. “Therefore, new equipment allows us to achieve higher quality heating to obtain rolled products with guaranteed high quality”, said Nikolay Savatin, head of CherMK rolling production revamping department. Kirill Bogachev, project manager of CherMK rolling production revamping

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