Russian steelmaker Severstal has commissioned a new reheating furnace (No. 3) at its Mill 2000 in the Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works (CherMK), boosting capacity and efficiency at the site.
The furnace has a design capacity of 400 tons per hour for cold charge and 500 tons per hour for hot charge, nearly 1.5 times higher than previous units. It features a modern thermal management system that cuts metal and gas consumption, as well as a pumped water circulation system with dry cooling towers that replaces evaporative cooling, reducing chemically treated water use through a closed-loop system.
The project was carried out largely with in-house and domestic resources. Severstal-Proekt served as general designer, while Severstal Steel Solutions (Oryol) and other Russian firms supplied equipment, metal structures, and refractory blocks.
The company’s CEO Evgeny Vinogradov said the upgrade will lift Mill 2000’s rolled product output to 7 mln tons per year while improving overall production efficiency, supporting Severstal’s long-term refurbishment program.
