UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 11, 2017. A trilateral agreement was signed by EVRAZ NTMK, Nippon Steel, and Mashprom at the Innoprom 2017 International Industrial Exhibition, EVRAZ Holding’s press service reports.

The agreement sets out the ways the parties will work together to develop coke production departments at the holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (EVRAZ NTMK).

The document was signed by EVRAZ Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works’ and EVRAZ Kachkanar Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise’s Managing Director Alexei Kushnarev, Mashprom’s Managing Director Alexander Kotelnikov, and Head of Nippon Steel Dusseldorf office Masuda Shuichi. The plan is to have the Japanese engineers examine the plant’s dry coke quenching unit and the coal preparation shop’s facilities so that they can come up with advice on what advanced Japanese technologies can be used for further production upgrades.

‘EVRAZ Holding’s stand also hosted a presentation on EVRAZ NTMK and the Japanese-Russian company Mishima-MASHPROM’s cooperation in the field of using modern crystallizer units at CC machines. Back in 2010, Mashprom and Ural Federal University worked together on a technology for making crystallizer unit walls with gas-thermal coating. The new units were first used in Russia at EVRAZ NTMK’s CC Machine 4. So far, the thermal-spray-coated parts have undergone nearly 4,000 casts without any need for replacement; this is six times better than the current standard lifespan,’ the press service says.