OEMK Celebrates 45th Anniversary
Metalloinvest’s OEMK is celebrating a double jubilee - Steelworker’s Day and 45th anniversary of the enterprise. The enterprise’s employees, who make up more than 9,000 people, marked this important date with superb operational performance. Over the last 45 years, the enterprise has produced 108mn tonnes of oxidised pellets, 71mn tonnes of metallised pellets, 80 million tonne tonnes of steel, 55 million tonnes of rolled steel at Rolling Mill 700 and 11 million tonnes of rolled steel at Rolling Mill 350. Mr Andrey Varichev CEO of Management Company Metalloinvest, said that “OEMK is a highly technological steel enterprise and is one of the leading steel producers in Russia and internationally. The enterprise produces high quality rolled steel, improves product characteristics and creates unique steel grades in line with customer requirements. We value the work of all our employees at OEMK, who are true masters of their trade. We are particularly grateful to those who began the first development of direct reduction of iron ore in Russia.”
The main customers of OEMK’s steel products are enterprises in the automotive, mechanical engineering, pipe, metal goods and bearing industries. AvtoVAZ, KAMAZ, Severstal-Metiz, MMK-Metiz, Ural Spring Plant, Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant, the Belebeevsky plant "Avtonormal", European Bearing Cooperation, Izhora Pipe Mill and other companies are key partners of the enterprise in Russia.
OEMK’s steel products are exported to Germany, France, Poland, Slovakia, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Egypt and many other countries. OEMK rolled steel is used by leading global car manufacturers such as Volkswagen, Renault-Nissan, Groupe PSA, Mercedes-Benz, Renault and is supplied to SKF and Schaeffler, producers of bearings and components.
Source : Strategic Research Institute