UrBC, Magnitogorsk, February 4, 2020. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MK) supplied its customers with 1,286,000,000 kg of zinc-coated rolled metal goods in 2019, which proved the largest amount in the plant’s entire history, the company’s Information & PR Department reports.

‘2019 was the second year in a row when records got set for the amount of zinc-coated produce supplied to customers. In 2018, the figure was 1,269,000,000 kg (up 12% on the 1,134,000,000 kg supplied in the previous year), which was also a record at the time,’ MMK says.

MMK has been working to raise the output of high-margin, deep-level processing metal goods with high value-added for the last two decades now. In 2002 and 2008, the plant launched two new and highly productive continuous hot-dip galvanizing units (capacity: 500,000,000 kg and 450,000,000 kg of zinc-coated goods a year). In 2012, the second section of the new cold-roll mill (comprising a hot-dip galvanizing unit and a combined continuous annealing/hot-dip galvanizing unit) got launched as well. Finally, Continuous Hot-Dip Galvanizing Unit 3 (capacity: 360,000,000 kg a year) got launched in July 2017.

‘Thanks to ongoing investments in deep-level processing facilities, MMK remains Russia’s largest supplier of zinc-coated goods and the industry’s No.1 manufacturer of coated rolled metal goods,’ MMK’s press service says.