ArcelorMittal Beryslav (Beryslav, Kherson region), one of ArcelorMittal’s Ukrainian subsidiaries, is increasing its shipment of limestone for ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih’s steelmaking operations.
According to the company’s press release, the production process was resumed this May after it was forced to stop.
It is specified that the enterprise is located in the village of Arkhangelskoye in Kherson region. It was forced to stop work completely in February 2022 because of the enemy offensive. Since that time, this territory was occupied, but on October 3, soldiers of the 129th Krivoy Rog brigade of territorial defense of the AFU liberated the settlements of Mirolyubovka and Arkhangelskoye.
“The real feat of the military allowed us to return to active work in the spring of 2023. Since March we began to ship the accumulated limestone from our warehouses. This raw material is used by ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih sinter plant for sinter production. Until the end of April the difficult demining of our territory continued, and from May 1 we were able to begin extraction of limestone in the quarry,” – said ArcelorMittal Berislav General Director Leonid Smolyarenko, quoted by the press service, and stressed that the company managed to keep its staff.
In turn, deputy director general of AMKR for production (mining department) Vladimir Tesliuk noted the importance of getting the limestone mining company back to work, because the production processes in the company are interrelated. “Now we are trying to do everything to strengthen the enterprise in Arkhangelsk,” he said.
Since March 2023 “ArcelorMittal Berislav” shipped for Krivoy Rog mining company almost 47 thousand tons of limestone (including stockpiles), production was almost 20 thousand tons. Pre-war limestone shipment volume exceeded 500 thousand tons per year. The projected shipment figure for 2023 is about 200 thousand tons of limestone for the production needs of AMKR.
Tesluk also added that part of the village was in ruins after de-occupation, so AMKR helps to restore its infrastructure.
ArcelorMittal Beryslav” PJSC (earlier – “Beryslav construction materials plant” JSC, established in 1994 by the transformation of the state enterprise of the same name) is mainly engaged in the limestone mining, provides up to 30% of the needs of “ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih” integrated iron and steel works in this raw material.
ArcelorMittal acquired Beryslavskiy plant of construction materials in July 2010.
ArcelorMittal owns the largest mining and metallurgical plant ArcelorMittal Krivoy Rog in Ukraine and also a number of smaller companies, in particular PJSC ArcelorMittal Beryslav.
“ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih is the largest producer of rolled steel in Ukraine, specializing in the production of long products, in particular rebar and wire rod.
ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih PJSC (AMKR, Dnipropetrovsk Region) has reduced output of metallurgical coke at its coke-chemical division by 66.7% in January-November this year compared to the same period last year, to 880 thousand tons.
As a company representative told Interfax-Ukraine news agency, in November the company produced 44 thousand tons of metallurgical coke.
At the same time, in January-November 2022 the gross coke output of 6% moisture at AMKR exceeded 1 mln tonnes, including 51 thnd tonnes in November.
Coke production at ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih in eleven months of 2021 increased by 10% to 2.640 million tons, including 188 thousand tons in November last year.
In 11 months of 2022, the company supplied 1.3 million tons of coal concentrate, including 396 thousand tons of domestic coal, 390 thousand tons from Russia (before war), 65 thousand tons from Kazakhstan, 34 thousand tons from Poland, 15 thousand tons from Czech Republic, 208 thousand tons from USA and 187 thousand tons from Australia. In November, the AMKR supplied 50 thousand tons of coal, including 42 thousand tons of domestically mined coal, 7 thousand tons from Poland.
As earlier reported, in January-November 2022, Ukrainian coke plants reduced the production of gross coke 6% moisture content by 58.1% compared to the same period last year – up to 3.66 million tons. In November they produced 235 thousand tons of gross coke, including 204 thousand tons of metallurgical coke. For 11 months of 2022 metallurgical coke production was 3.14 million tons.
For 11 months of 2022, 4.254 million tons of coal concentrate (11M-2021 – 11.834 million tons), including Ukrainian production – 2.853 million tons, imported from Russia (before war) 623.9 thousand tons, from Kazakhstan (before war) – 65.4 thousand tons, Poland – 36.3 thousand tons, Czech Republic – 38.8 thousand tons, USA – 448.6 thousand tons and Australia – 187.3 thousand tons were supplied to domestic coke plants. Including 308 thousand tons of concentrate supplied in November, including 299 thousand tons of Ukrainian production.
As reported, Ukraine in 2021 decreased coke output by 1.3% compared with 2020 – to 9.543 million tons.
PJSC ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih (Dnipropetrovsk region) in 2020 reduced investments in labor protection by 24.4% compared to the previous year, to UAH 380.7 million from UAH 503.4 million.
According to a press release from the enterprise, the company continues to invest in improving working conditions, providing workers with special clothing and footwear, personal protective equipment, as well as implementing measures to reduce injuries and increase the level of industrial safety.
At the same time, it is specified that last year the company registered 34 lost time injuries among its own personnel and contractors. Of these – three fatal accidents (two with the plant employees and one with an employee of the contractor). The overall accident rate in the plant for 2020 (including subsidiaries in Ukraine) was 0.61. The injuries were predominantly associated with the falls of the victims. In the second place is the exposure of workers to high temperatures, as well as injuries as a result of the action of moving, flying and rotating parts, equipment parts and objects.
Most of the injuries occurred for organizational reasons – violation of labor and production discipline. Some 38% of injured workers are not new to production, their work experience in the profession is more than 10 years. The cause of injury is in performing habitual actions with reduced attention during work. Some 24% of injuries occur among young workers with up to 1 year of work experience in production.
From September 22 to September 25, 2020, TMS certification organization conducted an audit of the plant’s labor protection management system for compliance with the requirements of international standard ISO 45001: 018, as a result of which the company received a certificate of conformity.
