Russian mining and steel group Mechel has announced that its subsidiary Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant has modernized gas cleaners at two units of its oxygen converter workshop. The modernization will ensure the gas cleaners’ compliance with high ecological requirements.
Mechel stated that the repairs were made at the workshop’s steel processing unit and steel billet continuous caster, which have been equipped with a modern dust and gas cleaning complex and closed-cycle water supply that enable them to work with maximum filtering efficiency.
Anatoly Schetinin, managing director of Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant, stated that the oxygen converter workshop has undergone a major reconstruction over the past few years, nearly all key units were replaced, and the plant has put outdated units out of operation.