Russian mining and steel group Mechel has announced that its subsidiary Beloretsk Metallurgical Plant has presented its new polymer-coated steel ropes to mining companies in the Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk, Zabaikalye and Khabarovsk regions and the Republics of Khakassia and Buryatia, and Uzbekistan.
According to Mechel, Beloretsk has reached preliminary agreements with customers from these regions for the supply of pilot lots of new polymer-coated steel ropes, which it will begin to produce in early 2019.
Beloretsk has been carrying out the project for polymer-coated steel ropes since 2015, with the support of Russia’s Industry Development Fund and the government of Belarus, in order to replace imports of these products in the mining, oil, machinery, bridge and shipbuilding industries. As part of the project, in early 2017 Beloretsk ordered a new steel rope mill from German equipment manufacturer Sket Verseilmaschinenbau GmbH.