The Kryvyi Rih Mining and Metallurgical Plant PJSC ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih (AMKR, Dnipropetrovsk region) has purchased and commissioned a new gantry crane in the repair shop (RC) of the mining department (MD).
According to information from the company in the corporate newspaper Metallurg, the use of the new crane has made the movement of goods safer.
It is specified that the crane replacement project was implemented as part of the work to achieve FPS corporate standards for occupational safety.
Lyubov Yevseyanko, lead engineer of the GD project implementation department, noted that such cranes are manufactured individually to meet the needs of those who will use them.
“First, together with experts from the repair shop, we specified what equipment they needed. Based on this, a drawing was made, describing the parameters of the future crane. Then we worked with companies that are capable of manufacturing such a crane with high quality, in accordance with standards and within a timeframe that would satisfy us. From several options, we chose the one that best met the criteria. Work began on the manufacture of the equipment,” she said.
Igor Maly, head of the RC GD, highly praised the work of the contractors who manufactured the crane and then participated in its installation and commissioning.
“Our workshop performs repairs and manufactures metal structures, spare parts, assemblies, and mechanisms. We really needed this crane. It replaced the old one, which was no longer safe to use. There was also an urgent need for more powerful equipment: the old crane had a lifting capacity of 5 tons, but recently we have been working more often with heavier products and materials,” explained the workshop manager.
He added that the contractor, the Kyiv Lifting and Transport Equipment Plant, manufactured the crane quickly, efficiently, and in accordance with the requirements. Along with the crane, the rail track on which it moves was also replaced.
ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih is the largest manufacturer of rolled steel in Ukraine. It specializes in the production of long products, in particular, rebar and wire rod. The enterprise has a full production cycle, and its production capacity is designed for an annual output of over 6 million tons of steel, more than 5 million tons of rolled products, and over 5.5 million tons of pig iron.
ArcelorMittal owns Ukraine’s largest mining and metallurgical complex, ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, and a number of small companies, including ArcelorMittal Beryslav.
