In 2013, Metinvest spent $ 350 million on the modernization of the mining division

According to the data provided by the international vertically integrated mining and metallurgical group, Metinvest (Ukraine), in 2013, the costs of modernizing and expanding the mining division amounted to 2.86 billion hryvnias ($ 350 million).

In 2013, Metinvest acquired 20 heavy dump trucks, 3 drilling machines, 1 excavator, 5 bulldozers, electric locomotive and 40 dumpkars. Metinvest also purchased 7 combines, 7 conveyors, 2 breeding machines. The technique is already successfully working on the Northern, Central and Ingulet GOK, in the Komsomol Rudo -Law and the Krasnodonugol association.

About 2.3 billion hryvnias were mastered for capital construction and repairs, including the following key investment projects: the following key investment projects were carried out:

• continuation of the construction of a complex of cyclic and current technology in the Pervomaisky career of Northern GOK;
• reconstruction of the firing machine in the northern GOK;
• development of iron -containing sands on the central GOK;
• construction of a system of integrated safety of production processes on Krasnodonugl (stage 2);
• introduction of advanced degassing technology using a directed drilling machine at the Krasnodonugul mines;
• modernization of the aerogas control system at the Krasnodonugol mines;
• introduction of a positioning system at the Krasnodonugol mines;
• Construction of a complex of cyclic and main technology in the Komsomol Rudoist.

“The investment program, which the company systematically implements at mining enterprises, along with the effective work of labor collectives already gives a tangible result: annual production indicators at some division enterprises for the results of last year have been bitting records over the past seven years. We took a very good pace in order to achieve the tasks in improving the efficiency of production, safety and comfort of labor in the future, reduce energy consumption and production costs. Many of the projects carried out in 2013 became a reliable basis for the efficient operation of plants in the future for many years, ”said Nikolai Ishchenko, director of the mining division of Metinvest.

Based on the materials of the site : Promavotomatics