Maintenance center to be launched at MMK Atakaş in 2008
5 June 2008 (11:03)
UrBC, Chelyabinsk, 05.06.2008 A new maintenance center will be set up at MMK Atakaş A. Ş., a Russian-Turkish joint venture, by the end of 2008.
Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) and Atakaş, the Turkish firm, are working on the construction of a metallurgical complex in Turkey. The new enterprise will have premises in Istanbul and in Iskenderun and is expected to produce over 2.3 million tons of flat stock a year. Two maintenance centers will be set up in Istanbul and Iskenderun as well as a seaport (capable of servicing vessels whose draught comes to up to 80,000 tons. The machinery is to be supplied by the Italian Danieli.
MMK’s CEO Boris Dubrovskiy said in the course of a recent metallurgical summit in Moscow that the construction would be done in several stages. A new maintenance center will be set up in Iskenderun before the end of 2008. The center is meant for slitting and cutting of hot-rolled coils (as well as coils with zinc and polymeric coating) and for packaging.
In 2010, the facilities meant for continuous zinc plating and polymeric coating (with the capacity of 450,000 tons and 200,000 tons a year, respectively) and a cold-rolling mill will be launched. Gradually, the plant in Iskenderun will turn into an independent production facility with steel-smelting and hot-rolling plate departments.
As for the maintenance center in Istanbul, this will include continuous zinc plating and polymeric coating facilities with the capacity of 450,000 tons and 200,000 tons a year and coil-cutting machinery, MMK’s PR Department reports.
Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) and Atakaş, the Turkish firm, are working on the construction of a metallurgical complex in Turkey. The new enterprise will have premises in Istanbul and in Iskenderun and is expected to produce over 2.3 million tons of flat stock a year. Two maintenance centers will be set up in Istanbul and Iskenderun as well as a seaport (capable of servicing vessels whose draught comes to up to 80,000 tons. The machinery is to be supplied by the Italian Danieli.
MMK’s CEO Boris Dubrovskiy said in the course of a recent metallurgical summit in Moscow that the construction would be done in several stages. A new maintenance center will be set up in Iskenderun before the end of 2008. The center is meant for slitting and cutting of hot-rolled coils (as well as coils with zinc and polymeric coating) and for packaging.
In 2010, the facilities meant for continuous zinc plating and polymeric coating (with the capacity of 450,000 tons and 200,000 tons a year, respectively) and a cold-rolling mill will be launched. Gradually, the plant in Iskenderun will turn into an independent production facility with steel-smelting and hot-rolling plate departments.
As for the maintenance center in Istanbul, this will include continuous zinc plating and polymeric coating facilities with the capacity of 450,000 tons and 200,000 tons a year and coil-cutting machinery, MMK’s PR Department reports.
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