Kametsteel, owned by mining and metallurgical group Metinvest, based at Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Works (DMK, Kamenskoye, Dnepropetrovsk region), carried out 80 equipment overhauls in 2022.
According to the company’s press release, last year for Kametstal as well as for all the enterprises of Metinvest group was the most difficult in its history. However, in spite of all wartime difficulties, logistical and energy constraints, the plant worked, fulfilling steel production tasks and systematically restoring basic equipment.
Thus, in 2022 Kametstal performed 80 overhauls in its production units. Among the most important ones are overhauls of blast furnace No.9, converter No.2, sintering machine No.12, coke oven battery No.1-bis and others.
Also within the year, 638 preventive-maintenance repairs were made at the plant, aimed at increase of reliability and efficiency of machines and equipment operation. Totally 222 items of equipment were systematically repaired.
The repairs were performed by specialists of Metallurgical Shop, Metallurgical Equipment Repair Shop, Power Shop and other repair subdivisions and services of Kametstal jointly with main contractor – Metinvest-Promservice. In particular, on the continuous casting machine No. 1, on the ladle-furnace plant No. 1, on the 400/200 rolling mill, on the ball rolling mill and others.
“We have a lot of plans for 2023, first of all, the execution of 119 overhauls of the main equipment in the blast furnace, coke, converter, rolling and other shops,” said Vyacheslav Kekalo, Acting Engineering Director of Kametstal, quoted by the press service.
Earlier it was reported that Kametstal resumed iron smelting in mid-December after the temporary suspension of production due to the shelling of the energy structure.
“Kametstal” was created on the basis of PJSC “Dneprovskyy Coke Chemical Plant” (DKHZ) and the CEC of PJSC “Dneprovskyy Metallurgical Plant” (DMK).
“Metinvest is a vertically integrated group of mining and metallurgical companies. Its enterprises are located in Ukraine – in Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhye and Dnepropetrovsk regions, in European countries.
The major shareholders of the holding are SCM Group (71.24%) and Smart Holding (23.76%) that jointly manage it.
Metinvest Holding LLC is the management company of Metinvest group.
