Uralmash Machine-Building Corporation and the Ukrainian SevGOK signed an agreement regarding the delivery of equipment and the technical data package needed to restore SevGOK’s Lurgi roast machine production line. The contract value is estimated at more than 500 million RUR, Uralmash’s press officer said to UrBC.

The roast machine, whose total area comes to 278.25 square meters, was designed by Lurgi, the German manufacturer, and launched at SevGOK in 1975. There were several enterprises interested in restoring the equipment, including the Italian Danieli, yet the customers decided they wanted to work with Uralmash. According to the corporation’s press officer, they had the advantage of knowing how to employ the greatest number of the roast machine’s currently existing components; what is more, they are to use the modern energy-saving gas-flow standards designed and developed by TOREX. Finally, Uralmash has a lot of experience in manufacturing of roasting equipment and delivering it within a limited time period, while maintaining the quality of their end product (iron-ore pellets) at the outstanding level.

The major pieces of equipment, including the automatic process control system, will be designed by Uralmash’s experts. The roast machine is to be made at Yekaterinburg-based Uralmashzavod and Orsk-based ORMETO-YUMZ Heavy Engineering Joint Stock Co. in 2008.

This restored and upgraded roast machine is to become much more reliable and almost fully automated, which cuts down on energy spending and harmful atmospheric emissions. All the innovations that the machine is to be fitted with have already been successfully employed at Mikhailovskiy, Lebedinskiy, Kostomukshskiy, and Sokolovo-Sarbaiskiy ore mining and processing enterprises.