UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 6, 2017. Evrazruda’s Gurievsky branch was set up eighty-five years ago this month, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s press office reports.

The company makes limestone for the metallurgical and ore processing enterprises as well as for housing developers and road builders. Its annual output currently amounts to over 1,000,000,000 kg of limestone. The company is a member of EVRAZ Holding and works with EVRAZ West Siberian Metallurgical Works as its key customer.

‘The first shipments of local limestone were sent to Kuznetsk Metallurgical Works in March 1932 to make part of their first blast furnace charge. Since then, Gurievsky has been supplying limestone to the plant non-stop. Kuznetsk workers are quite happy with the product quality (54% calcium content in raw limestone). Gurievsky keeps on working to improve the product quality even further and keeps introducing new technologies,’ the press office says.

A new crushing and grading unit was launched at Gurievsky in 2011; its capacity stood at 2,900,000,000 kg of raw limestone a year. The unit came to replace two obsolete appliances and made the entire grading and processing procedure fully automated and environmentally neutral. Besides, the use of the new equipment has meant there’s virtually no waste left over, as all the limestone dust gets trapped with suction units, packed into big bags and sent to road builders and construction mix manufacturers.