In the first half of 2010, Azovstal invested 30 million UAH in ecology

According to the press service, the Azovstal plant in six months of 2010 invested about 30 million UAH. In projects aimed at reducing the technogenic load on the environment, which is 8 times higher than investments for the same period of 2009. More than 15 million UAH. Of these funds, it was spent in the framework of the "Program of Economic and Social Development of the city of Mariupol for 2010".

The main areas of the environmental part of the integrated program are: total reconstruction of blast furnaces with the introduction of aspiration systems; reconstruction of the agglomeration factory, the introduction of advanced technology of dry gas cleaning; Reducing the volume of harmful emissions and industrial waste.

“The consistent and timely modernization of production, the steady adherence to European standards and the development of new technologies will reduce the industrial impact on the environment of the city and the region,” said Dmitry Arnoldovich livshits, general director of Azovstal. “Environmental projects are an important and integral part of our modernization program, we strive to maintain environmental investments at the gossip from the general I am sure that this will lead to positive changes and improve the environmental situation in the city. ”