Ecolant steel plant

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Ecolant steel plant (Металлургический завод Эколант (Russian)), also known as OMK Vyksa, is a direct reduced iron-electric arc furnace (DRI-EAF) steel plant under construction in Vyksa, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.

Location

The map below shows the approximate location of the plant in Vyksa, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia:

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• Location: Vyksa, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia
• Coordinates (WGS 84): 55.323946, 42.150702 (approximate)

Background

As of October 2024, the construction is in progress. At the beginning of 2022, Danieli (Italy) and Primetals Technologies (Austria) were mentioned as equipment providers for the project. It was mentioned in the media that the representatives and branches of these companies continued to operate in Russia, and no information about their withdrawal from the project had been found. The main consumer of the products manufactured at the enterprise will be the structures of the United Metallurgical Company (OMK). For example, the OMK Vyksa Casting and Rolling Complex, will produce large-diameter pipes and railway wheels from thick slabs manufactured at the new enterprise.

Plant Details

Table 1: General Plant Details

Plant status	Construction date	Start date	Workforce size
Construction	2022	2025	700

Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information

Owner	Owner company GEM ID
OOO Ecolant	E100000131130

Table 3: Process and Products

Steel product category	Steel products	Steel sector end users	Main production equipment	Detailed production equipment
semi-finished	slab; round billet	building and infrastructure; energy; transport	DRI, EAF	A DRI unit based on ENERGIRON technology, a system for feeding hot pellets into an EAF, a 1.8 mt EAF (180-ton) , a ladle furnace, a vacuum degasser, a gas cleaning system and a continuous casting machine; supplied by Italian engineering company Danieli

Table 4: Crude Steel Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum)

*Please see our Frequently Asked Questions page for an explanation of the different capacity operating statuses.

Capacity operating status*	Electric arc furnace steelmaking capacity	Nominal crude steel capacity (total)
construction	1800 TTPA	1800 TTPA

Table 5: Crude Iron Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum)

*Please see our Frequently Asked Questions page for an explanation of the different capacity operating statuses.

Capacity operating status*	Sponge iron/DRI capacity	Nominal iron capacity (total)
construction	2500 TTPA	2500 TTPA

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Additional data

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Resources

• https://omk.ru/company/about/ Company website
• Wikipedia