UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 1, 2016. EVRAZ Holding’s Kachkanar Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise (KGOK) put up an up-to-date sintered ore sorting plant, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s press service reports.

According to the company representatives’ estimates, the new unit is expected to improve the iron ore quality and increase productivity at EVRAZ holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works blast furnace department. This project took over 15m RUR to complete.

‘The new sorting plant was put up at KGOK sinter warehouse, where our iron ore is stored until it gets delivered to our key customer, Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works. The plant then uses our iron ore to make pig iron. The sorting plant is meant for filtering sintered ore that is under 5mm big, since these bits are not suitable for blast furnaces. The stuff gets loaded into a special chamber and then delivered onto a vibratory knockout grid to remove smaller particles, while the larger particles get loaded into hopper railcars and sent to the plant. KGOK delivers up to 3,500,000 kg of sintered ore to Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works every year,’ the press service says.