The executives of Integrated Metallurgical Complex of Nizhny Tagil are taking part in the workshop devoted to rail service durability that started in Yekaterinburg on May 16, 2006. Ural Institute of Metals, a state Russian scientific center, runs the workshop and provides for reports by Deputy Head of Integrated Metallurgical Complex of Nizhny Tagil’s Central Laboratory Vladimir Matveev, reports the company’s spokesperson. The Complex produces 250,000 to 300,000 tons of rails annually, mainly for the Russian Rail and partly for the countries of the NIS and the EU. The produce can boast a few quality certificates, including the one by Certification Register for Federal Rail Transport.

The Complex does scientific research into the improvement of rail operational properties, for instance, reducing the total content of oxygen in the steel used in rail production, introducing aluminum-free steel deoxidation, changing its chemical and gas content. The company only performs automatic steel casting.