Nornickel investing in project of new stainless steel plant in Russia
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Update time : 2023-12-20 17:18:41
Norilsk Nickel (Nornickel), a Russian nickel and palladium mining and smelting company, is investing in a project to build a stainless steel manufacturing plant in Russia to seek consumers in the domestic market.
Led by Russia’s RNK Holdings, a plant for the production of high-quality hot-rolled and cold-rolled flat products of stainless steel and corrosion-resistant, heat-resistant, and refractory alloys is now being built in Volzhsky, Volgograd region.
The annual production capacity of this new plant will reach up to 500,000 tons. The opening of the cold-rolling workshop is scheduled in 2025, the hot-rolling workshop in 2026, and the electric steelmaking workshop in 2027.
