Russian steelmaker Evraz has started up a new blast furnace (BF) with capacity for 2.5 million tonnes per year at its Nizhny Tagil Metallurgical Plant (NTMK) facility, Metal Bulletin has learned.
"The construction of new blast furnace No7 [provides] an alternative to blast furnace No6 [which will be idled] for first category repairs," Maxim Andriasov, Evraz vice-president and head of the Urals division said when the project was started in the...