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In Magnitogorsk, an official ceremony took place for the commissioning of two four-apartment houses which were built for employees of MMK Group as part of the Group's long-term housing programme 'Affordable housing for the metallurgists of MMK'. These houses are part of 'Klyuchevskaya', a residential complex, currently under construction in the village of Soty, an environmentally clean area of Magnitogorsk. The ceremony was attended by MMK CEO Pavel Shilyaev, Mayor of Magnitogorsk Sergey Berdnikov...

Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) sold a record amount of galvanised steel in 2018 - around 1.3 mln tonnes. MMK's share in the product’s consumption in Russia amounts to 34%. According to the Senior Manager of MMK's Coated Products Sales, Vadim Dorofeev, who spoke at the 14th International Conference "Galvanised and painted steel - production and consumption trends," MMK remains the largest supplier of galvanised steel in Russia with total sales amounting to 1.269 mln tonnes at...

Innovations introduced at Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) in 2023 resulted in savings of RUB 513.4 million, nearly double the amount saved during the previous year. Savings have increased as a result of staff members submitting more ideas to innovate processes than ever before: where employees submitted 6,927 ideas in 2022, the number of submissions rose by 19% in 2023, to 8,222. Three quarters of these proposals were accepted for implementation by expert commissions. Innovations introduced...

... included a continuous hot-dip galvanizing unit and combined hot-dip galvanizing and annealing unit. In the years following the launch, the complex’s products have been rated highly by the country’s car manufactures; both the traditional domestic companies - AvtoVAZ, GAZ, UAZ and KAMAZ, as well as foreign car manufactures who have localized their production in Russia, such as Ford, Volkswagen, Renault, and Nissan. About MMK MMK is one of the world's largest steel producers and a leading Russian ...

... Development Organization (UNIDO). Experts from 25 countries took part in the event. Tareq Emtairah, Director of Energy Department at UNIDO, in a congratulatory letter to MMK CEO Pavel Shilyaev, noted that MMK's experience may be of interest to other companies. "An independent panel of international experts determined that your case study shows how an energy management system can be successfully integrated into existing business systems to better manage resources, sustain achieved savings, and ...

In 2018, Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) contributed a total of RUB 8.967 bln to environmental causes, up 27% as compared to 2017. Most of the investment in environmental safety went towards the construction of environmental facilities. Last year, this effort received RUB 5.845 bln. As a whole, MMK's Environmental Programme for 2018 consisted of 84 environmental initiatives: - 45 for the reduction of air pollutant emissions; - 26 for the reduction and prevention of pollutants being released...

... ‘Eurasian Metals’, with support from the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade. The first part of the two-day event took place yesterday in Moscow. Conference participants were industry experts and representatives of leading Russian metallurgical companies. They examined issues related to the application of the best available technologies (BAT) and environmental requirements and presented the latest world-class technologies and technical solutions in sintering, as well as the best practices in ...

Olga Shemshur, Head of Strategic Planning at Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK), spoke at the international conference Steel, Metals and Mining Week (SMM Week), where she spoke about global trends in the steel industry and how MMK is responding to today's challenges. Two interrelated megatrends are now having the strongest impact on economic processes around the world, Olga Shemshur emphasized. The first one is climate change, which is challenging steelmakers to be as eco-friendly as possible...

In 2017, Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works invested 4,157.8 million rubles in environmental initiatives. From 2018 to 2025, the Company plans to spend more than 38 billion rubles on environmental protection. In 2017, 2,578 million rubles were invested in the construction and reconstruction of facilities aimed at improving air quality. As a result of the implementation of 31 environmental initiatives, air pollutant emissions were cut by 2,536 tonnes per year. The key projects of the past year included...

Since 2018, the total savings from the incorporation of robotic process automation (RPA) software at Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) has amounted to RUB 660 million, including RUB 283.8 million last year. Overall, MMK has automated 310 business processes across nearly all of its divisions. Since 2018, the total savings from the incorporation of robotic process automation (RPA) software at Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) has amounted to RUB 660 million, including RUB 283.8 million...