Uralmashzavod signed a 300-million-ruble agreement with SeverStal, promising to provide them with two 500-ton pouring cranes in April and May 2008. All the design and planning is to be performed by Moscow-based VNIIPTMASH and Uralmashzavod’s R&D department.

These will be AC variable frequency cranes (which means they are not too heavy and cheaper to maintain) meant for operating in SeverStal’s steel plant, that is, for filling converters with liquid metal.

Uralmashzavod has already made Russia’s most powerful 520-ton pouring crane, two blast-furnace jackets, a modern continuous-casting plant, a unique charging box-magnet crane and other pieces of equipment for SeverStal.

SeverStal is the parent enterprise of SeverStal Group and its metallurgical division. This is one of Russia’s largest steel mills that produces an impressive assortments of goods ranging from ordinary carbon steel to steel for specific purposes, hot- and cold-rolled produce, profiled iron, roll-formed shapes and pipes.

Uralmashzavod deals in engineering, producing, and supplying mining, metallurgical, hydraulic turbine, by-product coking, and cement-making equipment, handling machinery, and ancillary equipment for nuclear power plants.